mikeweil

Jon Hendricks ‎– Fast Livin' Blues

One of the most enjoyable of all the Xmas label compilations I have.

Of course I know all that, but Tjader's first period for Fantasy has some really bad examples of releases haphazardly thrown together from vault material, with incorrect personnel credits and recording dates (if they were mentioned at all). Some LPs were programmed with great care and made the albums pieces of art in themselves, others were the extreme opposite. Knowing all of Tjader's music I can say that most of it would benefit a lot from a chronological presentation with completed sessions - being well aware that session order is impossible to reconstruct as Fantasy rather soon stopped assigning master numbers and were very casual about keeping files. Duncan S. Reid and yours truly found out many details that the label obviously does not about and never cared to research properly. It all depends, but in the case of Tjader I had to make a point. Only few of these albums deserve that term. I can name them, if you want.

Geez - that shop has hundreds of covers from the Concord/Fantasy label group. Wish I had less walls covered up by shelves ... ;-) But the Monk/Rollins is a standout! They are located in Southern Germany, btw - watch out for shipping costs.

That's the way I approach their releases. I've never heard one that sounded better than other reissues. Copied from other CDs and worked over a bit, that's all it seems to be. In the case of the Tjader box, the compilation is a bit odd, as some of the original releases already had tracks from different session thrown together.

Our Christmas days evening bottle: http://cadeifrati.it/ronchedone/

Germany's best a capella vocal group in a brand new release that might please fans of the King's Singers as well as those of the Hi-Lo's - had my wife unwrap this first, and as I expected, she loved it- A gift from a longtime dear friend - three fantastic German musicians playing their own highly original arrangements of German Christmas songs - accordionist Martin Wagner is absolutely great! This will appeal to anybody who likes this instrument even though he might not know the songs. http://www.tango-transit.de/musik/neu-cd-engelrausch-froehliche-stille-nacht/

For morning coffee: In the car during some final shopping: At home again: And right now, one of my favourites, a killer of a Christmas album:

Today: French songs and dances from a late 19th century French songbook LeBlanc's cousin gave to her - presented in an attractive sytle between early music, folklore, and even some jazzy touches - and the way she sings all this is wonderful! Excellent, lovingly performed classic variation treatments of French Christmas songs.

You bet me to a minute! Yes, happy and peaceful Holidays to everyone! No snow here, constant drizzling rain trying to keep us from a final visit to the Christmas fair .....

Please note that the unissued tracks are makred"rejected" in the source you linked - this makes it very unlikely they still exist. If there was any usable material from these sessions, Cuscuna would have used it.

Mine is waiting on the Christmas gifts table .... will take a place on the sofa and start reading as soon as we are done with the ceremony.

Earl Hines Mosaic - disc 7

Looks interesting ... noted down for next year.

Yes - that's the comcept of these "solographies". They are expressively not exhaustive discographies in the strict sense.