Let's have a look, Snoozer! .....................
1) "Looking Good, But Feeling Bad" - a killer, but no clue to who's playing/singing
You're right, but who recorded this killer diller that way?
2) "When You Wish Upon A Star" - Frank Foster Quartet
That's wrong. Sidewinder already labeled it correct as Frank Morgan. Frank Foster, if he's still active in music, must be in his 80s now.
3) "Django" - played by Robert Normann, g w/ accompaniment, rec. 1989?
That's correct. Let's give the details:
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ROBERT NORMANN - The definitive collection, vol. 5
ROBERT NORMANN Robert Normann g - Håkon Nilsen b - Per Nyhaug dm - John Svendsen vib - Bjørn Helberg rhythm guitar
Django (John Lewis)
Recorded NRK studio in Oslo (Norway) 1st of May 1989
This Norwegian guitar player is one of those unknown jewels in jazz music, unknown and underrated outside his country. He was one of the first in his country to build and play an electric guitar and was fascinated by the music of Django
Reinhardt. He was a bit a solitary guy, who loved to live hidden in the country - he only traveled and played in Scandinavia. After the war he had to play in studio bands that accompanied all kinds of (Norwegian) pop music, but some of his recordings from that period, like this Django tune, are really enjoyable. His complete collection has now been reissued by his family from the originally recordings and contains, except all his 78rpm records, also his radio and TV work that survived. A great video was released with this TV stuff. You can see some fragments here (scroll down)
Robert Normann - Sweet Sue | Ding-Dong-Dang | Smålåt | Harry Lime Theme
It feels great to introduce you to this Django-of-the-North !!
5) Hamilton da Holanda Quintet - the name of the tune not detected, yet, Hamilton on bandolim
It is, but what tune does he play? And what to tell about the style of music and about his instrument .......
6) "Anno 1926" played on fingerpicking ukulele by Ton Van Bergeyk, rec. 1976 - Ton's cover version of Oscar Aleman's "O.A.1926"
Of course ........ There are but few people who know about this recording and, you, Snoozer, are one of them. You must be an insider Let's give the details:
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THE PRACTICALLY COMPLETE TON VAN BERGEYK
Ton Van Bergeyk g
Anno 1926 ( Oscar Aleman)
Recorded ca. 1983
This Anno 1926, also titled O.A. 1926, was the first tune, young Oscar Alemán learned to play on his first cavaquinho, when he tried to play for a living in the cafés andstreetcorners in Buenos Aires mid 1920s. He never recorded it, but it survived on several radio transcriptions, when he played this tune, dancing around using his feet to play the rhythm .... Just like he did in the 1920s. You could label it as his signature theme. Ton Van Bergeyk, now the guitar player in Holland's third export article after tulips, and cheese, .... the Dutch Swing College, studied the finger picking guitar and made numerous albums. This is one of his private records, now released on a compilatiopn album titled The Practically Complete Ton Van Bergeyk.
The Fingerpicking Wizard Still Kicking
Keep swinging
Durium
Ok, I see, I'm an insider, well then I have to add a few details regarding the Ton Van Bergeyk tune. You're correct, Durium, that the tune has been re-issued on a private cdr-collection of some of his recordings - I guess only a handfull of persons have had access to this item. Anyway, as stated in my shot: the recording was made 1976, actually in London at Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule studio, and it was released on a vinyl LP, an anthology titled "I got Rhythm" containing 6 more fingerpicking goodies by The Dutch Wizard. Regarding Alemán, you're incorrect when stating that Aleman never recorded "O.A. 1926", he did on the Redondel LP titled 'Alemán '72', please check out your own collection or the online discography! - A little more inside info regarding Ton's cover version: Ton told that the hard thing was not to pick the notes, but to hold the ukulele that kept slipping away while trying to apply fingerpicking technique to the tune - I guess Oscar Aleman must have met the same problem while playing the tune on the cavaquinho. - Further, Ton's 'Anno 1926' is a cover version, I said - the original 'copied' from Alemán is on an acetate made c. 1953, a radio transcription only known by few insiders, I guess ...
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