Lets give Amy's idea a try. 

We can post our plays, with images (and please use outside hosting sites for your images) and limited each thread to a two month period. When June rolls around, we can created a new RTM thread for June and July. 

This can be a win/win situation for all of us.

Thanks, Amy.... Boxx

BILL EVANS TRIO

WITH LEE KONITZ & WARNE MARSH

CROSSCURRENTS

1978

 

CRUEL INVENTIONS
Sam Phillips

Virgin

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Gary Burton Quintet

DREAMS SO REAL

MUSIC OF CARLA BLEY

1976

 Darn it, I thought it was "Erroll" time.....     Close enough! 

Afternoon of an Elf -- LP

Erroll Garner

1955 Mercury Records

Now Playing - A Night At The Movies -- LP

Erroll Garner

1965 MGM Records

Ella Fitzgerald

ELLA LIVE

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Hey Dennie.... My favorite pianist.... It's Herbie Nicholes time.......

 

I'm unfamiliar with Herbie Nicholes.  I've added him to my ever growing "wish list", thanks!  

Dennie

We Get Requests -- LP

The Oscar Peterson Trio

1964 Verve Records  Stereo V/V6-8606 

The trio swings!, July 20, 2000
By Jeffrey Harris (South San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: We Get Requests (Audio CD)

Oscar Peterson isn't called the swinger for nothing, as this classic album demonstrates. Covering current pop hits of the day like "The Days Of Wine And Roses", "People", and especially their version of "Corcovado" which opens the album, the trio casts them in a new light with uniquely different arrangements that showcase their tight rhythmic playing.       

    "Corcovado" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 2:49
    "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 2:40
    "My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 5:08
    "People" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 3:30
    "Have You Met Miss Jones?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:10
    "You Look Good to Me" (Seymour Lefco, Clement Wells) – 4:49
    "The Girl from Ipanema" (Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 3:51
    "D & E" (John Lewis) – 5:11
    "Time and Again" (Noël Coward) – 4:38
    "Goodbye J.D." (Oscar Peterson) – 2:56

Dennie:

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Hey Dennie.... My favorite pianist.... It's Herbie Nicholes time.......

 

 

I'm unfamiliar with Herbie Nicholes.  I've added him to my ever growing "wish list", thanks!  

 

Dennie

 

Herbie Nichols was a son of immigrants from trinidad, born and raised in hells kitchen, classically trained and "forced" to play dixieland in his early years..... mostly a side man as his playing and idea's were very radical, he was under appreciated and misunderstood..... Luckly Mingus and Gryce really saw his talent and Alfred Lions brought him into the Blue Note fold..... He only lead on three albums for blue note, but they are amazing!!!! all trio's, no horns, (which I normally don't dig) I find his work, though very syncopated with strange timing, still very musical, as opposed to Monk, who's work go's a bit to "avant garde" at times when he solo's ( don't get me wrong, I love Monk)......

Highly recommended!!!!!

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Dennie:

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Hey Dennie.... My favorite pianist.... It's Herbie Nicholes time.......

 

 

I'm unfamiliar with Herbie Nicholes.  I've added him to my ever growing "wish list", thanks!  

 

Dennie

 

Herbie Nichols was a son of immigrants from trinidad, born and raised in hells kitchen, classically trained and "forced" to play dixieland in his early years..... mostly a side man as his playing and idea's were very radical, he was under appreciated and misunderstood..... Luckly Mingus and Gryce really saw his talent and Alfred Lions brought him into the Blue Note fold..... He only lead on three albums for blue note, but they are amazing!!!! all trio's, no horns, (which I normally don't dig) I find his work, though very syncopated with strange timing, still very musical, as opposed to Monk, who's work go's a bit to "avant garde" at times when he solo's ( don't get me wrong, I love Monk)......

Highly recommended!!!!!

Great info, thanks!  I've sent an email to my "used music" dealer.  

Dennie

Brubeck Plays Brubeck -- LP

Dave Brubeck

1956 Columbia Records (White Demo Label) 

Amazon.com

Hopefully, the reappearance of this revelatory 1956 record will force many critics and musicians to reconsider Brubeck's stature in the world of jazz piano. Recorded late at night in his Oakland, California, home, it was Brubeck's first full solo-piano recording and also his first all-original record, and it illustrates his marvelously elegant fusion of classical and cocktail conceptions. Brubeck understands blues and swing, but he uses these elements as tools for effect, not as default settings. Brubeck instead offers a fuller palette of emotions and ideas--playful, sober, stern, happy, pensive, cerebral. While "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke" have become standards, the album includes obscure gems such as the minisuite "Two-Part Contention," with its many tempo, mood, and stylistic turns, and the discreetly swinging "Walkin' Line," although he lapses into melodrama with "Weep No More." Still, on "The Duke" (originally titled "The Duke Meets Darius Milhaud"), it's fascinating to hear how easily and smoothly he fits all 12 scale notes into his opening bass figure. As he himself points out in the brilliant original notes (reprinted here), the marriage of European music and American music dates back to New Orleans jazzmen such as King Oliver. And to dismiss any notions of intellectualism in jazz would be a great insult to everyone from Oliver to Charlie Parker to John Lewis to Bill Evans to Sun Ra. This is the jazz of Brubeck's own experience, and while it may sound too poised and polished for some tastes, it is honestly his and must be viewed as such. --Marc Greilsamer     

    "Swing Bells" 3:39
    "Walkin' Line" 2:47
    "In Your Own Sweet Way" 5:01
    "Two-Part Contention" 5:39
    "Weep No More" 3:59
    "The Duke" 2:54
    "When I Was Young" 3:19
    "One Moment Worth Years" 4:55
    "The Waltz" 3:49