Royal Oak

I just watched this on Netflix today. As others have mentioned, the scene where Larry Ridley talked about meeting Helen after she was released from jail was very powerful. I'm a sucker for redemption / compassion stories.

A tune I've always liked since first hearing the Ray Bryant record above, This rendition is nice too:

This hoary old chestnut / seminal work (whichever you prefer): Earlier:

I too thought he had already died. Fats reminds me of my dad, who was a fan

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