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Orrin Evans - "...It was beauty" (Criss Cross)

Stanley Cowell Trio - Sienna (SteepleChase)

Mal Waldron Plays the Blues: Live at the Domicile (Enja)

Earl Hines Plays George Gershwin (Classic Jazz)

Franco D'Andrea - Nuvolao (Carosello)

Frank Kimbrough - Solstice (Pirouet) Beautiful.

The Complete Capitol Fifties Jack Teagarden Sessions Disc 1

I really like Perdomo's music -- but I've not heard that one. What do you think kinuta? (Or others?) Magnificent!

Now on to some solo piano music from John Coates, Jr.: In the Open Space (Omnisound) Just right for a lazy Sunday morning.

Yep! You'll get no argument from me on that! Now listening to another LP that features two of the musicians from Sphere, Kenny Barron & Buster Williams: Bill Barron - Jazz Caper (Muse) This record should be much more well-known. I don't think it's ever been issued in any digital format, and that's a shame.

Sphere - Four in One (Elektra Musician) Walter Norris & George Mraz - Drifting (Enja)

Michael Garrick Trio - Cold Mountain (Vocalion)

Symphony No. 4 from this set:

Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach - Balladscapes (Intuition) Gorgeous.

Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets / Belcea Quartet (Alpha Classics) CD 1: Quartets Nos. 6 & 12

I'm with Larry on Pollini's recordings of Schubert's late piano sonatas. I return to them more often than any of Pollini's other recordings. I think they're extraordinary. OTOH, for me, Pollini's Chopin is just too objective, too "steely." Just my preference, of course. I much prefer Rubinstein, Moravec, Michelangeli, et al. NP: JS Bach: The Art of the Fugue / Hermann Scherchen, Vienna SO, et al. Scherchen made these arrangements. They're not at all HIP, but they are supremely musical.

From Berio to the Temps! I love it. It's all ONE thing.

Abdullah Ibrahim - Banyana: Children of Africa (Enja) What a magical record! I have loved this music for years. But right at this moment, as I sit in the airport in Istanbul on my journey from one side of the globe to the other, already exhausted and loopy from travel, the music seems even GREATER -- hallucinatory, transcendent, like earth shifting beneath my feet. What a trip!!! (And I'm not talking about airplanes or pharmaceuticals.) Ibrahim, McBee & Brooks are carrying me away on a magic carpet ride, friends!!!! Whoooeeeee.

Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 / Ormandy, Philadelphia O (Sony)

Hermann Scherchen - The Nixa Recordings (Tahra) CD 2 - Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy / Royal PO, Frederick Riddle (viola)

Al Haig - Serendipity (Interplay CD, Japanese import with 3 bonus tracks)

Excellent! NP: