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An Italian viola player, Francesca Venturi Ferriolo, initiated an association for Early Music in Frankfurt, aminato, and now organizes what she calls "Gallery Concerts" twice a year. I was there in June, and today witnessed the second series this evening. Great young musicians on period instruments, playing mostly rare stuff, among others an oboe quartet by Jiří Družecký a piece that is great fun to play and to listen to. It all takes place in rather small rooms with the audience directly in front of the musicians. Great experience. A male alto singer, Jan Manuel Jerlitschka, sang a set of Dowland songs with lute accompaniment, he has a fantastic voice.

Brand new release. Very well played, but the harpsichord is too low in the "mix". I will meet another viola player who also played and recorded this music later today, when she plays in Frankfurt, listened to her discs yesterday:

All their releases are, or at least the recent ones. I have all the Don Ellis titles and never encountered a problem. All look very profesionally made. They make only 500 copies of each, so it may reduce costs substantially, and their prices are low. one can make a safety copy, to make sure nothing happens. Given the rarity of the music issued, i don't mind. I never would have expected to ever hear a recording of the Hindustani Jazz Sextet.

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Last night: https://www.discogs.com/artist/212270-Thierry-De-Mey

Crossing my fingers for all concerned!

The weekend bottle, light (11%), but tasteful - great if you like Lambrusco beyond the cheapness that is often associated wit this brand.

This afternoon, all on vinyl:

This afternoon: Great! Best introduction to Purcell's often underestimated keyboard music, showing he was a real virtuoso. Excellent rendition of Bach's Overture in the French style.

I recommend this reissue, it has great sound, all takes, and they got the leader right and gave him the bigger photo. That Coltrane rarely smiled may have its cause in his bad teeth, he was under constant pain until Naima finally dragged him to a dentist. I read that in one of the biographies. Joachim Berendt, unaware of this, credited the absence of smiles to his spiritual earnestness.

On Savoy Coltrane was not the leader, but Wilbur Harden. https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Harden/harden-disc.php They were reissued with Coltrane listed first to increase sales potential.

Not a musician (?), but nice.

These three students play fine, but are not from the historically informed fraction (the cello played with a supporting rod is an indication). HIP trained performers would have chosen the right tempo and gesture.

The Manuscript depicted in the link in the first post shows the violoncello part (basso) - obviously the pages had been cut a little bit, truncating the word "violoncello" at the top, when they were bound. It is seven movements in total, 12 minutes all together, which is normal for a serenade at the time it was probably written. If you follow the written music of the pages shown you can see it is all the seven parts. The applause, well ......

Disc 6 with the Benny Golson Quartets.

R.I.P. I once saw him guest with a local big band and was able to talk to him backstage after the concert as I had conducted a short interview with him via e-mal before on request of a local magazine. Very nice man. What was amazing was that his solos were full of well known phrases but sounded fresh and new coming out of his horn. Really great. He was the music.

Oh well. R.I.P. He and Mike Bloomfiled did some important work.