Your favorite recent discovery

Hot Chip, Tokyo Police Club, the Ettes, the Submarines, Burial

While Donny McCaslin has been playing for a while, I just bumped into his music these past several months and his CDs "Soar" and "In Pursuit" are superb sax efforts. Eric Alexander's "Nightlife in Tokyo" is sax playing that impacts me more each time I listen. The Karl Denson Trio CD "Lunar Orbit" is another sax CD that I continue to play. Scott Colley's "Architect of the Silent Moment" is a nice effort, and so is Kenny Werner's "Lawn Chair Society," which includes Dave Douglas, Chris Potter, Scott Colley and Brian Blade

Sal Mosca Music, an LP from 1980 featuring the pianist, Sal Mosca, a protege of Lennie Tristano's really has me transfixed. He explores the rhythmic and harmonic underpinnings of familiar standards in a way that transforms them but strangely completes them. I can't get this record off the turntable.

Siliab, Took your advice and searched Sal Mosca at AMG and managed to hear a few cuts off albums on either side of the one you mention.

Unfortunately the only copy of "Music" I can find is in Japan. Do you own the CD or LP, I ask because you mention turntable and record.

Did you had to order from Japan to get your copy?

Albertporter,

I took the shrinkwrap off this one two weeks ago but I can't be sure when I got it. It probably entered my collection as one of hundreds of LPs I bought when the Tower Records at 4th and Broadway (RIP) in Manhattan unloaded all of their records to make room for CDs (around 1990-91). It may seem absurd that someone would have records in their collection for that long without listening to them. But I have enough records that, despite my best efforts, some remain unplayed.

Anyway, I hope you can get hold of some of Mosca's music in whatever format you can. I think it is sensational.

Good luck!