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Yeah!

Joe Pass,of course .... Steve Khan did a nice solo disc for RCA Novus, one side is a long Monk medley. Will have to dig it out. Derek Bailey, and other free form players over here that followed him, Hans Reichel, Joe Sachse. There's half an LP by John McLaughlin from his pre-Mahavishnu days, too.

92 ... I don't know if I wanna get that old ... saw him perform about fifteen years ago. A jazz personality of the type that's hard to find now that the old masters are all leaving us. I have the utmost respect for all those who are living such a long standing jazz life! R.I.P.

Hi my dear friends, it's that time of the year ..... I'm your host for December's Blindfold Test, so please post your request for a download link here here - I plan to up upload the files next weekend. There is a theme, but it's very, very easy to detect. But there is a sub-theme or two in it, still not too sophisticated. If you want a solid CDR rather than adownload, I hope jeffcrom could handle that for the US members. Participants (DL if not stated otherwise): Bright Moments The Magnificent Goldberg jeffcrom page Hot Ptah (CD) Dan Gould felser king ubu jazzsoulfunk Hardbopjazz JSngry Jim R Spontooneous Thom Keith mjb NIS

Fischer's discs with a vocal quartet or quintet "2 plus 2" are nice, too. The one pictured is the second, I can't find the cover for the first " ... and sometimes voices". p.s. here's a third one: Available through CDBaby

Badura-Skoda plays very nice vintage pianos and has that genuine Viennese feeling, but there are other pianists playing more accurately. Staier is a bit cool at times. If you would go with single discs I would recommed Immerseel, his one disc on a small Dutch label is desert island stuff, but I just noticed the label's website gone and it is not even listed on amazon ... There are very moving discs by the late Nikolaus Lahusen, they are very personal as he died shortly after their release at a rather young age:

Me thinks these guys are just recapitulating what has been innovated since, roughly, 1970, just like the earlier young lions did with the stuff between 1940 and 1960. Let's wait and see what they develop from it. Right now they're just recreating, with a much higher level of technical proficiency. That's okay, but doesn't move me (or "rock my world") as much as the originals. As for Glasper, I find his collage method of mixing different musical influences is rather superficial. I think you got to know the tradition a little better than just picking up some things and throw them together. I find Jason Moran has a lot more depth and a much broader horizon. Just my two cents, of course.

Carla White Patricia Barber Dominique Eade so many more ...

Donald Byrd - I'm Trying To Get Away From Home Sonny Clark - Poopin' Horace Silver - Blowin' the Blue Notes Away Lee Morgan - The Sidesniper

Horace Parlan - Spam Of The Moment

"Holiday for Skirts" ....

There is an offer on amazon.de for € 5.25 ..... Link

Great - there were not many who were able to play such a solo like he did. My hat is off.

Chewy, maybe you can check the Carl Perkins tracks here: Carl Perkins Discography

Arrghh! I think I cancelled my Spotify registartion last month 'cause tehy wanted money .... what can I do? Oh, it still works .... thanks for the link!

I have the book but I'm not sure I need the discs ... I'm afraid I won't listen to it more than once ...

I had a similar problem with Opera and my own Early Music forum on one of my computers - the scripts were not compatible. After installing the latest version of the browser everything was okay. I have the impression that when you update Java or Flash or whatever in one browser I doesn't automatically work in all other browsers or software. If you want to stick with MSIE I'd say download the latest version, uninstall the old one, re-install and have it update all the plug-ins etc.

Not a bad one ... They are, that's for sure! And the wages are, too!

Tossed in the DVD first, all I need to say is: Yeah!

It's time Switzerland joined the European Union, heh?

My copy arrived today .....

DHL over here is okay. I registered for a Packstation recently, I get an SMS with a TAN and have a card to open the box at the office to pick it up - open 24 hours a day. Very convenient. When JPC sends me an e-mail they shipped, usually it's there at the station the next day. And I get alink to the DHL site so I can check the state of delivery. No problems. The Herbie box was here the day after they shipped. (The parcel was eight times the size of the CD cube .....) My pain in the neck are are the postmen: We have six blocks here, numbered 220, 220A, 220B, 220C, 220D, and 220E. Some do not get it when the sender writes 220d. One CD was returned because they couldn't locate me at the adress supplied .... how dumb can one be? It was all written correctly, as it turned out. At least the CD still exists. Two from that Swiss classical shop never turned up here .....

My wife understood my pains, so I made comparisons with some of the older CD versions I already had. The sound is more detailed, a bit more room ambience, softer and clearer at the same time. Not much, but noticeable. They did a good job. Belden's essay is a good read. In retrospect, it shows how influential and groundbreaking Herbie really was .... at the center of things, there is some - in my ears - very African way of treating rhythm and sound in his work, and some devices that were already there during his Blue Note years. Listen to the horn section licks he wrote. Herbie was very influential to me, so I do not regret getting this, even though I do not really like all of the music in the box.

For me Hogwood's recording of The Creation is as good as it gets. It has the necessary grand sound and agility at the same time. There is a DVD too, but it features some National Geographic videos or similar rather than the ensemble playing. I was not that fascinated by Gardiner's Die Jahreszeiten, would have to listen to it again. It's the work, not Gardiner's version, methinks ....