HutchFan

Very sad news. R.I.P. So many great ones are passing!

Damn straight.

Chopin: Preludes / Dmitri Alexeev (EMI)

Thanks for the heads-up on this, crisp! Exciting news.

Yep. I know that one and like it too.

Many thanks!

I've had that record on my "To Get" list for a long time. I've never heard it, but I bet it's great. What do you think, optatio?

Sad to hear this news. R.I.P. and thank you for the music.

I had the good fortune to see Larry Willis perform on Friday night at the Velvet Note, a local club. It was an excellent show, the highlight of which was a performance of "Flamenco Sketches." Very, very moving. Willis' sidemen were Curtis Lundy on bass and Jason Brown on drums. So glad I had a chance to see him. If you ever have an opportunity to see Willis perform, don't think about it -- GO!!!

Very interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.

And many others for Honegger's "Pacific 231". . .

More from Elly Ameling: German Romantic Songs / Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin (Philips) Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Brahms, Wolf, et al

If you were to pick ONE personal-favorite (non-compilation) Coryell record, what would it be? I'd likely go with Barefoot Boy.

The Oscar Peterson records that I've enjoyed the most are: - Night Train (Verve) - Oscar Peterson Trio + One [with Clark Terry] (Verve) - My Favorite Instrument (MPS) - Tracks (MPS) - Oscar Peterson & Harry Edison (Pablo) Oscar provoked (provokes?) some STRONG reactions, doesn't he?!?! Both pro and con. Along with Miles, Thelonious famously dismissed Peterson's playing by pointing to a toilet. And then others think he's one of the greatest pianists ever. ... I guess I fall somewhere in between. Sometimes Peterson's playing is astonishing. And sometimes it can be "too much of a good thing" -- at least for my tastes. Is OP is the jazz world's equivalent to György Cziffra in classical music??? From what I've learned of Cziffra, he seemed to provoke the same sort of extreme responses, both for and against.

Just now seeing this thread. Has anyone else noticed that amazon has removed their Advanced Search page? Or have they just moved it? (I can't find it anymore.) If it's gone, I wonder why they got rid of it?!?!

"The Dutch Nightingale!" Ameling is one of my favorite classical singers. Such an expressive voice, so effortless and natural.

Elly Ameling: The Early Recordings, Vol. 3 (BMG, originally DHM) Lieder by Brahms (with Norman Shetler) and Schumann (with Jörg Demus)

I tried to get ahead of the game this year. On Sunday afternoon, my wife and I went to see An Affair to Remember at the theater. She's a big movie buff, and she particularly likes "classic" movies. So that was good. After the movie we went out to dinner at a nice restaurant. So, after giving my two daughters some chocolates this morning, I have checked all of my Valentine's Day boxes. Gents, I am DONE.

Yeah, I hear the same. I wonder how much remastering might help alleviate those sonic issues. . .

Mention of the "Distributed by Roulette Records" sticker made me think of this LP: This is an excellent recording, but it's not the type of music I associate with Mainstream. I wonder how it came about. A long while ago, I wrote about this album on my Charles Ives web site here.

Totally agree with comments about Terry's Pure Dynamite and Land's A New Shade of Blue. Both are wonderful records, imho. A couple others that I particularly dig: the self-titled Blue Mitchell and Jack Wilkins' Windows. I'll definitely be getting some of these reissues. Thanks for the heads-up, felser.