mikeweil

R.I.P. I first heard him on Ginger Baker and Bill Frisell albums and liked his playing very much. That's too young to die!

Got these two today. I was not in the mood for any baroque or classical music for almost a year, but Reinhard Goebel always makes me curious, and listening to some samples convinced me. Five of the pieces of the Bach Family are world premiere recordings and all shed new light of the way the Bach Sons et al. helped shape the classical symphony as a genre - because this was a field where Bach père had not contibuted and they were free to develop their ideas beyond his traditional methods. Peter Wollny, director of the Leipzig Bach Archive, contributed the enlightening liner notes. The Mozart CD has another commentary by Goebel himself, who has no kind words about how the classical mainstream treats the "hits" of the repertoire, including Mozart's "little night music", almost always played in completely wrong tempos and with wrong instrumentation, which Mozart unarbitrarily notated. This is a brilliant disc.

Last MJQ Atlantic CD missing in my collection arrived this morning.

I know him from Don Ellis' Orchestra, but found this: https://www.discogs.com/artist/851562-The-Joe-Roccisano-Orchestra

Started the day with Les McCann: Those Fresh Sound CDs have the advantage of added tracks scattered over compilations or issued only as singles. Cuscuna neglected McCann, reissued only the "jazzier" stuff with Turrentine, but not the trios. The years 1958 to 1965 McCann was a grate jazz pianist with his own, gospel-tinged style, and enormously commuinicative. I'm glad I got me all these CDs before they go oop. Koko was on their first Capitol LP:

Today's batch: ..... and another CD of the Philipp - Partyka band, Bad Follows Good (can't find a cover).

I have loved this cover ever since the day I bought the album:

That one brings back memories. I saw this band perform at the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt. They were in town and they gave them a half hour time slot to play although they were not on schedule. Those were the days.

Tom Lord lists 14 sessions. Among them is the Ellington short film Salute to Duke Ellington .