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would love to see these being reissued with decent remastering : Entrance!, Sam Noto, 1975, Xanadu 103 Saturday Morning, Sonny Criss, 1975, Xanadu 105 Play It Now, Al Cohn, 1975, Xanadu 110 Cello Again, Sam Jones, 1976, Xanadu 129 Live In Tokyo, Barry Harris, 1976, Xanadu 130 Inimitable Teddy Edwards, The, Teddy Edwards, 1976, Xanadu 134 Dolo!, Dolo Coker, 1976, Xanadu 139 New Horizons, Charles McPherson, 1977, Xanadu 149 Live In Tokyo, Charles McPherson, 1976, Xanadu 131 Beautiful!, Charles McPherson, 1975, Xanadu 11 have this on vinyl, most pressings are substandard .....

can`t find the release date of this platter, but must be around 1967 - as the Dells signed with Cadet 1966 and and inter alias became the touring vocal backup group for Ray Charles, it is possible they also were "moonlighting" on the O W Brown release .... their first Cadet LP "There Is" was released in 1967 ...... Yeah, 1967 sounds feels exactly right. The Dells are on just one cut, but they're...obvious, if you know what I mean. Those guys would take the gigs, money in the bank. Hits are not guaranteed, session fees are, math FTW, and ideally, both. As it was for them. I love The Dells, truthfully, just as/because The Dells. Weren't but one The Dells, and they were always them. Also of "collector's interest" on this one is the presence of a Chess/Checker Gospel inner sleeve, one side all C.F. Franklin albums, the other,, not C.F. Franklin albums. I've neither seen nor had one of those before, so...very cool "object", and valuable-ish as document, I might think. A lot of gospel music records just get lost/forgotten about, and that is inevitably a distortion of American Music in general, Great Black Music in particular. Inner sleeves like this are that many that won't be completely forgotten, not just yet. But this O.W. Brown cat...not really happening at all, and on a label where pretty much everybody was happening...not sure what that was all about. But...Sonny Thompson! the Dells indeed are/were special and IMO one of the vocal groups who mastered the crossover from 60`s to 70`s soul in style ....

IMO "Picture of Heath" is superb and Barry Harris "Plays Tadd Dameron" being an excellent piano trio date ....

Great set. I love Debussy. Such wonderful music. agreed

can`t find the release date of this platter, but must be around 1967 - as the Dells signed with Cadet 1966 and and inter alias became the touring vocal backup group for Ray Charles, it is possible they also were "moonlighting" on the O W Brown release .... their first Cadet LP "There Is" was released in 1967 ......

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believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad .... My only ever experience of something like was playing my then ten year old some Cecil Taylor. I asked him what he heard . After listening for several minutes he said that at first it sounded entirely random but he realised there was underlying melody with an ebb/flow. He didn't say whether he liked it. My guess was not

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believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad ....

An excellent reading of "La Mer" can be found (nowadays) on the Supraphon 3CD set "Jean Fournet in Prague" - recorded in the mid sixties with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra PS the set comes recommended overall, as it features inter alias equally impressive performances of "Iberia", "Rondes de printemps", "Nocturnes for Orchestra" and more from Franck and de Falla ....

