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The title is "Giant Steps" in French - she wrote her own French lyrics, inluding the solo. Excellent disc.

The general term for keyboard instruments was "clavier". Of course keyboard players played organ as well as clavicord or harpsichord, to varying degrees. I recommend Siegbert Rampes recent book for clarification: Siegbert Rampe: Orgel- und Clavierspielen 1400-1800. Eine deutsche Sozialgeschichte im europäischen Kontext. München: Katzbichler 2014. 353 Seiten mit Notenbeispielen u. Abb. (Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften, 48) Best ordered from the publisher: https://www.katzbichler.de The book cannot be found on their website, but it is available.

You mean harpsichord sound, of course ...... Cochard's first Couperin recording covers some of very favourites, like Les Sylvains. Had pulled them along with the Duphly CD. Her Bach CD will be next. Excellent, too, with another gem of a harpsichord. But oop, the label seems be in trouble.

I found it a little disappointing. Just a collection of liner notes and such, most of which I knew from the respective LP releases. Some of the more interesting are not included. Nothing new for purchasers of the records he produced.

Great playing, and fantastic sound of an original harpsichord by Christian Kroll.

Probably so - I found more mistakes like that, as if someone had written the credits and added personnel by copy & paste without really looking. Were there liner notes in that rusting steel box set? They could have thrown in a cheap copy of these.

I was beginning to think Concord had dropped him due to the long pause in releases, after so many albums.

I highly recommend this excellent documentary:

I wish they'll tour Germany some day .... Bunnett's playing doesn't really move me, but she does a lot of good things.

Listening to the album with symphony orchestra right now. As it turns out I never listened to the whole box, I bought it for the McFarland album because it was the only issue of that one available at the time and the box was priced incredibly low and thus I got a lot of good music along the way. I like the trio with Larry Bunker (a very underrated drummer!) and Chuck Israels a lot. Van Gelder engineered the orchestra album - it sounds like he didn*t have much experience with recording a symphony orchestra. Some amateurish faults, like Grady Tate's drums moving from the left to the right when the orchestra comes in . The trio has the whole stereo spread and is placed up front while the orchestra is more or less limited to the left half on some tracks, on others the trio is back in the room with the orchestra. Oh well .... The muisc is nice, Ogerman did a good job.

More Bill Evans - hope to get through the box over the weekend. Listening to disc four right now. I like drummers like Larry Bunker much better with Evans than Elvin.

Thanks for the identification(s)! Chris Holtmeier does a fantastic job!

R.I.P. Saw him perform here in town three or four years ago, his energy belied his age. Quite a career. I must admit I like his funkier playing playing on his Prestige albums and Lee Morgan's last album the best.

I pulled my red cardboard version of the Complete Bill Evans on Verve yesterday and it has Gary Peacock and Paul Motian for this session credited! Anybody else noticed this?

That Gary McFarland album with Evans is such a gem ....... Now that's an article, and a good one, like anything from Lewis Porter I have read. And reviews indeed can be helpful - I found out I like many albums that got negative reviews

Today in the car:

Who is this beautiful lady?

If you are familiar with Allens mission over the years and his previous projects, it makes sense. You should - Allen's opinions about interrelations of American music styles are revealing.

More Camerata Köln recordings - that Saturday concert sure inspired me to pull their CDs from the shelves. It's rare for such an ensemble to stay together that long, and with four founding members still on board! All other ensembles founded in the 1960's or 1970's have been dissolved or have changed personnel completely, and thus changed performance concepts and, IMHO, their level of playing has decreased. I saw the most recent edition of Concentus Muscius Vienna on TV recently and was disappointed. Camerata Köln still plays as vividly as in their early years, only wiser and more relaxed.

The main problem with streaming, music orfilms, is that rare stuff outside of the mainstream probably will not make it to those services. We jazz buffs are among those specialists. You will get Miles and such any time, but anything not yet transferred to digital at this point will be lost to that world. And since information about the music decreases along that process, how do learn to get interested and how to do research? It's even worse with all the early music stuff I listen to. The big companies played their part inruining the market by throwing cheap reissues on us instead of inversting in new recordings of rarely heard music. It was the decades ago. During my university years I knew a guy who was proud he had all the important classical works after buying some big LP box set from Zweitausendeins with a few dozen populat orchestral works. No idea about differences between performances or the whole wide world of lesser known music. I kept my mouth shut. The times they are a-changing. I, too, wonder what will happen to my collection when I leave this dimension of being.

There is another Donati LP on the Tampa label listed discogs: https://www.discogs.com/William-Donati-With-Bass-Accomp-Modern-InterpretationsIn-A-Continental-Manner/release/9065158