mikeweil

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I have a copy from the first CD reissue of Asha (thaks to a friendly board member) and an original (but rather noisy) LP of Washington Suite, but this time I ordered all three CDs (they still have copies of Tanner Suite, too). Thanks for the pointer! I just love McNeill's melodies.

I sent an inquiry by e-mail and Scott answered it within 24 hours.

That'll be one of the greatest problems for many years to come! I have to apologize for not listening closely and on poorly sounding speakers, and without much listening to these British players, some of whom I always appreciated, but haven't heard often. Sometimes I forget my own rule to always think thrice before posting anything anywhere.

Reissuing all Mobley Blue Note sessions - those up to Peckin' Time in the box, the later ones as single CDs - is one of the lasting achievements of Michael Cuscuna in regard to the Blue Note catalog. IIRC he planned a box of the four sessions with Wynton Kelly, too - both Workout sessions, Roll Call, and Soul Station - but then the four were issued on single CDs. All of it is worth having, IMO. Get the box before it is too late. It is one of the few Mosaics I got before they went Running Low.

I had my doubts about Priester. The trumpet player uses some Hubbard derived phrases just like Eddie Henderson, and Cowell has enough similarities to Hancock. Someone registered at YouTube should correct the personnel! This here indeed sound much more plausible.

Just listening. If it was 1971, and I trust Brownie on this, it must be Eddie Henderson, Julian Priester, Bennie Maupin, Buster Williams, and Billy Hart. The players sound to me like this personnel, too. This is not Johnny Coles' trumpet sound. Definitely Maupin and Hart. The personnel listed on YouTube is obviously based on the false assumption that this was a 1969 performance, and not on aural evidence. The two tunes were not recorded on Herbie's albums.

It looks like Jazz Messengers still has the Threadgill set. http://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/8162/henry-threadgill/novus-and-columbia-recordings

Organically grown wine from indiginous Sicilian grapes, my evening meal companion over the last days. Nice, and not expensive, praised by critics.

The reissue of the out of print first volume of Cocset's recording of Barrière's cello sonatas. Beautiful music, wonderfully performed by Cocset and his group, and excellently recorded. Highly recommended!

Probably posted before, reminds me strongly of a Hank Mobley cover;

What always annoys me about this box is that they did not arrange tracks in recording order within each session.

There was a discussion here about the lousy binding. I gently tore them all out, removed the glue strips and keep them as loose leaves between the booklet covers. That said, the box is great and someone should grab it at that price! The perfect complement to the Mosaic boxes.

FWIW - when I bought my second player three years ago the dealer told me frankly that there is no player on the market that is guaranteed to play every SACD without malfunctions. The process of reading multiple layers requires much accuracy in tracking etc. I never had dropouts on SACDs, only on CDs - as I said my older SONY player recogizes only the CD layer on some discs.

I forgot what label the SACDs were from on which my older player couldn't read the SACD layers - will have to try again ...

I have two SACD players, and the older one does not read the high resolution layers of one label - everything else plays fine. What labels are your troublemakers from?

I always get access to the discographies, but never succeed when I click on the link to the printable version.

Andrea de Carlo's fourth release in the Alessandro Stradella Project, excellent as its predecessors. Fantastic singers, and quite different from the previously available recording of this oratorio, as it omits the violin parts and thus the sinfonia that obviously were added after thecomposer's death and are not on the level of his craft. Stradella's imagination in scoring continuo parts is unsurpassed, in my opinion.

Just learned about this from the Darmstadt Jazz Institute newsletter - one of the grooviest drummers ever, and one of the best at bossa nova rhythm among jazz drummers.

I know what you want to say. I think that was a necessary phase HIP had to go through. The fact that younger conductors prefer a leaner sound and brighter tempos shows that it pointed in the right direction. To me timbre is just as important as all other parameters. and, of course, a great reading should get it all right, taste not withstanding.

Well,I think it is too obvious that all three are nice word plays or associative names and the titles of legendary Blue Note LPs. I had that thought immediately after Somethin' Else and True Blue were launched. A nice association, in any case.

Of course, Larry - I thought this was evident. It was the case with all three label names, I'm certain - and most label names mentioned here point in this direction. One that is special to me is the Fresh Sound sublabel Tumbao - because about a year before the first releases I thought there should be a label with exactly that name to reissue all the Cuban Classics - and that's what they did! Great minds thinking alike, I guess

Wasn't it named after the LP "Mosaic" by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers? Same for the Japanese Label Somethin' Else that Michael Cuscuna was involved in, or their mailorder shop True Blue - all named after Blue Note LPs.

AFAIK the Hogwood recording was prepared with thorough musicological assistance and if there were any doubts about attribution it was mentioned in the elaborate commentary. I'm not a fan of that "do you need this or that work" attitude. The early works give insight into his development as a young composer and show how deeply he was rooted in the music of his tiime and not born a genius. But each to his own.