mikeweil

The Palladium CD issue I had was stereo. Perhaps either label/seller used the cover they had on some hard drive. The stereo spread is okay. Or do we see the dawning of some new mono fetishism? That said, I like mono, the balance often is better than on some early stereo mixes. The album is nice, Dolphy plays with the same spirit as on the Prestige LP - but this is a totally different lineup. Diaz and Jenkns played on some o the Presige dates, but this seems to be a pickup band using the band name for a one shot record deal. Juan Amalbert probably was not amused.

Thats some of my favourite Joe. I saw his quartet with Rosnes many years ago. Fine all female rhythm section.

Earlier today - will re-listen to these sets over the week.

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I would, but shipping from the USA costs too much.

Those Contemporary albums sound so good, they should have reissued them all on hybrid SACDs.

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The original foldout cover must have been somenting to look at! They still have some: https://www.oldies.com/product-view/77982.html

Milhaud is one of my favourite composers! Thanks for that!

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I only bought the first edition of the Prestige disco which has fallen apart from frequent use, but I'm lucky to find most of them in a Frankfurt library, even can take them home for four weeks. I use them whenever needed. Great work. Some minor omissions or errors, but only about 1% of the entries. There is another one of the Capitol labels, available only on CDR from some Dutch publisher: https://www.names-and-numbers.nl/Frameset.html

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This afternoon: Excellent organ playing beautiful expert singing. This was one of Brosse's last recordings, he died a few months ago.

Played this again today, it really has some of the best boogaloo tracks made in th 1960's. Carlos Vidal and Carmelo Garcia are great. Recommended. Too bad ...

Excellent recording of 17th century Italian violin music, with only lute as continuo.

My own CDR with Paul Bryant's two Fantasy LPs.

Just had a look on discogs and saw that Lighthouse '69 never was on CD, right?

I have been re-listening to everything not in the Mosaic box set over the last few days. The five live albums are all worth listening to, IMO. The groove and tight ensembles are as in the studio, but all with a bit more intensity and longer solos. Wilton Felder caught my attention more than in the studio albums with his personal mixture of soul sax stylings and Coltranisms. Then there was Talk That Talk with an unidentified big band on 3/4 of the tracks which sound like a Hollywood big band version of the band - a lttle too polished. Am I correct in assuming that Wayne Henderson and Joe Sample wrote the arrangements? To my knowledge this never was on CD. Chile Con Soul, as I wrote above, is very nice, to me it is one of the better Latin Jazz albums of the time. Then there was Jazz Waltz with Les McCann. In my ears this is a true collaboration, and the use of two keyboarders gives the group a rich sound - McCann was good at playing with a second keyboarder, as one can hear on his albums with Groove Holmes. No unsatisfactory compromises here.This was issued on CD in Japan.

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