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The link to the BBC documentary does not work anymore, but it can be found on Youtube: ... and this interview mihjt be of interest, too: https://youtu.be/LccR9TidLmc

Those Mickey Tucker Muse LPs are really good!

That's a very nice book they made from these interviews!

Finally a complete recording on the instrument preferred by father and son, although one can sometimes hear that Yuan Sheng was conventionally trained on the modern piano. The short commentary (by Joris Potvlieghe, who built this clavichord) on the instrument and its importance for teaching is nice, but no commentary on the music, so the listener does not even know which pieces were compoed by Teleman and Richter, or Wilhelm Friedemann (in collabroration with his father). The recording was made in a rather spacious room, contrary to the liner notes pointing out the intimacy of the settings for the clavichord at home. Are audio technicians afraid of this intimate, rather small sound? Why want to make it sound bigger than what it is?

Today: ... and later my own CDR of these two albums in session order - they were recorded at the same sessions.

R.I.P. He did such a great job for our BFTs. He will be missed, and not just for that.

Listened to this one again, probably haven't played it since it was new. That alone speaks for itself. All participants play as they always did in those years. I saw Joe perform many times, as he toured Europe every year, and without the producers' inputs all his albums would have sounded pretty similar. I got to meet him personally shortly after the Strayhorn album when he was checking out a club with his German touring agent where I happened to play with a local singer. He admitted he couldn't play the Strayhorn pieces live as he did not have the time to rehearse these tunes with the pickup rhythm sections he had to use. As great as it was, he always played pretty much the same no matter who accompanied him or what tune he improvised on. Same here. As for Scofiled, he wanted to be recognized as his own man, it may be as simple as that. I played with a local guitarist who adored him but never copied his sound, just some licks and the voicings and harmonic ideas. As I probably will only pull it out again after another 30 years, I might as well give it away .... but Joe is the best player, IMO, on this disc. That might be the reason to keep it. Foster's bashing his crash cymbal a bit too often for my taste.

Indeed Ray Bryant! Now listening to Harold Mabern's Rakin' and Scrapin', from this twofer:

Sorry to hear that, though I never checked out her music. Any recommendations?

Mc Farland was so great at writing counter melodies to pop tunes!

Will play this next, after this one:

This afternoon it was this excellent new disc:

My experience with John Scofield is that you either like him or you don't. I never did.

R.I.P. This is a heavy loss for the board. My sincere condolences to his family and fiends.