Balladeer

Don Byas - Paris Recordings

Sebastian Sternal Trio - Eins (Double Moon)

Week still young but I´m sure there wont come anything better: Chet Baker - Once upon a summertime, 1977 recording with Chet playing muted, Harold Danko, Ron Carter, Mel Lewis and Gregory Herbert (ts)

Dusty Springfield - I close my eyes and count to ten

Korngold - Complete Songs (Capriccio) Disc 1 fabulous Konrad Jarnot

Heavenly melodies, gorgeous melancholy. Merci, Michel Legrand!

Brad Mehldau Trio - Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)

Lucinda WIlliams - Like a Rose

Luis Rabello (p) & Floor Braam /violin): Radames Gnattali - Flor da Noite (Challenge)

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings, Music for clarinet and piano Vol 2 (Navona)

Carlo Grante plays Schubert (Music and Arts)

Michael Kevin Jones (violoncello) & Agustin Maruri (guitar) play Soffren Degen (1816-1885) (EMEC Discos Madrid)

There´s an album on Black Lion, "Something to remember you by", recorded in the early Sixties, that I am also very fond of. Interesting to compare Freemans sound on this one with his tone of earier decades.

Don Byas Paris recordings

Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker - Ballads for Two (Dot Time Records) Among the two bonus tracks on this welcome recent reissue of a first studio recording with German vibraphonist Wolfgang Lackerschmid from 1979 is a wonderful version of "Why shouldn´t I cry" with Chet playing muted

Ekkehard Wölk Trio - The Berlin Album (Jazzwerkstatt)

Eleanor Weingartner & Camerata de las Americas - 21st Century Lyrical Clarinet Concertos (Urtext)

Soffren Degen - chamber music for guitar and cello (EMEC Records)

Guy Lafitte, Franck Pourcel et son Orchestre - Viens au creux de mon epaule

Guy Lafitte & Andre Persiany - Les Classiques du Jazz, complete recordings (Fresh Sound)

Carl Vollrath - Lingering Longings: Music for clarinet and piano Vol 2 (Navona)

Michael Kevin Jones (clo) & Augustin Maruri (gtr): Soffren Degen - Chamber Works (EMEC Records)

Magos Herrera & Brooklyn Rider - Dreamers (Sony) One of my pick for albums of the year

Buddy Collette

Alan RInehart - Dreams laid down: New music for classical guitar (Ravello)