Royal Oak

Of the records I've picked up cheaply over the years, these are the ones that have been played most Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 (I never play the Borodin side!) - Decca / Borodin Quartet Stravinsky - Firebird Suite - Decca / Ansermet Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - Decca / Solti Ravel - Mother Goose - Decca / Ansermet Debussy preludes - Deutsche Grammophon / Monique Haas Wagner - Siegfired Idyll (there are others on the disc, but I don't often play them) - Deutsche Grammophon / Raphael Kebelik Beethoven - Eroica - Philips / Bruno Walter The Red Army Ensemble (!) - Columbia Mahler 9th symphony - EMI / Klemperer Witches Brew - a compliation of various composers - my version is the Decca reissue I think that, like Bill F, my selection is quite jazz-led. Even the Red Army Ensemble - when I first heard "Annie Laurie" I remember racking my brains, certain I'd heard it before. It eventually came to me that I'd heard it on a Jimmy Forrest album (I now know it's a trad folk song)

I was watching a documentary on Jacqueline du Pre last night, and today I found this LP in a charity shop for the princely sum of £1.99. Very nice it is too.

Championship? Pah, I have to watch nonleague

What have I missed?

Probably those Horace Silver "United States of Mind" albums.

I've just reached a zenith of Henderson love listening to "El Barrio" through the headphones

Penny Lane Penny Pocket Suzie Sweet

^ While I prefer later Horace, all Horace is ace

I'm with Clifford here, great spot

Yes indeed Bill, more piano now:

Ray Bryant - Alone With The Blues

Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard

This evening: Trane Whistle - Eddie Lockjaw Davis big band Another record I've never heard before. I really am a sucker for Oliver Nelson.

Mine is the altogether humbler OJC, still a very nice-sounding record IMO

Charlie Parker memorial Vol 1 I found myself wondering who was the pianist, and was surprised to read it was Dizzy. Then Tadd Dameron "Study in Dameronia", with a very young-sounding Benny Golson

Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants - sounds fresh as a daisy

Today, so far: Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer. I'd never heard this before, even on CD Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard

Resurrecting a moribund thread, I today bought some records, including Ornette Coleman's "Chappaqua Suite". The inner sleeves of UK CBS LPs of that era had "The Sound Of Entertainment" printed around the label cut out. A previous owner had struck a line through "entertainment" and written "DISCORD" above. Made me smile.

Yes, I like this album. I only realised yesterday that it's 3/5 of the band from "Harold In The Land Of Jazz" (swap Jack Sheldon and Curtis Counce for Rolf Ericson and Leroy Vinnegar). Both excellent albums anyway, Land and Perkins are always worth listening to, IMO