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Tending to go for Borgstede just to have the entire series of works for starters ... and then deciding if I need more. The Yates isn't quite complete yet, right? One more volume to go, I guess? The samples sound fine though, but I admit I'm a cheap bum and I'd like to get the entire run for starters.
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Also, anyone familiar with this one? No samples around, it seems. EDIT: Found samples for Ludger Remy here: http://www.jpc.de/jp...33/hnum/7172865
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Having heard Richter's partial recording of the Händel suites, I'm inclined to find a harpsichord recording, too ... the Ross is impossible to get (or rather: very expensive), but the Yates is around (three single volumes, that's all there is - no 3CD set combining it all, correct?) As for Baumont, is this the one to beware of? I'm pretty confused as the tracklists for these don't seem to match with anything from the Richter recordings ... are there various series, are the "keyboard suites" different from the "harpsichord suites"? I know nothing about Händel yet, so please bear with (and enlighten) me!
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Got the double LP for around 13 swiss franks (or the price of one and a half pints of Guiness in the Irish pub here), that's fine with me, no need for an overpriced old CD. But thanks for mentioning it, Steve, wasn't aware of it, either!
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I can't yet, I noticed ... in my own perfect world, such a small edition would of course sell out quickly, but I guess this world ain't good enough
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Okay, will get the LP anyway ... if I transfer "Shuffle Boil" to digital, I could compare with the Legacy edition of "It's Monk's Time". Might even try and do so tonight!
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Will pick up "Always Know" tomorrow, then Is there anything otherwise unavailable on it besides that one ten-minute "Honeysuckle Rose"?
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Gotta get this while I can, too!
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Are there any box bargains currently available?
king ubu replied to GA Russell's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Thanks for the clarification, guys! The Miles 4CD set is indeed a great one, and I'm very fond of the three Coltrane sets, too! So fond that I gave away all the single discs, except for those with additional tracks (no Coltrane on those tracks, "The Cats" has one, "Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette" has two ... don't have the Ray Draper but is has one, also, and the Ammons discs of course have plenty more). -
Are there any box bargains currently available?
king ubu replied to GA Russell's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
(the Miles stuff is missing - I think it was part of the 16 disc box, too?) -
Hm, The Cherry Thing ... after having had it for a while, I think it doesn't quite live up to all the hype. It diminished in estimation here, as the months went by. Also, it's not a good production - I noticed when trying to listen to it on the iPod (either MP3 at 320 kbs or M4A at the highest quality iTunes has on offer, I don't remember) that it's impossible to find any equalizer settings where the music wasn't totally distorted. (I've got an old 30GB iPod with pre-sets only, no idea if later generations have more on offer.) In addition, it sounds very hot, compressed - produced with tons of punch as if it was (it actually is) a contemporary pop album. Some chances missed, but in the end I think it remains an okay to good album in my ears. Some tracks are very catchy and I still do enjoy them.
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o'de'd (jazzmessengers.com is selling it rather cheaply, my finding out prompted my asking here, a few weeks back)
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groly hail!
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Well, I was just joking of course ... not sure I really need to replace the 2CD set I have because of one missing track and a few others, but the JSP would fit the bill nicely, I think.
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Are there any box bargains currently available?
king ubu replied to GA Russell's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Extremely lame, huh? There might be people who don't have these yet ... and I guess quite a few, as the Columbia albums' reputation ain't the finest. What I would enjoy though would be a companion box containing the albums as originally released. -
This rare item was included on a recommendable Verve compilation: Wanted to mention that one - very good compilation, worthwhile even if you already have the tracks with Charlie Parker!
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All the Bill Samuels items were reissued on CD 5112 in the CLASSICS BLUES & RHYTHM SERIES before. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings sez thus: "A crooner with the exageratedly precise diction of Al Hibbler,. Samuels applied his velvet-fog voice to standards like Ghost of a Chance ... occasionally diversifying into Louis jordan jive numbers ... and an infrequent blues" and goes on to describe the contents of this CD as "svelte lounge music." It ain't THAT mediocre, though, that CD. Cannot see that Ray Charles played piano on these sessions so are these really just fillers? That all sounds purrty vullegar
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Well, Weizen, tell that to those who used that button ... anyway, thanks Big Beat Steve, and honestly I didn't go that far in my thinking, since the term "vulgar" just is ... too vulgar for what's under discussion here, in my opinion. Another point though is that all too often, jazz rhythm sections play some sophisticated take of ... whatever rhythm it really is, some samba variant or some slightly Latin or whatever for an intro and/or theme, but then revert to their regular straight 4/4 swing - which makes a Latin affair into straight jazz and doesn't really deserve the name "latin" any longer as they just use that to spice up some of their usual sticks. I find that pretty boring many times, or rather I regret the regular change to swinging straight 4/4 as soon as a theme is done with and the blowing starts. That might or mightn't be a different question from the one raised in the opening post here, I wouldn't know (I've not heard that Maggie album). Ya know, sometimes all that banging 4/4 swing is pretty vullegar, too ... and some Latin stuff is pretty darn sophisticated by comparison - even if you might be exhausted after listening to it. Being exhausted, again, has nothing to do with vulgarity - at least in my book.
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Miles Davis - So What: Complete 1960 Amsterdam Concerts
king ubu replied to aurelio's topic in Mosaic and other box sets...
Yes, they are, as is the whole series, "Jazz at the Concertgebouw". Oh, true! Thought they were from Scheveningen - even better news, then! -
Kinda like that weirdly squealing Mick J. is but Charlie Watts' singer, I guess ... but no matter about all the name-calling and nit-picking and other idiocy, I'd still like to know about the "vulgar" thing, too!
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What live music are you going to see tonight?
king ubu replied to mikeweil's topic in Live Shows & Festivals
Grigori Sokolov at the Luxembourg Philharmonic, playing Rameau (Suite in D from the second book of the "pièces de clavecin"), Mozart (K 310) and Beethoven ("Hammerklavier"): http://www.philharmonie.lu/en/programm/events.php?seite=event_details&id=2363 -
oh, shit, that sounds really bad, hadn't seen your previous thread(s)... http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-20486184