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Carl Baugher

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  4. Mozart - The Violin Sonatas

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    I find the recordings by Anne-Sophie Mutter with Orkis from 2006 to be very fine for my taste. Her use of dynamics is not for everyone, perhaps, but she's always tasteful and virtuosic, of course. I have the DG ASM35 boxset where they're included but they are available individually, I'm sure.

  5. Miroslav Vitous - Purple - On Columbia

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    Completely new to me too -- intriguing!

    But I don't understand the idea that Sony won't touch this for fear of retribution -- from who and for what? If Sony/Japan bought it outright then they own it and can do anything they want with it. The surviving sidemen might be pissed that they never got paid, but their beef is really with Vitous who would appear to have gone behind their backs. I guess a question would be under what contractual circumstances did everybody participate in the first place and who paid for the session. But in any case, Sony owns it and since when do they care about retribution if there's no legal ground for opponents to stand on? Frankly, they probably wouldn't care if there was legal ground if there was real money to be made by reissuing. More likely they won't touch it because nobody but, um, us and a few our friends would buy it. Might be different if there was a horn player here with some marketplace value (Wayne Shorter? Joe Henderson?) or perhaps if the more saleable Chick Corea were in place of Zawinul. Just speculating.

    I tend to agree with you. I do have it and it's an interesting release albeit a little short at 35 minutes. It's of particular interest to Vitous fans, I think, as the overdubbed arco solos really are quite impressive.

  6. Richard Davis

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    Let's not forget it was Richard Davis on bass on those Creative Construction Company sessions from 1970(71?).Anthony Braxton,Leo Smith,Leroy Jenkins,Muhal Richard Abrams,Steve McCall.Quite a lineup of lean and hungry musicians.

    I have the first volume of the two sessions on a Japanese Muse cd.Too bad the second volume has yet to see the light of day on cd.I'm not even sure the first volume is still in print.Top shelf music.

    I agree that those are worthwhile albums; some creative improvising on them, for sure. Interestingly, Leroy Jenkins hated the album covers and told me he thought they were "the ugliest of his career." I never really understood that as I thought they were rather distinctive. But Leroy was adamant. To each his own.

  10. How many folks here have met Miles Davis?

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    In the late eighties, I was doing a lot of photography and much of it was in-performance stuff of jazz artists. I had some live shots from the previous year of Miles at the Hollywood Bowl so I approached him backstage when he played the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater. His manager and everyone around him seem scared to death of him. I gave him an 8x10 color print of the Hollywood Bowl shot and shook his hand. He was gracious and autographed another copy for me. His hand was very rough, almost like sandpaper or really dry leather. But he was very attentive and nice to me. So that's how I remember him, despite all the stories to the contrary.

  14. *** Frank Zappa ***

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    Frank was gracious the one time I met him. I also had the pleasure to spend some time with his son Dweezil while working on liner notes for the "Halloween" DVD-A and I can tell you that Dweezil is a modest, unassuming and genuinely nice man. And a virtuoso guitarist, of course. Frank Zappa's music was completely unique and indelible. Don't imagine the world will ever see anyone much like him!

  16. Steve Lacy

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    The quality of Steve's musical efforts is only surpassed by the quality of the man himself. One of the true gentlemen in jazz history. He had an amazingly broad knowledge of art in general. The time I spent with him in the eighties when he was touring with Mal Waldron was unforgettable. Much love to the memory of the great Steve Lacy!

  17. Brad Mehldau on Bill Evans

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    I like Mehldau. The sense I got from his comments about Evans is that he was just tired of being compared to Bill. I think that's understandable. I do believe he tried to marginalize Evans to a degree and I'd bet that he might state something different now if the subject came up. I also think Bill Evans is a major figure in the jazz piano lineage.

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