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UMO Jazz Orchestra with Kenny Wheeler & Norma Winstone - One More Time (A Records SACD Hybrid)

Red Mitchell & George Cables - Live at Port Townsend (Challenge)

erwbol -- Liebman has reissued the music as downloads on his own label, Vaju Productions. Here it is on amazon.com. Of course, downloads aren't the same as CDs -- but they're better than nothing.

Mosaic Select 12: David Liebman & Richie Beirach Disc 3 - Quest [Liebman, Beirach, Ron McClure & Billy Hart] Scorching.

Disc 3

Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies (Milestone 2-fer) LP 1 - These cuts were originally released as 78 RPM singles. They include Monk's very first recordings. EDIT: And now LP 2 - This was originally released as The Hawk Flies High.

David Friesen Trio - Midnight Mood: Live in Stockholm (Intuition) with pianist Randy Porter and drummer Alan Jones

Love the Chico O'Farrill arrangements.

I got this LP in London when I was studying in the U.K. many years ago.

Bags Meets Wes! (Riverside) as heard on this 1970s Milestone reissue:

Sippin' on this while I listen to Louis & Duke.

Oh yeah. Chuck, that Marantz unit looks NICE. My receiver is a Marantz too, but much more recent vintage. It's only about 15 years old.

I've heard a bit of Brendel's Liszt before (on a Philips LP), and his approach struck me as too measured and sober. (Brendel's critics would say that's always the case. Not me though. I love Brendel's Beethoven and his Haydn. I just thought Liszt was a mismatch for Brendel, temperament-wise.) Then I heard the music on this Vanguard CD. It's very different from what I remember of the Philips LP; it's much more quicksilver-y and impetuous. Now that's what I'm talking about.

Dig Shelly Manne. He's all over the kit, continually adding accents and punctuation -- but his playing is so musical that it's never obtrusive or showy. It's all woven into the musical fabric.

Hans Koller, Attila Zoller, Roland Hanna - Trinity (L+R)

erwbol, you hit the jackpot with all those Jaki Byard finds. More Byard for me too. Jaki Byard - Parisian Solos (Futura)

Jaki Byard - Family Man (32 Jazz; originally Muse) Tonight, this record hit me square between the eyes. I enjoyed it so much that when I got to the end, I listened to the whole thing a second time. Herbie Nichols - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Bethlehem) I still haven't ever found my way into Nichol's music. It's enjoyable enough, but I still haven't heard the special magic that others find in it. . . . Who knows? Maybe Nichols just isn't my cuppa joe.