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Holy sh......!

Got my copy today. They are smokin'!

Monday evening I witnessed the closing ball of a workshop for baroque dance at the Frankfurt Music Academy. A six piece student ensemble excellently played a long suite composed by Jean-Marie Leclair to the baroque dance exercises and choreography taught by Niels Badenhop after the methods at the court of Louis XIV at Versailles. Every lover - and player! - of baroque music should at least once see and or practice this - most may have noticed terms like "Forlane" and "Passepied" as denotions of parts in Bach's orchestral suites, but never seen the respective dances. They will make you understand the music much better and show that they are an essential part of the performances of this music in baroque times. 90% of the music is related to dance rhythms and structures! For the closing Chaconne Badenhop called the audience on stage and had us all dance it à rondeau. A revelatory experience.

What a life. He really deserves to rest in peace.

Geez - I grew up less than a mile from that church. That's the oldest in Frankfurt. Somehow that concert series ecaped me. Had no idea they had concerts like that in that venue.

Not an album cover, but a real nice one, and perhaps it was used for one, or another from that session? Abbey Lincoln, of course.

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Rhino and Craft are album fetishists now, not completists any more.

How do you like it? My copy has not yet arrived ....

Today's listening pile:

Excellent CD. Chombo Silva was supposed to perform on these sessions but suffered a stroke shortly before. So it became a heartfelt tribute. This was, btw, the last copy available on discogs.

Played the same two discs yesterday!

I once had a copy of the first volume on LP, but sold it later as I thought the same as you. But reading Ted Gioa's blog post made me want to reconsider my judgement. I ordered a Storyville compilation including a few of these tracks to find out. https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/my-favorite-jazz-holiday-story-lester

Two of the five previously unissued takes exclusively on the vinyl set. Duh! As if there wasn'r any space left on the CDs.

Hi all, has there ever been a box set covering all the December 1956 recordings of Lester Young at Olivia Davis's Patio Lounge, Washington, D.C, or do I have to go for all the individual OJC CDs`? Below is the cover of the first in the series.

To me she like she is stresses by the recording situation because she wants to be more than perfect. Lucie Horsch sure can play, but I find some phrases would have sounded better if she had kept Bird's exact phrasing. Same here. I had a classmate who played some nice things on a tenor recorder, but I simply didn't have a real affinity for the instrument. But there was a new music scene employing recorders that started around that time adding new repertoire to the recorder book. Right now we have a big bunch of excellent recorder players all over the country. In Jazz, I remember Jiří Stivín as an impressive soloist, but mostly on sopranino recorder and more for a gimmick. But he was, of course, trained with baroque music:

Ah, I see ....... The whole cast is exceptional. Much more than on any other Verve album by Ben or Hawk.

This one? That was the original cover of one of the albums: