mikeweil

Bob Van Asperen is the first choice for Louis Couperin or Johann Jakob Froberger! Yesterday I received and played these two excellent new releases:

Fully agreed! I spin these Moody albums frequently. And it sounds like a band although he rarely lets the other horns take a solo.

One of my external hard drives suddenly was no more accessible - I had left it connected after shutdown, and when restarting some windows update caused a fauilure when trying to read the external hard disc. I was lucky to have a friend who had a colleague in his IT business that had the proper tools to copy the contents of the EHD, re-format the drive and copy the data back on, so all was still there. He recommended to disconnect all external drives after shutdown for this reason. I never had a problem accessing data even when I had not used them for months. I use a powered multi USB hub - most computers do not have enough power to drive more than one USB device at at time.

... again from this box set:

... from this box set:

This afternoon, loud and clear:

I'm still for this, as well as for sets of the Clef/Verve seseions of Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet.

Anything! by The Alegre All Stars

I don't remember. I don't have this album anymore and it was too long ago.

Herbie Hancock, although it was never widely publicized or properly credited. He is the ghost organist on Herbie Mann's Stone Flute album.

One of my desert island discs!

Yes it is. I find it interesting that his approach is that of a classically trained pianist/composer, less the dance musician that he was with the Lecuona Cuban Boys. Next was this one:

Of course! Waller and Count Basie.

Last evening, a sip of this:

Clare Fischer played quite a bit of organ over the years on various sessions, including a solo organ / Rhodes piano LP. There are just as many organists playing piano, either when there was no organ available, or just for fun - Melvin Rhyne, Jack McDuff.

The weekend bottle: Vinosia Luciano Ercolino Orus Primitivo 2014

Nice idea for an album cover thread!

Hard to choose any, all the more so as I prefer Cuban music, which is not Salsa in a strict sense (Tito Puente, e.g., hated the term) - Salsa may be described as the variant of US Puerto Rican. But this gives a good sample of one of the great players: https://www.discogs.com/release/4343996-Eddie-Palmieri-The-History-Of-Eddie-Palmieri

I never borrow CDs from libraries, my tastes are too uncommon. Books only from university libraries. I have an external hard drive with downloaded music but rarely use it, even though there is some rare music on it. I never stream music.

Exactly!