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Bill Heid - Dark Secrets (Savant)

There were some good records on that label. I have this, and maybe a few others, I think one of Bird in Washington, Bud Powell in Washington, and Dexter´s "American Classic", Woody Shaws "Master of the Art" Oh yeah I have this, and the Howard McGhee Vol. 1 too. But I must admit I spinned more the first half of the CD, the McGhee. I´m not so much a guitar fan and it´s a bit too focussed on the guitar....don´t misunderstand me, I like Kenny Burell, Grant Green, but they are mostly in settings with horns and with piano, I like that more.

“Howard McGhee Vol. 2” Blue Note cd, Connoisseur 10" Series. Also reissues the Tal Farlow Quartet Blue Note 10" session. Good stuff! 550×549 144 KB

They only did EMI-owned material, right? The did good work.

Definitely nothing wrong with cherrypicking when it comes to Kenton, but personally if I were to pare down to a single source, it would be the Holman-Russo charts Mosaic-- damn near all the information you need is on that.

Yes. Jerry Roche, the founder of Mighty Quinn Productions, worked at Mosaic for 13 years. He had the bad luck of diving into the CD reissue game right as the market was loosing steam.

Yes it is. Right now “Lester Young in Washington, D.C. Volume 1” Pablo/OJC cd 300×300 15.1 KB With the Bill Potts Trio, recorded at Olivia Davis’s Patio Lounge, Washington, D.C.; December 7, 1956. One of five volumes on cd from Pablo. Very well recorded and a whole lot of good late Pres.

Yes, those sections with the mostly orange-colored horizontal bars (such as at 2:00 and 3:00) are like those I remember seeing in that other online source.

Imo, this is Joe's best recorded version: But at the other end of the galaxy... Words!!! Jimmy Heath did a nice one on The Gap Sealer.

This is now pending sale.

Motif ML 502 / V.S.O.P. 46 (1986) - Max Albright Octet " Mood For Max" - rec. 1956 also on Sonet label Sweden

https://youtu.be/i4ym_KS8b2I?si=qOOcSabtivPzAF5Y https://youtu.be/i4ym_KS8b2I?si=qOOcSabtivPzAF5Y

Elektra Musician MUS K 52388 - Clifford Brown / Max Roach " Pure Genius" Vol. One" - rec. 1956

Wasn't Mighty Quinn somehow connected to the Cucuna/EMI bloodline somehow?

That is very likely the case. I remember seeing facsimile excerpts of Graettinger's scores somewhere in an online discussion (may have been here in this forum), and they did look like this (on music paper, though), though not quite as colorful IIRC. Reminded me vaguely of certain medieval music notations that I saw on the walls in the home of some of my parents' friends.

Fantastic recordings.

That's supposedly Graetinger's actual notation there. As with so much KentonMusic, credit to him for facilitating it, but 100% credit to Graetinger for the music itself.

From the 'Nimbus' collection on Esoteric, which contains their three Vertigo albums and more. That's a nice record (trivia note: Written by Lennon/McCartney, first recorded by their labelmate Cilla Black). Three Dog Night were good and exciting until they weren't. I like the first two studio albums and the first live one. "Easy to Be Hard" from "Hair' is a gem, and "Eli's Coming" sounded great until I heard the original by Laura Nyro.

Tchaikovsky, Symphonies Nos. 1-3 / Francesca da Rimini Igor Markevitch, London Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra (Philips)

On to Volume 2:

Such an INCREDIBLE album.

July 1989, on a floating stage: https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct74p0

I've been using the speakers in my stereo system -- Pinnacle PN8's -- since my wife & I got married in 1992. I like the sound of them very much, and I got a great deal on them all those years ago. But my LOVELY wife, knowing how much I enjoy listening to music, recently suggested that I upgrade them. She didn't have to twist my arm. So I dove into the internet, reading as much as I could online. More importantly, I spent a bunch of time listening to different speakers -- both at a friend's place and at a local shop. I heard models by Magnepan, Vandersteen, Wharfedale, KEF, Dynaudio, and Paradigm. The whole "research"/comparison process was good fun, an excellent excuse to hang out with some cool people and listen closely to music. This last weekend, I pulled the trigger and ordered a set of Paradigm Founder 100F speakers: They should arrive in a week or so. To say that I'm stoked is an understatement. I can't wait to hear them.

While Shirley Scott is primarily known as leader for her organ work, I am a fan of her two piano trio albums on Candid.