Whats on your turntable tonight?

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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Still going through my acquisitions from our audio group's (including AudiogoN's Sbank) field trip to Red Trumpet Records today.
Mark Knopfler "Ragpicker's Dream" spinning on the CEEDEE player.
among the new items in the collection: A sealed, mono, Japanese pressing of Miles Davis "Bag's Groove" a little pricey, but what the hell...
Count Basie "88 Basie Street" 45 rpm, 200g.
Pink Floyd "WYWH" CBS half-speed master used, but in OK shape
Lucinda Williams "World Without Tears"
Jerry Garcia/Merle Saunders "Live At Keystone"
Still another pressing of Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" this one a 180g from Absolute Analogue
The Roaches "The Roaches" 180g reissue
A slightly wrinkled center lable copy of the Mercury reissue of Dorati/Minneapolis "Seven Studies On Themes Of Paul Klee

Even though it is a silver disc, "Ragpicker's Dream" is a very worthwhile addition to your collection if you are a Knopfler/Dire Straits fan