I started posting links to records that I listen to on social media. I’ve done this before, but then never kept track of what I already posted or didn’t. So now I’m going to use this site to do that in batches. Here are 1-100, in reverse order since this is a blog and so everything is always reverse order.
2025-07-09
Bach Brandenburg Concertos. Apollo’s Fire.
https://apollosfire.org/event/brandenburg-concertos/
2025-07-08
Viola Brasil, Tatjana Mead Chamis.
https://tatjanameadchamis.bandcamp.com/album/viola-brasil
2025-07-07
This complete set of Dvorak String Quartets at a ludicrously low price. Warm and lush performances by the Stamitz quartet.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8363764–dvorak-complete-string-quartets
2025-07-04
More “big band” Haydn
Dorati, for having the first widely distributed complete set of the symphonies:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7978083–haydn-symphonies-nos-1-104
Bernstein Paris Symphonies:
Klemperer, just because:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7965941–haydn-symphonies
Bohm:
Ansermet:
2025-07-03
The king of stylish anti-authentic big band Haydn: Thomas Beecham.
https://www.discogs.com/release/25577278-Haydn-London-Symphonies-The-Seasons
In the streaming this might be split up:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/haydn-symphonies-93-98/696506210
and
https://music.apple.com/us/album/haydn-symphonies-99-104/693792927
Also here is a youtube video about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnacQH3rCY
2025-07-02
More big band Haydn. From George Szell in Cleveland.
2025-07-01
Some classic big band classical. Leonard Bernstein does Haydn.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8024228–leonard-bernstein-conducts-haydn-symphonies
2025-06-30
Record of the day supplemental: the Biscuits and Banjos festival. A short report.
https://mutable-states.com/biscuits-and-banjos.html
2025-06-30
Mahler 2 by Klaus Tennstedt.
2025-06-17
My buddy @bromethazine.bsky.social and his group THUG ZINE: The Triptych
https://www.discogs.com/release/34141090-bromethugzine-The-Triptych
Great tracks and is also a beautiful physical artifact. That yellow vinyl.
2025-06-16
Renaissance by Beyonce.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/renaissance/1630005298
2025-06-14
Shostakovich 10th Symphony. Neeme Jarvi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Rock and Roll.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/shostakovich-symphony-no-10-ballet-suite-no-4/1761606126
2025-06-12
New Jazz Conceptions by Bill Evans.
https://www.discogs.com/master/178735-Bill-Evans-New-Jazz-Conceptions
2025-06-10
More big band Mozart conducted by Otto Klemperer.
2025-06-9
People Time, The Complete Recordings by Stan Getz and Kenny Barron.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/people-time/1404322455
https://www.discogs.com/release/7242570-Stan-Getz-Kenny-Barron-People-Time-The-Complete-Recordings
2025-06-06
Dvorak Cello concerto by Janos Starker.
Yo-Yo Ma played this in Pittsburgh this week and as always it’s a banger.
2025-06-03
Mozart Symphonies by Istvan Kertesz
Hard to find on streaming.
2025-06-02
Crystal Records, which I recently learned has been around for 59 years now and is still dedicated to interesting and unique musical corners that they enjoy.
Incredible retro feel to the web site too.
https://www.crystalrecords.com
2025-05-31
Trios by Cesar Franck.
2025-05-28
Late Duke Ellington. The story goes that he made studio recordings of new ideas and experiments, just to see how they sounded.
“The Private Collection” was released as 10 CDs in the 80s.
2025-05-26
The funk electronic classic by Herbie Hancock: Future Shock.
https://www.discogs.com/release/35929-Herbie-Hancock-Future-Shock
2025-05-23
The funky jazzy Isle of Magic by “Mop Mop”.
This one took Shazam a long time to find even though I was sitting right next to the speaker.
https://www.discogs.com/master/527683-MopMop-Isle-Of-Magic
2025-05-22
The new Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson release What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow.
