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Last night: Mike Richmond - Dream Waves (Inner City / Sonet) with Andy LaVerne & Billy Hart Excellent.

Keystone Trio [John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad] - Newklear Music: The Songs of Sonnny Rollins (Milestone) John Hicks!

Superb. NP: If I'm just taking one Steve Lacy disc to my desert island, it's probably this one.

Richie Beirach - Ballads and Ballads II (Sony Japan)

Oh man! You're right! And I've already got that. Doh!

Wonderful music. Awesome 'stache. The LP is particularly worth searching for if you're a Joe Farrell-phile. Oh yeah!

I've enjoyed that one. If you like Rubalcaba's other work, I think you'd like Diz. One track stands out in my memory: We've all heard "Con Alma" a million times, but Rubalcaba does something different with it. It's very still, almost like a Chopin nocturne. It's the highlight of the disc, imho. I'm also fully on board with the Ralph Peterson recommendations -- the Fo'tet stuff and Triangular, which features Geri Allen.

Franco D'Andrea - Quartet Live / My Shuffle (Red) with Tino Tracanna, Attilio Zanchi, and Gianni Cazzola

Hans Koller, Attila Zoller, Roland Hanna - Trinity (L+R, 1979) Terrific.

Extraordinary music-making. This LP was the very first ABM I ever heard -- and I still think it's the best ABM I ever heard!

I just discovered this 2-CD release, which was just issued in April of this year: Richie Beirach - Inborn (Jazzline) The set consists of one disc of live music and one disc of studio recordings. Recorded in 1989 and produced by Kurt Renker, I wonder if these recordings were originally made for CMP. Either way, it looks like they're first seeing the light of day here. Here's the track listing: LIVE 1-1 Paradox (Beirach) 1-2 Alone Together (Schwartz) 1-3 Inborn (Beirach) 1-4 Con Alma (Gillespie) 1-5 Sunday Song (Beirach) 1-6 In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) 1-7 You Don't Know What Love Is (de Paul) 1-8 Broken Wing (Beirach) STUDIO 2-1 My Funny Valentine (Rodgers, Hart) 2-2 Leaving (Beirach) 2-3 Inborn (Beirach) 2-4 Some Other Time (Bernstein) 2-5 Sunday Song (Beirach) 2-6 Young & Foolish (Hague, Horwitt) 2-7 Paradox (Beirach) I just ordered it. I'll report back when I've had an opportunity to hear it.

I was just looking over the thread dedicated to this record, and it prompted me to cue up the music. So lovely and soulful.

I'm now listening to this CD too, John. Thanks for prompting me to give it a spin.

Now spinning this again: Earlier:

A gorgeous version of "Body & Soul" on this one. Something ruminative and offhand about it, like thinking while walking.

Enrico Pieranunzi - Autour de Martinu: Live at the Bird's Eye (TCB) This CD is new to me, and I'm really enjoying it. I suppose I could have posted it to the "What Classical Music Are You Listening to?" thread. On many of the tracks, Pieranunzi plays brief compositions by "classical" composers -- Bohuslav Martinů, Scarlatti, Handel -- and then freely improvises based on the composer's music. Other tracks feature Pieranunzi's own compositions. Marvelous stuff.

Disc 4 - BEETHOVEN - Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 - with André Cluytens & Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française - Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Op. 47 "Kreutzer" - with Lev Oborin