mikeweil

Just bought their Charlie Barnet double CD - a good representative selection, good sound, if not spectatcular, as someone above pointed out. Commentary is good and knowledgeable. I had contact with them regarding the Cal Tjader live recordings from the Club Macumba. They had withdrawn the release as they couldn't identify several tunes, which of course was no problem for me. Tjader biographer Duncan S. Reid and yours truly provided them with the necessary information to release the music. My impresssion is they take their business seriously. They have more previously unissued live material in the can.

This weekend's evening bottle: Roche de Belanne CARIGNAN VIEILLES VIGNES, PAYS D’HÉRAULT IGP 2017

The soprano is not to my taste, but she's only on a few tracks. The harp and ensemble playing are wonderful.

Lionel Hampton - Hamp The Complete Decca Recordings. Decca Jazz. $6 Is this the two CD longbox issued by Decca/GRP in 1996? If so, that is not a complete set, but a selection (its title was "The legendary Decca reecordings"). Nevertheless, a good selection, and a steal at that price.

Time to re-activate this thread. I started the season a few days ago with this one: New to the collection this year: The cover design is great IMO.

That's what I call a mutual recommendation society.

That's a nice one, as is the other Chartbusters CD on NYC records: https://www.discogs.com/Chartbusters-Volume-1/master/1295068

I have a French CBS double CD reissue combining these two LPs: The latter included some tracks with the four backing Conte Candoloí, Gene Quill, Seldon Powell, or Jimmy Cleveland, but also some from other groups - Ronnel Bright, Ray Bryant, Sahib Shihab. Columbia recorded a number of sessions that did not produce enough material for a whole LP and ended up in such compilations. There was a third LP: There never was a reissue with all the material involving the Rhythm Section - the Candoli tracks are on a Fresh Sound CD with other sessions of the trumpeter. I like the ballad tracks best - there is a nice Milt Hinton feature on "I'm Gettin' Sentimntal Over You". I always wondered what happened to Galbraith ..... p.s. I cannot find any Donald Byrd tracks with them ...?

From a French double CD reissue combining these two albums.

Got me a copy last week - it includes some sides not reissued anywhere else. Listened to discs 1 & 2 this morning.

Getting in the mood for live Telemann tonight:

Eva Maria Pollerus, Cembalo Terra incognita Die Cembalomusik G. Ph. Telemanns - Suiten, Fugen, Choräle, Konzerte, Galanterien Going to see and hear my colleague from the Frankfurt Musical University, Eva Maria Pollerus, tonight, she plays a solo harpsichord recital with music by Georg Philipp Telemann exclusively. It is part of a new concert series inaugurated this summer devoted to Telemann, who worked and lived in Frankfurt for a few years early in his career, published his first prints there etc. Still an underrated composer, even though he may be the one most representative of the baroque music of his time, and by far the most influential in Germany.

Cantine San Silvestro SABBIE, ROERO ARNEIS DOCG 2017

Some amazing music on the Cuban anthologies.

Same here, exactly, only that mine is scheduled for delivery tomorrow.

Machito & His Afro Cuban Orchestra* - Mambo Mucho Mambo - The Complete Columbia Masters

Yes - would have been a once in a lifetime opprortunity for me to see Don Cherry. Maybe I couldn't afford the fesival ticket at the time. I liked the ECM CD very much when it was issued - enough to be tempted by that performance.

The fact that I did not attend that performance at Frankfurt leaves me puzzled.

Earlier today:

No - I don't know about painting processes, but I've played many different types of music and know from experience how hard it is to play a real good spontaneous improvisation. Most musicians tend to overplay, do not leave enough space, and often it is more fun for the performer than for the listener, at least for me. I'd rather do it myself than listen to others do it. Just my point of view, of course.