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Earl "Fatha" Hines - Masters of Jazz, Volume 2 (Storyville; licensed from Black Lion, 1974) Sublime solo piano interpretations of Harold Arlen tunes.

John Hicks - Hells Bells (Strata-East)

Yup. Me too. Somebody should've told Chick to spit out that chewing gum! NP: Odean Pope - Almost Like Me (Moers, 1982) with Gerald Veasley (el b) and Cornell Rochester (d)

Very nice! ... I'm not surprised that Cedar was consistently excellent. You could say the same thing about his records.

More Cedar: Cedar Walton - Spectrum (Prestige) CD compiles two complete LPs: Spectrum (1968) and The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)

I'm jealous! I've only been to Ronnie Scott's twice, both times many years ago. And I regret that I never had an opportunity to see Cedar perform.

Joanne Brackeen - Keyed In (Tappan Zee/Columbia, 1979) with Eddie Gomez & Jack DeJohnette Cedar Walton - Charmed Circle: Live at the Keystone Korner (HighNote, rec. 1979) with Steve Turre, Manny Boyd, Tony Dumas, and Ralph Penland

Cedar Walton at Ronnie Scott's, London, 1976

Buddy Tate & the Muse All Stars - Live at Sandy's (Muse, rec. 1978) with Ray Bryant (p), George Duvivier (b), and Alan Dawson (d) Excellent. And now the companion LP: Buddy Tate - Hard Blowin': Live at Sandy's (Muse)

Buster Williams is the MASTER of the ostinato!!! Claude Hopkins performing "New Orleans" from the album Soliloquy AND Sun Ra performing the title track from Discipline 27-II.

NP: Claude Hopkins - Soliloquy (Sackville, 1972)

What do you think of that LP, mjazzg? I plopped for Pure Pleasure's reissue of Harold Vick's Don't Look Back. It's fantastic. ... Gotta give props to Pure Pleasure for mining the Tribe, Strata, and Strata-East archives. ... I hope they get around to reissuing John Hick's Hells Bells. I rarely buy new vinyl, but if they offer that LP, I'll be all over it. EDIT: I just went to Pure Pleasure's website, and it looks like they ARE reissuing Hells Bells soon! ... What a strange coincidence. Or is it synchronicity???

Horace Silver - Silver 'n Brass (Blue Note, 1975) A masterpiece.

AEC - Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic, 1974)

AEC - "Les Stances À Sophie" (Pathé/Nessa, 1970)

AEC - Nice Guys (ECM, 1979)

Turned out to be a Sun Ra day. Two more this evening: Discipline 27-II (Enterplanetary Koncepts, 1972) Live at Montreux (Inner City, 1976)

Sun Ra - Cosmos (Enterplanetary Koncepts, 1976)

More celestial sounds from Sun Ra. . . Sun Ra - Astro Black (Modern Harmonic; originally Impulse, 1973)

Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Jazz in Silhouette (Evidence; originally Saturn, 1959) "Ancient Aiethopia"!!!

Charles Earland - Organomically Correct (Savoy) Selected cuts from three LPs originally released on Muse: Mama Roots, Pleasant Afternoon, and Infant Eyes Outstanding Diz!!!

Count Basie & His Orchestra - America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years (Sony) Disc 1 - Small Groups Really enjoying Basie's piano playing this morning. Love that pared-down-so-every-note-counts sound.

How about a set containing the Complete Columbia/Sony & RCA recordings of Charles Ives? We were discussing some of this music recently when we were discussing the Gregg Smith Singers' recordings of Ives' choral music, the best of which has never been issued in any digital format. The set would also include Ormandy's superb recording of the Holidays Symphony for RCA, which was only available in digital format as a CD-R through arkivmusic.com. Naturally, it would also include all of the great Columbia/Sony recordings by Bernstein, Stokowski, and MTT. It's unlikely to happen because it's probably not financially viable. But one can still hope.