mikeweil

Seems to me it has a lot to do with the interests of the recording industry. Or their attitudes - early in the 20th century music of the Carribean was recorded before ragtime or early jazz. Little interest in the music of African Americans in the USA. Rock was the music of the protesting generation - who wanted to promote that sub-culture?

I had a short encounter with Ekkehard Jost in a Frankfurt record shop two years before he passed - nice man. But I think German jazzologists were kind of pre-occcupied with pointing out the emancipation of German musicians from their American predecesors (or conteporaries). There was a long radio feature/interview with Schlippenbach last year where he talked at length about Taylor's visit to Berlin and how he invited him to his home, how much he admired his playing .....

Same here!

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Yup - the car I use at work now has a CD player, but the old one I had to use before still had a cassette tape player. Finally I could make usage of the cassette tape adapter to hook up a CD player I had bought years before for my private car (which was soon replaced with one that had a CD player). After I got tired of all my old cassette tapes, that is.

The Italians are the Blacks of Europe, not the Greek ...

Terrific ......... the news that there will be a third volume with unissued material from the Columbia vaults almost kills me.

Now disc two, recorded live in a studio.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Some manufacturers put small foam sheets in CD boxes to keep the discs from falling off the jewels. Over the years the foam degrades and sticks to the discs like hell. I have a few opera box sets that fell victim to this. Extremely hard to remove. I'd never glue anything to the printed side of a CD! I think of getting one as an emergency spare. My first Philips DVD player still works flawlessly, and CDs sound great on it, too. The better the hardware is, they longer they will last, and the less reading error correction software they have. A clean digital signal is the main thing about CD playback.

Yes, I do remember, and tried it. The method I stuck with was a cleaning spray. All these methods optimize the optical part of the laser tracking and result in a cleaner signal. But it also depends on your playback equipment and your ears .... my high frequency hearing loss has a greater impact.

R.I.P. I must admit that he never was among my favourites as I prefer a less forceful sound on alto, but I had a lot of respect for what he achieved and how he took his stand in the powerful surroundings he chose. McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, these are high level intensity bands and almost too much for an alto saxophone, but he did it! He was in Mongo Santamaria's band, too, and played some powerful solos there:

Nice album, recommended to me by a fellow board member a few years ago: https://www.discogs.com/Akira-Tana-Secret-Agent-Men/release/10635645

Georges Kazazian is an Egyptian oud player of Armenian descent. I stepped over one of his CDs in a sales bin many years ago, and liked it. Saw this one for a low price on discogs and like it too, and perhaps even more than Rabih Abou-Khalil's albums. Relaxed collective improvisations where the piano does not sound like an alien among oriental instruments, some nice composed passages in between. But what really gets me is the relaxed pace, the moderate tempos, these musicians taking their time. https://www.discogs.com/Georges-Kazazian-Dayra-Jazz/release/3975637

Indeed - I have lots of unread books, and I still hope to find the time someday to read them, but I have only a handful of unheard CDs, mostly bargains of deleted items that I wouldn't want to miss, with music I'm not in the mood for right now.

Lucky guy ... Is that the "Book" you all are talking about?

I remember an interview with Cuscuna where he expressed his initial reluctance with the sound of early CD masterings - cannot recall the exact source, though. It may be that he he said that in connection with Blue Note's entry into the CD market.

I, too, waited a few years, watching the medium politics. The sound was important as well - CDs often sounded harsh in the early years, and I remember that being the reason my Mosaic hesitated to make the transition. Also, I was (and still am) annoyed by labels not taking advantage of the expanded playing time - there are still people in the business with a fictitious one hour time limit in their heads. So I became rather choosy, giving away or selling CDs that sounded inferior, avoiding CDs without available bonus material. Every new format has its pros and cons, and the business people are more often than not irrational or even irresponsible in handling it. Or lacking discographical knowledge.

Now playing another downlaoded album: Blues On The Other Side : Mike Mainieri (vib) Bruce Martin (p) Julius Ruggiero (b) Joe Porcaro (d) New York, September 5, 1962

Listening to the last four Mercer Records tracks that were missing in my collection, bought them as amazon downloads, who probably sourced them from the Chronologal Classics CDs, they sound very good. Howard McGhee (tp) Joe Roland (vib) Kenny Drew (p) Oscar Pettiford (cello) Tommy Potter (b) Art Taylor (d) New York, April 28, 1951 M4025 Swingin' till the girls come home Mercer 1966 M4028 Bei mir bist du schon Mercer 1966 Bill Davis And His Real Gone Organ : Wild Bill Davis (org) Duke Ellington (p) John Collins (g) Jo Jones (d) New York, October, 1950 M4023 Things ain't what they used to be Mercer 1955 M4024 Make no mistake (de out) Mercer 1955 A nice surprise is to hear John Collins soloing! Wish there was more.