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TT: Decongestant department

December 18, 2006 by Terry Teachout

I’m not over my cold yet, but I’m somewhat better. As usual, though, I sound much worse than I feel, so if you’re expecting me to call you today, don’t.


See you Tuesday.

TT: Stocking stuffers

December 18, 2006 by Terry Teachout

A reader writes:

What would be your top three choices for classical CDs for Christmas? What would be your top three choices for jazz CDs?

That’s the e-mail in its entirety. It’s completely free-form–no specifications or limitations of any kind. In particular, my correspondent doesn’t specify whether he has in mind newly released CDs, which makes his questions a bit trickier. Nevertheless, I’ll assume, rightly or wrongly, that he’s interested in recordings that first came to my attention, new or not, in 2006.


That said, here are my picks, with three pop albums thrown in for good measure.


CLASSICAL:

– Malcolm Arnold, Overtures, recorded by Rumon Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic (Chandos)

– Alban Berg, Lyric Suite, recorded by the Juilliard String Quartet in 1959 (Testament)

– Paul Moravec, The Time Gallery, recorded by eighth blackbird (Naxos)


JAZZ:

– Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra, Spirit Music (ArtistShare)

– Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood, Out Louder (Indirecto)

– Deidre Rodman and Steve Swallow, Twin Falls (Sunnyside)

POP:

– Rosanne Cash, Black Cadillac (Capitol)

– Mary Foster Conklin, Blues for Breakfast: Remembering Matt Dennis (Rhombus)

– Donald Fagen, Morph the Cat (Reprise)


If none of these CDs rings your bell, here are some others that also gave me great pleasure:


– Benjamin Britten, Orchestral Song Cycles, recorded by Ian Bostridge, Simon Rattle, and the Berlin Philharmonic (EMI Classics)

– Hot Club of Detroit (Mack Avenue)

– Roger Kellaway Trio, Heroes (IPO)

– Nancy King, Live at Jazz Standard with Fred Hersch (MaxJazz)

– Erin McKeown, Sing You Sinners (Nettwerk)

– Nickel Creek, Reasons Why (The Very Best) (Sugar Hill)

– Madeleine Peyroux, Half the Perfect World (Rounder)

– Rachel Ries, For You Only (Waterbug)

– Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd (the original-cast album of the 2005 Broadway revival) (Nonesuch)

– Trio Beyond, Saudades (ECM)

– Fats Waller, If You Got to Ask, You Ain’t Got It! (Bluebird/Legacy)

– Cy Walter, The Park Avenue Tatum (Shellwood)


Happy listening!

TT: Almanac

December 18, 2006 by Terry Teachout

“Every man is dangerous who only cares for one thing.”

G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill

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Terry Teachout, who writes this blog, is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. In addition to his Wall Street Journal drama column and his monthly essays … [Read More...]

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About “About Last Night”

This is a blog about the arts in New York City and the rest of America, written by Terry Teachout. Terry is a critic, biographer, playwright, director, librettist, recovering musician, and inveterate blogger. In addition to theater, he writes here and elsewhere about all of the other arts--books, … [Read More...]

About My Plays and Opera Libretti

Billy and Me, my second play, received its world premiere on December 8, 2017, at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, Fla. Satchmo at the Waldorf, my first play, closed off Broadway at the Westside Theatre on June 29, 2014, after 18 previews and 136 performances. That production was directed … [Read More...]

About My Podcast

Peter Marks, Elisabeth Vincentelli, and I are the panelists on “Three on the Aisle,” a bimonthly podcast from New York about theater in America. … [Read More...]

About My Books

My latest book is Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, published in 2013 by Gotham Books in the U.S. and the Robson Press in England and now available in paperback. I have also written biographies of Louis Armstrong, George Balanchine, and H.L. Mencken, as well as a volume of my collected essays called A … [Read More...]

The Long Goodbye

To read all three installments of "The Long Goodbye," a multi-part posting about the experience of watching a parent die, go here. … [Read More...]

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