mikeweil

To me, Keezer is the greatest jazz piano talent to appear on the scene in the last thirty years. He has such great technical abilities, but the focus always is on the music, and it all sounds so easy, as if he only has to slightly touch the keys. Amazing.

June 28, to be exact ;-) Maybe PC came in a long sleeve shirt like Klook and it was getting hot, no big deal. I like the casualty of that shot. Even the scenes with musicians talking etc. taken at Blue Not sessions always look a little posed. Who took that photo? Different photographers, different producers, different approaches.

I pull this out every few years ever since I got the Rhino CD reissue, but still don't know whether I like it or not. I dig Max, as always, but the pianist somehow doesn't reach me.

Agreed: Elbling sur lie - Weingut Ernst Hein

Much better than I thought. Hank Jones is superb here, and the four bonus tracks from Gene Ammons sessions are nice.

Couldn't find anything of that type in the Tom Lord Discography.

I'm shocked. He was 70 years of age. I saw him perform with Double Image, the band with his mallet buddy David Friedman, and he always looked younger than his age. R.I.P.

Now spinning some Gene Ammons while checking the discographical details. I didn't expect completeness from this box, but it happens to include all the EmArcy sides that were missing in my collection. But all the early Jug CDs on Chess or Prestige omit some tracks. Only the Chronoilogical Classics seem to be complete but need to be amended by Tom Archia and Sonny Stitt compilations. Oh well ...

Just saw, btw, that there was a reissue on LP in Italy: https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Richards-The-Rites-Of-Diablo/release/4916803 - don`t ask me whether or not it is legit. But it could well be, as all the music they (So Far Out) reissued is from EMI associated labels.

On to the next two LPs ..... it`s years since I listened to some of that box.

That cover really deserves LP size!

That one was included in the Mosaic Select dedicated to Richards - I guess you would prefer a single dics reissue?

It looks like this is another product of Roulette now belonging to Warner - excellent sound. If they would reissue all of her albums in such audio quality with proper discographical documentation, I'd buy it all one more time.

Sides 5 & 6 - the Al Cohn arranged session and the quartet session with Horace Silver. "Four" was in my head yesterday while doing market shopping with my wife.

Just looked at the facebook page lonked - the goal of $ 35.000 was reached!

Disc 1 & 2

Disc IV with harpsichord suites

Happy Birthday! Keep swingin' the lake and the mountains!

Look at the albums at his feet: Roy Ayers, Curtis Mayfield ..... is he playing some tunes from these? With some meditative intros? Don't get me wrong, I'd appreciate that.

Fantasy should have honoured her and all its other organists with comprehensive box sets.