mikeweil

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.

I would have xpected at least a decent Italian coffee machine from you ......

I think James Carter plays it ocasionally, too.

It is - nice summer wine for warm evenings like today and in the upcoming week - as the forecasts tell me.

FEUDO ARANCIO Grillo 2018 Better than last year's vintage.

The mailman brought it this morning. Really excellent - thanks for the recommendation!

Ordered after this was mentioned in the Anthony Cox thread, the mailman brought it this morning. Really an excellent album, These tracks are all little works of art best appreciated one by one. I regret I never had the opporrtunity to see Lacy perform - he was such a unique, free spirit, and one of the people who represent to me what the essence of jazz really is.

Geoff Keezer ‎– Zero One Amazing 1999 solo piano CD.

I got this for one track - the solo piano version of Tenderly recorded for MGM. But the sound of most tracks is rather muffled, the remasterings of other tracks I already have is audibly better on other CDs.

Yesterday, this here: