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Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra - Waltzing with Zoe (Challenge, 2001)

Quah is great!

Just finished - Jorma Kaukonen - Quah. Red/yellow split vinyl. Now playing - Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back And I'll Scratch Yours (Real World Records)

Greetings, I am interested in the following titles: Akel Dorner/Toshimaru Nakamura -- In Cotton and Wool (Improvised Music from Japan) $5 Mazen Kerbaj/Toshimaru Nakamura -- East of Where (Improvised Music from Japan) Toshimaru Nakamura/Martin Taxt -- Listening to the Footsteps of Living Ones Who are Still On the Ground (Improvised Music from Japan) Taku Sugimoto -- Octet (Improvised Music from Japan) Toshimaru Nakamura/Tetuzi Akiyama -- Idiomatic Expressionism (Improvised Music from Japan Yui Nakamura -- Dark Throat (Improvised Music from Japan Taku Sugimoto/Stefan Thụt -- S/T (Improvised Music from Japan Thanks

I haven’t spun this SACD enough–been listening to the OG LP copy I have a few times since I got this and need to revisit it. Have to admit it sounds fantastic. Santana “Borboletta” Sony SACD (listening to the stereo layer). Perhaps my favorite Santana release.

💗 😁 Lucky you. He is a great pianist. Have him also with Billy Harper on Denon.

A deliciously cool morning! Slept well after a gathering of like minds with a purpose at Garfield Park in Mentor. A few hours in the fresh evening air was very nice. Starting off with a more modern “Chicago Style” recording I pulled from the shelves. Nothing essential, but well-recorded fun music. Red Balaban & The Eddie Condon All Stars “Memories Of Condon’s - Volume One” Jazzology cd I bought this because “Bobby Gordon never disappoints.” Bass – Red Balaban Clarinet – Bobby Gordon Cornet – Ed Polcer Drums – Ernie Hackett Piano – Jim Andrews Trombone – Ed Hubble Part one of the recording of all the music that bassist Red Balaban and the Eddie Condon All-Stars played at a 1978 Connecticut concert.

Thought I'd let people here know about this - my 4th album as bandleader/composer, featuring the amazing Rachel Musson, Alexander Hawkins and Will Glaser... Olie Brice Quartet 'All It Was', releases today on West Hill Records Available on bandcmap here: https://westhill.bandcamp.com/album/all-it-was And on Squidco if you're in the States: https://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=36469&Category_Code=

I knew the Sox had a tough row to hoe coming out of the break with the Cubs, Phils and Dodgers (first two on the road) but now I see that they have the toughest remaining schedule in the entire American League, and they finish the season with a tough stretch too: Rays, Blue Jays, Tigers (and also first two series on the road). If they somehow reach the playoffs they will have earned it.

oh what a great list. Timeless was my favourite label because those artists were my favourites.

anectdotes.....once I almost got into a battle when we had a one nighter in some goddamn town with a pick up personnel of mixed nationality (one US-Girl on trumpet, one italian guy on bass and a bit vocal, and three romanian guys if you include me (as beeing a "terrible" mixture of jewish, romanian and hungarian blood). They had hotel rooms booked for us to stay over nite after gig and while the girl was in the dress room, we went to the bar to discuss WHO will be the one who will be with the girl in the same room..... I pretended that I must be the one, while the italian guy shouted that of course he will sleep with her, and my other compatrioți also yelled as loud as they could. The whole situation became quite grotesc and curse words where yelled. Both italians and romanias can be very very irascible and what a wealth of dictionary of ugly words we have in those latin-based languages. When words was not enough, it was damn near that fists and who knows what all have in their pockets will be used. At that moment, the manager of the event came into the room and said with a grin on his face: „Hey guys, calm down, the lady just booked a separate room for her.......

Man, I didn´t know he looks so similar to Lester Young 😮

I have not listened to records for a long time, but hear them in my head. Today, while waiting for the Trolley I spinned "Fast Track" from the 80´s Miles Davis live album, the one with Mike Stern. You C, I got my hifi-equipment just inside me 😎

I don´t have the book and must even admit that it was many moons I didn´t even read a newspaper or any other news. But if it is focused on his career as a jazz musician, it would be great for me, because I never was very interested in other stuff than music.

July 18 Brian Auger - 1939

Yes, like these. 👍

These?

Sure you can! That's the first one that comes to my mind, actually. My question is - who laid that track?

Her prime was a bit before my time, but that's the one by her I always liked, and 'Stupid Cupid' is stupid fun. Can't name a third song by her...

The complete recordings of the Amar-Hindemith quartet are available in a 2 CD set and not particularly expensive: https://www.discogs.com/release/17898544-Amar-Hindemith-Quartet-Mozart-Beethoven-Dvořák-Verdi-Reger-Hindemith-Bartók-Křenek-Stravinsky-Co Audio quality is "rough", but I grew up on Bird bootlegs, so hey... What's striking, to refer to other reviews, is how direct this playing is. There's a lot to be said for that in these pieces! I don't know that anybody today would do it like this.

Of course there's some overlap with the Hindemith thread: The original Amar Quartet was assembled out of necessity in 1921 at the first Donaueschingen chamber music performances in order to play the premiere of Hindemith's String Quartet, Op. 16. The sensational success of this premiere encouraged the musicians to continue performing together as a quartet. This was a stroke of luck for the contemporary art of the quartet, for the musicians intensively devoted themselves to the cultivation of modern chamber music, including Bartók's Opp. 7 and 17 and Schönberg's Opp. 7 and 10. The ensemble was named after its first violinist Licco Amar; the second violinist was Walter Caspar, Paul Hindemith played the viola, with the composer's brother Rudolf Hindemith or Maurits Frank on the cello part.

The first recording of a Bartok String Quartet (1926): fwiw, Licco Amar was Hungarian himself.