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FWIW - the remastering on the Wes box set is slightly better than on all previous reissues - I compared. The Half Note tracks, in particular, and even the Van Gelder studio session recorded for the initial release. What bothers me is that they rigidly kept the first LP release and track sequences intact, thus the small group and big band sessions with Jimmy Smith are spread over two discs - they could have kept those sessions together, IMO. Seems I have to assemble my own discs once more ...

Nothing that has not been released on some disc over the years.

Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz by S. Duncan Reid Available for pre-order or as Kindle edition - I just downloaded and will report. The author just e-mailed me and is, of course, pretty excited - me too, of course. amazon link

Duncan Reid's biography on Tjader is available for pre-order, the Kindle edition is already there! I downloaded it and will report ... amazon link

I'll be in for the blues book when it's out - but ordered too many things already this month. Glad you reached the first line.

He's on one track of this one, too: And he was on several of Eddie Harris' Atlantic LPs in the 1960's, great rhythm team with Ron Carter and Billy Higgins.

One more great gone ... too many this summer. R.I.P.

Delicious!!!

Kind of moving to read here how many loved the man and his music ...

Thanks for the Hyperion link, I bought the Scarlatti oratorio, which seems to be a very beautiful piece of music ....

As far as I know the first Eastern Rebellion album was the one with George Coleman, Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins; the tracks on the album were "Bolivia", "Naima", "5/4 Thing", "Bittersweet" and "Mode for Joe". Bob Berg came later. Discographically, you're correct - it's just that for me, personally, the band as such started after Berg joined in. Not to say anything against Clifford Jordan or Coleman, I would have loved to see them perform with Walton. It's just that my memories overwhelmed me ... I saw Coleman with his own band around that time. Never had an opportunity to see Jordan. Luckily I was able to find an affordable copy of his second Astor Place CD, Roots", a moment ago. Always wanted this one, but whenever I looked for it prices were way up high. Prices of some rarer items will now go through the roof ...

The sound on that United Archives box set is okay - I compared the sound of the tracks available on Verve compilations, and couldn't hear much of a difference. It is not really complete as it omitts the solo piano tracks as well as those where Shearing played accordion. The Shearing MGM discography is a mess, he was so popular in those years that MGM and later Verve released those tracks in any possible format, 78s, 45s, 10 inch, 12 inch, you name it - but in the CD era, there were only two single CD compilations centering on the early quintet with Marjorie Hyams. Even the "complete" double LP featuring that Quintet edition that the Japanese reissued on CD omitted solo piano tracks. Of the band with Tjader only two or three tracks made it to CD. I agree that the music is very good, short tracks but of a high musica level throughout, with nice arrangements and a wide range of styles. The Shearing MGMs would make a nice Mosaic, but .... chances are some source material was destroyed by the fire in the MGM vaults a few years ago.

R.I.P. ...... Words almost fail me this time ... Cedar Walton certainly is the one jazz musician I saw perform the most often, and the only one I ever asked to sign an album - the first Eastern Rebellion LP. It was the edition with Bob Berg, Walton, Sam Jones, and Billy Higgins. Next time was with Ralph Moore, David Williams, and Higgins; then in a trio with Bibi Rovère and a drummer I can't recall at this moment; and the last opportunity was on the 2011 tour with Javon Jackson. He wrote such great and lovely tunes, so much a prototype of what good jazz tunes should be, always was in good spirits on stage, and always played at his best. What a loss .... I will miss him. He appeared a liitle fragile on that last tour, so I am not really surprised, but still ... Thanks for the music, which I really love. That Walton/Jones/Higgins trio had such a natural groove, I can still hear with my inner ear ...

French Muscat sweet wine - but earlier vintages were better, me thinks.

Thanks for the hint with the booklet, just downloaded.

Thanks, I ordered a copy, as I had only four of the original CDs. Badura-Skoda is technically not always the most precise, but he has a genuine Viennese feeling when playing these sonatas, and a great collection of original pianos at his disposal.

Great job!

The one opera I want the most is Alessandro Scarlatti's Griselda - used copies go for more than the price of that box!

"Simone" was the name of Emil Mangelsdorff's wife.

Now that one looks tempting - lots of important works in reference recordings: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (Rene Jacobs / 1989) Cavalli: La Calisto (Rene Jacobs / 1994) A. Scarlatti: Griselda (Rene Jacos / 2003) Lully: Atys (William Christie / 1986) Charpentier: Medee (William Christie / 1984);Le Malade imaginaire (William Christie / 1990) Campra: Idomenee (William Christie / 1991) Rameau: Les Indes Galantes (William Christie / 1991) Blow: Venus and Adonis (Rene Jacobs / 1998) Händel: Rinaldo (Rene Jacobs / 2002);Flavio (Rene Jacobs / 1989) Keiser: Croesus (Rene Jacobs / 1999) Telemann: Orpheus (Rene Jacobs / 1996) Graun: Cleopatra e Cesare (Rene Jacobs / 1995) Ouvertüren für die Hamburger Oper - Schürmann: Suite "Ludovicus Pius";Erlebach: Ouvertüre Nr. 4;Keiser: Le Ridicule Prince Jodelet;Händel: Almira-Tanzsuite;Schieferdecker: Concerts Musicaux (Concert Nr. 1) ((Rene Jacobs / 2004) DVD Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Rene Jacobs) 2DVD Händel: Giulio Cesare (Rene Jacobs) Jennifer Larmore, Iris Vermillion, Andreas Scholl, Lynn Dawson, Dominique Visse, Axel Köhler, Maria Christina Kiehr, Maria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Graham Pushee, Dominique Visse, Simon Keenlyside, Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Lawrence Zazzo, Derek Lee Ragin, Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Miah Persson, Inga Kalna, Dominique Visse, James Rutherford, Markus Schäfer, Roman Trekel, Werner Güra, Ruth Ziesak, RIAS Kammerchor, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Les Arts Florissants, Concerto Vocale, Ensemble 415, Concerto Köln, Rene Jacobs, William Christie p.s. just pre-ordered a copy - I have only five of these and want most of the others ....

Enjoy it! I, too, never took a computer with me during vacation.

Oh no ... I spent hours and hours listening repeatedly to some of albums in the 1970's immediately after they were released, dug his electric piano and synth stylings immensely, much more than Zawinul. Plus, he had much more and funkier groove than Joe ... God bless his soul .... Duke, Hancock, and Hammer are my Rhodes heroes (I know Duke played Wurlitzer back then).

I'll second that one!

I Can't Get Started - especially Pres' version If You Could See Me Now (Dameron) Look To The Stars (Jobim)

... which turned out to be as lovingly done as the others. Not the type of music I can listen to every day, but I get the message. Keep up your high standards, especially in chosing the albums for reissue. Really looking forward to the Steig ....