I think I know exactly what you mean. Having come to like Martinu somwhere between a fair bit and a good deal over the years, there is a kind of blandly jolly tunefulness to some of his work, often coupled with motoric, sewing-machine rhythms, and there you have, if I'm thinking along the same lines you are, "Cold War-era figure skating music." As for the sports connection, Janacek's "Sinfonietta" was commissioned by a gymnastic organization, who apparently planned to do co-ordinated mass exercises to it. Probably things of this sort were prominent in Czech culture. To put things into perspective, Janacek was mandated by the large national gymnastic organization "Sokol" (= "The Falcon") to compose a brass fanfare for them. Janacek work on this fanfare ended this being the first of five movements of "Sinfonietta", which he finalized within 3 weeks in 1926. By no means this gymnastic organization was directly influental on the czech composers at that time, this was the (IMO) only mandate they ever granted - of course they used some works of czech composers for their festivities, for instance by Josef Suk ("V nový život" aka "In to a new Life" op. 35 c 1919/20 later dedicated to Sokol). Nevertheless there was some connection between Janacek and Sokol, as Sokol was mainly a political aka national democratic organization (during the reign of communism 1949-1989 emigrants founded a lot of international Sokol entities abroad to maintain their hope they will be allowed to come back into a democratic Czech Republic one time ...... and a long - for manny too long - wait it was ....) and Janacek from his youth was member of Sokol - furthermore he was of the opinion that a national (Czech) democratic structure could be only preserved by a stable military safeguard and therefore he named the first draft of the forementioned work "Military Sinfonietta" .... still in 1926 he was invited to England by enterpreneur Rosa Newmarch and dedicated the composition - now as "Sinfonietta" to her .... Hope the forementioned doesn`t put any harm on JSangry`s relief after Larry Kart previous explanation ;-) ..... My only point, based on the connection between Janacek and Sokol, is that sports organizations of various sorts (gymnastic outfits, soccer teams, etc.) perhaps played a somewhat different and more prominent role in Czech life than they do in American life, were a force for social solidarity beyond the limits of simple fandom.. Also, I get a belated whiff of one aspect of Futurism, the idea that team sports were a quintessentially modern activity. Didn't Soviet composers (e.g. Shostakovich) write some "sports" scores? P.S. Yup. http://musicmotionblog.com/2010/07/world-cup-music-shostakovichs-soccer-match/ My only point was to elaborate on the Janacek - Sokol connection, which was cited in your original statement slightly misleading ....

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I think I know exactly what you mean. Having come to like Martinu somwhere between a fair bit and a good deal over the years, there is a kind of blandly jolly tunefulness to some of his work, often coupled with motoric, sewing-machine rhythms, and there you have, if I'm thinking along the same lines you are, "Cold War-era figure skating music." As for the sports connection, Janacek's "Sinfonietta" was commissioned by a gymnastic organization, who apparently planned to do co-ordinated mass exercises to it. Probably things of this sort were prominent in Czech culture. To put things into perspective, Janacek was mandated by the large national gymnastic organization "Sokol" (= "The Falcon") to compose a brass fanfare for them. Janacek work on this fanfare ended this being the first of five movements of "Sinfonietta", which he finalized within 3 weeks in 1926. By no means this gymnastic organization was directly influental on the czech composers at that time, this was the (IMO) only mandate they ever granted - of course they used some works of czech composers for their festivities, for instance by Josef Suk ("V nový život" aka "In to a new Life" op. 35 c 1919/20 later dedicated to Sokol). Nevertheless there was some connection between Janacek and Sokol, as Sokol was mainly a political aka national democratic organization (during the reign of communism 1949-1989 emigrants founded a lot of international Sokol entities abroad to maintain their hope they will be allowed to come back into a democratic Czech Republic one time ...... and a long - for manny too long - wait it was ....) and Janacek from his youth was member of Sokol - furthermore he was of the opinion that a national (Czech) democratic structure could be only preserved by a stable military safeguard and therefore he named the first draft of the forementioned work "Military Sinfonietta" .... still in 1926 he was invited to England by enterpreneur Rosa Newmarch and dedicated the composition - now as "Sinfonietta" to her .... Hope the forementioned doesn`t put any harm on JSangry`s relief after Larry Kart previous explanation ;-) .....

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The Kvapil Martinu recordings are mighty fine ....

actually another excellent performance including string quartet no 5 - recently i`ve found via the net a letter Martinu wrote at the time while working on this euvre (and his double concerto), which gives an idea about his inspirations : "… in the mountains, almost completely isolated from the outside world. – in a countryside full of sunlight and the song of birds – while somewhere in Europe the great tragedy that was relentlessly approaching the frontiers of my homeland was being prepared. With anguish we listened every day to the news bulletins on the radio, trying to find encouragement and hope that did not come. The clouds were quickly gathering and becoming steadily more threatening. During this time I was at work on the Double Concerto; but all my thoughts and longings were constantly with my endangered country, where only a few months before I had been fulfilled with such hope and joy by the unforgettable moments at the Sokol Festival."

IMO both landmark recordings

agreed - all of his "minor" works are worth seeking out ..... btw nice examples "Echec Au Roi ..."