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Just deleted the CD reissue from my wantlist - these two sound good enough, better than many other Muse LPs. But they weren't recorded by the label's standard engineers ......

Both, both! And this wine has to be consumed thoroughly chilled, of course.

Looks great! My current evening companion: Cantine Pellegrino DIANTHÀ, TERRE SICILIANE I.G.P.

Since I always liked Jodie Christian's playing and the horns seem to be first rate, I ordered a copy. Thanks for posting the recommendation.

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Great videos linked in this Rolling Stone article on 79-year-old Andrew Cyrille: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/andrew-cyrille-vision-festival-lifetime-achievement-847201/

Preparing for an upcoming performance of this piece led by the same conductor: Excellent music, great performance.

Spent the evening with two excellent DVD presentations of baroque operas:

R.I.P. I must admit I never heard him play, only knew his name.

Three CDs in slimcases and a slighly thicker booklet. If you received only two CDs, one is missing.

There have been Japanese CD issues of El Bravo, La Bamba and El Pussy Cat. But they all deserve a reissue, it was a good band. The best is the Village Gate live album with an amazing piccolo solo by Hubert Laws involving some circular breathing that's beyond belief.

Same here. No funds for this at the moment. When the Pres / Basie goes running low, I'll go mad ...

One of the best Louis Couperin recordings I have ever heard, and I have quite a few. Excellent! Great sound, musical power and passion.

I do! That's the only McNeill album I still don't have, not Elegia, as I supposed.

Zweitausendeins say their stock is down to seven copies. Don't miss it!

" Yet some music-business insiders regard this arrangement as a mixed bargain. When masters arrive at Iron Mountain, they say, institutional memory — archivists’ firsthand knowledge of poorly inventoried stacks — evaporates, as does the possibility of finding lost material, either by dogged digging or chance discovery. (Many treasures in tape vaults have been stumbled upon by accident.) Tapes can be retrieved only when requested by bar-code number, and labels pay fees for each request. For years, rumors have circulated among insiders about legendary albums whose masters have gone missing in Iron Mountain because labels recorded incorrect bar-code numbers. The kind of mass tape-pull that would be necessary to unearth lost recordings is both financially and logistically impractical. " Fantasy's tape vaults were moved to Iron Mountain without much preparation - I know that they always were kept in a very casual fashion, so there's little hope for any vault discoveries from the Riverside, Prestige, Contemporary, or Fantasy labels. “Just endless rows of stuff. It’s perfectly safe, but there’s no access, no possibility of serendipity. Nearly all the tapes that go in will never come off the shelf. They’re lost to history.”

I just wanted to quote that exact passage. Money kills cultural heritage.

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After finally getting a mono K2 I am a convert. This almost sounds like a new album.

Chuck, thank you for repeating this opinion constantly over the years on this forum. I finally got a copy of this version from a discogs seller in Belarus, in perfect condition. It sounds far superior to any other version of this music I heard. Who needs stereo when mono sounds that great?

R.I.P. I must admit I always had mixed feelings about him and his music. On one side, I'll be thankful forever that he introduced me to that New Orleans R & B tradition via his Gumbo LP, which I drew from a bin with drastically reduced LPs forty years ago. On the other side, his flirts with voudou had some black magic tinge about them that made me shudder. And some of his music did not sound loose enough to me, compared to his African-American idols. Nevertheless, I respect his life and quest.

I'll be in for that - even though I have the LP.

When I returned home three hours ago the package with the book waited on my doorstep. Highly recommended. Some of the best photos I have ever seen of Connie Kay, the members of the 1960 Quincy Jones Orchestra of 1960, and Helen Merrill (calling king ubu!) Thank you so much for the hint!!!