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Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges - Play the Blues Back to Back (Verve) with "Sweets" Edison Harry Edison - Mr. Swing (Verve) with Jimmy Forrest & Jimmy Jones

Tivoli Garden, Copenhagen, 1962

Hampton Hawes - Playin' in the Yard (Prestige, 1973) with Bob Cranshaw & Kenny Clarke at Montreux Oh yeah.

Mary Lou Williams - Nite Life (Chiaroscuro, 2 CDs) Outstanding solo piano. Some of MLW's best recordings, imho.

Charles Ives: Songs / Jan DeGaetani (mez-sop), Gilbert Kalish (p) (Nonesuch) Were I to choose a handful of my favorite recordings (in any genre), this would certainly be on the list. If you'd like to read what I've written about this music on my Charles Ives site, go here.

So true! And labels like Black & Blue, Chiaroscuro, Sackville, Master Jazz and others carried on this important work into the 70s. My listening this morning -- a double-shot of Buddy Tate -- is case in point.

George Cables - Why Not (Why Not) "My Buddy": Sonny Stitt Plays for Gene Ammons (Muse)

Art Pepper - Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard (Contemporary) A favorite. Sonny Stitt - 12! (Muse) Ah, I see. The Celestial Country must be the same recording as the one originally released in the Charles Ives centenary box set in 1974. If you want to investigate more of Ives' choral music, I'd definitely recommend the Gregg Smith Singers LP below.

Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins & Ray Mantilla - The Pentagon (East Wind) Duke Ellington - Piano in the Foreground (Columbia/Legacy)

Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Vol. 5: The Suites, New York, 1968 & 1970 (Saja) Desert-island music.

Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz - Two Not One (Storyville) Disc 1

The Verve/Philips Dizzy Gillespie Small Group Sessions (Mosaic) Disc 7 Gregg Smith's recordings of Ives' choral music for Columbia are magnificent. . . . I've never heard that disc though. What do you think of it, Paul?

Ruby Braff - Braff! (Epic) and Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion)

Buck Clayton - The Golden Days of Jazz (Columbia Special Products) LP 2

Larry Willis - Inner Crisis (Groove Merchant) This one's getting lots of spins lately.

James Moody - Another Bag (Argo, 1962) with Tom McIntosh (arr), Kenny Barron (p), a.o. McIntosh also wrote most of the music on this LP.

Disc 1

More Gator: Willis Jackson - Headed and Gutted (Muse) and Joe Henderson - Page One (Blue Note) Such a great record.

I'm with you, John. Whistle Stop is my desert-island Dorham also. For me, Philly Joe is definitely part of the equation, but the whole band is lights out. ...And the compositions! ...Everything about it.