Johnny Almond has a great sax solo in the track "The City" by Mark-Almond. https://youtu.be/jwAjJJSbt4s

scat singing can be glorious, who needs lyrics when a wordless (or nonsense words) vocal improvisation can convey the feeling/emotion. Anita O'Day, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald have each done amazing things with scat singing. I especially like Sassy's "Scat Blues" https://youtu.be/u51fdqvcs5A

I'm a huge fan of Diamanda Galas and on her recent album All the Way she performs a solo piano version of Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight" and it's a blast. She tears the song apart and uses its pieces to construct something like Frankenstein's monster.

I love Michael Bisio's extended bass solo (aprox. 6 minutes) on the track "The New Fact" from the Matthew Shipp album Art of the Improviser.

I hadn't previously heard Horowitz perform Debussy. That was a treat! Thanks for posting.

Of the David S. Ware quartet albums, one of my favorites is Wisdom in Uncertainty mainly because it was my introduction to the outstanding drummer Susie Ibarra. I also love her contributions to Shipp's trio album The Multiplication Table.
One of my favorite Blue Series Continuum albums is High Water , the…

I signed up for Apple Music a while back and one of the first things I did was add every Matthew Shipp album I could find to my collection. Thanks to Shipp's album Equilibrium I discovered the amazing vibraphonist Khan Jamal (who also appeared on the album Blink of An Eye as part of the Post Modern Jazz Quartet along…

If I were to create a list of the best American vocalists ever, Sarah Vaughan would probably be at the top of it. What a voice.

I got a copy of A Walk Across the Rooftops off Apple Music about a month ago and I really like it. I agree that "Tinseltown in the Rain" is a beautiful track. As much as I like it, I do prefer Hats. As PopMatters put it in a review it's the "..gorgeous, sublime melancholy" that gets me. Also, it just seems to be…

"He communicated a profound understanding of every score he performed"
Yes!

I loved the Vladimir Horowitz interpretation of Chopin. Another interpretation I really admire is Martha Argerich's (my favorite pianist) take on the piece.

Hats contains what is probably their best known song, "Downtown Lights" (a song I first hear performed by Annie Lennox on her cover album Medusa). Each song on the album is a bit of gem, IMHO.

Repeat listens for me lately have been:
Lindsay Buckingham/Christine McVie
We're New Here by Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx
Solo by Michael Cain
Revisions of the Past by Panopticon
Rusalka by Dvorak (with Milada Subrtova in the title role. It's amazing).

I recently picked up OMD's Architecture & Morality, damn what a great album. Other 80s stuff that I've been listening to lately includes Ultravox's Lament and Vienna, Stevie Nicks Bella Donna and Blue Nile's Hats (I found a used copy of the album on discogs and paid more money for it than I ever expected to pay for…

I went to a Deftones show back around the time of White Pony and while the band sounded really good, I thought Chino sounded awful and I've never gone back to one of their shows.

I saw them at some show in the late 90s. I can't remember the dates, though (too long ago).
I went to a KMFDM show in the early 00s where Raymond Watts was part of the KMFDM line up. I was really excited for it, but a family issue caused me to have to leave the concert before they ever took the stage. PIG did play…

Yes, he is.

This calls for Remo Williams.

There is a theory out there that says Varys is some sort of merman like creature; perhaps he can swim with Aquaman like speed or something?

Varys will arrange for the death of Littlefinger by hiring a faceless man (Arya) to kill him.