mikeweil

I bought one of their Ramsey Lewis sets and the sound is definitely inferior to that of the same tracks on a Chess/GRP compilation. Buy at your own risk. They may source from CDs previously available, but in this case they didn't.

oop box set from Bear Family with Olatunji's complete Columbia recordings. I'm listening to the ZUNGO album, which has a full jazz band alongside Olatunji's drum troupe - the former includes Nina Simone's soul brother, guitarist Al Schackman. Simone added the title tune to her repertoire.

Discs VII & VIII

I have a dozen of them, and like them all - perhaps it's the Onzy Mathews I grab the most often.

I got a copy at the Frankfurt book fair when it was published - there is an error on the two pages dedicated to Cal Tjader: They repeated the discographical recommendations for Gary McFarland! p.s. I must correct myself: it was the Astrud Gilberto key recordings they printed on the Tjader page.

That's the wine we had: Roche de Belanne - CARIGNAN VIELLES VIGNES, I.G.P. 2016 But I'm glad I have a day off today, as I had a little too much of it, and a glass of this nice Prosecco before IL FRESCO, PROSECCO SPUMANTE D.O.C.

Yes it's another year! Thank y'all! My wife and I just decided to stay home tonight and take the birthday dinner at our favourite Lebanese restaurant tomorrow - we both returned home very late from work and are a bit tired. We'll listen to some from the James P. Johnson box which graces the gifts table. All is fine over here. My wife wants me to uncork a bottle of red wine - always at her service! See ya later folks - my motto this morning in the car was this: When I pulled this from the mailbox yesterday I remembered that I saw these four sisters live in 1975 - the sassiest performance I ever witnessed! I could spin the Beatles' "When I'm 64" right now, but funny enough my wife gave me a birthday card with four birdlike denizens in suits crossing the street à la Abbey Road, saying "Let It Be" - so be it!

Happy Birthday! I will stay in Zuidbroek for a few days in August - would you mind a meeting?

Villa Sandi Prosecco Il Fresco DOC

Thanks for the recommendation - I should have opted for that triple album reissue.

Just stepped over this, only Ella's tracks were on CD: The George Wallington piano solo and a Metronome All Star track never made it to CD.

That's a feature I have been missing, too, when browsing label listings on discogs. There were quite a few Prestige compilations they didn't remember when preparing CD reissues. They could have added the Burrell/Galbraith tracks to the "Two Guitars" album, e.g., but no .... must be real hard to look into a label discography.

Finally found the time for discs 5 & 6 this afternoon.

Back to Nina: I succumbed to buying used copies of all the UK Roulette/Parlophone reissues of the Colpix CDs, as they complement the original albums with bonus material wherever possible, and in the proper places. The lack of discographical information on these reissues partly is due to the lack of information of the label's side - I think they did their best to clear recording dates and personnel and add tracks that were only on singles or remained unissued in the appropriate places. Some unreleased tracks had been issued on "Nina With Strings" after she had left the label, but the CD bonus tracks are the original versions without the strings, in (most) cases, whenever these had been overdubbed. Two more tracks were recorded at Newport, but remain unissued. The discography is a real mess - the Nina Simone Database helps but is not the optimum way to present all the information - in way it reflects the confusion in her recording career, with countless bootlegs and reissues that were carelessly made and that she was never paid for. I can see why she was mad at the record business - still, most reissues are made in a rather disrespectful fashion, or are presenting the image the compilers have of Nina Simone. She was extremely versatile and never cared about musical categories, so you have to listen to practically everything to get the complete picture. I have listened to all the Bethlehem, Colpix, Philips, and RCA recordings over the last few months, have read her autobiography as well as three other books about her, seen the documentation and several live videos, and have the feeling that I'm only scratching the surface. Respect - that was most important to her. As far as the Philips recordings are concerned, the 4 CD box "Four Women" or its recent counterpart with seven LPs are okay - there is some unreleased mateial, but I have no idea whether that is releasable. It certainly would shed a light on her approach to the music, since I got the impression she treated each song individually and had less of an album approach. Same goes for her RCA albums, which had been collected in a big box with nine CDs, adding bonus tracks, most of the live album recorded in Munich that Gene Perla had released on his own label, and full discographical information as well as commentary - but it is already out of print. I got it at bargain price - SONY BMG could have imagined it would be a good seller. It now goes for crazy prices. If you can find it, go for it.

fourth and last disc, featuring her final Philips LP:

That exactly is the problem!

Maybe this discogs page helps: https://www.discogs.com/label/75724-Avantgarde-2 Scroll down the list for some of the boxes. Much of the series was recycled on a CD series "Music of our time".

See for yourselves, and note the statement on the front page about handling international orders ..... https://www.propermusic.com/

Disc Three, with these LPs: