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Rumanian pianists may be the theme. Anyhow, I've been playing a lot of Körössy lately and a whole lot of Raducanu today.

Just today, I received some disks by Johnny Răducanu, a Rumanian bassist/pianist. This excellent site has a discography. The Confesiuni [Confessions] disks (three volumes) feature some very fine solo piano playing; the latter two volumes are entirely solo piano as a matter of fact. The same applies to the "To His Friends" album from 1996. Răducanu is a pupil of Iancsi Körössy as far as I have understood and the influence shows. Still, compared to the utterly breathtaking solo pieces by the master, Răducanu's style is a bit tamer, more romantic maybe. Very nice nonetheless and a name to keep in mind I'd say. The LP of Confessions Vol 3 in currently up on ebay for a Buy It Now price of 10$, I see. As for Körössy, I only have a handful of solo pieces by him, but those are really utterly awesome. And those performances bring me to your initial question as I have been asking it myself in a way when I first heard Körössy's solo performance of "All The Things You Are." This piece swings like mad and at the same time it touches heavily on the classical virtuoso kind of thing. Körössy's technique is impeccable, his touch very light and precise, yet the overall effort does somehow still display some earthy blues type of thing with heavy hammering when needed. IOW, I really don't know; AKA, all of the above.

yeah wassup? the guy doesn't even squint!

from the weblog of a dutch writer & jazz fan:

did anyone smoke it?

cute!

much wider than the gov, it's an icon. started out bad, turned out good in the sequel. real life can be a bitch, but that's what we have music for (and mineral water).

.... bitch .... bitch .... bitch .... bitch .... bitch ..... IOW, some few organics can cover a whole lot of machine noise, it's like Arnie The Thermometer really. The snippets I heard here did not convince me. Not enough suprises and too many commonplaces. Tell me I'm wrong long armed golden one.

Carl Lewis Sings and is proud enough of it to put it on his website....

I saw two, but I forget where.

yeah and if you already have the stuff in Mosaic sets, you can send the sets to me! Or the conns, I'm not picky!

the problem is that it is probably NOT a waste of money, but a way to make money by selling the show to the highest bidder. I can understand that commercialisation of policing is not considered a problem in the land of the free and the bounty hunters, but my soft 'n' girly Euro take on this is a bit more sceptic. buy Nike, the shoe that puts criminals behind bars. film at eleven.

yes, that in particular

next on reality teevee: live broadcasts of death penalty executions. stay tuned. film at eleven.

so, no connection after all. What were those Chico guys thinking anyhow?

just looked "elsewhere" and I think it is still interesting to know who played in that band on that tune. the snippets I heard online indeed indicate more of a novelty item, but there is a jazz-theme to it, so why not add it with a little note on the character of the music?

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and while you're at it: grab these here too

listening to the JazzView now, and I have the distinct impression this is a vinyl dub. Quite muddy, but that's what I got used to. I'll seek out the Water then.

The Fondation Maeght material is really very nice. Not as dense as the earlier material maybe. Soothing as ever with its allusions of some higher truth, and almost relaxing to top it off. At least that's my personal reaction to it. I have it on the JazzView label, one of those shady outlets from Italy; 2 disks wirth a total of 8 tunes. Sound is nothing to scream off the rooftops, but very much okay.

is this the "Experiments With Mice" album (Parlophone/Capitol) from 1956? Edit, "experiments" is a tune, not an album. Big hit in 1956, I gather.

it's not even for free? I bet the meese in heat drink it all.

Seems to me, the guy's expressing something like the regular critique of RVGs legendary recording techniques, especially when CDs are concerned. Your assesment must mean that anyone complaining about too much top end on those albums is "a dumbass white boy who thinks that "black" only comes in one shade." I should make a note of that and throw it in a discussion every now and then to spice things up.

what does Texas have that NE Germany doesn't? Good beer? Mwahahahahahaaa!!!

take care with those meese, they smell bad when in heat.