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Resonance Records gives one a hard time keeping up with all those unearthed treasures - but this one is an immediate must buy!

One of the few recordings of harpsichord music of this era on a Thuringian instrument - sounds great on it, and Charlston plays Handel's famous Blacksmith Variations better and more convincing than anybody else I have heard. Beautiful underrated music. JPC and others currently have a price reduction on the Divine Arts label - I heartily recommend any recording of Terence Charlston or the Avison Ensemble.

Comparing Marchand recordings - Moroney is the clear winner, followed by Haugsand.

Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are The Only Things That Matter to Me. Everybody's Got a Hungry Heart Talkin' 'Bout Love, But Not Tonight, When the Rain Begins to Fall Thelonious Monk - American Opera - Carl Wave - Stanley Cowell - Depeche Mode - Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora

It's worse - look at this Last Chance list: Last Chance Eddie Condon - Tiger Rag And All That Jazz Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Newport 1956 &1958 (4 LPs - #3007) Mosaic Select: Boogie Woogie & Blues Piano (MS-030) Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945 (#254) The Complete Pacific Jazz Joe Pass Quartet Sessions (#207) Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (#247) The Oliver Nelson Verve/Impulse Big Band Sessions (#233)

What is missing the most is the early Okeh Ellington and the1947-50 Columbia sides - would buy these any day.

Fresh Sound just released a double CD including both Fantasy albums, the bonus tracks from the OJC CD, one more track from the session with Dick Marx that appears to be unissued; and all the tracks she recorded with big bands before - from some rare singles. Wow ... http://www.freshsoundrecords.com/lucy-reed-albums/6568-this-is-lucy-reed-complete-recordings-1950-1957-3-lp-on-2-cd-bonus-tracks.html

The Atlantic CD reissue with three bonus tracks. This Teddy Charles was an extraordinary musician.

Thanks all - just found the passage in Hawes' book. He says Mingus gave Clark $ 5 for his "two chords" at the end of one tune. From the playing I find it impossible to say who plays when.

That's all the Tom Lord discography has: A Time For Love : Tony Bennett (vcl) acc by unknown orchestra : Johnny Mandel (arr,cond) c. mid 1960's Col CL2560 Looks like a studio album, although probably cut at several sessions. It all returns to the basic question if you base discography on the recording session or the "disc", no matter what format it originally had. Since formats and compilations change, serious jazz discographers have agreed on using the recording session as their point of reference. Look here: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/About_Discography/philosophy_of_discography.php http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Brian/why_session_based_discography.php Just saw there is a Tony Bennett discography on this site - you will not get a better source: http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Bennett/index.php

I have read somewhere that Sonny Clark replaces Hampton Hawes on I Can't Get Started. No confirmation in Lord; the Clark disco on the web mentions this, too. Is there any other confirmation for this? My 1997 Roulette/EMI CD does not mention this, either.

Thanks - I will consider it, although I already have about two thirds of its contents.

No idea if this was already suggested, but I just thought a set of all Metronome All Stars sessions made for various labels between 1940 and 1956 would be nice. I found sessions for Victor. Columbia, Capitol. MGM, and Clef those that I know are all interesting.

Next is my own CDR of the three sessions that Teddy Charles and Charles Mingus made together, for Prestige, Atlantic and Debut: - Hackensack, NJ, January 6, 1955: Charles, J.R. Monterose, Mingus, Jerry Segal (Prestige LP Evolution) - New York, November 12, 1956: Charles, Hall Overton, Mingus, Ed Shaughnessy (Atlantic) - New York, July 8, 1955: Mingus, Miles Davis, Britt Woodman, Charles, Elvin Jones (Debut) Just saw they both played on Ralph Sharon's LP Easy Jazz recorded May 2, 1955, but I never heard that one ... and there is a Billie's Bounce by a Metronome All Star Band in which they both played. A Mosaic set of all Metronome All Stars material would be great, but I'm afraid it involves too many labels.

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The former is the only recording of a manuscript discovered in 2005 whose first part was attributed to Louis Marchand in an article never published, as far as I can see. Experts - like Moroney, who delivers an excellent performance of Marchand's printed works in the latter CD - has his doubt as long as he has not examined the manuscript and thinks the music on Martinoli's CD belongs to a writer from a stylistically later era - it sounds just this to to my ears, too. Might be from one of Marchand's students - a simplified version of one his pieces points in this direction, at least to me. Moroney's disc portaits a harpsichord virtuoso of the highest ranks - the music from the 1754 manuscript is abit too simply structured for a composer of his stature.

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The first volume seems to be oop - waitiing for a reissue in alpha's new series. Used copies are expensive.

That one is on my wish list! So far today:

It's nice to hear this on two harpsichords, and it is well recorded, but the two ladies lack a bit of vigor and rhythmic precision. The composer instructs both players to play the continuo part in the left hand, but I rarely hear themdo that. A certain sameness on a superficial level creeps in. Good, but indispensable only for harpsichord fanatics like me.

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