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Disc 1: Kodály, Zádor, Enescu, Smetana, Sowerby, Dvořák, Brahms.

Release date May 17: Tenor saxophonist David Murray, the giant of modern jazz, fuses all the great things that black music has produced: Gos- pel sounds, free jazz, Afro-Caribbean, blues, soul as well as the beautiful standards of classic jazz. Murray's colorful tone, unsurpassed intonation, sense of swing, melancholy tones, improvisational power and ingenuity make him one of the most important voices in music today. His new quartet, which mainly plays his own compositions, gives the three young musicians plenty of space. "Jazz legend David Murray is back with the next generation of geniuses", writes the Washington Post about the new quartet. And Derek Schilling writes in the liner notes to the fantastic album Francesca: "David Murray's compositional signature today lies in conjoning distinct styles whose encounter makes for the sound of surprise. The specific choice of these styles (and corresponding meters or textures) matters, for sure. More crucial still is the way Murray makes the transition from one to another seem natural, necessary even. If you can move with ease from funk to Latin rhythms, from waltz time to four-on-the-floor, from R&B to free and back again, it's because music knows no boundaries. When it's be- ing played right, it reaches beyond itself even as it affirms the continuity of tradition. The sound of surprise results when mu- sicians forge, in the moment, that unity-in-diversity. The real deal." A masterpiece!

He was all over the place. At that Mosaic open house, he pulled out a copy of "Buddy and the Juniors" on Blue Thumb: Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Junior Mance. He told me the backstory of the album (see https://www.allmusic.com/album/buddy-and-the-juniors-mw0000276271); he seemed pretty proud of it. Over on the Hoffman boards, someone praised Cuscuna's production of Bonnie Raitt's "Give It Up."

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Terrible, terrible news. When I went to that first Mosaic open house (5 years ago?), I noticed that Cuscuna smoked cigarettes; maybe that's how he got that radio voice. What a huge positive contribution to jazz music and life in general. RIP.

https://www.discogs.com/release/7055727-Art-Pepper-Blues-For-The-Fisherman-Unreleased-Art-Vol-VI/image/SW1hZ2U6NzMzMTI0MDU= Also great. Milcho Leviev was a monster.

Oh, gosh, there are so many. Off the top of my head: Lee Morgan - Live At The Lighthouse, Art Pepper at the Village Vanguard, Sonny Rollins and Don Cherry at the Village Gate (unofficial), and Stan Getz & Kenny Barron - People Time. I'm in agreement with you about the Miles Blackhawk set. Hard to put the finger on the reason it doesn't click; probably some combination of a mismatch between Mobley and the rest of the band (who are following Miles), Mobley just not being that exciting, and Miles sounding rushed and bored.

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RIP. The Fillmore album was simply great through and through. I was fortunate enough to see the original band in Central Park a few months before Duane's passing. At one point, I said to myself "Isn't that Donovan's There Is A Mountain"? Sure enough, when Eat A Peach came out, there it was as Mountain Jam.

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 31.

Release date June 14: The past few decades have seen legendary pianist and composer Denny Zeitlin focus on a few vehicles for his adventurous journeys in music making. Playing solo, with his trio, or in the acoustic-electronic duo with George Marsh have provided ample avenues for exploration, which Zeitlin hopes to provide a wide scope of on his new, varied collection, Panoply. For nearly 15 years, Zeitlin has released new recordings yearly on Sunnyside Records. These documents highlight the different methods he has centered upon as a leader. Zeitlin's trio that features bassist Buster Williams and drummer Matt Wilson is a seasoned and adventurous ensemble that continues to generate fire in performance. Zeitlin's nearly six-decade long collaboration with drummer/percussionist George Marsh continues to yield extraordinary results, especially as they have continually broadened their color and textural palettes with electronic sounds. Finally, Zeitlin continues to perform solo piano recitals, maintaining his status as one of the foremost solo improvisers and musical interpreters. For Panoply, Zeitlin has collected unreleased performances from the past decade that highlight his and his musical partners' fantastic command in improvisation regardless of genre or medium. Zeitlin carefully curated this program to provide a sequence that blends acoustic and electronic music which transitions well and let's the music unfold. The solo piano pieces come from a recording made on December 1, 2012 at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland, while the trio recordings were captured live at Mezzrow Jazz Club in New York City from May 3 to 4, 2019. The duo pieces with Marsh were collected over a decade of home recordings at Zeitlin's Double Helix Studio from 2013 to 2023.

Can an admin please change Harvie's spelling in the first post?

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 30.

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 44.