mikeweil

This one is even cheaper at the UK amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BM9I028/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE Strange collection, this one. have you heard any of it? No, was just looking at the track list. The music is a starnge mix. This was just the beginning years of historically informed performance practice, so most is played on modern instruments, but the focus on certain residencies as centers of musical developmnt was new and exciting back then. If you like a geographical approach and do not mind a sometimes outdated sound and interpretational concept, it is still a nice listen.

So he's playing timbales - very nice. I'd like to hear some!

I'd like to hear some of the music recorded at Montreux when they had a whole evening with their artists ...

Yes!!!

Seems like I will have more time for listening from now on - send me a pm with a DL link, please!

There is a new cheap Naxos CD of some Leclair sonatas that seems to be recommendable, judging from the samples I heard. There seems to be a whole series with these musicians - maybe this is something for you, MG?

It was on CD as a twofer with "Nancy": Sounds interesting, Larry ....

There were only few people in the club, but it was a live date. Fantasy overdubbed applause for the first LP release, which was omitted on the twofer CD reissue. It's a nice album, a bit restrained, but I like the brothers band very much.

"Milk oolong" tea - a specialty tasting like there's some milk in it - but there is no milk. very fine taste.

The Bill Graham tune Bennie Green recorded was "Black Pearl" without the "s" - should be a tune different from the Coltrane one - haven't got the time for comparative listening right now, though.

Had my first paying gig in two years (for a multitude of reasons) a few weeks ago on a Saturday evening. Club is in a pedestrian zone, so I had to park the car after unloading, there are several parking houses around. Parking space is a rarity in the town where I live although it is the capital of what equals to a US state. When I return to the parking house at midnight to pick up the car I had to face the fact the house closes at 10 pm (on a Saturday evening, with plenty of bars, restaurants, clubs and a cinema in the quarter) and stays closed on Sundays! Now the guitar and sax player took me and my wife home with just the most important and irreplaceable stuff, in a small car stuffed to the limit. I was able to pick up the rest of my instruments with my day job transport service van on Sunday evening when the cub re-opened. Picked up my car Monday morning - the parking bill had summed up to € 30 ... the gig paid me € 70. Now I could have pretended I lost the parking ballot which would have meant paying only € 15, but there was nobody around to cash the fee and give me a ballot to leave the parking house ... you get the idea why they don't have a porter in the house. This is the capital of the region but a stinky provincial town as far as these things are concerned. Now what made things even worse was that I had recommened that very parking house to our bass player who lives 50 miles away ..... he had to call his father to pick him up after midnight which he hated to do as their relationship is a bit stressful at the moment. He called it the most superfluous gig in all his life. Don't know yet how he managed to get his car on Monday ... I wonder how much he paid. Neither of us had the idea of checking the opening hours. Now he's young 25 (the rest of the band is between 50 and 60), just made his exams at a Frankfurt music academy, we accompanied him on that occasion, but his teacher told him that he better look for a better band, as the saxist was okay but the guitarist and percussionist couldn't carry his bass case etc. .... he still has to make up his mind. Now we rehearsed the stuff for his exams for half a year and now we don't know what will happen ... we have another gig on the birthday party of our saxist's sister-in-law, but after that - no idea. Rehearsing all that exams repertoire was taking the band to its limits, beyond our styles range and technical capacities. I almost gave up playing altogether but didn't want to let the bass player down on short notice. The guitarist told me after the gig he shared some thoughts and feelings about the band (but he won't stop playing, as he's a music teacher). If I had known in advance it would be such a lot of work and strain in the wake of our move (which I had no idea that it would come up when I agreed to play his exams) ... We'll have to talk about the band's future at the next occasion. Shit happens. p.s. sorry for ranting ....

"Stay cool, get suspenders!"

Great .....

I already liked them back then, liked the rawness of the music, as opposed to the polish of so many other fusion bands. Even the sound is raw - the first attempts in Gene Perla's Red Gate Studios. Jan Hammer, Gene Perla, and Don Alias lay down a groove nobody plays anymore. I still have the LPs, even the promo single Perla gave me at one of their gigs at a local club. I miss bands like that .... You can get them all direcctly from Perla's label, btw: http://www.pmrecords.org/

I'll do that, too - know it inside out. Probably was my first encounter with two bassists on a jazz recording. R.I.P. ....

Both Senallié (he lived 1688 to 1730) are single CDs - I have only the second one, and can recommend it. Fine music, well played. Bought it at a sellout for curiosity, and was surprised by the high level of the music. No idea if the contents overlap. Of the Leclair discs I have this one by Manfredo Kraemer's Rare Fruits Council, which confronts him with Italian Locatelli, is the best IMO, but it may be hard to find ...

There is a cheap box set on Brilliant Classics (no bootlegs, but properly licensed) with all the EMI recordings of Faure's chamber music (and another with the piano music), which is very nice. The violin was not featured in France in the baroque era to the extent it was in other European countries - it was Italian influence that made violin sonatas popular in France. Leclair's were the first of international stature, comparable to those of Albinoni, Locatelli, Torelli, and Tartini in Italy. But Francois Couperins are beautiful when played on violin, try Monica Huggett's recording: Mondonville's sonatas feature the violin as an obligato part to the harpsichord. But there are full-fledged violin sonatas by an underrated French late baroque virtuoso, Jean-Baptiste Senallié:

A German baroque violin player once told me many of colleagues shy away from the French style as they are not familiar enough with it. Leclair and others are indeed under-represented. There currently is no label specialising on French baroque music, at least not for strings.

The Concord CD of "Heat Wave" is still available - nice album, and one of Tjader's last sessions. What most listeners do not know is that the last three albums Tjader recorded all were with singers: Carmen McRae, Rosemary Clooney, and Anli Sugano.

I first heard Jodie Christian on some Eddie Harris albums, and liked him from the start. He displayed quite a range of styles, from boogaloo grooves to free style playing, and always convinced me. I saw that Ira Sullivan on Flying Fish on the lists of some German mail order shop back then but missed it - I think I will get me a copy now.

Whew! I kept my fingers crossed, and it seems it helped .... glad to see it got funded.

I'm shocked ........ R.I.P., and a thousand thanks for your great pianisms.