Whats on your turntable tonight?

can anyone suggest a good Billie Holiday LP!!!

Raytheprinter, glad you like the Doc Watson!

For Billie Holliday, I'm not an expert but I've liked both "Songs for Distingue Lovers" (Classic Records reissue) and "Lady Sings the Blues" (Speakers Corner reissue). Distingue Lovers is probably her most well known album: it's certainly the one I've heard the most about over the years. But, Lady Sings the Blues really grabs me.
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Tonight...

Bach organ preludes played by Karl Richter on a lovely Arp Schnitger organ from North Germany, Telefunken

Bartok, Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste, Reiner/CSO, RCA LSC 2374 (Classic Records reissue - powerful sonics)

Mozart, Divertimentos, Marriner/ASMF, Argo ZRG 705

Mozart Horn Concertos, McGegan/Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra with Lowell Greer playing natural horn (everyone knows how HARD this is to play a valveless baroque horn, right?), Harmonia Mundi HMU 7012 (another outstanding recording by Peter McGrath)
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This afternoon, with a friend over:

Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue" (Columbia CS 8163) 45 rpm Classic Records 200g reissue
Allman Brothers Band "At Fillmore East" (Capricorn SD2 802)Classic Records 200g reissue
Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" (Prestige P7079) OJC 180g reissue
Clemencic Consort/Rene Clemencic "Danses Anciennes De Hongrie Et De Transylvanie" (Harmonia Mundi HM 1003)
Moussorgsky "Pictures At An Exhibition" Reiner/CSO (RCA LSC 2201) Classic Records reissue

And, for good measure, a couple of CDs thrown in:
Dead Can Dance "Into The Labyrinth", track 1 "Yulunga"
Mark Knopfler "Shangri-La" 2 channel SACD version

Ray, Rushton,
As Billie Holiday fans, you might want to check out a sort-of-new artist named Madeleine Peyroux. She has 2 CDs out, one from this year, the other about 7-8 years ago. She has a voice and style that answer the question, "If Billie was born in the modern age, what would she sound like?" Her new album has received many raves...Cheers,
Spencer