Pulled mine from the mailbox after work and immediately tossed it into the player. I never heard that edition of Monk's quartet play livelier. Great to have this on CD. I sincerely hope all of you who want it will get a copy.
A question to those who already have it: To my ears the bass is a bit too loud in the mix, and the piano too low. Is it just me?
My experience too. I bought a headphone amp made by Musical Fidelity for € 125.00 for my € 300.00 Focal headphones that also functions as a D/A converter and makes music from my laptop sound several degrees better than the headphone plug of the laptop.
Yesterday:
Discs 1 and 30 from the batch accompanying Allen Lowe's book
“Turn Me Loose White Man”
Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music 1900-1960
http://allenlowe.com/books
Turns out my order with amazon.co.uk was marked as dispatched !?! At the same time the refund is listed. But it is listed as sold by chalkys. The new offer is sold by amazon uk! I tried again, and so far it went through, CD was notified as being in stock. Even cheaper than the previous offer. Okay ......
Typing "Monk Palo Alto" into the search field on amazon.de only yields ads for expensive shoes ....
Nice, sounds like Domenico Scarlatti picking up ideas from Haydn and Mozart.
Wilson is a great player of pre-1700 harpsichord music.
If you like Cabezón, get Claudio Astronio's complete recording as long as it is available, it is not expensive:
Yesterday:
Mostly for the Paul Bowles pieces. This video broadcast on Bavarian TV was my initial inspiration to get me this CD. The Bowles part starts at 6:50.
This afternoon: