mikeweil

Very nice! Obviously inspired by this manet painting:

That's one of my favourites, too!

He's busy building a house, the poor fella .....

.... and another one I like very very much:

Forgot that one: Excellent!

... nothing too sexy, obscure or spectacular: Just those you simply like!

The Castle Trio with Lambert Orkis on piano did fine versions of all (3 Cds on Vergin Veritas, 1 on Smithsonian, all oop). A trio of Jos van Immerseel, Anner Bylsma, and Vera Beeths did two trios on a SONY Vivarte disc which can still be found. All using historic pianos, but sound and interpretations are top.

For earlier Stitt, I like and recommend the recent Prestige box: If you like organ, all the CDs with Don Patterson are great - Patterson was one of the partners who made Sonny play at his best!

Yep, that one is highly recommended for the 'Uhuru/Africa' material just for starters. Some very nice African percussion on that one, so you should like it. I have all the material except for the previously unreleased quartet session in some form or another, the UHURU session on LP and CD, so I know what to expect. Yes that's a very nice all-star percussion workout.

There was only one LP on Time - maybe there was another one in Japan with the alternates discovered later. There is a SACD reissue by Audiofidelity which sounds superb with all the material available - it has the original cover and title: Sonny's Crib is the correct spelling. All the compositions on that Time LP (Bainbridge was an LP reissue label) were recorded for Blue Note with larger groups.

Those two are really tempting. I'll probably get me the one next that hits running low, or one of the first Selects - I have only the Andrew Hill so far, as I was afraid it would sell out fast after his passing. The Randy Weston will be the first, or the Carmell Jones. I have all the Bennie Green on LP, so that can wait a little.

Because this is the place it is and not one of those sharity sites. It's a little more personal here.

Downloads completed, transferred and burned - sounds fine, verrry nice stuff! Let's start - or where are the US boys all hidin'

Got Rhyne's latest last week - another tasty date. Rhyne, Peter Bernstein, and Ray Appleton make a good trio. Got Appleton's latinized date with Rhyne, too - cookin'!

Certainly not Glenn Gould! He expressed his disrespect for Mozart's compositions and his judgment that these pieces were inferior in quality, and did some funny stuff with them when he recorded (only part of) the sonatas. He had no deeper relationship to Mozart's music - I still have the LP box set - if you want it .....

What if it's played years later on the same machine, or say a restored similar model? Sometimes it works fine, somtimes the tape lead rolls and/or the playback heads need to be readjusted.

I faintly remember hearing it somewhere back then and being less than impressed - I was so much into Herbie back then that every disciple sounded lame compared to him. I have some LPs from the time with Rushen, and she is always nice, but never really an A+ player. Well .... I will check Prelusion. p.s. judging from the ssound samples I could like this better now ....

That's what I think - if you place the mic very close to the cymbal, which RVG tried to do, you can get phasing-like effects when the cymbal is suspended rather loosely and moves a lot while played. Tina Brooks' first LP Minor Move is a good example, or the Sam Rivers session with Donald Byrd, Julian Priester, and James Spaulding (forgot the title). And he recorded rather "hot", too. But tape azimuth plays a role as well, as Chuck said. You never get the exact same azimuth when playing back an old tape, and it's fractions of inches we're talking about!

Are the Rifkins you are all talking about those on Nonesuch? He made another one for EMI/Angel which I find much better.

... and it is worth noting that there finally is a younger generation of keyboard players bringing back the same urgency to Bach performances. Just recently while listening to some Bach with a friend we both noted what a fine swinging bass line he had composed for the piece! Tristano & Co. were attracted to that linear counterpoint inspiring them so deeply - some of the best stuff ever composed in that style. Everybody after him had the WTC on the piano.

Same here. I had sworn by myself to check if she had any live dates as soon as I would get to New York, some day ....

I have that as part of (sadly oop) Bear Family Box with his complete Columbia recordings. This is a classic, the first African drums LP to catch wider attention beyond ethnomusicological circles. Here's a pic from the 2001 benefit concert:

I ordered this a few weeks ago - looking forward to this. If his singing is anything close to his trumpet phrasing, it will meet my tastes.

BTW - passed on dem links to Mr. Bassman, but he'll be in Turkey until June 11 or longer - I returned home early to add the finishing touches to wifey's diploma thesis.