Whats on your turntable tonight?

Sounds like a plan then. I'll offer up some dates sometime before too long.
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Bach - Casals Conducts Brandenburg Concertos - Marlboro Festival Orch. Columbia 2 eye Not the greatest recording, but music good enough to hold my attention through all 6 sides.
Peterson/Brown/Thigpen - Sound of the Trio - Verve A really underrated jazz LP w/nice version of On Green Dolphin St.
The Kenny Drew Trio Riverside/OJC
Chopin - Sonatas 2&3 Wilhelm Kempff - London ffrr
Al DiMeola - Land of the Midnight Sun
Modern Jazz Qrt - Concorde - Prestige/OJC - One of the best albums featuring vibes that I've heard. Plenty versions better than the OJC I have.
Mozart - Sym 40&41 - Reiner/CSO Shaded Dog
Renaissance - Turn of the Cards - Sire; A classic in it's genre, a beautiful blend of art rock & folk, with a nod to the baroque. Annie Haslam's fine voice has never sounded better. Cheers,
Spencer

Supertramp "Crime Of The Century" (A&M SP 3647) Speaker's Corner 180g reissue. After the discussion in this thread last night, how could I not? I said it before, I'll say it again - Holo-freaking-graphic!
Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" (Classic reissue OJC-291) 180g
Mozart "Sonatas For Piano and Violin K.296,305,306" Perlman/Barenboim (Deutsche Grammophon 415 102-1)

Time for one more disc still before Monday Night Football..

File under inexplicable combos:

The Crusaders - The 2nd Crusade (Blue Thumb, 1973) Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Most of the time I feel like giving preference to The Jazz Crusaders 60's acoustic material, but sometimes I've got to get that (plain old) Crusaders 70's electric groove on. Hi Siliab!

V.A. - "Flex Your Head" (Dischord, 1982) Every few years or so, I pull out thee harDCore punk sampler and remind myself that you really had to be there - which I was in large part, but am no longer.

V.A. - "Ear-Piercing Punk" (Trash, early 80's?) Long-OOP 60's garage punk comp featured a cover designed to look like it contained '77-era material; I wonder how many people this has fooled over the years. Still some of the most arresting sleeve art ever, and a totally hot comp besides. Happy to say I own original 45's of two of the sixteen great singles represented: "I Need Love" by The Third Booth, and "Enough" by The Bohemian Vendetta. (Wish it were more, but I don't pay collector prices for these slabs, I dig 'em up on my own.) To me this stuff still wears better today than most anything made in later years that actually called itself punk.

Jerry Cole & The Stingers - Guitars A Go Go! (comp., Beatrocket 2000, orig. rec. 1963-66) Collected tracks from four budget-bin surf/hot rod instro LP's (out of roughly 80 he was responsible for, in a variety of genres and under a variety of pseudonyms). A widely-recorded session man, you might know Cole best (even if you don't actually *know* it) for the ringing arpeggiated riff that's the signature of the inaugural Monkees smash "Last Train To Clarksville". I do own a couple of the original supermarket-special LP's, but Sundazed's 180-gram pressing holds up better in the microwave...

Live music for us Friday and Saturday:
Last night: The Curtis Institute of Music faculty recital. Chamber music just doesn't get any better than the Field Hall at the Curtis: perfectly sized for chamber music, with seating for 250 people, and lovely acoustics. Last night: Victor Danchenko, violin, with Micah Yui, piano performing exquisitely: JANÁCEK Sonata for Violin and Piano; SCHUMANN Fantasy in C major; DEBUSSY "En bateau" from Petite suite, La plus que lente, Claire de lune; FRANCK Sonata in A major. Followed by encore pieces by Paradis and Kreisler. Second row, center, 15' from the performers: it just doesn't get better that this.

Tonight: Eschenbach/Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center - MAHLER Symphony No. 5; PINTSCHER Hérodiade Fragments. Haven't a clue which seats since we're aiming for "community rush" seats at $10 each. But what does it matter with this music and this orchestra?

Philadelphia is such a great city for music!

Photo of Curtis Institute's Field Hall:

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