mikeweil

When I seriously got into jazz in the 1970's, buying stuff often was the only option to hear the music. Libraries didn't have much jazz, radio didn't play much jazz - to hear what Joachim E. Berendt condidered important my only choice was to buy it whenever I saw it offered.

What Allen has collected here is simply amazing .....

I'm sure SONY will make those box sets available again now that he left us. Leonhardt, Balsma, the Kuijken brothers, Robert Kohnen - the Dutch/Flemish pioneers. Koopman belongs to the second wave.

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Depends on how you interpret the title: Complete Quintet Studio Sessions implies - at least to me - that everything recorded at the sessions should be included. Since it's only two or three solos and one trio, why not. And the missing accordion tracks technically are quintets. The eight tracks with vocalists, making it a sextet, are included. But they miss the one alternate of a Teddi King track Verve issued on some compilation. BTW - there is an unissued version of "The Christmas Song" that would be nice to hear. Mosaic should have done that. United Archives is not Mosaic .....

I once heard that Shepherd tune on the radio, that was it. Never saw any of his records over here.

Bylsma played on gut strings all his lifeteime (his teacher got him started on them) and said that only once or maybe twice a string snapped, which is what most players not accustomed to them are afraid of. He was a nice man and never made a big deal out of his many schievements. He was such an important pioneer of the period instruments scene, had a sweet tone without overemphasizing the vibrato/non vibrato issue. Any recording he made deserves to be heard. R.I.P., and many thanks for the music. I can recommed this documentary:

It says "Complete", but omits the solo piano tracks, the one trio, and the quintet sides on which Shearing plays accordion while Marjorie Hyams takes a seat at the piano.

- good tastes in food and music!

Olatunji's Soul Makossa as dinner music??? That's wild. Can you post some examples of what usually gets played as "dinner music" in your house?

Indeed!

Wishful thinking ....

Circles is nice enough for me to keep it over all the years. A rather rockish groove, with two guitars, but jazzy enough with Carter and Cobham. The four cellos give it anspecial touch. The two vocals are okay, although the second tune is a little too lightweight for my taste. But the opener, Patience is Virtue, has a haunting quality with the cello riffs. Fischer did many arrangements for Atlantic that are all interesting. No nonsense, never tending towards bombastic sounds like Don Sebesky, to the point - add what is necessary and what enhances the music without getting in the way of the soloists.

Bei uns heisst des "Kardoffelbrei" .....

I played Joe's LP "Multiple" a lot back then. He was into those experiments, consider "Black Miracle", and "Canyon Lady" in particular (although his workout with just the Cuban percussionists was only on the Milestone box set). I remember seeing Joe in a version of the Jazz - Tunisia encounter on the Frankfurt Jazz Festival - his style worked well in such contexts. Albert Mangelsdorff was in that band, too.

More motional studies material - the percussionist (Rubens Bassini ?) tries to steal the show. Not Beatles tunes, but these show their basic style a bit better, methinks.

Original Jazz Classics LP reissue - flawless pressing. Japanese LP reissue. Newborn is a monster pianist on these! Each time I listen to a Contemporary label LP I can't help but think how much better, more natural they sound like all the Rudy Van Gelder recordings. Zutty Singleton rocks on side one of this LP!

Just groovin' to the big red Capitol set - those early trio sides sure swing! Nat King Cole: His Musical Autobiography A first glance at the track lists tells me overlap with this set could be tolerable. Onlx the first CD (which I'm spinning right now) features a selectrion of pre-Capitol recordings.

Nat King Cole: His Musical Autobiography

Now that makes it a piece of interest to me, as I have only a not-so-great sounding Affinity LP reissue of the Decca sides, apart from excerpts on the big red Capitol box set "A Musiacl Autobiography", which also featured two discs of transcriptions etc. The Dexter session, btw, left me cold. Not for Nat, but for Dexter, who sounds too immature to me. Since I had the Affinity LP and all the Pres stuff I skipped the Riffin' box.