My only complaint is the outside insect noises on some of the tracks. Oh well.
https://rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com/album/what-did-the-blackbird-say-to-the-crow
2025-05-21
Tom Rainey. Hotel Grief.
2025-05-20
Carolina Chocolate Drops and Luminescent Orchestrii.
2025-05-19
Villa-Lobos Choros And Bachianas Brasileiras on BIS.
2025-05-17
String pieces by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The Dvorak in particular is great, and was the best music in the movie ARRIVAL from a few years back.
2025-05-15
Music for viola by Martinu, played by Maxim Rysanov.
2025-05-14
by Thomas Dolby from 1984. The Flat Earth.
https://www.discogs.com/master/65127-Thomas-Dolby-The-Flat-Earth
2025-05-13
Belladonna by Mary Halvorson. Her guitar sound is completely unique.
https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/belladonna
2025-05-10
Ellington Indigos. By Duke Ellington.
There are too many different versions of this record to count. The current “extended” version is strangely unavailable on disk.
This is as good as anything Ellington ever did. It ought to be more available.
Here’s the discogs umbrella link.
https://www.discogs.com/master/171165-Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-Ellington-Indigos
2025-05-09
Sibelius week ends on a special double feature.
The records of the day today are the Sibelius 7 by Beecham, and the Sibelius 1 and 7 by Maazel with the PSO (woot).
2025-05-08
Sibelius week, part 4.
Both recordings of Sibelius 2nd Symphony by Ormandy that are in this box:
2025-05-07
Sibelius week, part 3.
Sibelius violin concerto by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.
2025-05-06
OK. It’s Sibelius week.
The giant boxed set that is a summary of an even more giant set of everything Sibelius wrote.
The Essential Sibelius, lots of Osmo Vänskä with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, but also Neme Jarvi and some misc. chamber music.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7951535–the-essential-sibelius
2025-05-05
This classic reading of the Sibelius 4th and 5th symphonies by von Karajan. These are the Berlin recordings on EMI from the 80s. Not the earlier stuff.
2025-05-01
The classic Dessa record Parts of Speech.
https://dessa.bandcamp.com/album/parts-of-speech
2025-04-28
Carolina Chocolate Drops from 2010: Genuine Negro Jig.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2401489-Carolina-Chocolate-Drops-Genuine-Negro-Jig
2025-04-26
Bosporus Bridges: A Wide Selection Of Turkish Jazz And Funk
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY22i2t_9NxnHJ_3lFhZfUBvF3D2kI2SX
2025-04-18
Complete Nocturnes by Chopin. Ivan Moravec.
https://www.discogs.com/master/997897-Chopin-Ivan-Moravec-Nocturnes
2025-04-17
Thumbscrew (Michael Formanek, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson)
Convallaria
https://www.discogs.com/release/8530739-Thumbscrew-Convallaria
2025-04-14
Tommy Flanagan, who I got to see live once in Boston. The Sunset and the Mockingbird.
2025-04-10
25 years ago Rob Gordon said “I will now sell five copies of The Three EPs by the Beta Band”
So the The Three EPs by the Beta Band, which for some reason I never bought but should have.
https://www.discogs.com/release/195147-The-Beta-Band-The-Three-EPs
2025-04-09
Because I bought a recent vinyl reissue of the record when I already had an original 1989 vinyl LP of it at home the record of the day today COSMIC THING by the B-52’s
https://www.discogs.com/master/53876-The-B-52s-Cosmic-Thing
2025-04-07
Tracy Chapman, by Tracy Chapman.
Go get the special 35th anniversary vinyl LP. Or just find it in the various services.
https://tracychapmanonline.substack.com/p/pre-order-your-copy-of-tracy-chapmans
https://store.rhino.com/en/rhino-store/artists/tracy-chapman/tracy-chapman-lp/603497832613.html
2025-04-06
Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, which came out 50 years ago this year.
