Another excellent performance in what is one of the best complete Gustav Mahler cycles. Eliahu Inbal's performances have gotten somewhat lost in the shuffle, with so many new Mahler recordings coming out every year. Judging from the competition, the Fifth seems to be one of the most difficult of the symphonies to conduct, and it's a measure of Inbal's identification with the composer that this is one of his most successful performances. The orchestra, brass in particular, really digs into the music, and Inbal paces both the tricky central Scherzo and the famous Adagietto just about perfectly. Denon's sound in this series consistently outclasses most of the competition. —David Hurwitz

Pianist and singer Elaine Elias's Everything I Love, a foray into the classic American songbook, is a departure for the Brazilian-born pianist, whose previous releases have mostly covered the music of her native country (as on the excellent Eliane Elias Sings Jobim). But Elias sounds anything but out of place, bringing a refreshing sense of discovery and excitement to material that can sound a little too well worn in less-skilled hands. While Elias raises her warm and understated voice on a few tracks, this is mostly a piano-trio album that rotates between the veteran team of bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Jack DeJohnette and the younger talents of bassist Christian McBride and drummer Carl Allen. There are moments where the two rhythm sections seem to divide into a neat old-guard and new-guard approach—like when McBride and Allen get funky on Elias's "Bowing to Bud"—but it's actually the tracks with Johnson and DeJohnette that stretch the farthest, particularly on the three tunes with long introductions, "If I Should Lose You", "Alone Together," and "Autumn Leaves." It's here that Elias touches the essence of the improvisational jazz, especially on "Introduction #1/If I Should Lose You", where the trio somehow morphs from a jagged, sensitive free-form beginning (reminiscent of DeJohnette's work with Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio) into the tune without sounding contrived or out of place. —Ezra Gale

Solos And Duets

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1972 MCA Records 10 Tracks

Digitally remastered reissue of his 1974 'Hits' collection on a 24 karat gold CD from DCC. Featuring every one of his Top 10 singles recorded up to that point, 'Your Song', 'Rocket Man', 'Honky Cat', 'Crocodile Rock', 'Daniel', 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', 'Bennie and the Jets', 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' plus three more tracks. Standard jewel case.

UK 2 x LP pressing. Contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Tracks, LP1 - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Album Version); Candle In The Wind (Album Version); Bennie & The Jets (Live); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; This Song Has No Title; Grey Seal (Version 1973); Jamaica Jerk-Off; I've Seen That Movie Too. LP2 - Sweet Painted Lady; The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-1934); Dirty Little Girl; All The Girls Love Alice; Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Rock n' Roll; Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting; Roy Rogers; Social Disease and Harmony.