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It looks like I got the last copy Jazzmessengers had in stock, as it is no longer listed among the Mosaic sets they have for sale. Phew ...

FWIW, here's what's available at the moment (AFAIK). Listing from JPC, which says the Sun Ra is on backorder. Steve Lacy 1. Trickles 2. Revenue 3. Troubgles 4. Regeneration 5. Change Of Season 6. Dutch Masters 7. The Condor 8. The Cry (2 CDs) 9. Vespers 10 CDs Enrico Pieranunzi Albumtitel: Isis No Man's Land Flux And Change Seaward Ma L'Amore Mio 6 CDs Roscoe Mitchell 3x4 Eye Roscoe Mitchell And The Sound And Space Ensembles The Flow Of Things Live At The Knitting Factory Duets And Solos This Dance Is For Steve McCall The Italian Concert Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet) Spihumonesty 9 CDs Gianluigi Trovesi From G. to G. Les Hommes Armes The Village Fair Around Small Fairy Tales Electric Five Missa Bathet Cinque Piccole Storie Nvola 9 CDs Ed Blackwell (1929-1992) 8 CDs Max Roach (1924-2007) 1:Birth And Rebirth CD 2:Collage CD 3:Survivors CD 4:Historic Concerts Set I CD 5:Historic Concerts Set II CD 6:Bright Moments 6 CDs Max Roach Vol.2 Pictures In A Frame In The Light Live At Vielharmonie Munich Scott Free Easy Winners It's Christmas Again 6 CDs Ran Blake Improvisations Duke Dreams Suffield Gothic Short Life Of Barbara Monk Epistrophy Unmarked Van Indian Winter 7 CDs Chico Hamilton 5 CDs Andrew Hill 4 CDs Jimmy Lyons 5 CDs Mingus Big Band Reincarnation Mingus' Sounds Of Love Live At The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris Vol.1 Live At The Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris Vol.2 4 CDs Archie Shepp 4 CDs Sun Ra 1. Reflections In Blue 2. Hours After 3. Mayan Temples 4. A Tribute To Stuff Smith 4 CDs Kenny Wheeler 5 CDs Andrew Cyrille Metamusicians' stomp Nuba Something in return Special people The navigator X Man Good To Go, With A Tribute 7 CDs Giorgio Gaslini Murales New Orleans Suite Free Actions Graffiti Sharing Live At The Public Theater In New York Ecstasy Four Pieces Indian Suite Monodrama Skies Of China 11 CDs Don Pullen Capricorn Rising Healing Force Warriors Milano Strut The Magic Triangle Evidence Of Things Unseen The Sixth Sense 7 CDs George Adams (1940-1992 5 CDs Lester Bowie 3 CDs Dave Douglas 6 CDs Art Farmer (1928-1999) 6 CDs World Saxophone Quartet Steppin' With The World Saxophone Quartet, W.S.Q., Revue, Live In Zurich, Live At Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Moving Right Along 6 CDs Julius Hemphill 5 CDs Oliver Lake (geb. 1942) 7 CDs George Lewis 1. Shadowgraph, 5 (Sextet) 2. Jila-Save! Mon. - The Imaginary Suite 3. Homage To Charles Parker 4. Change Of Season 5. Dutch Masters 5 CDs Cecil Taylor 5 CDs Mal Waldron 4 CDs David Murray Octets 5 CDs David Murray Volume 2 7 CDs David Murray Volume 3 Interboogieology Live At Sweet Basil Vol.1 Children Live At Sweet Basil Vol.2 Southern Bells The Healers 6 CDs

That's a very nice set. I think the music here is better than his playing on his Prestige date or with Horace Silver. After retiring from the Berlin Radio jazz orchestra he was reunited with his old Californian buddy Lou Blackburn in the latter's Afro-Jazz band, Mombasa. I remember they had a fun time playing together again. They were really cookin' when I heard them in the rather small Frankfurt Jazzkeller.

As long as they do get another batch, that's alright with me - the later in the year, the more likely my budget will allow me to order one.

I, too, have all the Bessie Smith tracks on LP, but the positive voices here convinced me. I hesitated about the Earl Hines at first - in the end was very glad I got me a copy. But I can see your point. I decided against the Ella Fitzgerald set as I never was really enamoured by her voice and style, and wanted the Chick Webb instrumentals in the first place - I got me the two HEP CDs and am fully satisfied with them.

Ordered a copy from Jazzmessengers - I know I'll enjoy this one! Thanks for the encouragement.

This is some wild stuff .....

Laurent Stewart is always a joy to listen to - I never was disappointed by him. Here he plays a copy of a Hans Ruckers harpsichord, a type that was known to players in England as well as Flanders (Peter Philipps or John Bull) which is properly recorded; his playing is lively and virtuosic. The Dornel is not a must buy, but the Stewart is a fine selection of Byrd and Gibbons pieces I can recommend. Stewart's Louis Couperin disc, on an original Tibaut harpsichord, is excellent, too, if you can find it: There are only two more he made, D'Anglebert and Frescobaldi, all recommended, but watch out for decent pricing!

