mikeweil

Absolutely! This is great, great stuff. I have suspected that this one may receive the double RVG treatment. BN seems to like to include a double set with each announcement. This would be a good one to bring back if it is OOP. This was originally issued on two single discs and reissued as a double CD. I don't see any reason why or how RVG should improve the sound - the orginal engineers (David Baker assisted by Jim Anderson!) did an excellent job. I'd rather fear that Mr. van Gelder's hearing loss would serve us another load of highs and lows boosted up a little too much.

Anybody here compared Tender Moments with the previous CD?

Isn't there a listing of these somewhere in the web? I remember a thread with a link to a Somethin' Else listing. I too was underwhelmed, but some stuff was really good - sometimes it takes some years to really appreciate a recording. I regret I never got the Manhattan Project video.

That is a nice and positive review, but the linking of Haydn's symphonies to the Vivaldi concertos is plain b.s. IMHO. Although Vivaldi's op.8 was widely available his music was hopelessly out of date by the time Haydn wrote his. Vivaldi died in Vienna in 1741, but did not accomplish anything there after his move in 1740. BTW, here's a link to the Freiburger Barockorchester's english web pages.

Well, I like it that he does not round out all the edges - Tafelmusik always sounded too polished for my taste. But if that's what you're looking for ... Hogwood was criticized for not rehearsing properly enough by his double bass player of the time, Barry Guy. But with a project of these dimensions one has to compromise, I'm afraid. Haven't yet heard the Freiburger's version - although they always delivered fine performances when I heard them, live or on record. I have Pinnock's version of the Tageszeiten Symphonies which is nice, but I haven't listened to it for a long time.

Thanks for the link - there weren't any to be found in Germany. I ordered one.

He did - take a look at page 7 of the discussion thread.

One of the last from the times when nearly every drummer had a unique style. RIP, Mr. Hogan. I liked him very much on A.K. Salim's Blues Suite on Savoy, and on all the Randy Westons, although I have to admit the Newport live recording mentioned before is one of the weaker documents of the band.

The use of harpsichord in the continuo group is in heavy dispute among Haydn scholars - while common practice at the time these pieces were composed, there is no evidence Haydn played a keyboard in performance but rather was the leader of the second violin group. The orchestra during his earlier years at Eszterhaza was pretty small, with only one alto, one cello and one violin added to four each for the fisrt and second violin parts. There was excellent documentation accompanying the recording of Haydn's complete symphonies by the Academy of Ancient Music led by Christopher Hogwood on Decca - sadly the series was discontinued after Vol. 10. The ten boxes contain three discs each in chronological order, H.C. Robbins Landon was the musicological consultant. There was a VHS video published by Decca at the start of the series in 1991 (# 071 120-3) Haydn at Eszterhaza that is an excellent introduction to the subject and includes performances in the room where Haydn premiered most of these symphonies (# 29, 23 & 28 - these are performances different from those in the box). I prefer Hogwood to Pinnock, who is a little stiff on the beat for my taste. The Hogwood boxes are oop but may be available used: Vol. 1: # 1,2,4,5,10,11,18,27,32,37,107 Vol. 2: # 3,14,15,17,19,20,25,33,108 Vol. 3: # 6,7,8,9,12,13,16,40,72 Vol. 4: # 21,22,23,24,28,29,30,31,34 Vol. 5: # 35,38,39,41,58,59,65 Vol. 6: # 26,42,43,44,48,49 Vol. 7: # 45,46,47,51,52,64 Vol. 8: # 50,54,55,56,57,60 Vol. 9: # 53,54,61,66,69,67,68 Vol. 10: # 62,63,70,71,73,74,75 If you want order numbers let me know. There are recordings of early Haydn symphonies on period instruments by the Hanover Band led by Roy Goodman on Hyperion (another projected complete recording disconinued after poor sales), Derek Solomons on Columbia/CBS, and La Petite Band led by Sigiswald Kuijken on Deutsche Harminia Mundi or Virgin. But the ones by Hogwood are the best prepared and most consistent, IMHO.

