mikeweil

I once visited a local studio to get some 78's transferred to digitlal, and there was an old crime TV episode being restored in the next room. They took care and watched in real time to receive best results, trusted their eyes and ears. I'm afraid most studios just run a computer program doing the job. Like CD remastering, it is a matter of time and effort. What tape hiss is to old tapes, low resolution is to a visual medium. When you smoothen it out, it looks less natural, at least to my eyes.

Thanks! Nothing so far on Elemental's website. LP only, but I'm in.

Any details?

Yesterday: By far the best recording of these concertos ever made. Right now:

R.I.P. He was one of a kind, and dug deeper into African music than any other rock drummer. He was a jazz drummer just as well, but ....... If I were home, I'd spin some Cream, his two Atlantic albums, and the live ones with Fela Kuti, and African Force.

We saw Ragna Schirmer replicate a concert Clara Schumann performed in Hamburg in 1878, on a Grotrian-Helfferich-Schulz piano from 1875 (from Schirmer's collection, identical to the piano Clara Schumann purchased in 1875). That piano was developped with Schumann's ideas, and combines the power of a modern instrument - it was one of the first models with a cast iron frame - with the colors of a Viennese piano from Beethoven's time. The "Waldstein" sonata sounded clearer on it than we are used to; Robert Schumann's "Carnaval" was great. Schirmer is a fantastic pianist rendering these pieces with power and not a trace of egomania.

I can't understand his attitude. Autobiographies and interviews always must be taken with some grain of salt, memories can fail. I experienced that while researching Pony Poindexter's discography while consulting his memoirs. Some of the dates he remembers are unplausible, some are exact to the day and pass the test. Oh, and discographers can be mistakne, too, unless they get acces to a label's vaults, which rarely is the case, and even then ..... all of the dates for Cal Tjader's live recordings for Verve are one week off. There are reliable concert reviews that tell the correct dates. You always have to double check.

"IMPROTS" ??? 30 versions of this album on discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Mobley-No-Room-For-Squares/master/62800

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Yes. If only the CD player in the living room of the house where we stay would function properly ..... you close the tray, and it opens again immediately. At last the HiFi upstairs works fine.

BTW - the 1949 Charles Mingus session for Fentone was both Richard Wyands' and Cal Tjader's recording debut. Wyands was on Tjader's 1954 California sessions for Savoy and Fantasy, too. He was very friendly when S. Duncan Reid interviewed him on the phone about these sessions for his Tjader biography.

Larry Willis ...... another great loss. His solo piano LP on Mapleshade is one of the most moving and sincere solo piano albums I know. R.I.P. At the same time, he was so funky on the Hugh Masekela double on Blue Thumb or his own Inner Crisis.

What a sad loss. He was an excellent player that I always enjoyed. R.I.P.

Yes, and yes. Discussions of that type drove me away from a German classical music forum. There are still enough good things happening here to keep me from leavng, but in this case I simply think that supporting Allen is much more important than fussing about words. I won't say no more in this topic.

As long as you're discussing it, it's still an issue. It's as simple as that. Words fail me to describe my feelings when I read through these pages which were thought to be a support to Allen's great work. Instead - fussing about words. The simplest rule for any forum is: If you don't like something, stay away and keep your mouth shut. Do positive, support the stuff you like imstead of fighting stuff you dislike. In the end, it only turns energy in the wrong direction. Old wisdom.

very appropriate morning coffee soundtrack ......

One mo!

This weekend's bottle:

I'm afraid they'll only include the tracks with Armstrong from "The Real Ambassadors" - isn't that Mosaic's way of handling such albums?

Yesterday: This morning.

They just wanted to prevent any of you making me a photocopy of the booklet notes!