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Over the last four weeks we attended a series of concerts during the Wiesbadener Bachwochen, a bi-annual festival. This year there was an enlarged program to celebrate 50 years of its existence. to much to pay for all, but we picked some jewels. The Italian ensemble Zefiro played wind sonatas for the Dresden court by Fasch, Heinichen, Zelenka and others. Absolutely cinvincing and enganging performances. Its leader, oboist Alfredo Bernardini, conducted a program of orchestral pieces of the Dresden orchestra with students of the period performance branch of the Frankfurt music Academy, which they aptly call Capella Academica Frankfurt. One has to keep in mind that the Dresden orchestra between 1700 and 1750 was one of the three best in Europe, and these young people now play that demanding stuff flawlessly! The director of the branch, Eva Maria Pollerus, played three and a half hours of Bach last Saturday, all of Clavierübung I & II. The harpsichord was a reconstructed model by Harass in Thuringia built by Jürgen Ammer in 2007, a type of instrument that Bach played. Absolutely stunning sound, and perfect performance Everybody thinking it is appropriate to play these Partiutas on a modern piano should get an opportunity to hear this and be convinced that it is not. The sound with multiple regsitration of four sets of strings - 16", 8", 8", 4" - was fascinating.

Gang -- the film that I wrote and co-produced is now streaming on Prime Video. Hope all of you can find the time to watch. I think folks will dig it.

Website is being a little weird tonight, sorry for the "tripple threats".

Me too. Me too. Me too. SL: Yeah. JM: It was like I was improvising using them as an instrument like, you know. And it was great. It was fun. And I have never heard that session. SL: Oh really? JM: Never heard it. SL: I hope it sees the light of day someday. Mr. McLean, this has been a real thrill. This interview does not imply Jackie was opposed to this date being released; am I wrong???

But the Wayne session still lives?

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Well, the tunes she composed/arranged, or solos on.

Guess, Abrasion will never see the light of day.

Alas, the tape is really lost. Thought somebody here actually had a copy.

Earlier:

I think someone has a copy somewhere. So what if Norman Connors was "over his head" I'd pay to hear "Abrasion" at least once, gladly donate the royalties to Jackie's estate.... In a way, wasn't Art Blakey's "Just Coolin'" in a similar bag, like iffy? But it was released (I bought it). Put out Abrasion, and I am going to believe everybody contributing to this thread would buy it.

The material has not been reissued in the US on any format since the 1994 2-CD set. However, it has been reissued 4 times on CD in Japan since then.

This story was floated out there by the Monk estate after they found sheet music in Monk's hand. TS went so far as to reissue the tune with writing credit given solely to his father, which was really bogus. Thelonious Monk is not the one who is on record as having wrote it. All we have as fact is that Sonny Clark claimed writing credit on "A Fickle Sonance" and that Blue Note registered it for him. That's the sum total of the evidence we have of who wrote this. The fact that all of the principals are dead means that there is no way to determine if Monk actually wrote it, so it should stay as Clark's tune.

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Going back to my comment from 9/2/21. Wayne also asked soneone who had the session if it was the session where Vitous bows a lot. He does. So Wayne did hear it? Cuscuna said the Jackie tape was lost. Sounds like that happened years ago. There are some Blue Note reels at Rutgers, complicated story. Could it be there?

I figured! This is one that has eluded even the secret society. I think the tape was lost before Belden was at Blue Note where he promptly copied everything and circulated it all to the secret society.

Hitchcock--suspense, humor, romance, and some very deep (and dark) currents from time to time. The man had full mastery of shots and editing. I'm a fan in general of classic cinema, so add Frank Capra, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, John Ford, and Billy Wilder.

Shipping $4.50 for first three discs, $.75 for each additional three discs. The Clangs and Scraps CD-R's were purchased directly from Andrea Centezzo's website. I have two copies available of Cliches, The Way, and Monk's Dream. Will consider trades, but prefer sales. Please PM and post here if interested. Artist Title Price $ Info Lacy ,Steve The Door $5 notch in tray card Lacy ,Steve The Rent (2 CD) $9 Lacy ,Steve Revenue $7 Lacy ,Steve Sortie + Disposability $9 Lacy ,Steve The Forest and the Zoo $6 Lacy ,Steve Soprano Sax $5 Lacy ,Steve Snips: Live at Environ (2 CD) $6 Lacy ,Steve Cliches $10 Lacy ,Steve The Beat Suite $7 Lacy ,Steve Futurities Part 2 $7 Lacy ,Steve Live at Sweet Basil $4 Lacy ,Steve Blinks: Zurich Live 1983 $9 Lacy ,Steve The Way $10 Lacy ,Steve Actuality $10 Lacy ,Steve Axieme $10 Lacy ,Steve Scraps $8 new, sealed assume CD-R Lacy ,Steve Clangs $8 new, sealed CD-R Lacy ,Steve/Don Cherry Evidence $8 OJC-LE Lacy ,Steve/Roswell Rudd Monk's Dream $3 Lacy ,Steve/Carla Bley Jazz Realities $6 Fontana manufactured CD-R

An organissimo Christmas I love me some "Funky Drummer Boy". Thanks again Jim & the group.

I love 50s Fellini "La Strada" is my 2nd favorite movie.

Been hoping Jomboy would do some older video breakdowns. this is an instant classic 3:47 had me laughing. and Joe West was an a-hole his entire career.