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More RVW from Sir Adrian Boult:

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6; The Lark Ascending, Hugh Bean (vn soloist) / Boult, New Philharmonia O (Angel) Hard to top Boult when it comes to RVW.

Sir Charles Thompson - Hey There! (Black & Blue) with Major Holley & Ed Thigpen

Earlier this afternoon: Count Basie & Dizzy Gillespie - The Gifted Ones (Pablo) with Ray Brown & Mickey Roker ! ! !

Ben Webster - At the Renaissance (Contemporary, rec. 1960) with Jimmy Rowles, Jim Hall, Red Mitchell, and Frank Butler One of Ben's best, IMO.

New York Jazz Quartet - Oasis (Enja)

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Salvatore Accardo, Orchestra da Camera Italiana (RCA Victrola)

David "Fathead" Newman - It's Mister Fathead (Atlantic/32 Jazz) Disc 1 - originally released as Fathead: Ray Charles Presents David Newman and Straight Ahead

David "Fathead" Newman - It's Mister Fathead (Atlantic/32 Jazz) Disc 2 - originally released as Fathead Comes On and House of David

Kenny Barron + Buster Williams - 2 as 1 (Red)

Kenny Barron - At the Piano (Xanadu/Elemental)

Kenny Barron - New York Attitude (Uptown, rec. 1984) with Rufus Reid & Freddie Waits

Just found out about this; available on March 1, 2019: Timeless All Stars - At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1982 (Jazz Line, Germany) with Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Buster Williams, and Billy Higgins CD consists of four LONG cuts: 1. Tokudo (19:18) 2. My Foolish Heart (14:38) 3. Clockwise (20:32) 4. Mapenzi (20:52) Needless to say, I'll be all over this one.

CD compiles two Bartz LPs: Juju Street Songs and Follow the Medicine Man Excellent.

Don't forget forum member Buddha the Magnificent. He's in Georgia too, down in Savannah. And Ken Dryden is just across the state line, up near Chattanooga. . . . A few slightly more famous Georgians: James Brown (raised in Augusta, GA) and Otis Redding (born in Dawson, GA; raised in Macon, GA). Georgia stakes an honorary claim to Ray Charles too -- even tho' he was raised in Florida -- because he was born in Albany. All sorts of Georgia connections. I don't know what's in the wax. If you'd like, I can look tonight when I get home from work.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (Archiv) with Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Gilles Cachemaille, and Monteverdi Choir

James Moody - The Blues and Other Colors (Milestone/OJC) Still grooving to this. Moody on soprano sax (rare) and interesting Tom McIntosh arrangements (as usual).

sidewinder -- are you referring In Walked Sonny, the LP that Stitt made with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers? Or is there another one?

Well put! Still rolling with EKE this morning: The Complete 1932-40 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra (Mosaic) Disc 1 Duke Ellington - Blues in Orbit (Columbia/Legacy)

I like Grayson and Hibbler and Jeffries and all those guys. I just prefer Ivie's singing. For example, has anyone ever done a better version of "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"?

Dipping into the big RCA Duke box again tonight: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Discs 11 & 12 Ivie Anderson. The best Ellington vocalist ever? ...Betty Roché comes close, but she didn't stay long. Nell Brookshire was wasn't half bad. Adelaide Hall's and Kay Davis' wordless vocal things were beautiful. ...But I'd put Ivie in the pole position. Anderson may not have had a knock-you-on-your-booty voice -- but she had soul. IMHO, none of the men come close. I do like Herb Jeffries "Flamingo"; otherwise, I'd rather hear the ladies sing.

Dizzy Gillespie - Odyssey: 1945-1952 (Savoy) Disc 1 Duke Ellington - The Private Collection, Vol. 2: Dance Concerts, California, 1958 (Saja)

More from this treasure trove: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Disc 22 - The Popular Duke Ellington, the EKE cuts from The Jazz Piano, and the beginning of The Duke at Tanglewood

The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1927-1973) Disc 21 - The Far East Suite Sublime!