I went to see Pink Talking Fish do a live performance of this album last night in Pittsburgh and it was great fun.
https://www.discogs.com/master/11703-Pink-Floyd-Wish-You-Were-Here
2025-04-04
Herbie Nichols, a piano player whose music sounds like no one else at all.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/love-gloom-cash-love-remastered-2013/785637580
2025-04-02
Schubert String Quintet in C, from the Marlboro music festival a few decades ago.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/schubert-quintet-in-c-major/212134592
Also check out this astounding live performance from yesterday at Carnegie Mellon!
https://www.youtube.com/live/ezOckgAqy-A?feature=shared&t=3480
2025-03-31
The early Louis Armstrong “Hot Five” and “Hot Seven” groups on JSP.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2586278-Louis-Armstrong-Hot-Fives-And-Sevens
Much of this is available on the Sony label for streaming, but the organization and sound are not exactly the same. I think I like these more.
2025-03-29
A bonus extra post-symphony week symphony. Here is the Beethoven 6th with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony.
2025-03-28
Rounding out Symphony week.
Symphonies 1, 2, 3 and 5 by Erwin Schulhoff.
2025-03-27
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Symphonies 1 and 2.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/villa-lobos-symphonies-nos-1-2/1301835285
2025-03-26
The Symphony In E Minor Op. 32 (Gaelic) by Amy Beach
2025-03-25
Grazyna Bacewicz … the third symphony in particular.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9539944–grazyna-bacewicz-orchestral-works-vol-1
2025-03-23
Symphony No. 1 by Myaskovsky conducted by Svetlanov and the Russian Federation Academic Symphony Orchestra.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/myaskovsky-complete-symphonies-volume-1-symphonies/1482447757
2025-03-22
No record of the day today.
Instead a rumination on Miles and Coltrane.
https://mutable-states.com/miles-coltrane-1955-1961.html
2025-03-21
Ellery Eskelin from 1989 available on vinyl only as far I know.
Setting the Standard.
https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/8113543
It’s probably on youtube but I haven’t looked.
2025-03-19
Miles Davis: Round about Midnight. One of the first records with the classic Coltrane group.
I like this specific version on CD without the extra extras.
https://www.discogs.com/release/11505517-Miles-Davis-Round-About-Midnight
Except for Two Bass Hit, which I’ve never liked for some reason.
2025-03-18
Catherine Russell. Send For Me.
https://dottimerecords.bandcamp.com/album/send-for-me
2025-03-17
Nanci Griffith. Flyer
https://music.apple.com/us/album/flyer/271960408
https://www.discogs.com/release/2590636-Nanci-Griffith-Flyer?ev=
2025-03-15
They Might be Giants.
Lincoln
https://music.apple.com/us/album/lincoln/1439224952
https://www.discogs.com/release/435519-They-Might-Be-Giants-Lincoln
2025-03-13
Taj Mahal: Swingin’ Live at The Church in Tulsa
https://tajblues.bandcamp.com/album/swingin-live-at-the-church-in-tulsa
2025-03-12
More Ellington.
Ellington in Order volume 6, 1934-1936.
https://streaming.prestomusic.com/album/9557770
In particular this covers the 1935-1936 material that’s on this CD from the 90s, which is great.
https://www.discogs.com/release/11401704-Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra-1935-1936
2025-03-09
Lyle Lovett Live in Texas.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/live-in-texas/259589105
https://www.discogs.com/release/9499116-Lyle-Lovett-Live-In-Texas
2025-03-08
Because the Pittsburgh Symphony were just great in this piece last night…
the Prokofiev Symphony Number 5, with Neeme Jarvi.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/prokofiev-symphony-no-5-waltz-suite/1761604065
2025-03-07
In honor of the release of the 4K restored original cut of the movie Amadeus, the the Mozart Requiem by Neville Marriner who conducted the bits of the piece that appear in the movie.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8050809–mozart-requiem-in-d-minor-k626
2025-03-05
Ellington in Order volume 8, 1937. Just before the giant 1940/41 peak, but still consistently great.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/ellington-in-order-vol-8-1937/1754030900
2025-03-03
The first volume in an epic 40 CD journey through all of Schubert’s songs from Hyperion with Graham Johnson and various singers. This series started in 1987 and ended in 2000.
