Peter Friedman

Yes, I read the New York Times every day. Wonder if your nasty comment suggests you are a Fox News listener?

Chadwick - String Quartet No.4 Dvorak - Piano Quintet Op.81

Mason String Quartet in G minor (Based on Negro Themes), Op.19 Foote - String Quartet in D major, Op.70

Disc 3 - Tunes - Jamming For Clef, Rose Room, Stompin' At The Savoy Pt 1 & Pt 2 - The group of musicians on tracks 1 and 2 are slightly different on tracks 3 and 4. The first track is way up tempo and I find it less interesting than the medium tempos on the other 3 tracks.

Dvorak - String Quartet No.12, Op.96 "American" Rubinstein - Cello Concerto Op.96

I am with Jim regarding the sessions with Ella and Louis Armstrong. Wonderful music!

This CD is way down under the radar but should not be. Jon van Enkhuizen the tenor player is not someone I have ever heard of outside this recording. He plays very well in a straight ahead swinging manner. Rein De Graaff is one of the very best bebop oriented jazz pianos players. A CD well worth your attention.

Buck Clayton And Friends - Jazz In Paris

Milestones, yes I share your opinion . But as a very young teenager, I was not into ballads. Also JATP concerts were known for excitement, battles, etc. , and many of the audience had come to the concert that reason. Also drum battles were very very big crowd pleasers. While I dug them then, they are no longer appealing to me, with just minor exceptions. Your own opinion while fine, misses the time period and specific context of a JATP concert in the early to mid-50's.

Piano Sonata No.31, Op.110 and No.32, Op.111

Spohr _ String Quartet No.20, Op.74/1 Arensky - Symphony No.1, Op.4

This is very different than most other Giuffre recordings. The first 6 tracks have Giuffre in a Sonny Rollins mood. Straight ahead swinging with a somewhat bigger tone on tenor than usual for him. Jimmy Rowels shines on piano and Red Mitchell and Lawrence Marable play well too. The last 3 tunes are fillers and have a completely different sensibility than the first 6 tracks. I very much like this CD.

Larry, I was 15 years old at my first JATP Concert in either 1952 or 1953 at the Broadway Capital theatre in Detroit. What stands out in my memory were the trumpet battles between Roy Eldridge and Charlie Shavers, and the tenor battles between Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips. During the tenor battles the large audience got highly excited and began to rise out of their seats screaming to egg on the musicians. Not sure at which JATP concert I saw the drum battles between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich and between Louis Bellson and Buddy Rich? I also recall that when Norman Granz announced a ballad medley, the audience groaned. They primarily came to the concert to see the excitement of up tempo tunes and the instrumental battles.