T.D.

Today in the London Chess Classic (open section, round 1) there was a Coleman-Hawkins game! (0-1, 27)

I enjoy the Black Saint / Soul Note box (1980-86 material, Strange Serenade + Faces of Hope + Verona Rag + Shades). I prefer the 2 trio/quartet albums (Strange Serenade + Shades) to the two solo albums, but consider them all worthwhile.

Happy Birthday !

+1. Not necessarily being pessimistic about music; the same could be said of my book collection and many other possessions...

Congratulations to...GA! First pick made was the winner!

Retired 2008.

Whoa, I usually enter this very late (and lose pathetically). I know nothing about CFL, but looked on a gambling site and saw Calgary listed as 7 point favorites with over/under of 53. So the unoriginal pick is...Calgary 55.

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Interesting. Her later recording of the suites was praised on this forum, but I never got round to hearing it. If you've heard both, which do you prefer?

Happy birthday!

Super Typhoon Lan heading for Japan. Center looks to pass almost directly over Tokyo, according to this diagram as a Category 2 (possibly low-end Category 3) hurricane. Stay safe, kinuta.

Here are 11 works/recordings that I enjoy (no reps/warranties made about the recordings, they're just what I happen to own for whatever reasons). Bach is definitely my favorite. I listen to very little orchestral music, but like opera. Obviously much great and worthy stuff had to be omitted. Bach, sonatas/partitas for solo violin (Podger / Channel Classics, Grumiaux / Philips, Szeryng / DG) Bach, solo cello suites (Bylsma 1 / Philips) Bach, keyboard partitas (Schepkin on piano / Ongaku) Bach, Goldberg Variations (Hantai / Op. 111 on hpschd, Tipo / EMI, Schepkin / Ongaku on piano) Wagner, Parsifal (Kna 1962 / Philips) Beethoven piano sonatas (Kempff mono / DG, Yves Nat / EMI) Beethoven string quartets (I have the old Vegh set on Valois) Mozart violin sonatas with Grumiaux and Haskil on Philips Borodin string quartets # 1 and 2 with Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence (Borodin Quartet on EMI) Haydn string quartets op. 64 (Quatuor Mosaiques on Naive) Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4-6 (Mravinsky / DG) - had to expand to 11 because I couldn't stand to leave this out.

Very kind, many thanks. This was #60, so I'm still wrestling with related psychological issues...

All the best! (belatedly) Hey, our birthdays are very close (mine 10/12).

Doggone, David Paich, who played keyboards, wrote and co-wrote many of the tunes on Silk Degrees (see Wiki link above), is Marty Paich's son! Big surprise to me, though no doubt not to the cognoscenti.

+1!

It's all cool, as long as it doesn't cause problems with airport security. Spinal Tap - Derek Smalls

I agree with you on the Hawes. Didn't think of posting it here, and would have hesitated to bring up the subject, but this set never did anything for me (and I own a lot of HH recordings).

I know I'm old/old-fashioned and baseball analysts don't care about whiffing any more, but striking out 40% of the time suggests an area for improvement. Still, many kudos for the HR, OPS, etc.

I was planning on ordering the Clifford Jordan during the stampede, but ran into a bunch of home and auto repair expenses that wiped out the CD budget. My birthday is coming up in October, so maybe I can use that (or related gift certificate) to justify a purchase.

Preparing for the new novel, which will take a while to get from the library.

Larry, apologies if this is a stupid question, but are you sure it's the amp and not the speakers? Have you noticed the problem through headphones? I've often found funky noises in the high frequency range trace back to loose speaker wire connections (they seem to work loose periodically). First thing I'd do is make sure that all screw-in wire connectors (wire to banana plugs or directly to back of speakers) are really tight. Also that there are no frayed wire strands sticking out anywhere (in above places and where wire inserts directly into holes).