mikeweil

You should know what you're readin' ....

Me, too!

So we finally get some live footage with Melvin Rhyne - great news!

I say it again: I am just as much interested in how you like/dislike the voices/styles/arrangements etc.

But of course - there's a size and shape for everything! http://www.supermagnete.ch/eng/

Down the Rhodes of peace ...

I start to think y'all might need the answers before Christmas for consolation ....

Jim R clearly is the guessing champion this time, but the others are making it easy for him - how about soem royal guesses? The discussion is still open - I will post answers between Christmas and New Year's eve. C'mon folks, throw in your silliest comments.

Those magnetic buttons are far superior to those ancient devices Jsngry depicted ...

That blindfold test is a great read!

No magnetic buttons to hold them? How unprofessional ... Our problems with wind are a thing of the past since we have them - they hold almost 4 kg each! Hard to believe when you know the magnet in the figure's bottom is only 12 x 6 mm ... ... ah, and they're made by a Swiss manufacturer.

A most comprehensive listing maintained by board member Holger Schrick is found here.

Most engineers probably suffer from hearing loss in the treble range and hardly notice what they're doing, they just look at data curves ... or they suffer from what I like to call hissophobia.

He was one of the most recorded percussionists during some years - he and Steve Gadd most of the time, e.g. on those CTI albums; or he and Harvey Mason, e.g. on George Benson's Weekend in L.A. - that's a good example of what he could do. He invented a lot of ideas and licks that just about everybody copied, myself included. He was very influential and one who proved how adaptable percussion could be - later guys like Bashiri Johnson are unthinkable without Ralph MacDonald. I caught him live with Steve Gadd on the Frankfurt Music Fair - very unpretentious guy. He was honoured last year on some convention, already confined to a wheelchair ... R.I.P., and thanks for everything.

Send me a download link, please ....

What sad news ..... I heard a song with her during a vacation on the island of Lanzarote a few years ago, but the shop owner couldn't tell me details (the curse of badly managed MP3 downloads), but when I described it a year later to the guy who runs London's leading world music store, he instantly knew who it was and pulled the CD. Turned out she was only a guest on that CD, but I'll never forget that ... R.I.P.

... and before that it was on a Fresh Sound LP.

Up!

Piano style guitar, that is

If done properly, the color shouldn't have any effect on the quality of the pressing. Black vinyl is colored with carbon powder.

So that's what Peter Keepnews was raised on?

R.I.P. .... beauty and sophistication .... that's what he sounded like to me.

Interesting that those oriental albums are all by Pontos Greeks or Armenians - both ethnicities that were forced into migration and exile by the Turcs at various times. Many of them found a new home in the USA.

This is a singer from Italy with her band ... Congrats - it is Diana Krall - I enjoy her, too, and think she is a very competent singer. Tracks 13 and 14 on disc 2 are from the same CD, btw, an indispensable item for any jazz Christmas music nut.