This first record was with Janet Baker.
You can also download them all here from Hyperion directly:
https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/s.asp?s=S_8
In addition, all the notes and texts are online at that site.
And they are all on streaming now too.
2025-03-02
Charles Mingus: Right Now, Live at the Jazz Workshop
https://music.apple.com/us/album/right-now-live-at-the-jazz-workshop/1443079991
https://www.discogs.com/release/2797379-Charles-Mingus-Right-Now-Live-At-The-Jazz-Workshop
This is also part of a 7CD box from Debut
https://www.discogs.com/release/12777705-Charles-Mingus-Leader-On-Debut
or this other complete box:
https://www.discogs.com/release/3712249-Charles-Mingus-The-Complete-Debut-Recordings
2025-03-01
The OKeh Ellington, which covers recordings from the 1927 to 1930.
This collection does not appear to be on streaming or downloads. It’s a nicely specific set though.
https://www.discogs.com/release/6253637-Duke-Ellington-The-OKeh-Ellington
2025-02-28
Eugene Ormandy: Prokofiev Symphony 1, Lt. Kije Suite, Love for Three Oranges Suite.
This grouping does not appear to be in streaming. Which is too bad because it’s the best. It’s on youtube though.
2025-02-24
Comin’ Your Way by Stanley Turrentine
https://music.apple.com/us/album/comin-your-way/1453924466
https://www.discogs.com/release/3115475-Stanley-Turrentine-Comin-Your-Way
2025-02-23
Dessa’s Parts of Speech
https://dessa.bandcamp.com/album/parts-of-speech
2025-02-22
the Shostakovich String Quartets recorded by the … Shostakovich String Quartet.
One of the harder records to search for on the Internet.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/shostakovich-complete-string-quartets/413457269
https://www.discogs.com/release/22944992-Shostakovich-Quartet-Shostakovich-Complete-String-Quartets
2025-02-22
I was traveling and didn’t do any records this week. But here is one for Friday.
A Tribe Called Quest: the 25th anniversary reissue of their first album
https://music.apple.com/us/album/peoples-instinctive-travels-and-the-paths-of/1046921573
2025-02-16
Ellington from 1940
The best approximation of this material that I can find in streaming is here:
Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/never-no-lament-the-blanton-webster-band-remastered/164149672
https://streaming.prestomusic.com/album/8366314?link_token=48278717-7043-4ac2-a4d9-9e30a5cb60bf
2025-02-15
A Tribe Called Quest. The Low End Theory
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-low-end-theory/278911460
https://www.discogs.com/release/87291-A-Tribe-Called-Quest-The-Low-End-Theory
2025-02-14
Queen Esther. Talkin’ Fishbowl Blues
https://music.apple.com/us/album/talkin-fishbowl-blues/44360623
https://www.discogs.com/release/2060512-Queen-Esther-Talkin-Fishbowl-Blues
2025-02-11
Twenty One by Geri Allen with Ron Carter and Tony Williams.
This appears to have disappeared from streaming and downloads for some reason.
https://www.discogs.com/master/948433-Geri-Allen-Trio-With-Ron-Carter-Tony-Williams-Twenty-One
2025-02-10
To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar … who is having a moment now.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/to-pimp-a-butterfly/1440828886
2025-02-09
The classic alt-rock Pretenders album from 1984: Learning to Crawl
https://music.apple.com/us/album/learning-to-crawl-expanded-edition-2007-remaster/255900086
https://www.discogs.com/release/371390-The-Pretenders-Learning-To-Crawl
2025-02-08
All of the Above by J-Live. I only occasionally dabble in hip-hop so I have nothing particularly knowledgeable to say about this. But it’s good.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-of-the-above/314333264
https://www.discogs.com/master/70318-J-Live-All-Of-The-Above
2025-02-07
Today’s record of the day is Little Creatures by Talking Heads.
