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Dreams Fly Away: A History of Linda Thompson (Hannibal) Some exceptional songs & singing here.

Kenny Burrell - Live at the Village Vanguard (Muse) as reissued on:

This again: Joe Newman - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1955 - 1956): The Basie Days (RCA Jazz Tribune Series) Disc 1 Joe sounds so good here. Everything goes down like smooth whiskey. Also: Jim Snidero - Streams of Consciousness (Savant)

Ryan Cohan - One Sky (Motéma)

Joe Newman - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1955 - 1956): The Basie Days (RCA Jazz Tribune Series) Disc 1

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.