We got some new music today joined BMG again, with the intention of getting out within the month and doing it again.

Visions of high school, except the selections are a little more mature. Since I organized my music by genre ten years ago, the “rock and pop” collection has remained virtually static.

Among today’s arrivals:

  • Bill Evans Conversations with Myself
  • Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach Money Jungle
  • Thelonius Monk Monk’s Dream
  • Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
  • Bach Mass in B-minor

It’s too early to pick a favorite, but I’ve listened to the Monk and Evans and find them to be everything jazz should be. Evan’s version of “Blue Monk” could make anyone smile. It’s anything but blue.

Well, okay — I do have a favorite, previously unmentioned. Dave Brubeck’s Time Out. I burned a copy of that many years ago and finally got an original. If you have only one jazz album, it should be this one.

As AMG says, “It doesn’t just sound sophisticated — it really is sophisticated music, which lends itself to cerebral appreciation, yet never stops swinging.”

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