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Will have to go down to the basement for my Bruyninkx copy. Lord usually has everything from there, but I cannot see anything recorded in Europe. What time span?

Holiday For Skins is kind of in the middle between Orgy In Rhythm and The African Beat. DATC is the jazziest, TAB the most "African". But you have to enjoy drum focussed albums to repeatedly play any of them.

As an old friend told me lasr week, "growing old is not for cowards". Glad the funding went so well, glad it all turned out to be legit, or I would have felt pretty bad for posting the link. My best wishes to Kenny and his wife - he will always stay my favourite jazz guitra player. And, seeimg all the famous musicians who donated, it feels good to see how much he is respected and loved on the scene. He deserves it.

Now this is the perfect artist for our friends at Fresh Sound ......

From one of the many European PD labels. Sound is inferior to the previous reissues on Fantasy or OJC. As I must know its contents for the discography in the upcoming second edition of the Cal Tjader bio, I had to get me a copy. The four page booklet lists the tracks, but no personnel or recording dates, just the albums they are from. Seems like they mixed up the track sequence of the 10" Savoy LP. I cannot recommend this. For car playback only.

A friend of mine in California is looking for an MPS reissue CD: John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan ‎– Two Originals: Karuna Supreme & Rainbow He has both albums on vinyl but would like the CD as well, as he is re-writing an article on their collaboration. (John Handy, he told me, didn't have reference copies.) If anyone knows of a copy or is willing to part with his, please pm me and I'll get you in touch to make a deal. Thanks!

I saw Inzalaco at a local club, maybe with George Coleman. He was swinging!

If anybody purchases McCoy Tyner's Tender Moments from the upcoming June batch, please tell how it sounds.

Chaumont was overlooked for many, many decades. He was just a priest in a small town, nothing much is known about his life and musical activities, but had two volumes of his compositions printed, the first of which is nowhere to be found. The second contains over 100 organ pieces, about a third is on this CD. Excellent music, flawlessly performed on a perfectly suitable instrument. This is on the same high level as the organ books of Couperin and Grigny.

A few days ago: This evening, 2013 bottle of Primitivo:

This afternoon's package: It is amazing how she convincingly presents music from such diverse stylistic eras: 16th century Neapolitan, 17th century French, and 18th century Viennese.

This is one of the moments where it really hurts that all good things - and good lives - must come to an end. R.I.P, and many many thanks for your insights and all your work. I hope someone will take care of his blog.

https://www.gofundme.com/support-kenny-burrell

Big Al is alive and well on facebook-

I goofed: The Grace Cathedral date was Poncho's recording debut with Tjadert. Michael Smithe played congas on the "Puttin' It Together" LP, Guitarist Bob Redfield, btw. remembered this album was recorded in November 1972, not on January 26-27, 1973 as stated in the album credits, but this cannot be confirmed. The Grace Cathedral album definitely was recorded May 20, 1976, not May 22 as stated on the album cover. Duncan Reid's research was meticulous. Me, too, I thought, until I learned about an LP by Chilean singer/songwriter Memo Aguirre that Ed Bogas produced. Tjader is hardly audible, however.

Good move - the "Puttin' It Together" LP is not a milestone, but never was on CD. It was Poncho Sanchez' first recording, btw.

Looks interesting! Ordered another French organ music CD from the Tempéraments series last night:

Yes indeed - I happened to witness his first and last performance here in town, which also happened to be the first and last of the touring agent involved, who had to retire after back problems involving surgery. Several aspects of an era now gone. Yesterday these two arrived:

Happy Birthday and an extra glass of wine!