mikeweil

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

It was a nice event, in an early 19th century Masonic hall in the city of Frankfurt, only 150 seats, good acoustics. Nice moderation explaining the music, some anecdotes from their concert life . I have been following them for those many years, have most of their numerous recordings, they are all my generation, we have grown old. Their performances have reached a stage of cool wisdom and relaxation without losing any of the energy the music needs. Great.

That Tampa LP is the only recording of Donati listed in the Lord disco, which say its "jazz content is limited". Fred Katz and Carson Smith are on cello and bass, btw.

No matter what the title, Allen's projects are all interesting as hell - no: heaven - musically that is. You won't get better cross-referential American music history. And at that price ....

40th anniversary concert of Camerata Köln, one of the leading ensembles in period performance of baroque music in Germany. http://www.camerata-koeln.de

Was that reissued on CD?

Portico Quartet ‎– Art In The Age Of Automation https://www.discogs.com/Portico-Quartet-Art-In-The-Age-Of-Automation/release/10753406

The number of South Africans becoming expatriates is huge .....

https://www.metarecords.de/index.php?id=53