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Brand new release. Extremely beautiful playing, the perfect introduction to this composer's work,

So I guess I am lucky to have bought an original size facsimile reprint in th 1970's. The (very small) publishing company even offered single leaf facsimiles for framing of which I bought two that have been on my bedroom wall ever since. He was an enlightened man. Just got a free ticket for this tomorrow: https://www.staedelmuseum.de/en/holbein

The Avengers never left my memory after I once heard it. R.I.P.

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Anyone heard of him?

Good news. We missed you!

https://www.liebieghaus.de/en/machine-room-of-the-gods

The weekend bottle: Le Mas des Flauzières, Cuvée Julien, Séguret Côtes du Rhône Villages AOP, 2018

I would certainly like to hear that! As soon as I have renewed my Frankfurt library card I will consult the Verve discography.

Thanks for posting that link. They added the bonus tracks in a different oder and to different albums than the reissues I have. The single edits are not different takes, just edits. Maybe they now have better discographical info, which would explain their changes in bonus track order. Being a big Nina fan, I'm tempted. German retailers list it at € 64 to 70.

I have the seven single CDs that EMI/Parlophone issued in 2005, all with bonus tracks, remastered, and new liner notes. Folksy Nina was included on the Carnegie Hall CD as they come from the same session. I want to read track lists before I go for this new box. The tracks on my seven CDs add up to 107 also, so I don't expect new material.

As I said, Jungla is a 6/8 part. My guess is the studio staff mesed up when naming a re-take. "Okay, let's do another take of the 6/8." Which is the part titled Jungla. The Verve discography is full of such items.

My mistake, of course it is a different system.

The two versions from the Afro Cuban Suites have different master numbers. A "Finale" is the last part, always - O'Farrill's other suites always have the 6/8 part somewhere in the middle. A corrected track list would be: Manteca Theme Contraste - Bolero-Son Jungla - 6/8 Rhumba - Finale As I said, the "6/8" may just have been misplaced in the layout.

Cats and knees!

Dangerous for your bank account, for sure.

Here in Germany NHS covers ear cleaning, and only doctors are authorized to do so. Audiologists look into your ears, but when they discover the gunk they send you to the doctors, who also have to inspect and approve the functioning of your hearing aid.

I have a French 7 CD box set on United Archives that claims to be the "Complete Big Band Studio Sessions 1946-1960", lists the track "6/8" in the booklet and on the paper sleeve of the respective CD, but does not include it but has the suite as on the Norgran LP MG N-1003 (which I have a Verve LP replica CD from 2002). I smell a discographical messup here: The third part of the suite "Jungla" is in 6/8 time - maybe this part was re-recorded at the end of the session and given the track title "6/8" and a new master number but used replacing the original take of "Jungla". Musically, that part is pretty much identical to the parts titled "6/8" in both "Afro Cuban Jazz Suites" that Chico O'Farrill recorded for Verve in 1950 and 1952.

That may or will result in improved hearing but will not show you any deficiencies compared to your hearing capacities at age twenty without suffering from rock concert PAs. I tried one of those without satisfying results. Modern hearing aids prescribed by a doctor and adjusted by an audiologist will be customized to improve your hearing in the frequency ranges affected - those intenet gadgets cannot do that.