BTW there is another Chant du Monde box of the 1962 tour (10 CDs):

Received a bunch of price reduced discs from JPC, Arion and Pierre Vérany recordings:

Thanks - my wife already agreed to put this on the gifts table for my birthday, upcoming in a few weeks. We're low on funds at the moment, but I know I'll kick myself for years to come if I fail to get me one.

Could I get some more comments, please, to make me pull the trigger for this set, now that it is on "last chance"?

R.I.P. I happened to see Esther Bejarano, who also survived Auschwitz and had played in the orchestra there, in a talk show last night, and she said how few of them were still alive ...

Okay, after comparing selected pieces from this new release with about ten other Forqueray recordings in my collection, I must admit that I am slightly disappointed. First of all, it is not complete in respect to all members of the Forqueray family: there is one Michel Forqueray, to whom three pieces are attributed (one of them very tentatively) that are not even mentioned. Furthermore, all of these pieces exist in two versions, one for solo harpsichord and one for viol with bass - I would have expected they present all of the pieces in both versions when they need four CDs, but no, they play each piece only once in one version, most of them in the harpsichord version. What's really new is the recording of four pieces from a collection with various composers and three pieces from the "manuscript de Lille", which Michèle Dévérité chose to present in her own transcription for two harpsichords. Again, having them in both versions would have been nice. All this needs three CDs - the newly discovered pieces take only twenty minutes. Other performers playing in roughly the same tempos need only two CDs, including all repeats - they could have distributed the music a bit more economically on the discs and included both versions and the new pieces on five CDs. But the fourth CD is filled with various tribute pieces to the Forquerays, among them many first recordings of rarely heard composers as well as the well known by Couperin and Rameau. The fifth CD is a recital of texts referring to the Forquerays with musical accompaniment. This and several texts in the booklet presented only in French require a thorough understanding of that language. They could have included a translation of these as well, or offer it as a download. It is a pityas the text about a musician's portrait that could be Forqueray, and about Marie Rose Dubois, who may have made the harpsichord transcription or at least had a hand in it, contain important information. Is the label not interested in serving customers outside of France? It is all very nice, and the years of preparation they put into this project shows, but only for francophiles? Furthermore, I am a bit underwhelmed by Michèle Dévérité's playing, which sounds somewhat tentative, as if she was afraid of the sound of her instruments, a certain sameness creeps in as she understands the tempos from the smaller note values and does not communicate the feel of the dance movements as clearly as other players. She does not spell me with her way of playing, where almost all others project expressive virtuosity and grandeur, where she relies on nobility and dignity. The recorded sound doesn't help her either, the engineers of harmonia mundi France prefer larger rooms and place the harpschord a some distance, as if to avoid mechanical noises under all circumstances. They used differerent microphone placements for the piecs with violin or viol placing the harpsichord in the background making almost inaudible. A smaller room and more intimate sound would have suited the music better. But that's a mistake they often make when recording chamber music with harpsichord. I would recommend this only for Forqueray completists or diehard collectors of French baroque chamber music. If you want a compelling rendition of the harpsichord version I would recommend Mitzi Meyerson, who has the chops this music needs and is recorded in fantastic sound (watch out to get the newer edition which is a bit cheaper): For a viol version the Malec/Urbanetz recording has more guts and again, better sound: It is not quite complete, but communicates the music better. Both together can be bought at the same price or for less than the new box.

Nice article by Kyle Long on the Paris recordings including an interview with Harold Mabern; https://www.nuvo.net/music/wes-montgomery-s-paris-concert-is-finally-on-record/article_ca279f2e-f615-11e7-b9ac-ef0791365afa.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share

A good old friend and former percussion student of mine (and member of my current drum band of former students) is a member of Alles Blech (All Tin). They opened the evening's program and even invited me on stage for the number I coached them for,a Cuban Conga de Comparsa carnival rhythm. nice evening, with the Iranian duet playing some stunning things.

Here, too.

My favourite Nina Simone album! Gives me the chills each time .... Been listening through James Moody's 1968-1970 albums over the last days - arguably some of his best recordings. A fascinating soloist with lots of chops, but he never gets lost in the technical side of it. The settings on these three recordings are all different, but great, and he responds with inspired playing. The sidemen are great, Tom McIntosh's arrangements are superb.

Doesn't look like her to me. Are you sure? Is she credited on the album? The discogs page of this album says so, but the eyes, nose, and mouth look a little different to me.

I thought it was about moving to the new server, but started getting worried a bit, and started missing you all. This is the only web site I go to on a regular basis, everything else is becoming really boring these days. Grand Thanks to the Grand Poobah! p.s. much faster now!

Making my way through this new release: