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Well, from the 'wife is going to kill me but i've got to get my fix' file, some recent purchases:

Mal Waldron - Mal-4

Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)

Erroll Garner - The Complete Concert by the Sea

Eddie Costa - The House of Blue Lights

Duke Pearson - Profile

Duke Jordan Trio

Here Comes Earl 'Fatha' Hines

Denny Zeitlin - Cathexis

Bill Evans - Trio 64, Trio 65, Empathy + A Simple Matter of Conviction twofer, Bill Evans at Town Hall. At the Montreux Jazz Festival and The Bill Evans Album (Columbia).

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A  bunch of classical stuff for $1 each at a local library sale:

Bartok Cons. 1&2 with Kocsis and Ivan Fischer, coupled with Rhapsody for Piano and Orch. and Music for Strings, Percussion etc.

Pfitzner's "Palestrina," cond. Kubelik (have it on LP but thought I'd see if remastering improved things).

Two discs of Mackerras' Delius (he was good with Delius, based on a previous CD I have of his).

Horowitz's Schubert D. 960 and Schumann Kinderszenen

David Diamond's Sym. No. 1 and other works

Milstein's DG Bach Sonatas and Partitas (like I don't already have enough other recordings of these works)

Some of Blomstedt's Nielsen symphonies and his Hindemith disc with "Mathis der Mahler"  

Mozart's "Thamos" -- Harnoncourt

Shostakovich's Michelangelo Verses -- Ashkenazy, Fischer-Dieskau

Prokofiev Piano Concertos 1-5 -- Krainev, Kitaenko

So far have listened to Horowitz's Schubert, quite mannered in spots but also enlightening, the beginning of Fischer's MSPC, which seemed superb, and one of the DSH Michelangelo songs, which confirmed my impression that late D F-D, up until it became too late for him, is more to my taste than most D F-D.

 

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A  bunch of classical stuff for $1 each at a local library sale:

Bartok Cons. 1&2 with Kocsis and Ivan Fischer, coupled with Rhapsody for Piano and Orch. and Music for Strings, Percussion etc.

Pfitzner's "Palestrina," cond. Kubelik (have it on LP but thought I'd see if remastering improved things).

Two discs of Mackerras' Delius (he was good with Delius, based on a previous CD I have of his).

Horowitz's Schubert D. 960 and Schumann Kinderszenen

David Diamond's Sym. No. 1 and other works

Milstein's DG Bach Sonatas and Partitas (like I don't already have enough other recordings of these works)

Some of Blomstedt's Nielsen symphonies and his Hindemith disc with "Mathis der Mahler"  

Mozart's "Thamos" -- Harnoncourt

Shostakovich's Michelangelo Verses -- Ashkenazy, Fischer-Dieskau

Prokofiev Piano Concertos 1-5 -- Krainev, Kitaenko

So far have listened to Horowitz's Schubert, quite mannered in spots but also enlightening, the beginning of Fischer's MSPC, which seemed superb, and one of the DSH Michelangelo songs, which confirmed my impression that late D F-D, up until it became too late for him, is more to my taste than most D F-D.

 

I have about half of that list in one form or another.

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Got these two LPs today:

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Mickey Tucker - Mister Mysterious (Muse)
w/ Frank Foster, Cecil Bridgewater, Pepper Adams, Cecil McBee, Eddie Gladden, Ray Mantilla & Azzedin Weston

 

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Sam Jones - The Bassist! (Discovery)
w/ Kenny Barron & Keith Copeland

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More classical stuff from that library sale:

Stravinsky, "Rake's Progress" -- R. Craft

Franck Piano Quintet, Liszt solo works -- Richter, Borodin Quartet (a famous performance of the Franck, but no one told me about the hypnotic Liszt performances)

Tchaikovsky String Quartets -- Borodin Quartet (Teldec)

Vivaldi Violin Concerti -- Shlomo Mintz, Israel Chamber O.  (darn good surprisingly, not at all soupy on the part of Mintz or the ICO)

Shostakovich "Jazz Music" -- Chailly

Mozart Conc. 9, 21 -- De Larrocha, C. Davis

Bartok, "Bluebeard's Castle"-- Dorati, LSO (oh, baby! -- and now I've got three of them: Boulez on Sony and Ferencsik on a Hungaroton LP; used to have Boulez on DG. Memory tells me that Ferencsik  [the one with G. Melis as Bluebeard;  Ferencsik did three] is the overall best, though Troyanis with Boulez is something else, but Dorati sure is in the running).

Here's a slightly out of synch video of a scene from the Ferencsik "Bluebeard's Castle." Don't know if these are actors lip-synching to the recording or the actual singers, but they sure do look right for the parts. That Judith!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUz8bUKgcJE

 

 

 

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Went to Amoeba yesterday and picked up

 

Fred Anderson - Black Horn Long Gone

Myron Walden - Higher Ground

Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps A Record

Frode Gjerstad - Through The Woods

Salim Washington - Love In Exile 

and passed on the Joe Henderson Milestone Years box because it was a littler beat up only to come home and find a copy on Ebay for $25.

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Just ordered the Universal Italy reissue of the Ellington Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931. Somehow i'd missed this set. I'm freaking stoked to be getting it.

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Just ordered the Universal Italy reissue of the Ellington Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931. Somehow i'd missed this set. I'm freaking stoked to be getting it.

Fantastic set. Desert island material for me.

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Charles Mingus - The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 (Mosaic #253)

Mosaic has been running a "mini-sale", but after some thought I preferred the Mingus or Clifford Jordan at full price to the sale items. Came down to Mingus. Partially funded by birthday present gift card.

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Just ordered the Universal Italy reissue of the Ellington Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926-1931. Somehow i'd missed this set. I'm freaking stoked to be getting it.

Fantastic set. Desert island material for me.

:tup I'm only on early listens but i'm VERY happy with the music on this set. I know i'm late to the party but, damn, better late than never and this is an absolutely brilliant set. There's so much Ellington out there that it can be numbing (as in "Early Ellington? Add it to the pile of the 150 other Ellington albums/sets that i need to check out. Oh, it's very well regarded? Add it to the pile of the 150 other Ellington albums/sets that i need to check out that are very well regarded") but yeah, this set is a real standout. 

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