mikeweil

He was born there and stayed for most of his life. He wrote mostly piano music and songs with piano accompaniment - I haven't any of the latter, but several recordings of his piano music. My favourite version is the OOP by Jean-Joel Barbier on Accord. The cheapest is the well-done by Jordi Masó on Naxos. Aldo Ciccolini did them for EMI, but while I love his Satie, his Séverac is too superficially virtuosic. Another good recording is Billy Eidi's on Pianovox - just reissued on a different label. There are two or three more. His music really breathes the wind and sun of his homeland. Cerdana and En Languedoc are his most famous pieces. For info in French, click here.

You really think they don't have it? Give it a try, and if you don't get a shipping confirmation mail say on Monday, they really don't have it... they won't charge before they ship, I think. If they were as accurate as JPC e.g., they would write: Usually ships in 2-3 days, given it is available from the label. That's what it means. I'll take my time .... and clean the salsa die pomodori from my keyboard Of course they do not charge before they ship. I just cannot make up my mind ...

Thanks for posting the link! Some of the thoughts there tell me I better save half of the price and wait - I'm not that fanatic for the metal spines.

But they don not have in stock, which could mean they have to cancel when they order it from SONY .... but I may give it a try.

In jazz, the opening from "Black Groove", the 2nd track on "Something Special" by Richard Groove Holmes with Les McCann on Pacific Jazz. But the greatest thrill I get from a classical piece: the opening arpeggio in "En Tartane", the first movement of Déodat de Sévérac's solo piano cycle "Cerdana" never fails to send me to heaven. brownie or EKE BBB, have you ever been there? One of my favourite places in the world, Cerdana and Roussillon. The opening from Arthur Honegger's Toccata for solo piano is a close call.

That Rascals set can be purchased from an outside retailer for less than Rhino Handmade prices. VH1.com has it for $81.68 Seems they don't have it any longer. Considering the unbelievable EUR 170 some German mail order shops ask for, if they can get it at all, the 90 $ from Rhino is a bargain, with the exchange rate in our favour. But I just saw they have Taj Mahal's Warner Bros. sessions and ordered that one for starters ....

Noticed this thread only now ..... -_- I LOVE the Rascals' music, had that Greatest Hits on LP and wore the grooves out. Found them to have much more soul groove than other white bands. I seriously consider the Rhino handmade 6 CD set .....

There were two takes on the US 1989 CD, but the intro on the orginally issued take was damaged by tape stretch, so they edited on the intro of the second take.

1) I doubt So Danco Samba will be part of the set, as it has Fischer playing organ and is in a different style. 2) There seems to be enough material on Pacific Jazz for a 3-CD Select without including the Jimmy Rowles Liberty LP, which was a Nocturne session and is available as part of the Fresh Sound Nocturne box set. I had a Japanese Liberty CD which sounded bad with a lot of scratches like it was dubbed from a non-mint LP. - The Freeman/Twardzik is a 67:09 CD, done by Cuscuna in 1989. The two Fischer LPs are between 80 and 90 minutes of music. The other Freeman and Rowles material may fill up the third CD - the Rowles trios could have been recorded at the occasion of some sessions were he was booked as sidemen; Richard Bock did that quite frequently. The two Rowles tracks I found in Bruyninckx certainly look like that: Rowles with Al Hendrickson, Joe Mondragon and Nick Fatool on a September 13, 1956 session playing "We'll be together again"; Rowles with Ben Tucker and Mel Lewis from a December 11, 1956 session playing "Sonny Speaks". Anyone knows which sessions with Rowles were recorded on these dates?

My local retailer told me couldn't order the Miles Davis Quintet 1965-1968 box set anymore - any indication about others going OOP, and are the new cheaper editions out already? They're not (yet) available here in Germany. Too bad, now that at last I could afford it ...

I'd be tha last to blame you - as long as we get it, someday Keep up the good work!

Same here exactly!

I too thought of Gato at first listen, but there is something in the phrasing that is not characteristic of his playing. I do not nearly know all of his records, but I have my doubts ...

Hi John, I will step in this again with distribution of Germany/Austria/Suisse etc.... Marcus: will send a PM... Cheers, Tjobbe Thanks tjobbe for doing so - I would love to but still don't have a burner and need a new computer soon .... I'm in of course, will send e-mail! As always, looking forward to it!

Sometimes I will get an e-mail notification, sometimes I won't ....

Well, this music is not for enjoying, I reckon .... One might wonder wether this man has listened to any post-1965 Coltrane at all.

I hate those lazy programmers who don't care to write scripts for other software - this is what really supports the Microsoft Monopole. When I try to access the new site with my slow connection and Opera, my computer nearly crashes. Too much fancy stuff. The Bill Gates curse works pretty well. Imperfect programming, wherever you look.

... that's another Uptown I'd buy right out of the gate! Same here!!!

Seize the opportunity and buy it, you won't be disappointed. It's a reall goodun! Junior Mance plays really well on it, too! BTW, the copies I saw in a German retailer on Monday were digipaks like the Verve by Request series, not mini-LPs - can't see why they still call it LPR series .

I suspect you know that Oscar Sala passed away a year or so ago. I think I read that article back then, It may have helped his rediscovery, as there were three CDs with his music and his interpretations of Hindemith pieces (which he had to reconstruct) on Erdenklang (http://www.erdenklang.de), which I can recommend. The Trautonium is a unique instrument with a playfeel much closer to a violin than a keyboard, and much more human in its expressive means than any synthesizer, but it is an endangered species. Sala's instrument was the last of its kind, and I sincerely hope his assistant in his last years manages to maintain it.

Now that I have bought and listened to this CD at last - Bob Redfield's playing here is certainly more rockish than anything else that I've heard, but not that much like Carlos Santana's. The way I understand it the line wanted to point out the influence Tjader had on Santana, not vice-versa, and perhaps lure some Santana fans to buy the CD with the remark on the guitar playing. That aside, the CD is great, that band smokes!

Universal France certainly is not the one to blame - the branches in different continents follow independent release policies. As Joe M said, it is Universal/Verve in the US who decide not to release this. Let's thank Sunnyside for doing the job - I hope it will get them some bucks to pursue their own very interesting projects - Eddie Higgins has done some for them etc.

Klook live had a powerful sound, crisp but with a lot of warmth. He didn't want the drums to be obtrusive on a studio recording, so it may be just a matter of how he was recorded. I have some live recordings done only a few years before his passing where he blows the band away. The Savoy or Prestige studio recordings are definitely not representative, as far as his sound is concerned.

Agreed, but I like the original of this one much more:

Hell Yeah!!!