mikeweil

Horrible. I will donate some tomorrow.

Today in the car:

This one probably was overlooked - is it good? https://www.discogs.com/The-Kenny-Burrell-Octet-Lotsa-Bossa-Nova/master/747102 Listened to it today - great quartet album!

A Kenny Burrell LP that never was on CD: Has anybody heard this?

I always said the Verve and Cadet albums would have made a great box set. Ordered "Ode to 52nd Street" a few days ago which was reissued in the same Japanese series. I have the Cadet Xmas album on CD and the "Soulero" Chess GRP compilation which has all of "Tender Gender" and part of "Ode to 52nd Street".

This is what I wrote almost to the day five years ago: " Been listening to Aztec Suite this morning: the problem, IMHO, was the bass player. Addison Farmer, who plays all the right notes written in his part, but not with drive and feeling Cuban rhythms need. O'Farrill was not on hand to conduct the session himself, Al Cohn does a good job, the horns and the percusionists are on the spot, but the piano is inaudible, and the bass is weak. Just not the right guy for this type of music." This thread

I think so, too, but cannot remember details. I will have to listen again.

Just received a shipping confirmation for Tori and Elegia.

There are copies for sale on discogs: https://www.discogs.com/The-Kenny-Clarke-Francy-Boland-Big-Band-Latin-Kaleidoscope-Cuban-Fever/release/4201365 It's a good piece of music. That said, I like all the suites mentioned here, but think O'Farrill's are the best.

Absolutely stunning recording on a piano from ca. 1835 preserved in Innsbruck. The dynamics and sound of this instrument by far surpass the capacities of a modern grand piano, believe it or not. Tobias Koch's very personal elaborate remarks on the music are equally fascinating. You never have heard these sonatas like this. Schubert as a worthy successor of Beethoven, in every respect. Purchased at bargain price from the museum shop: https://shop.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/cd-dvd/musikmuseum/musikmuseum45.html

I'm with you in that respect! Drums need a good sounding room.

There's a bunch of these in every country, it seems.

This weekend's evening bottle: Corbières rouge AOC JOHAN DU BARROU 2018

Yes it is the performance that was issued on a Pablo CD. I never saw him live, so this is a very welome DVD.

Playing through another bundle of newly received bargain buys:

Yes, that's the one. That was the quartet Joe took on tour. So it was 1976 ... Joe toured here so often. I knew it with a different cover: The same quartet recorded another LP under pianist Tom Grant's name for Timeless: m Laird plays nicely on this Gerry Niewood LP, too:

He was that after Mahavishnu just as well. I remember hearing him in a local club in the 1980's backing Joe Henderson . IIRC he made an LP as a leader around that time, too.

Another excellent example of her "Jazz Latino". Hard to find, but worth it. This really combines the best of two worlds beyond common musical formulas.

Absolutely fantastic!

There was a Japanese CD reissue of the original Reprise release: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/9518730?ev=rb

The Tom Lord Disco mistakenly identifies these tracks with the performances on the Impulse! LP - but they are different, I have both.

The sound of the JSP box is excellent.

You can find listings in discogs or the Tom Lord Discogrsphy, the latter only with jazz items, both with some issues missing.

This weekend's evening wine: DOMAINE DE L'ESTAGNÈRE blanc 2019 Cité de Carcassonne Indication Géographique Protégée