Something of a straightforward throwback to their earlier styles after a set of complicated almost stream of consciousness albums.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/little-creatures/302136342
2025-02-06
It was inevitable that I’d end up here eventually so we might as well get it out of the way now.
Blue Train, the singularly classic Coltrane record on Blue Note.
Here even the alternate takes are worth it.
https://www.discogs.com/release/27328725-John-Coltrane-Blue-Train-The-Complete-Masters
https://music.apple.com/us/album/blue-train-the-complete-masters/1636572781
2025-02-05
Money Jungle, the classic Ellington, Mingus and Roach trio set on Blue Note
https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8038944–money-jungle
https://music.apple.com/us/album/money-jungle/724777639
2025-02-04
Today’s record of the day is Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane in any of its various forms that have existed over the years.
This complete set gets you everything at once:
https://www.prestomusic.com/jazz/products/8476879–the-complete-1957-riverside-recordings
2025-02-02
See How They Run by the Mother Goose Jazz Band.
These are legit swinging and enjoyable arrangements of kid songs as various Jazz standards.
Here is one example on youtube: Peanut Butter Cookies (which is really Take Five).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFs74c6fzjU
The whole album is CD only.
https://www.discogs.com/release/5910466-The-Mother-Goose-Jazz-Band-See-How-They-Run
2025-02-01
Amahd Jamal, Emerald City Nights. This is a series of at least 3 live recordings. All great.
https://elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ahmad-jamal-emerald-city-nights-vol-1
2025-01-31
Toshiko Akiyoshi and the Lew Tewbackin Big Band.
Road Time
But really buy any of these downloads.
https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/search/albums/akiyoshi
2025-01-30
Bruckner Symphony 7, Honeck with the PSO
https://music.apple.com/us/album/bruckner-symphony-no-7-bates-resurrexit-live/1747425977
2025-01-26
Glazunov. From the Middle Ages and other pieces.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9490959–arsm-ii-vol-9-glazunov
2025-01-23
Charles Owens: A Day with Us from 2015.
https://charlesowens.bandcamp.com/album/a-day-with-us
2025-01-20
For the post-holiday season: Beecham’s crazy most modern instrument Messiah
There are various out of copyright European remasters of this in the streaming sites if you look. As with everything it’s also bootlegged on youtube.
Otherwise buy the CDs and rip it yourself.
2025-01-14
Today’s record of the day is some old school “big band” Mozart from the 60s. With Karl Bohm. This was the period before you could only record Mozart with a tiny orchestra full of scratchy strings. Very glorious.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8060102–mozart-symphonies-nos-35-41
2025-01-11
Update. The CD I have is really this earlier reissue, which sounds very different from the RVG
https://www.discogs.com/release/3113582-The-Horace-Silver-Quintet-Song-For-My-Father
You can’t get this one anymore. But the newer non-RVG reissues with only 6 tracks are similar. Like this:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/song-for-my-father/1471085186
or
https://streaming.prestomusic.com/album/8002686
2025-01-10
Horace Silver: Song for my father.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/song-for-my-father-the-rudy-van-gelder-edition-remastered/724730628
https://www.discogs.com/release/3384887-The-Horace-Silver-Quintet-Song-For-My-Father
2025-01-08
Louis Armstrong: Satch Plays Fats
https://music.apple.com/us/album/satch-plays-fats/457269138
2025-01-04
Kenny Barron, The Source
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-source/1659443592
https://www.discogs.com/release/26258498-Kenny-Barron-The-Source
2025-01-02
Glazounov: From the Middle Ages, Scenes de ballet. Lyadov : A Musical Snuffbox.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/glazunov-from-the-middle-ages-sc%C3%A8nes-de-ballet/1761709852
2025-01-01
Starting a new series of posting an interesting music album every day or three.
The Sonny Clark Time Sessions with Max Roach
https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-1960-time-sessions/1471470529