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More Latin jazz: The Jazz Tribe - The Next Step (Red) Excellent music.

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Prompted by EKE BBB's post above: Joe Newman Quintet at Count Basie's (Mercury/Verve) with Oliver Nelson, Lloyd Mayers, Art Davis & Ed Shaugnessy

EKE, I love Joe Newman, but I've never heard that recording. What do you think of it?

Thanks for sharing, Brad. Interesting article.

Kenny Barron - New York Attitude (Uptown) with Rufus Reid & Frederick Waits

Disc 1

I know that Midnight in Paris was briefly available on a French CBS CD. But -- to your larger point -- it would be great if these got the full Sony Legacy treatment. I just updated my post above to say "Nearly all of the 'albums'..." -- since I'd forgotten about "All American" in Jazz.

Yep. That's the stuff. But, if I recall correctly, those World of DE sets were "electronically rechanneled for stereo" LPs. That's what makes the French vinyl preferable.

Not comprehensively. Nearly all of the "albums" -- music originally issued on LPs -- have been reissued. But the stuff released before the advent of LPs hasn't been reissued in a set since French Columbia did it a long time ago. I think the set was available on CD for a minute. The 6-LP vinyl set is more readily available. (That's what I have. I'd jump at the opportunity to have it in digital format.) Tons of great music tucked away in there. Paul Gonsalves' entry into the band. "Brown Betty." "The Sargent was Shy." "On a Turquoise Cloud." On and on. . . EDIT: The second of three discs in this set is an excellent "sampler" of the 1947-52 period: If I get a hankering to hear this music and I'm not in my basement near my turntable, this is what I cue up.

I think you can hardly go wrong with Kubelik as an interpreter of Mahler's music -- especially with regards to pacing and finding the unifying line through works that can come across as disjointed. To me, he is one of the great conductors of Mahler's music.

Earlier this AM: Wonderful.

More Mahler from Rafael Kubelik & the Bavarian RSO: Symphony No. 3 from the DG studio cycle.

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Five of my favorite CTI records: - Stanley Turrentine - Salt Song - Joe Farrell - Outback - Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay - Airto - Fingers - George Benson - Body Talk

Jazz Caper is probably my all-around favorite Bill Barron record -- with both Variations in Blue and The Next Plateau following closely behind. I haven't listened as closely to Barron's earlier stuff on Savoy. The Fresh Sounds compilation is on my to-get list.

Excellent! NP: Bill Barron - The Next Plateau (Muse, 1989)