mikeweil

I love The Real Ambassadors. I could live without alternates to his other Columbias, but that stuff makes it tempting for me!

Today's batch:

Her singing plays an important role in Short Cuts - the DVD seems to be OOP, however: But there is a soundtrack CD:

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?

Today:

We'll see what's in the small print on the back cover.

I received a shipping confirmation from amazon.co.uk ...... no double charging.

This afternoon:

Happy birthday to one of my favourites!

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

This afternoon: Great recording of this important printed music.

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:

This afternoon:

He even wrote a small book, I have a copy of the first edition with a different cover. Nice read.

Looking at her left ankle makes me think she danced a bit too much ....

R.I.P. One of the greatest bop / hard bop drummers that had it all down and was always somewhat underrated, but he was just as good as Philly Joe and all the others.

R.I.P. A witness of our age. Just ordered a CD of some Savoy sides that was on my wish list for many, many years. Seems he had achieved a perfect balance of R & B and jazz in the tradition of Hawk and Webster. Great stuff.

Could well be. The picture is really inconsistent. The majority of reissues has no complete credits and dates, but there are a few listing them. I'm currently reading Max Salazar's book, Mambo Kingdom, which I heartily recommend as basic introduction into the US Latin music scene from the early 20th century on. He tells about a warehouse holding the archive of Gabriel Oller, one of the most important figures in promoting and recording the music. His nephew knew nothing about the value of the thousands of 78rpm and contracts with full details his uncle has kept, had it all dumped and the building demolished. A devastating story.