mikeweil

Just played selections from The Jazz Scene, mostly Carney, Strayhorn, and Hawkins: Now Carney Verve LP (from the twofer with two Ben Webster LPs):

That's a good one! Will pull it out later, too, in memory of Roy Hargrove.

That's sad news. Haven't been listening to much of his music lately, but I always enjoyed the CDs I bought. R.I.P.

Disc 1

.... and the sound is terrific - I have the original Direct-Cut-LP issue.

Wanted to have that one for years after listening to one LP side of Okeh Wild Bill Davis on a sampler double album "Okeh Jazz". Most of the reissues of rare material by Spnaish labels are out of print and some go for very big money. Found an affordable copy only a few days ago. Pulled ist from the mailbox this morning - it cooks.

That's a beautiful disc - but I'd never play it by daylight! Some different oriental music over here - the third Kazazian release I bought, and I begin to like his music better than Rabih Abou-Khalil's ..... https://www.discogs.com/Georges-Kazazian-Sagate/release/3975580

So far I alway found what I was looking for using the forum search function.

Complete audio track of a blindfold test Leonard Feather conducted with Charlie Parker, including the music played to him, and an introductory comment. Rare opportunity to hear Bird (and his wife, who was present) talking.

Just read Chuck Nessa's post above mine - threads often lead to seemingly distant content, and the quote function sometimes cuts off the immediate reference.

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!

http://www.encelade.net/index.php/en/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing-2/product/24241-jcf-fischer-uranie

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: