Larry Kart

This is the only Bach from her I know. I like it a lot. On the measured side at times (but dig her Allemande below), with a lovely sense of repose when that suits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-yd18F1knk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYIR3yserNA More samples are on YouTube.

John Dennis? OTOH, Dennis died in 1963 at age 33, which makes McCoy's "who probably may never leave" sound strange because "Extensions" came out in 1973. Could McCoy somehow not have gotten the word on Dennis' death? Or did the liner note writer somehow get confused?

Barron is in remarkable form on "Live at Bradley's." Tracks average 12-15 minutes, and his solos sustain interest with ease. Gonsalves' reading of "You Go To My Head" on the album below (he and Lockjaw play on different tracks) is an out-of-body experience.

Was Nat doing his neo-Basie shtick there or comping in a more orthodox manner?

Frank Glazer, Eastman Quartet, Brahms Piano Quartets (VOX) Haven't compared these yet with my longtime mainstays -- Rubinstein, Guarneri Quartet -- but these are impressive.

Must have been wrong about them recording with Byrd. Maybe I was thinking of an ABC-Paramount various individual horns players plus rhythm album of the same era. Yup -- it's this one: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Creed-Taylor-Presents-Know-Your-Jazz/release/9029479 Rhythm section is Billy Taylor, Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke. Bought it 62 years ago for $3.98. Long gone now.

Galbraith's reading of "He Was Too Good To Me" on the "New York Rhythm Section" album is lovely.

That is -- Hank Jones, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, NYC studio mainstays in the mid-1950s. Rec. 1956 for Epic -- another Epic LP had them backing (on separate tracks) Jimmy Cleveland, Gene Quill, and Donald Byrd; the four Cleveland performances from that LP are included here. My expectations were on the modest side, but these 21 tracks are nicely varied in mood and quite interesting in detail, with all hands at or near the top of their game.

In case you don't know it or haven't heard it in a while -- wow!

IMO the EMI set is just fine.

If you can track it down, there's a brilliant essay on Thompson by Tad Shull, "When Backward Comes Out Ahead: Lucky Thompson's Phrasing and Improvisation," in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies 12, 2002. Perhaps Shull himself might be able to help: http://www.tadshull.com/

Osie Johnson is on that Bauer album.

The Braff I've loved since it first came out. I believe that's Ruby's mother with him on the cover.

from a Michael Weiss FB post: "Lou Donaldson told me about hearing Jaws and Griff at Minton's. Sonny Stitt sat in and was getting a lot of house. So after that Jaws took a solo on 'Lover' and after a few choruses continued playing with his right hand in his pocket. The people went crazy."

Montgomery and Trebor Tichenor did the set up, rolls were from their collections. I know of Lamb to some degree, have a latter day CD of his work played by a female pianist, maybe Virginia Eskin? Trebor and my late pianist friend Bob Wright, hailed by Eubie Blake as the best ragtime pianist of his generation, were friends-scholarly collaborators. Also, Trebor's daughter made at least one excellent CD of rags; she's got the right stuff.

Check sent to Jim's home address.

As good as Joplin but different. https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Ragtime-Rare-Piano-Rolls/dp/B0015LBBE2/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1542076599&sr=1-2&keywords=james+scott

Vey nice -- the shot and the view.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

The sheet music says 4/4: https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0077772

The rep on Mendelssohn 2 is that it's the epitome in music of Victorian religioslity (it was a big hit in England). But while the would-be triumphant final chorus is along those lines to some degree, I found the work as a whole to be remarkably graceful and subtle.