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Yeah, Bob Harris(1) was the Leaves' drug dealer. They didn't even know he was a musician. He walked over to a piano while he was making a 'delivery' to them and played the schist out of the piano, and they freaked out. He wound up playing keyboard for the Leaves on some obscure tracks. Then Pons got Harris and Sill involved with the Turtles and got Harris into the "vaudeville" Mothers. Or about that Jeremy and the Satyrs album with that horrible singer?

Disc 3 - originally released as Green Shading Into Blue

👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1054 ST

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Alice Babs and Duke Ellington “Serenade to Sweden” cd Now a focus on Ellington trombones and Alice Babs, an excellent session recorded in Stockholm. If ever there is a jazz album that could use the Plangent Process. . . I think this one would benefit heavily, there seems to be a wobble to the sound.

Joe Farrell: Upon This Rock. CTI Records CTI 6042 S1 [US 1974]

Schubert String Quartet D.887 - Guarneri Quartet

Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble featuring Gary Smulyan “American Jazz Institute presents Ellington Saxophone Encounters” A very well-recorded swinging disc that has scratched an itch for Ellington music.

👍 - as LP from 1975 on my shelf - ECM 1063 ST

This again:

MV 2506 (Japan 1974) - Getz / Gillespie / Stitt " For Musicians Only" - rec. 1956

Returning to the Fourth Symphony in this set: Picked up this set recently after having owned the companion set (Syms. Nos. 1-3) for a long while. I'm really impressed. I think Markevitch's entire Tchaikovsky cycle is terrific.

I couldn't say what way is the most common, but I have heard a couple of different recordings with J.J.Johnson and he always seem to include those four bara. I think it's a nice way to conclude a solo and if you're doing several choruses I like to hear it at least in the final chorus.

He plays on 4-5 tracks on a Fred Hersch quintet album on Enja from 25 or so years ago.

Such a great cover photo (and the album isn't too shabby either). I remember buying that on cassette, Sub Pop issue, in the fall of 1991, maybe days after I picked up Nevermind.

Mozart - Piano Quartets K.478 & K.493

Enormously prolific, I recommend Rich Perry´s later quartet recordings with Harold Danko for Steeplechase: "Gone" and "Mood". Many attractive sessions as sideman, too: I second colinmce: "Soft Hands" is an outstanding, drummerless album by Ron McClue, also very attractive the two horns line-up with Stephen Riley on McClures superb "Dedication". Also recommended: Perry on George Mraz´s quartet album "Bottom Lines" from the late Nineties.