Peter Friedman

Cedar Walton has long been among my very favorite jazz pianists. I have almost all of his recordings as both leader and sideman. His playing on this Ettta Jones recording may well be the very best playing I have heard by Cedar Walton. The first track is by the trio and is outstanding. Cedar also gets a lot of solo space on all the vocal tracks and , once again, is in tip top form. His comping behind Etta Jones is also wonderful. I should also say that Jones vocal are damn good too. Don't sleep on this album if you are a Cedar Walton fan. This is the best jazz album I have heard in a long time!

String Quartets - D.46, D.94, D.173

Op.130 & Op.133

Piano Sonatas No.24, No.32, No.37

Just was listening to Patti Paige In The Land of hi fi - with the Pete Rugolo Orchestra Was surprised to find that one track had Patti Paige singing with Duke Ellington, and that was (for me) my favorite track.

The first Haydn set I have listened to from a large number of remastered recordings on VOX from the Fine Arts Quartet and the Dekany Quartet. All were from the 1960's . The performance quality as well as the audio quality is very very good on this Op.64 session.