Peter Friedman

Hank Jones plays some wonderful solos on this disc. Jimmy Heath and Mark Elf are also in good form.

Tonight my wife and I will be going to a concert that is a part of The Tucson Jazz Festival. It features David Hazeltine and The New York Jazz Allstars with Eric Alexander. It will be held in the Louis Rich Theatre, a very nice venue that is where the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music hold their concerts. It seats about 500 people.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.16, K.451 - Derek Han Wieniawski - Violin Concerto No.2, Op.22 -

I was shocked a year ago when we flew to Chicago to visit our son and grandchildren. I had packed a number of CDs to play in the Chicago rental car, and was really surprised and disappointed to see no CD player in the car. If I buy another car, it will most likely not come with a CD player. So as Stonewall 15 said, I will need to have one installed. Many people prefer to listen to the radio in the car. But even when there are jazz radio stations I could listen to, I want to decide what I want to hear, not what someone else decides to play.

I play jazz CDs in both my car and my wife's car when we drive together. I select the CDs slightly differently when my wife and I are together in the car. Most of my driving is for fairly short distances around town. The big exception is each summer when we take somewhat lengthy road trips for vacation.Then I pack up about 50 CDs, so we have a lot of good music throughout the entire trip. My preference for listening both at home and in the car is for a broad variety of jazz. So I select CDs from every decade of jazz, and include big bands, small groups, piano trios, jazz vocalists, blues singers, etc. Though I am a fan of classical music, I only play classical CDs at home, not in the car. The main reason is that most classical music compositions don't work well for a short 10 or 15 minute drive. Stopping a Symphony or Concerto or String Quartet piece before it is finished because I have reached my destination is a downer for me.

Beethoven - String Trio, "Serenade" Op.8 Brahms - String Sextette No.2, Op.36

Schumann - Piano Concerto - Cliburn/Reiner Mieczysław Karlowicz - Violin Concerto - Konstanty Kulka (violin), Warsaw National Philharmonic / Witold Rowicki

More good Al Cohn here.

Art Pepper Atlas box set Disc 3 - Art Pepper and Sonny Stitt with Lou Levy, Chuck Domanico, Carl Burnett

Heifetz - Piatigorsky - Mendelssohn Octet Mozart - Piano Concerto No.11, K.413