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the Lew Tabackin release is excellent.

Perfect!!!

Agreed - I think the market is focused on 'audiophile' album reissues making anything before the LP era a more difficult prospect. Or no con-fusion as Sweet Papa Lou would always remind us 😂

Now, music from this wonderful set of Hermann Scherchen recordings: Disc 1 - Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - with the LSO

haven't dug that record out in years. There's another volume under Ron Pittner's name that is good as well (and not on CD).

One that I'd recommend:

Heard them a lot as a kid growing up in Cologne where they had a weekly radio show... Can't say that I grew into a fan but one album I remember liking is this one with Charlie Mariano and a fusion of jazz and Indian music https://www.discogs.com/release/4008349-WDR-Big-Band-Köln-Charlie-Mariano-Karnataka-College-Of-Percussion-Mike-Herting-Sketches-Of-Bangalor but I may be biased since I was in the audience that day... They have regular programs which they play for the radio and in concerts in the region, only some of which make it into albums ... This week it's probably carnival music, but in other weeks they have quite nice and diverse projects

Magnificent. One of my favorite versions of the M1.

Bill Evans “Evans in England” Resonance Records 2 cd set disc 1 This is on sale at Resonance at the moment for 9.99 and also for 9.99 is this fabulous 3 cd set: https://resonancerecords.org/product/art-tatum-jewels-in-the-treasure-box-cd/ Four or five other good ones are on sale.

yeah, Kaye was excellent. Bobby was a special cat and I was privileged to know him pretty well.

That is correct. Kaye can also be heard on some other Naughton recordings. There's also a fascinating CD that came out a few years ago of a group Kaye was leading in 1967 with Steve Tintweiss, Joel Peskin, Peter Lerner, and Enrico Rava.

K.421 and K.458

If you enjoy Joe Williams' singing this one is fine: https://www.discogs.com/release/19562413-WDR-Big-Band-Köln-feat-Joe-Williams-Milt-Jackson-w-Cedar-Walton-John-Clayton-Jeff-Hamilton-Blues-Be

It seems like the WDR Big Band has been around for a while and a lot of people enjoy records featuring guest stars playing with it. I'd be interested to know whether anyone has any favourites.

Moving into a more mellow mood with Nels Cline “Lovers” Blue Note 2 cd, disc 1

First listen to this Gil Mellé two-disc set in the "connoisseur" series.

I have all the sets but the most recent one or two . . . really like them all. Right now 22 degrees and it won’t get much warmer. No snow predicted though. Swinging into the start of a new day with Benny Goodman “V-Discs” 4 cd set, disc 1 130×127 5.07 KB

Timeless Historical would be another one.

Some wonderful stuff in there, some classics like the Texier albums or Angel Song, loads that I don't know of course... But also some that I didn't expect anyone else would know (like that Eric van der Westen record, he recorded some nice stuff in those years)