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..... from this box set:

Today in the car:

This one? They are also on this Frémaux disc, omitting alternates:

Limited edition reissue (only 500 copies) combining the Latin Esacapade and Mood Latino LPs with four bonus tracks from the latter's sessions that were issued later.

Yesterday's listening: Yesterday's new arrivals:

The composers list reads like a Who's Who of European exile composers ..... I can understand Marsh's antipathy - Schönberg wrote extremely expresionistic music at a certain period in his life, and then turned away from it. There seem to be some contradictions in his personality, and he must have treated some of his students rather badly. I was given a 500 page LP size book on Schoenberg by some friends with part Jewish family - they knew I was into music and saved the book from an aunt in Berlin who was not interested and wanted to dispose of it. I still need the time to dig a little deeper into it. Like in painting, there was a lot of discussion about the underlying principles of artistic work. With expressionistic style and harmonic sophistication. having reached a peak, they were searching for new rules for composing and took different ways - consider Cage, who, too, studied with Schönberg for a short while. There still is a lot of debate, and always was - Bach's way of composing waa criticized by his contemporaries. It depends of what fascinates you and how you try to figure it out how it works. Emotionalism vs. rationalism, and trying to get both to work together. Add to this personal traumas and a resulting skepticism, like the holocaust which played an important role in Schönberg's life - and it will get pretty comlpicated to deal with it all. Look at Milhaud's biohraphy, another composer with Jewish ancestry, teaching in California, and getting totally different feedback from his students. Yes, it says as much about Schönberg as it says about Marsh. Utterings of musicians about their peers are alway very interesting. It gets problematical when you consider your own view of things as the only one that's right.

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Yes! I cherished that one, too. The first half was on the early Trio LP, and I made my own CDR of all the later trio tracks. I think Blue Note should have done that. The official title of that brown paper bag look series can be clearly seen here.

Yesterday this received several spins, the last with my conga drum students who understood what makes the groove on these tracks so great. A must for all fans of Armando Peraza!

There was a Horace Silver in that series, too, which was a fine selection. It inspired me to get all his Blue Note albums, and then I sold it.

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After setting up our new media receiver for watching tv I check out all the other features. I now have direct access to YouTube on tv and enjoy some old Snader tv casts with the George Shearing quintet.

I bought a good number of those twofers, Prestige, Milestone, Fantasy, Brown Bags from Blue Note/UA/Pacific Jazz - still have some of them, the Yusef Lateef ones in particular. When French EMI started a series of Blue Note LP reissues shortly before the advent of CD, it was like heaven on earth. I happened to be on vacation in Rome when I first got the news; near the hotel at the Campo dei Fiori was the book and record store of the Italian Communist Party which had the whole batch. I took about twenty LPs home, much to the amazement of my girlfriend. There was one second Prestige I bought, too: A.K. Salim's "Afro-Soul Drum Orgy". That's the only one I still have, as I bought all of those Blue Notes on CD later on.

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?