mikeweil

Gérard Bertrand Réserve Spéciale Merlot 2019

I have only 15 % hearing loss in the high frequency range. How much is yours? Did you ever have an examination? You are hearing what you beleive to be everything. Well, he is a powerful drummer as you say. Does he have any loss or why is he playing loud? Can you play softly and still hear "everything"? The changes come slowly, so you don't notice. Simple tests: Do you understand someone whispering`Do you hear it when you rub your fingers besides your ear? Watcch out and have an ear ewxamination. Playing louder may be not good for your fellow musicians or the audience. Records have a drumsound different from live situations, not necessarily a better one. But I agree that drums are almost always too low in the mix in studio recordings.

You should seriously consider trying a hearing aid. Mine mostly just boost up the high frequencies because that is where my hearing is impaired. I have a gig coming up (my first in many years) accompanying a pianist/singer/songwriter, just playing a snare drum with brushes in half of the pieces, which I simply would not hear properly without hearing aids. Your remarks about how you perceive the drum sounds tells of a serious bias in that respect.

This evening, together with friends:

Images found on discogs or amazon are not a problem. The problem will be identifying the pics if there is no caption telling what album it is ....

... and the release number - RS-3052 - does not fit into any other Riverside release sequence, no matter who owned the label.

BTW - when I update do not expect all of the covers to be depicted. The forum stores only the links to the pics, not the pics themselves. In case they are no longer available at the IP adress linked, nothing will be seen. or only a smal space holder symbol.

Go ahead and open the new thread, it's an interesting topic. Updating all the links will happen until the end of the year, promised.

An Italian viola player, Francesca Venturi Ferriolo, initiated an association for Early Music in Frankfurt, aminato, and now organizes what she calls "Gallery Concerts" twice a year. I was there in June, and today witnessed the second series this evening. Great young musicians on period instruments, playing mostly rare stuff, among others an oboe quartet by Jiří Družecký a piece that is great fun to play and to listen to. It all takes place in rather small rooms with the audience directly in front of the musicians. Great experience. A male alto singer, Jan Manuel Jerlitschka, sang a set of Dowland songs with lute accompaniment, he has a fantastic voice.

Brand new release. Very well played, but the harpsichord is too low in the "mix". I will meet another viola player who also played and recorded this music later today, when she plays in Frankfurt, listened to her discs yesterday:

All their releases are, or at least the recent ones. I have all the Don Ellis titles and never encountered a problem. All look very profesionally made. They make only 500 copies of each, so it may reduce costs substantially, and their prices are low. one can make a safety copy, to make sure nothing happens. Given the rarity of the music issued, i don't mind. I never would have expected to ever hear a recording of the Hindustani Jazz Sextet.

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Last night: https://www.discogs.com/artist/212270-Thierry-De-Mey

Crossing my fingers for all concerned!

The weekend bottle, light (11%), but tasteful - great if you like Lambrusco beyond the cheapness that is often associated wit this brand.

This afternoon, all on vinyl:

This afternoon: Great! Best introduction to Purcell's often underestimated keyboard music, showing he was a real virtuoso. Excellent rendition of Bach's Overture in the French style.

I recommend this reissue, it has great sound, all takes, and they got the leader right and gave him the bigger photo. That Coltrane rarely smiled may have its cause in his bad teeth, he was under constant pain until Naima finally dragged him to a dentist. I read that in one of the biographies. Joachim Berendt, unaware of this, credited the absence of smiles to his spiritual earnestness.

On Savoy Coltrane was not the leader, but Wilbur Harden. https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Harden/harden-disc.php They were reissued with Coltrane listed first to increase sales potential.