Daniel A

Well, thanks to the vinyl only trend this (and other recordings) are being released at all. If and when vinyl once again falls out of favor, CDs alone will not make many releases of this kind profitable. But on the other hand the vinyl only trend is a result (and not the cause) of CDs falling out of favor, so who knows what will happen.

According to Herbie, he got the car at age 22 after receiving his first royalty check, and Santamaria's version was released at some point during 1963, probably after he got the car. But no doubt he made more money on the tune.

I don't play this often, but when I do it's a good listen. I recall it as being a bit rough (for instance, Timmons did not always sound comfortable, maybe on Tom Thumb - it's been too long - but nevertheless I like this version better than Shorter's on BN).

Most probably! There is some killer Jan Hammer in a 1970 trio with Perla and Don Alias, BTW. I would have wanted to have so much more recordings of Hammer from this era.

Who is the "Pete Rose" playing tenor sax on the Chick Corea track? It sounds late 60s-ish.

Yes, the Steig album is fine. And make sure to get the excellent reissue by Jonathan Horwich which contains extra material: https://www.discogs.com/Jeremy-Steig-Flute-Fever/release/7341772

Haha! I'm still uncertain that it would go that far. Rather, I'm totally expecting to take a lot of flak one day for unloading a lot of CDs all too cheaply.

I was just going to say that the only physical stores, besides dedicated record stores, where you can buy LPs these days are supermarkets. At least over here. My seven year old son got his second LP in the supermarket the other week. Vinly hype aside, it was a nice moment listening to the whole album with him. Spotify is not really the same.

Always something there to make us re-buy the product... : " I. Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky - Complete Works (2 material which expands this edition: New material which expands this edition: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Seiji Ozawa: Bach: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 769, Orchestrated Stravinsky LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky - Smith: A Star Spangled Banner arranged & conducted by Stravinsky The piece Chant funebre, the manuscript lost for over a century, discovered after the last Complete Edition was released. This recording by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Chailly met wide critical acclaim

Never knew about that album. How is it? Now playing: vinyl-only release on the label of Jonas Kullhammar (who some might remember as a BNBB member) featuring himself, drummer Håkon Mjåset Johansen, basist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Chick Corea on piano.

Thanks! I'll take Lord's word over the Essential Jazz label (though Fresh Sound usually get it right).

On the Tony Bennett Columbia album 'The Heart of my Beat' from 1957, "Robert Jasper" plays flute. There does not seem to be any other recorded appearance by such a player. Could it be Bobby Jaspar?

Since it was maybe a bit unclear from my post above - get a Shure V15 type IV cartridge with a stabilizer brush and then you don't need a sweeper. (However, the brushes on aftermarket styli are not of the same quality as the originals. That became evident when I recently switched back to an old Shure original stylus while getting a reasonable replacement.)

Rumor has it it's sold out.

Didn't Leonard Feather once even write in some liner notes (Giant Steps?) that Coltrane was a "student of Rollins" (figuratively speaking)?

More here: https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/metaphysics/

Apparently, Sweden has always had another interpretation of the rule and has applied VAT also on low-value items (at least in principle). I guess that with new, better routines for screening all packages, nothing slips through.

Patrice Rushen 'Prelusion'. Very much of its time, and very enjoyable!

I purchased a 9 GBP CD from the UK on Discogs a week ago, just to see what would happen (it was available at a higher price from a couple of EU countries). Today I got an invoice from Swedish customs; EUR 2.50 VAT and 7.50 "handling" charge. If I thought that such a cheap item would slip through - not so.

(Dmitry has nothing to do with this post, but I can't get rid of the quote from the mobile) As far as I know, there were two regions that temporarily halted vaccinations of health care personnel using the Astra-Zeneca vaccine, but after a couple of days and a closer look at the reactions, they started up again. No new alarming reports so far.

What's that reel-to-reel on the floor; Akai? Do you use it?

Japanese single release of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. (I will just have to presume that Louis is there somewhere 🙂, but I just posted this because it's such a strange cover)

Just now I'm listening to the Kenny Burrell album "Guitar Forms". On the first track, 'Downstairs', Grady Tate is playing a kind of prototype shuffle back beat already in 1965. Note especially the fade out. No other drummer I've heard sounded like this in the mid-60s: