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More Von Freeman.

Tonight, I'm proud to be a Georgian.

Von Freeman - Serenade & Blues (Nessa, rec. 1975)

True. More crazy!

Yep. Isn't it odd that Oblique was shelved for so long? Recorded in '67 and first released in '79 -- in Japan only. It wasn't released in the U.S. until 1990. That's nuts!

Prompted by discussion on another thread: My CD version has this cover, duplicating the image from the original Japan-only LP release in 1979.

NP:

Yes, I agree. It's hard (for me!) to justify buying Oblique a second time when there are so many other new things out there to discover. ... OTOH, I think it's one of Hutcherson's best records. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

Many thanks, mjazzg!

felser, I didn't realize that Jazz Contemporaries is essentially the same group as Keno Duke/Contemporaries. I'm familiar with the latter group's records (via YT). From what I've heard, I'm partial to Sense of Values. Frank Strozier! Hopefully, a some outfit will get around to reissuing them -- both Reasons in Tonality and Sense of Values. Otherwise, I won't be buying either LP anytime soon. They fetch astronomical prices in the re-seller's marketplace. Zowee! Pure Pleasure has been reissuing lots of Strata-East titles. Maybe they'll get to these two? Pure Pleasure's reissues are not cheap (and they only do vinyl), but at least they're not $100 or more -- like the original Strata-East LPs. I've plopped for a couple Pure Pleasure Strata-East reissues: Harold Vick's Don't Look Back and John Hick's Hells Bells. I like the music so much that I "bit the bullet" and paid about $40 each for them. I'm glad to have them. ************** Do you have an original Strata-East Reasons in Tonality?

Yeah, this one is pretty good. I'm not as familiar with Klemmer's other Impulse LPs. I dig the cover art. Very much "of its time" (as is the music). . . . And I don't say that disparagingly.

Very tempting!!!

More Charles Munch. Schumann: Symphony No. 1 "Spring" Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian" and Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

Dan, This isn't exactly what you asked for -- but here's a shorter list of "Other Records." I almost included these in my survey. In fact, all of these were on the list at one point or another -- but they eventually got bumped to make room for something else. I guess you could call these "Honorable Mentions" : George Adams - Paradise Space Shuttle (Timeless) Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt - Together Again for the Last Time (Prestige) Benny Bailey - Grand Slam (Storyville) Bayeté [Todd Cochran] - Worlds Around the Sun (Prestige) Louie Bellson Big Band - Dynamite! (Concord) Bob Berg - New Birth (Xanadu) Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Bill Connors - Quiet Song (IAI) Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet - Live at the New School (Chiaroscuro) Benny Carter - Montreux '77 (Pablo) Michael Carvin - The Camel (SteepleChase) The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band - Off Limits (Polydor) Julian Dash - A Portrait of Julian Dash (MJR) Walter Davis, Jr. - 400 Years Ago, Tomorrow (Owl) Walt Dickerson - Peace (SteepleChase) Claudio Fasoli/Franco D'Andrea - Jazz Duo (Dire) Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino - Concepts in Unity (Salsoul) George Gruntz - The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band (MPS) Glen Hall - The Book of the Heart (Sonora/Koch) Johnny Hammond - Breakout (Kudu) Eddie Harris/Les McCann - Second Movement (Atlantic) Louis Hayes/Junior Cook Quintet - Ichi-Ban (Timeless) Billy Higgins - Soweto (Red) Eric Kloss/Barry Miles - Together (Muse) The Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band - Playground (ECM) Prince Lawsha [Lasha] - Firebirds Live at Berkeley Jazz Festival, Vol. 1 (Birdseye) Ramsey Lewis - Them Changes (Cadet) Didier Lockwood - New World (MPS) Machito Orchestra - Fireworks (Coco) Ray Mantilla - Mantilla (Inner City) Bobby Naughton/Wadada Leo Smith/Perry Robinson - The Haunt (Otic/NoBusiness) Charlie Palmieri - Impulsos (Coco) Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes (ECM) Jimmy Raney/Doug Raney - Stolen Moments (SteepleChase) Mike Richmond - Dream Waves (Sonet/Inner City) Terje Rypdal - Odyssey (ECM) Lonnie Smith - Live at Club Mozambique (Blue Note) Raul de Souza - Colors (Milestone) Leon Spencer, Jr. - Louisiana Slim (Prestige) John Taylor - Decipher (MPS) Ralph Towner - Solstice (ECM) Michael White - The Land of Spirit and Light (Impulse) Joe Zawinul - Zawinul (Atlantic) Attila Zoller - Common Cause (Enja) If I could make one change to the survey today, now that it's all done, I would add Michael White's The Land of Spirit and Light. Just don't ask me which one I'd remove to make it fit.

Munch: Artistes & Repertoires (RCA Red Seal) Charles Munch and the Boston SO perform: - Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" - with Berj Zamkochian (organ) - Ibert: Escales - D’Indy: Symphonie sur un chant montagnard - with Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano) - Franck: Symphony in D minor - Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane - Suite No. 2 - Honegger: Symphony No. 5 "Di Tre Re" Impeccable. Munch in his element!

Some funky trombone colors from Raul de Souza: Cannonball sits in on a couple tracks, sounding very Arthur Blythe-ish. (Or maybe it's the other way around. ) In any case, I wish Cannonball would've played on the whole album. He would have made this excellent record even better.

A superb set.

NP: Previn's recording is my favorite version of Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antartica." I love how Previn embraces the strange, otherworldly elements in this music -- and the spoken introductions before each movement.

Brahms' String Quintets performed by the Brandis Quartett and Brett Dean, as heard in this set:

Joseph Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Complete) / Netania Davrath, Pierre de la Roche (MHS, originally Vanguard Classics)

Now Brahms' First Symphony with Jochum & the LPO from the same set.

Brahms' Fourth Symphony performed by Eugen Jochum and the LPO, as heard on this set:

I know that Scherchen's way with Bach is anachronistic -- but I don't care. His interpretations work so powerfully on their own terms that the music carries the day. ... Not that I have any beef with HIP. I think there's plenty of room for everyone at the table.