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| Mark Feldman (2009) | |
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| Mark Feldman has lived a double life since his graduation from medical school in Lausanne, Switzerland. By day, he’s a gastro-enterologist with a practice in Kingston, NY. But by night you’ll find him in the jazz clubs, and half a dozen times a year you’ll find him in this or that prestige recording studio pursuing his avocation as a jazz record producer.
He got his start in the latter business in the early 1980s when he began Uptown Records with an old colleague (similarly afflicted, it appears, with this double life). Towards the end of that decade, he began Reservoir Music, which over the past 20 years has released a slow but steady series of recordings—the count now at about the century mark—by musicians whose only common connection, apart from their quality, is the fact that Mark likes them personally and their work professionally. It’s easy to see that Mark is a fan of the baritone saxophone (Reservoir has recordings by Pepper Adams, Nick Brignola and Gary Smulyan), and that he is a particular fan of the jazz piano from Reservoir’s “New York Piano Series”, which features the likes of Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, John Hicks, Steve Kuhn, Jay McShann, Jon Mayer, Hod O'Brien and Rob Schneiderman. |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
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| # 1 | Jay McShann and John Hicks | The Missouri Connection | Sweet Lorraine | (Reservoir) |
| # 2 | Lester Young | Lester Young and the Piano Giants | Just You, Just Me | (Verve) |
| # 3 | Coleman Hawkins | The Genius of Coleman Hawkins | The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise | (Verve) |
| # 4 | Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | Remember | (Riverside) |
| # 5 | Bill Evans | Everybody Digs Bill Evans | Tenderly | (Riverside) |
| # 6 | Miles Davis | Workin' | Half Nelson | (Prestige) |
| # 7 | Horace Silver | Six Pieces of Silver | Señor Blues | (Blue Note) |
| # 8 | J.R. Monterose and Tommy Flanagan | ... And a Little Pleasure | Vinnie's Pad | (Reservoir) |
| Book | Barack Obama, "Dreams from My Father" | |||
| Luxury Item | A case of Château Lafite-Rothschild | |||
| Gilad Atzmon
12 Jun Carolyn Brandy 19 Jun Stuart Brinin 16 Oct Ralph Carney 04 Sep India Cooke 20 Feb Ronald Davis 23 Oct Mark Feldman 27 Mar Herb Gibson 06 Mar Nancy Gilliland 29 May | Jon Hendricks
16 Jan Laurence Hobgood 10 Jul Bill Horvitz 13 Nov Nat Johnson 01 May Tom Madden 13 Mar Charlie McCarthy 06 Nov Don Neely 25 Sep Nathan Oliveira 28 Aug Ed Reed 24 Jul | Walter Savage
14 Aug Adam Theis 21 Aug Mads Tolling 17 Apr Hristo Vitchev 22 May Paul van Wageningen 10 Apr Nancy Wright 20 Nov Jim Zimmerman 06 Feb |