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Disc 3

Don't apologize for the "hyperbole"! I think it's great when folks are honest about the music that they LOVE.

Strength in Numbers - Telluride Sessions (MCA) Outstanding newgrass session with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor and Edgar Meyer. Willie Nelson - Stardust (Columbia/Sony Legacy) I first heard this music while I was in college, and hearing it again always takes me back to that time.

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" / Scherchen, VSOO, et al (Millennium Classics) Forceful and impassioned. One of Scherchen's great recordings.

Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes (Columbia) Original '75 release.

Marty Ehrlich's Dark Woods Ensemble - Just Before the Dawn (New World, 1995)

Disc 1 - originally released as A Fuego Vivo

I'm suppose César Franck's Piano Quintet is more well-known, but his String Quartet is another excellent composition.

Nice haul!!! Ibrahim's Ode to Duke Ellington and Clifford Jordan's Night of the Mark VII are two of my all-time faves.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - A Standing Eight (32 Jazz / Warner Bros) Disc 1 - originally released as The Return of the 5000 lb. Man and the first half of Kirkatron Beautiful.

Merle Haggard - Vintage Collections (Capitol)

Has Ricky Ford moved back to the U.S.? Or is he just visiting?

Outstanding!

Terrible, terrible news. So sorry to hear this.

A classical order this week: - J.S. Bach: English Suites Nos. 2, 4 & 5 / Murray Perahia (Sony) - Berlioz: Les Troyens / Sir Colin Davis, LSO, et al (LSO Live) - Chausson: Symphonie; Soir De Fête; Viviane / Michel Plasson, Orchestre Du Capitole De Toulouse (EMI) - Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Sir John Barbirolli, Dame Janet Baker, Richard Lewis, Kim Borg, Hallé Orchestra, LSO, et al (EMI) - Fauré: Orchestral Works / Yan Pascal Tortelier, BBC Philharmonic (Chandos) - Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Charles Münch, Orchestre de L'Association des Concerts Lamoureux (Erato) All very inexpensive, used CDs.

This again:

Excellent!

David Liebman - The Elements: Water (Arkadia, rec. 1997) with Billy Hart, Cecil McBee & Pat Metheny