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Outstanding! I bow before your amazing storehouse of knowledge, sir! Thank you !!! Those details aren't on the liner! (at least on the recent Craft reissue, which is what I have.)

I wish Tito would've listed the personnel on his albums. I hear Charlie Palmieri's organ on several cuts, but I'd love to know the names of all of the musicians. @mikeweil, IIRC, you were working on a Tito Puente discography. Is that correct? If so, I'd be first in line to use it.

That's still on my to-get list too. So much interesting stuff out there. It's impossible to keep up. A delightful problem.

I just ordered a couple fun LPs that are a bit off-the-beaten-path: The Alegre All Stars - Way Out, Vol. 4 (Alegre, 1965) with Charlie Palmieri !!! And Chombo and Kako and . . . Association P.C. - Erna Morena (MPS, 1973) with Pierre Courbois (d), Toto Blanke (g), Jasper van 't Hof (el p, org), Sigi Busch (b), and Karl-Heinz Wiberny (ts, as) The "P.C." stands for the drummer/leader, not Paul Chambers. 😜 Typically outlandish MPS cover art. Echoes of the Beatles' butcher cover, drowned instead of dismembered? For those who aren't fans of German cinema, Erna Morena was a German film star who made her first movie in 1913. I had no idea. . . . Is that her -- figuratively speaking -- in the sand?

I'm going to see George Clinton & P-Funk tonight.

I'm now listening to Brahms' Symphony No. 3, as performed by István Kertész & the Vienna PO: Earlier, it was Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and his Serenade No. 2, again performed by Kertész & the VPO:

Next up: Villa-Lobos: Instrumental & Orchestral Works Disc 2 - Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone & Chamber Orchestra / John Harle (ss), Marriner, ASMF - Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra / Angel Romero (g), López-Cobos, London PO - A Próle do Bébé No. 1 and other works for solo piano / Cristina Ortiz (p)

Liszt - Liebstraum: Favorite Piano Works / Jorge Bolet (Decca) CD 2 Agreed. The way she handles Brahms & Schumann ain't too shabby either.

The MOTHER LODE!

I feel the same. I like ALL of GG's various styles.

On my turntable now: Dexter Gordon - At Montreux with Junior Mance (Prestige, rec. 1970) with Martin Rivera (b) and Oliver Jackson (d) A voluble Dex strutting his stuff.

Now giving this new-to-me LP a first listen: Vincent d'Indy: Symphony No. 2 / Michel Plasson & the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (EMI, 1982) These French La Voix de Son Maître LPs are such beautiful objects -- and the music is consistently terrific too.

Junior Cook - Pressure Cooker (Catalyst/Affinity, 1977) with Junior Cook (ts), Mickey Tucker (p), Cecil McBee or Juini Booth (b), Leroy Williams (d)

Next up: Albert Dailey - Renaissance: November 2, 1977 (Catalyst/Trading Places, 1978) with Albert Dailey (p), Carter Jefferson (ts, ss), Cecil McBee (b), Charlie Persip (d, 5 trks), Adam Nussbaum (d, 2 trks), and Cheryl Alexander (vo) A hidden gem!

Now spinning: Toquinho - Tocando [Plays] (Philips Brazil, 1977)

Two of the shelves in my basement are from IKEA also. I love the framed albums & glass display case! Very nice touches!

Good stuff.

Definitely NOT mutually exclusive, I would think! Just two different angles on the same thing: musicophilia. Different jobs, different "responsibilities."

Yes, I agree! Oistrakh/Ormandy is a magnificent performance, my "go to" for Sibelius' VC. But I will also confess that -- on purely subjective grounds -- Heifetz's vibrato does not appeal to me. I MUCH prefer Oistrakh's sound (or others) in most repertoire, relative to Heifetz.

Nielsen's music strikes me as being full of "life force." It has a sort of transcendent, supra-human vitality. I'd recommend his Fourth Symphony, subtitled "Inextinguishable." That was Nielsen's first work that captured my ear. I think this image does a great job of representing Nielsen's music: The living EARTH & SEA. @Referentzhunter, just to confirm: mister goatman refers to W.A. Mozart, correct?

Disc 8 - part of Crosscurrent & all of I Will Say Goodbye

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ¡Una copilación fantástica!