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Last night on the annual Wiesbaden Wine Week at the booth of our favourite Rheingau vinery: https://weingut-laquai.de Not three bottles, but a glass of each - my wife had the latter as she prefers red wine.

This year the Bavarians are the last, chronologically, to have their annual six weeks summer vacation in schools, returning in mid-September. In our region they opened this week. It's not the same all over the country.

Yesterday: A rare double CD of Laura Alvini playing Domenico Scarlatti sonatas on a copy of a Cristofori/Ferrini gravicembalo col piano e forte. and then:

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Bacall? Any time. Her voice alone ....

If I'll make as much money as Marlowe, I'll pass .....

Yep - disc 6, tracks 6 & 7

Date: probably late May1966 Location: TV Studio, Brussels, Belgium Ted Curson Group Ted Curson (ldr), Ted Curson (t), Nathan Davis (f), Pony Poindexter (as, v), Booker Ervin (ts), Kenny Drew, Sr. (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Edgar Bateman (d) a. Milestones [aka Miles] - 6:20(Miles Davis) b. All Blues [lyric version] - 7:12(Miles Davis, Oscar Brown, Jr.) Both titles unissued. Ted Curson (t) on a; Nathan Davis (f) on a; Booker Ervin (ts) on a; Pony Poindexter (v) on b. https://youtu.be/ikLlXX80I2I and https://youtu.be/disxLZ52iqw A Ted Curson Quartet with Ervin, Woode, and Bateman recorded for Fontana in the Netherlands on May 13, 1966. Comparing all of the musicians' itinaries makes late May probable, e.g. Drew was back in Copenhagen in June. http://jazzrealities.blogspot.com/search/label/Booker%20Ervin%20Discography

Bodegas Piedemonte MOSCATEL, NAVARRA DO 2015 "...... 'cause I can't get well without Moscatel" Jon Hendricks, Gimme That Wine

Chihuahua All Stars ‎– Descarga Cubana

It amazes me how few of Cano's albums were reissued on CD. This is a Spanish LP reissue from the 1980's.

RCA Victor Tropical Series CD reissue.

Finished re-listening to this box set earlier this afternoon. The development of the quintet over the years covered by this set is remarkable. On the last session (July 1963) Shearing as modern a pianist as anybody else that year.

Recorded on September 11 & 21, 1954 in true stereo but released in stereo in 1959 or 1960 on this LP, as there was no market for stereo playback equipment in 1954. The music was released in mono on the following two albums: The Original Jazz Classics reissues have only seven of the twelve stereo tracks in that format, and one (Just Squeeze Me) was never reissued.

Thanks, will keep an eye open for it! p.s. found a shop carrying this brand not too far away!

I couldn't care less about reviews. I like Shearing, I like Wes and his brothers. Their combination is different from what the brothers did on their own, and different from Shearing's quintet of the time - not the typical block chord unisons, more counterpoint. I find it to be an inspired meeting. Not all jazz has to be shouting. This is light but pleasant, and it swings.

We've opened another bottle on Wednesday to celebrate our 22nd wedding anniversary. I'm glad I bought a whole box of it a few weeks ago, as it's now out of stock at my wine shop. Our favourite French red, Carignan, when well done, has an incomparable flavour.

If you can get it in the U.S., try this one: Vinosia Orus Primitivo IGT - Primitivo is the Italian name for the Zinfandel grape.

The versions on Blue Note are different recordings!

Thad Jones (tp) Billy Mitchell (ts) Terry Pollard (p,vib) Jimmy Richardson (b) Elvin Jones (d) Sonny Wilson (vcl) Detroit, MI, early 1950's 1400 Rockaway rock Dee Gee 4000 1401 Rainy day blues (sw vcl) - Danny boy 4001 The bulldozer - Note:The date previously listed for this session is 1948. During that period Mitchell was in New York and the above group was formed in 1950 in Detroit. Billy Mitchell Quintet : Thad Jones (tp) Billy Mitchell (ts) Terry Pollard (p,vib) Alvin Jackson (b) Elvin Jones (d) Detroit, MI, early 1950's Compulsory Dee Gee XP4009, Savoy SV0188 [CD] The blue room - - The zec - - Alone together - - Savoy should have added the first four tracks to the CD reissue.