Balladeer

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Paul Desmond Quartet Live (Verve,2000) "Canadian Quartet" at Bourbon Street, Toronto, 1975

Philip Catherine/Bert Joris/Brussels Jazz Orchestra - Meeting Colours (Dreyfus)

Zoot Sims & Bucky Pizzarelli - Elegiac (Storyville)

Paul Desmond / Jim Hall - Glad to be unhappy (RCA)

Ernest Ranglin - Bless Up (Avila Street Records)

Monty Alexander with special guest Ernest Ranglin - Rocksteady (Telarc)

Melissa Aldana - Filin (Blue Note)

Dave Brubeck - Indian Summer (Telarc)

One of the last great movie actors! If you have the chance watch him as "Boss Spearman" in Kevin Costner´s exellent late Western "Open Range" (2003). R.I.P.

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels - I long to see you (Blue Note)

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Charles Lloyd - Figure in Blue (Blue Note) Disc 1

Noah Preminger & Max Light - Songs We Love (Steeplechase)

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Ken Peplowski - Maybe September (Capri)

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Haunted Melodies - The Songs of Rahsaan Roland Kirk (Metropolitan)

His music has always been something special. I first discovered him when he wrote the hauntingly beautiful instrumental "Broken Wing" for Chet Baker. Later his trio albums for the ACT Munich Label with violinist Gregor Hübner and George Mraz - "Round about Bartok", "Round about Monteverdi" , "Round about Mompou" - were standout chamber crossovers. Richard Alan Beirach surely was one of a kind - a stylistically highly original pianist, composer, and musician who played among others with Getz, Liebman, the Brecker Brothers. The last part of his life he spent in Germany, first he taught jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik in Leipzig. Then he lived with two befriended musicians on a farm in a village in rural southwestern Germany. RIP, Richie Beirach

Jed Levy Quintet - Mood Ellington (Steeplechase)

Franui - Schubertlieder (ColLegno)

Marc Copland - Time within Time (Hat Hut)

Ariel Bart - After Silence (self-released) Not your usual trio date: Ariel Bart (chromatic harmonica), Talia Erdal (cello) and Arseny Rykov (piano). The young Israeli who now lives in Berlin penned all the tracks of her third studio album. Wonderful music and surely one of the most remarkable albums I´ve heard in years.

Rich Perry - Mood (Steeplechase) Have been returning to this marvellous quartet album countless times. And it won´t end. A dream team with the fabulous Harold Danko at the keys. Probably Perry´s masterpiece.

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