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NP: I have both the double-LP vinyl release and this 1989 two-CD version with "I Remember Clifford" as a bonus cut. I only collect & keep really special recordings in multiple formats. This is one of them. Primo Getz. Do you any of you do the same (only keeping favorites in multi formats)?

I'm a huge fan of this record. LT's other Groove Merchant album, I Offer You, is terrific too. . . . On both albums, Thompson's soprano playing (in particular) is just gorgeous. We're talking Johnny Hodges-like liquidity and shapeliness -- but on a soprano, not an alto.

I love Kubelik's M1 also. But my desert-island M1 is Jascha Horenstein's with the LSO on Unicorn. In this listener's opinion, Horenstein's M1 is even more compelling than his famous M3.

Baden Powell Quartet, Vol. 3 (Barclay FR, 1971) Superb.

Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy (Columbia, 1977)

Now spinning this LP, which just arrived in the mail:

Dave Liebman Group - In a Mellow Tone (Zoho) with Vic Juris (g), Tony Marino (b), and Jamey Haddad (d, perc) Liebman had a terrific run with this four-piece group featuring Vic Juris. They released: - The Unknown Jobim (GMN, rec. 1999) - In a Mellow Tone (Zoho, rec. 2001) - Conversation (Sunnyside, rec. 2003) - Blues All Ways (OmniTone, rec. 2005) - Further Conversations: Live (True Azul, rec. 2007) - Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt, rec. 2009)

More Mongo:

Mongo Santamaria - Sofrito (Vaya, 1976)

Brahms' First Symphony, as heard in this set:

Thanks Jim.

Mose Allison - I've Been Doin' Some Thinkin' (Atlantic, 1968)

I've never seen that album before. Jaki Byard !!!

Mongo Santamaria - Mongo Magic (Roulette, 1983)

Tito Puente - Para Los Rumberos (Tico, 1972) Craft 180 gram vinyl reissue A terrific Mahler cycle.

Next up: Clare Fischer - Manteca! (Pacific Jazz, 1965) I love how Fischer uses an excerpt from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring as a sort of bridge in the middle of his composition "Morning."

Elis Regina - Elis [1973] (Philips) arranged by Regina's husband at the time, Cesar Camargo Mariano

Cool story. Shows the power of jazz in general and Weston in particular!

That's a top-shelf two-fer. What prompted that bump for Weston in the 70s? Was it Blue Moses on CTI?