Besides some of those mentioned - Tony Williams Bennie Wallace Bobby Watson Don Grolnick Renee Rosnes New York Stories Andrew Hill Ralph Peterson I would say these: Steve Maskowski Kenny Burrell Guitar Band with Rodney Jones and Bobby Broom Sherman Irby Greg Osby Geoff Keezer Mark Shim

He's perfectly right about this - but I'm afraid her ideas about her career are against it.

I wonder what will happen to ZYX' European distribution of Fantasy after all this.

I am looking for a copy of Kenny Burrell's Blue Note CD Pieces of Blue and the Blues - I have the companion CD from 1987, "Generation". Thanks for any offer.

it really is - an acoustic bass would not have fitted the style of this album as well. James Cammack does a fine job without getting too close to Jacoisms. Other than this, the musical value of the tracks seems to be seen as good throughout, that is why the opinions agree so widely this time. In retrospect I shake my head about not recognizing Eric Dolphy

Did you mix up these two tracks? The brother is on # 6.

Hmm.... it's not Elvin or Billy Higgins. Roy Haynes? If my previous guess on Ben Riley was wrong? But the bass drum and snare sound is unlike every famous and loved drummer, the engineering is terrible.

That is why the theme of track 10 sounded so familiar to me! I almost hear the piano voicings. But I can't locate this in my collection - I'm sure I have Hank's version somewhere ...

At Gibert Joseph in Paris: Rodney Jones, The "X" Field (MusicMasters, OOP, with Greg Osby) Hal McKusick, Jazz Workshop (French RCA reissue) and some French baroque music: Chambonnières, Complete Harpsichord Music (Olivier Baumont) Louis-Claude Daquin, Complete Works (dtto) Francois Couperin, Motets (Christophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques - I visited St. Gervais, the church where he worked) Christlieb Sigmund Binder, Concerti per due cembali (Les Cyclopes) ... I could have spent a fortune on French music ...

That Coltrane/Fuller was announced on the liner notes to the Transition LPs and one track was included in the sampler. That sampler was $1.98 when it was released. The other LPs were at $3.98 back in those days. The BN Paul Chambers twofer had what was available from the material recorded at that session. Nothing else available unfortunately! Another reason to consider them lost... Cuscuna would have certainly put them on the Chambers Select if they were still around! What a pity! Lon, I like those early Dylan albums too! I guess Wilson DID make a difference with Dylan. And then he was the first (or so one says, at least) black producer in the pop/rock business back then. ubu I remember reading something about the mishaps surrounding that session, but can't recall the exact source. Looks liek Red garland didn't make the date - strange enough that tenor man Roland Alexander took the piano chores for one track. Maybe studio time ran out and/or the date was abandoned. These three tracks are all that was recorded, that is for certain. The source, of course, was David Wild's 1979 Coltrane Discography (2nd printed edition). This is not yet included on his website. Cuscuna copied/edited Dan Morgenstern's liner notes from the Bluie Note twofer LP "High Step" for the "Chambers' Music" CD, including the supposedly wrong recording date: I'd say the project was abandoned after that unsuccessful first session.

That Coltrane/Fuller was announced on the liner notes to the Transition LPs and one track was included in the sampler. That sampler was $1.98 when it was released. The other LPs were at $3.98 back in those days. The BN Paul Chambers twofer had what was available from the material recorded at that session. Nothing else available unfortunately! Another reason to consider them lost... Cuscuna would have certainly put them on the Chambers Select if they were still around! What a pity! Lon, I like those early Dylan albums too! I guess Wilson DID make a difference with Dylan. And then he was the first (or so one says, at least) black producer in the pop/rock business back then. ubu I remember reading something about the mishaps surrounding that session, but can't recall the exact source. Looks liek Red garland didn't make the date - strange enough that tenor man Roland Alexander took the piano chores for one track. Maybe studio time ran out and/or the date was abandoned. These three tracks are all that was recorded, that is for certain.

I think it's kind of ironic that Western mental health professionals in the 21st century still equate mental illness with possession by demons. If taken literally this is pretty close to the way traditional African cultures view this phenomenon.

No, no, and no ...

Same here since I have my BFT master finished

I have part of that on LP. Found it remarkable, all the more sonsidering the time it was recorded - he really had a message. Agree with Jim on the necessary forces.