mikeweil

Don't wait for me - as I had to re-send the dics to king ubu and Big Al due to some post clerk's mistake, I will give the two a chance to post their answers. I'd say to start your discussion once 50% have received their discs.

I like that LP with Walfredo de los Reyes a lot, it features a host of great percussion players etc., but suffers from a very bad mix. It sounds like it was mixed live without much preparation. I had hoped they would correct this for the OJC CD issue, but no ... But generally, I observed most jazz fans don't like that type of descarga albums.

R.I.P. Sound-wise, by far my favourite baritone player. Duh - just back from Sicily, and such sad news .....

More when I'm back home - this connection is too slow and costing me a fortune, and the browser configuation is weird ... Thanks all for posting!

I agree about Thomas' sound - unmissable, very energetic, rough, couldn't listen to him all day, but would miss him. I certainly would like to hear that one! It's on Classic Electric, on X-OR, the label Hijmans co-ran with the late Paul Termos. Aside from the Monk tune it's all contemporary composition, including Steve Reich (I forget the name of the piece but it's the one that Pat Metheny recorded), Theo Loevendie, Christian Wolff, & a terrific sort-of-blues by Termos. Sounds quite interesting! Will check it out.

I suppose she overdubbed her scat on to the timbale fills, but the liner notes do not tell it. He's a very well known jazz tenor someone should recognize! That pianist is a really big name, but not the leader here. But he was the leader of several players here including the leader on this track for many years.

Thanks for those very nice comments, Nate! Glad to hear someone likes this singer! Yes it's Thomas - I wanted to present some players in this context you wouldn't expect there. One of my favourite drummers! IIRC the pianist is in his late forties. Yes he is but made his name as a jazz player - this track was guessed above. I certainly would like to hear that one!

Reporting in from the hotel lobby in Giardini Naxos just below Taormina, Sicily, Italy. Nice weather, cloudy but 20° Centigrade the day over - a lot warmer than chilly Germany that we successfully escaped for a week! I have a blindfold test of its own kind here: Trying to guess the upteenth standard tune oozing from the muzak speakers here, trying to tell Night and Day from I've got you under my skin, as they all sound so similar in these versions ...

My favourite is Kay Penton's - with Tadd Dameron, IIRC.

It was recorded in 2001 - but it was the similarity in sound to records like Dorham's "Afro-Cuban" that I chose it for. A 1998 recording - this time it's the pianist singing. None of the tracks on this BFT was recorded before 1990. Well ... there's a celebratory tradition this refers to, although it's not football ... Duh - I should try to catch some sleep before leaving for the airport at 4 a.m., but I never can before such a trip.

Probably better ...

Yes it is, as is the second he did. The grooves vary from track to track, and his specific type of humor is something else. Does humor belong in music? Definitely!

Keep 'em coming ... I'll be in Sicily for a week from Wednesday, IIRC the hotel has some internet terminal.

You'll shake your head once you will find out who it is there singing! (Not Jarrett, btw ...) By mentioning Zorn you're closer than you think ... the trombone is singing through a tuba, afaik ...

Very interesting comments, John, for me, who knows who it is playing on all those tracks ... The rhythm section is made up of some of the best on the scene! The flutist is not a jazz guy, usually. Interesting - I find this is much wilder than what Randy Weston does, although I love his music, too.

Just found the Burrell: It includes 9 tracks from the Blue Note Double CD .... oh my gawd!

Here is an example: Tracks: 01. "Let's March" 02. "Professor" 03. "Tel Aviv" 04. "Let Me Tell You" 05. "One For Tubby" 06. "Swing Till The Girls Come" 07. "One Morning In May" 08. "Chasin' The Bird" 09. "When The Sun Comes Out" A mixture of tracks from Prestige and Riverside LPs, but no session is complete. The material was recorded in 1957, so it's public domain now in Europe. They're jumping at the Concord catalogue, but with no sense of direction. I will avoid this series. Other titles: 1. Garner, Erroll "Moonglow" 2. Davis, Miles "Peacocks" 3. Burrell, Kenny "Delilah" 4. Modern Jazz Quintet "Yesterdays" 5. Modern Jazz Quartet "Before Venice" 6. Mann, Herbie "Smoke" 7. Blakey, Art "The Messenger" 8. Davis, Miles "September Song"

I wonder if sub-bass has anything to do with it, given the limitations of the LP medium in the that range (rumble, etc.). My thoughts, too. It's rather the room ambience, and by suppressing low noise signal by limiting software during the processing and mastering, you kill that. On a standard red book CD, BTW, you have to apply that, as the discrete digital process produces digital distortion at the lower end of the dynamic scale. With high resolution recording this is lessened, but I have the impression that your average recording studio hesitated to invest in the proper hardware for DSD etc. - there is no local studio here that is able to handle that! (I found out when considering a hybrid SACD as the format for an upcoming recording project.) The equipment is expensive and the future of the format is uncertain, and with DVD formats easier to handle ....

Me, too, of course ...

Add me to the Borges aficionados list. His complete works translated into fine German are on the shelf in my sleeping room. It's a shame he didn't get the nobel prize.

I re-calculated: the six tracks from the May/June 1962 (that were supposed to have Leo Parker participating, who died shortly before the dates) run for 32:45 minutes total. Would they release a Connoisseur CD that short? Besides that, it's not that inspired - Dexter was still under shock from the news of the death of his old room-mate from the Eckstine band. They could add "Lady Be Good" from the abandoned session with Sonny Stitt and the Paul Weeden / Don Patterson trio, but this isn't one of Dexter's most brilliant moments, either. In other words, I have my doubts about this being reissued as a single CD. Blessed are those who bought the box set. (The interview snippets make that even more attractive.) Same probably applies to the Kenny Burrell issued in Japan as "Freedom" - I regret I never heard these tracks, and thus cannot comment on their musical quality.

Yeah, but .....

For some reason I've never been able to get the auto-login thing to work. I'd love to figure that out. Maybe you activated a function that empties the complete caché including cookies when you shutdown your browser - you can configure Firefox to do this, e.g. I have it empty the caché, but keep the cookies, and I never have to log in again anywhere, except where it's appropriate for safety reasons.

Seems the upgrade gave him the spastics ...