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Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans here. Hope everyone is where they want to be and safe. Going to have to do a little shoveling and clearing soon but just got some time to sit and listen and I’m going to take advantage of it. The system sounds so amazing. . . . Listening to “Somethin’ Else” the lone Blue Note title by Cannonball Adderley for Blue Note records, this time listening to the 85th Anniversary UHQCD from Japan. (It sounds GREAT). This is a fascinating release. Miles is sort of in charge, sort of not, Hank Jones is an amazing accompanist here and interesting soloist, and Art Blakey’s performance here is one of my favorites as far as taste and structural groove. I wonder who was responsible for the arrangements here. This time through I wonder if there was any Gil Evans input, a few points sound to me a little like his work. Anyway, a great album that is hard bop but also swings in a mainstream way, and just pulls one in and keeps one there all the way through. 1000×1000 186 KB On to another Blue Note, this time a 24 Bit by RVG Japanese LP facsimile release of Kenny Burrell’s “Blue Lights Vol. 2” from Blue Note Japan. I really like the sound of most 24 Bit by RVG discs. And the music here is excellent!

cool. It's not up on their bandcamp yet, nor have I received an email announcement. Maybe tomorrow.

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Music for Black Pigeons https://share.google/3BJ1fFQsp5Jf6DWO4 It's on Kanopy.

I noticed that as well; of the acts on my list to see, there are lots that are scheduled simultaneously or overlapping.

That I do not know.

Preorder now on Frederiksberg label (January 2026). https://jazz.pt/breves/voyage-from-jericho--do-charles-tyler--vai-ser-reeditado

A favorite!

It's a well-made movie ... I think people who tend to like movies like this much and need to see more and more have a problem; for sure.

Maybe not always but I will say it was well made. Editing and application of color were top notch.

Controversial but well-made ... Gore and violence is always ridiculous, isn't it ?

Sade is her artist name ...

I prefer HIP and like the Mosaïques, so nothing new to suggest. If you do downloads, the Festetics complete set (first one using HIP) DL is available cheaply. I've seen it at Presto, for instance. Also on streaming outlets. On the negative side, I've never been fond of "The Lindsays" due to bad intonation (although their playing has a certain intensity and spirit). My first hearing of Seven Last Words was their recording, which nearly put me off the work entirely. Culled it straightaway.

November 27 Randy Brecker - 1945 - 80 today!

The Kodaly are nice and used to be comparatively cheap. The Angeles Quartet also has a complete set that I like.

I seem to remember those Firestone & Goodyear LPs in my parents' record stash. My brother might have all of those Christmas records. I was offered them when my parents passed but they were very heavily played on an old console record player, probably with a ceramic cartridge and usually with them stacked 3 or 4 LPs high. I actually did take one home - Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but it was so scratched up, I could barely hear the music. Record care was not a thing back then.

They haven’t made a bad record but in duo form I’d also highly recommend the Bimhuis record and Sempre Amore.

During the last few days, I have been listening to these four discs, some of the best Tete Montoliu recordings:

Looking at this thread now that it has been "resurrected", and following the question by Pim "how come there are so many incomplete sets out there", and the above reply by Jazzbo, I figure there are other reasons, but the above one by Jazzbo definitely is true. As mentioned in other threads, I obtained a lot of jazz books from the estate of a deceased jazz collector some time ago, and recently was able to make a first pick from his LPs and CDs. And there sat a box and large booklet of the Count Basie live Roulette set and the Stan Kenton Capitol set, but no discs at all. The heirs who had spent almost endless hours restoring 200 CDs (stuck in a CD jukebox in their father's music room) to their jewel cases so far have been unable to locate the CDs to the above sets. Sifting through the CD part of that collection I did not find anything either. So if I can eventually manage to get this Basie live Roulette box I might even be tempted to shell out for the CDs alone if the price is right. On the same shelves there also sat the box for the 1954/55 German Jazz Festival box set on Bear Family, and I was able to locate the CDs in the drawers holding all the CDs. So this one is now a spare copy at my home. But the booklet is missing, so I will have to complete it with a photocopy from my own copy of that set that I've owned since it was released. All this just to show parts of such box sets can indeed disappear in almost any way. and the problem is not limited to Mosaics. And it takes dedicated family members to restore any order among things that only the late owner knew how and where he had filed them. (Yes, that experience taught me a lesson too )

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November 27 Michel Portal - 1935 - 90 today! Saw him performing as a duo with Richard Galliano in Göttingen on November 7, 1998

D'oh! The Kodaly were my very first purchase of Haydn quartets, the op. (Hob) 34. I haven't listened to them in a while, but I do remember (my impression) that they like to take slower tempos. Lets a listener take apart the voicings. I haven't heard the Attacca; will have to find them on YT. Sounds good! On first impression, they're like a blend of the Mosaïques and Amadeus.