HutchFan

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 Recorded in 1989 and produced by Kurt Renker, I wonder if these recordings were originally made for CMP.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

I was listening to Curtis Counce's Landslide last night -- and Counce was right-on-the-money when he named that record after Mr. Land. Hooray for Harold!

Coleman Hawkins & Pee Wee Russell - Jam Session in Swingville (Fantasy/Swingville) I love Pee Wee, but Coleman Hawkins takes the blue ribbon on this set. His front line makes the music special. Along with Hawk, you've got three more all-time heavyweights: Joe Newman, Jimmy Hamilton, and J.C. Higginbottom. Oh yeah.

Eddie Condon - The Classic Sessions 1928-1949 (JSP) Disc 1

I usually reach for Hermann Scherchen's recording with the Vienna SO when I want to hear the Scythian Suite. The performance is superb; however, the audio is less than ideal. (It's mono, from 1951.) Dorati's version has always been highly-regarded, but I've never heard it. It also has a reputation for unbelievable sonics.