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Steven Albin is a very reliable software developper.

This Trip LP has no musician credits. It turns out it is a reissue of this LP: So the fine accompaniment is by none less than Roland Hanna ......

On to Disc III

New release date over here is May 29, 2020.

There is a nice freeware, Beyond Category, programmed for this purpose. I use its companian software, BRIAN, for serious discographical purposes. I have typed my collection into discogs and the Tom Lord Discography, but will continue with Beyond Category soon. Too many issues are missing in both the latter databases.

Ross' playing is extremely accurate and all, but for my taste it lacks the Italian or rather Southern Mediterranean temperament this music encapsulates, even in the pieces he wrote before he left for Iberian regions. Southern Italy belonged to Spain at the time, and much Italian music has Spanish characteristics and vice versa. Domenico Scarlatti was open to these influences. There are plenty compilation recordings that are much better at displaying these characteristics than Ross' complete set, even though it is now available at bargain price. There is much baroque music that is not sounding as homogeneous as we today, trained more in listening to later 18th century "classical" music, expect it to be. These pieces were not supposed to be "works" in the sense of "opus" that late 19th century musicology defined it. They are "suites", a series of pieces sharing a common key, and supposed to entertain, display varying and ever changing moods to excite the senses. There are many different ways of balancing a compositional "whole" and entertainment, counterpoint and superficial accessibility between Bach, Graupner, Telemann, and their contemporaries. Just let yourself get carried away through the changing moods and your will get the most from this music. I, for one, find it more exciting than the more homogeneous later sonata and concerto forms, just like I dig 17th century operas more tha 18th century with their excess of da capo arias.

Disc II

Got this for 1 € plus shipping. Hibbler was a true original, and one of the best singers of his generation, IMHO. Now, more Hibbler:

Excellently performed, and much better music than most musicologists want to make us believe.

R.I.P.

Considering the admiration and respect Coltrane had for Monk, I do not find it surprising at all.

What a career - R.I.P. He was one of the guys popping up on countless jazz sessions with conga drums.

A somewhat disappointing album. Sound is strange, with the drums very present in excellent sound on the left channel, but a muddy sounding bass and tinny piano. Programming is annoying, the first half is all boogaloo tunes in the same tempo and groove, followed by ballads and straighahead tunes in better piano sound. Nay's time is impeccable, but his playing is not varied enough. Same for Pauer. When you hit random play, it is more bearable. Far from an audiophile recording. There Is a companion CD on the same label with all Pauer's tunes recorded at the same sessions, but I'm afraid to be disappointed once more when I go for it. Do not misunderstand me, the playing is good, but not as creative as I expected. If anybody wants this CD, pm me.

A somewhat disappointing album. Sound is strange, with the drums very present in excellent sound on the left channel, but a muddy sounding bass and tinny piano. Programming is annoying, the first half is all boogaloo tunes in the same tempo and groove, followed by ballads and straighahead tunes in better piano sound. Nay's time is impeccable, but his playing is not varied enough. Same for Pauer. When you hit random play, it is more bearable. Far from an audiophile recording. If anybody wants this CD, pm me.

Yes, Rouse, when you enlarge the pic it becomes clear. Ben Riley on drums.

I bought this mainly for the track with Camille Bertault, but it is a nice album overall, with all singers in fine form. Bertault, btw, is the only singer scatting a chorus. Donny McCaslin on tenor sounds almost like he's playing alto! He is featured so much you could think it was his album.

I have that and his other Columbia album on CD - nice stuff, great accompanists. Still have that LP. My first encounter with Turkish music, and with Roy Ayers, who had one of the greatest vibes sounds and grooviest playing conceptions ever.

It never was reissued on CD. Quincy Jones arrangements, great sound, though a tad on the commercial side, musically, like Quincy's LPs of the time. Now playing: