Seventeen degrees! COLD. Well, at least the days will soon start being a tiny bit longer.
I’m re-listening to this excellent recording . . . I didn’t get to finish it yesterday. McCorkle’s.voice was so rich and her interpretations . . real. . . you felt the songs.
Susannah McCorkle “I’ll Take Romance” Concord cd.
I've been listening to a fair bit of Robyn Hitchcock lately. Quite a lot of his solo material and the Soft Boys album Underwater Moonlight have been remastered and reissued.
He also plays weekly online gigs (called Live from Tubby's House) which are generally very entertaining as he plays his material and some covers and banters with his wife. (You sign up through Bandcamp though they are only available for a few days after the performance...)
I saw him live for the first time at the Drake Underground in Toronto. I see that in April he is playing the Athenaeum in my old stomping grounds in Chicago, and then the next day he plays the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto! Unless I have an impossible conflict, I will get tickets.
To clear this up and to add to what Mike said, there is a similarity in titles but NOT in contents:
The "East/West Controversy" LP on Xanadu 104 was a "split session" (one side per leader) of the Hampton Hawes session for Vantage (of September, 1951) combined with a 1957 session by Paul Chambers (originally released under the leader name of Mel Lewis on VeeJay).
The "Piano:East/West" LP on Prestige 7067 has one half by Hampton Hawes (recorded in December, 1952, originally released on 10" LP Prestige 212) and the other side by Freddie Redd (recorded in March, 1955).