mikeweil

The best days of Zweitausendeins are a thing of the past. They changed ownership a few years ago and gradually downsized, even gave up some of their outlets like the one in Frankfurt where I used to drop by regularly. I for one never quite liked the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble - too "German" in its approach, starting with the name. What practically always lacked with German jazz musicians was the "black" feeling of R & B as opposed to the rock music most people over here knew much better, which is an understandable thing but leads to the less relaxed (in my ears) feel of rock. I never liked Hiseman's drumming. Great players, but in part a decidedly more commercial approach to pay the rent, as Mangelsdorff once confessed. I biought three Dauner solo piano CDs since the day of his passing, and they are all great, showing his wide range of interests, playing Ravel on the second and talking about the challenge and the differences of jazz and classical approaches in the notes. I can recommend all three. He was one of Europe's greatest jazz pianists. I just noticed one of the more obscure items in Dauner's career - recording jingles for the Stollwerck chocolate manufacturers:

I think the dynamics of a live performance (in good acoustics and by a well-balanced group) are impossible to reproduce with a home hifi, unless you have real expensive high end equipment. But some come pretty close to giving the illusion of live music. I have some direct-to-disc recordings that do so. But that should be the subject of a thread of its own. Anyway, I'm looking forward to that Feldman disc whih should be here by the end of next week.

Just ordered a copy to verify .....

You got all three of his Milestone albums? They make a wonderful trilogy!

Stitt plays some wonderful sax on that album! Roach is a better choice than Blakey in the Giants of Jazz, IMHO.

New arrival. Finally, a complete recording of the largest manuscript of Pasquini keyboard music.

Dug this out earlier today. Very nice session. Strozier was seriously underrated.

Do bare feet on bronze statues count?

Once again Fresh Sound has covered both Gambrell LPs: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/freddie-gambrell-albums/5431-chico-hamilton-introduces-freddie-gambrell-2-lps-on-1-cd.html

This afternoon:

This weekend's evening bottle:

I'm definitely listening to more vinyl since we decided to move the better hifi to the living room, where the LP shelves are. Today's choices:

Oh no ............ R.I.P. His Riverside LPs with that tenor-trumpet-french horn frontline are among my absolute favourites.