mikeweil

Duke Ellington's tune "Just Squeeze Me" is often miscredited as "Squeeze Me" by Fats Waller - probably because the musiciians omitted the word "Just" when they named the title.

Just read a refund notification in my e-mail, my credit was not billed. So let's hope they get it straight. If they care for the music, that is. Seems that Chalkys started the refund pocess first, as it still is listed as dispatched in my amazon.co.uk account.

Lots of good music played here today! I pulled this from the mailbox today, it includes several "outtakes" that were not on the Dance Mania Legacy edition double CD.

Tobias Hume (c. 1569 -- 1645) Musicall Humors TO THE UNDERSTANDING READER

https://www.chalkys.com/products/thelonious-monk-palo-alto-cd-released-on-31-07-2020?_pos=1&_sid=ae104cc0a&_ss=r

So these are the guys that broke into the basement ten days ago .....

Just looked into my e-mails - shipment confirmation received. Seems I am one of the lucky ones.

After several listens, I have mixed feelings. I know about the difficult period in her life she had lived through before this album was recorded as an attempt for a comeback, and although her piano chops are intact, her voice has suffered, her intonation is a bit shakey and flat, and she forces things a little. The first track title "I sung just to know that I'm alive" could be the motto for the remainder of her life. KInd of ironic as she was forced into singing on her first nightclub gig that she played only to finance her classical piano studies. She should have undergone psychotherapy instead of psychiatric medication - the latter diminished her musical power. Still, a nice album, indispensable for any Simone fan. The horn players are nor credited - there is a nice trumpet obligato. Anyone knows who the sax and trumpet players are?

This is an excellent solo piano disc!

Yesterday and this morning:

My copy ordered from amazon.co.uk was dispatched today. Seller is Chalkys UK. Didn't cost me more than from my usual German online retailer who still lists December 21, 2020 as release date. Maybe this will become a much sought after rarity ....

Saw Ebstein perform with just a pianist about ten years ago, took my wife who likes this kind of singer. She was very musical and much better overall than one would have expected from her recorded output.

Onme of the greatest! Live long and prosper!

Did the same after reading this.

I will stick to the LPs in roughly chronological order. But give me time. Puente's music is heavy stuff, and I need to listen to other things inbetween to avoid getting nervous from all that flaming brass.

That's a wild video of a wild band!

Wait 'til I publish the finished tables. Just found another Puente RCA sampler that includes an alternate to "Honk Kong Mambo" and another one that has master numbers for each track - I tend to think that the people responsible for the two box sets didn't really care or whatever - if they had wanted to do the job right, the data were all there, they just have had to invest some research hours! p.s. the master number and recording date for "Caonao" on the latter disc are wrong! These are the data for the next track, "Ti Mon Bo", which can be confirmed by the booklet of the Bear Family reissue. Same goes for some of the master numbers of tracks from the "Dance Mania" album. They list the same numbers for several tracks. I trust the Bear Family people in this case. Lazy typists in the RCA offices!

Wasn't Jordan Silver's regular tenor at the time? No, wait a minute - Jordan had recorded his only date with Silver for Blue Note in January, 1958. Mobley was before him, last session in May, 1957. When did Mobley split? So maybe Silver was in need of a tenor player ...... BTW - I, too, am among those who got themselves a copy of the Shearing/Adderley Newport CD after Larry's recommendation, and like it a lot!

My best wishes for her. 82 years! I'm getting older ....... Saw her in Joe Henderson's quartet decades ago. She was always great when I heard her on records. Her last as a leader, a solo piano album, dates from 1999!

Just to keep you updated on my proceedings: The first part of the job is done, I think. I typed all tracks that I know of into an excel table, ordered by (sometimes guessed) recording date, including tracks that were released only on subsequent issues, or only on 45s/78s, and including "outtakes" or alternates that popped up on some CDs. It turns out those two dreaded RCA box sets do not inlude any outtakes or alternates, and missed one track from the "Dancing Under Latin Skies" sessions that was on the LP, "Chattanooga Cha Cha". Go figure. Now comes the next part of the work, collating all the personnel listings from the second box set and relating them to the session dates. The third part will be typing all these data into the BRIAN discography database. I ordered three more CDs to complete my collection, the one with Abbe Lane, the one with Woody Herman, and a Dance Mania compilation with lots of outtakes, some of which are not on the Dance Mania Legacy double CD. It still is a mess.