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Art Farmer - Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Contemporary)

and Exquisite, uncategorizable music. I'm going to see Beirach with Dave Liebman in NYC in September. I can't wait!

That Joe Hen box is a treasure trove! His Milestone years are tremendously under-appreciated, IMO. And that Clare Fischer big band disc is sweet too.

On 5 of the 7 cuts: Jimmy Owens!!!

From a lunchtime record store run earlier today. All vinyl. Earl Hines - The Legendary Little Theater Concert of 1964, Vols. 1 & 2 (Muse) Joanne Brackeen - Fi-Fi Goes to Heaven (Concord) Art Farmer - Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (Contemporary) I already have this music as MP3 downloads, but I couldn't resist the super-clean vinyl. Sonny Rollins - Don't Stop the Carnival (Milestone) Hank Crawford - Roadhouse Symphony (Milestone) Lekeu: Sonate; Debussy: Sonate; Ravel: Tzigane / Augustin Dumay & Jean-Philippe Collard (La Voix de Son Maître) All really good deals too.

Good one!

Andrew Cyrille & Maono - Metamusicians' Stomp (Black Saint, 1978) Such a great record.

Scriabin: Le Poème de l'extase; Piano Concerto; Prometheus / Maazel (cond.); Ashkenazy (p soloist); Cleveland O; London PO & Ambrosian Singers (London)

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Cal Tjader at Grace Cathedral (Fantasy, 1977) Good fun.

Marvelous writing about marvelous musicians. Thanks for sharing that, Larry!

Yes! Rushing Lullabies is one of my favorites too. ... "Champagne, champagne, mellow mellow wine..."

Arild Andersen - Green in Blue: Early Quartets (ECM) Disc 3 - originally released as Green Shading into Blue (1978)

Michael Garrick - Troppo (Vocalion; originally Argo, 1974) Personnel: Michael Garrick (p, el-p); Norma Winstone (vo); Art Themen (fl, ss, ts); Don Rendell (fl, ss, ts); Henry Lowther (tr, fghn, vn); Dave Green (b); Coleridge Goode (b, 1 trk only); Trevor Tompkins (d) A terrific record.

I think Al Cohn's best work on Concord was as a sideman for Ross Tompkins on this LP: Ross Tompkins and Good Friends (1978) with Cohn, Monty Budwig, and Nick Ceroli Along with Cohn's muscular playing, Ceroli may be the difference-maker here. (Concord's house drummer, Jake Hanna, isn't one of my favorites.) Incidentally, this record was made right in the middle of Cohn's late-70s "purple patch" for Xanadu.

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I wish I could have seen that Cohn - Konitz gig!!! I bet that was fantastic! Ha!

More Monk: I love these recordings from the Five Spot with Johnny Griffin.

mjzee, I agree with you that Cohn's run on Concord was excellent. But I think the four LPs that Cohn made for Xanadu -- just before Concord -- were even better. - Play It Now (1975) - Al Cohn's America (1977) - Heavy Love - with Jimmy Rowles (1978) - No Problem (1980) Play It Now and Heavy Love are my favorites -- but all four of them are outstanding.

Thelonious Monk - The Complete London Collection (Black Lion) Disc 2 - Trio tracks with Al McKibbon & Art Blakey

Sonny Stitt - Blues for Duke (Muse, rec. 1975) with Barry Harris, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins One of the best Ellington tributes I've heard.

Excellent.

Laurindo Almeida with Martin Ruderman (fl) and Salli Terri (vo) - Duets with Spanish Guitar (Angel) Works by various French & Brazilian composers Lovely. Yes sir! Yes sir No. 2!

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