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For the CD era, I believe so. I've been listening to them on YouTube and enjoying ... thanks for the heads-up. I have a lot of catching up to do with Nat Adderley.

That is a show I'd tune into for sure. Would you want to include the Nat Adderley recordings from this period as well? Maybe that would be too much to cover. I predict a niche renaissance for this group in certain cultural pockets during this new decade. I wish I could find a picture online to post here, but the backside artwork of the booklet for the 2016 CD reissue of The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free was redesigned from the LP. There's now text that reads: Recorded "live" at an open session for people interested in musical history in the making ...

I always liked this Withers song:

You, Baby was reissued on compact disc in Japan in 1987 and 1992. Would be nice to have it available again! Same (1987, 1992 Japanese compact disc) with Calling Out Loud:

Yes. Some, as far as I know, were only ever available on the Japanese market in this series.

Yes, but only in part. The title tune was added to the CD reissue of Domination.

That's one of the nocturnes.

The plot thickens. I didn't know that Flack didn't compose "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Wiki-sez-what? "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who later became his wife. At the time, the couple were lovers, although MacColl was still married to Joan Littlewood. Seeger sang the song when the duo performed in folk clubs around Britain. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk singers and became a major international hit for Roberta Flack in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Billboard ranked it as the no. 1 Hot 100 single of the year for 1972.” Fryderyk Franciszek, of course, still resides in Roberta Cleopatra.

Remedied today. I will freely confess: I previously gave this album a bad rap based on essentially cursory listens. Not anymore. This album is an EXPERIENCE. For one, when Cannonball solos, it's burning. No prisoners. You do have to bend your ear to dig Nat Jr.'s vocals, but the guy was only 15! Nat Sr.'s vocals, however, are some of his best. Is he a singer? I don't know; probably not. But "Pra Dizer Adeus" is affecting, in an emotional way, nonetheless. (Just imagine Chet Baker singing that song.) I will now go on record as stating that I am IN to this album. Cannonball, not that anyone disagrees, was a badass.

It's just that the scores haven't shown up yet. They're in her attic somewhere. Play that prelude (Db major) and "First Time" back-to-back. The soul of Chopin was transferred to Flack. They're nearly the same tune.

I'm pretty sure it still means the same thing today. Imagine having one of Moore's brownies and then reclining in your chair and digging this album ... LIVE. 1973 is starting to look pretty good about now.

Damnit. I first heard Gumbs on The Betty Carter Album. After that, I purchased his album Onaje on Steeplechase. A fine pianist still deserving of wider recognition.

I wonder if this is the same Spencer Moore, a chef that was active in the Bay Area before moving to Mexico. According to the book Walk Tall, Moore really was Adderley's personal chef. I was 3 when this record was made, but I'm glad I was on the planet the same time as Cannonball!

Her name. Play the Prelude in D-flat major. Then drop down a half step and play "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

I finally acquired this 1973 album. Wasn't on my radar for ... almost forever. Orrin Keepnews' notes are (not surprisingly) self-congratulatory, though I thought this was an interesting side note to the "live in the studio" production: "In any event, food (some magic soul food and even more magical brownies, dished up by Spencer Moore, the urbane chef provided by Cannonball), drink, furnishings and people added up to that word they always use to describe good French restaurants — ambience. It was ambient as all hell in there, and you can hear it, and all of us, on the record." • Cannonball had his own chef? • And who are "they" that are always describing French restaurants? The music is tight and fun. Good grooves. Nothing particularly earth shattering, but it's feel-good music nonetheless — especially significant in a time like this. What a gig this must have been to attend. I think Hal Galper is the X-factor here; his sound (different than Zawinul's or George Duke's) makes the record. And Walter Booker's "Saudade" is one hip composition.

Chopin was re-born in 1937 in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

This is my favorite Ervin record. The last track, "Tyra," should be played during the end credits of a noir film.

I don't know. Maybe? (Maybe not?)

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I thought I started a thread on this topic! I searched for "Schoenberg" and nothing came up. A Few Notes on the recordings If anyone can find a way to share that Fred Steiner article, it's very much worth reading. (I have a pdf, but it's too big to attach here.)

Right. That's the 1950 stuff. I haven't even gotten there with this particular go-through. The 1936 recordings make Schoenberg sound like Ravel. They're just beautiful. They were made in Hollywood at the United Artists soundstage. Private pressings, one of which was eventually given to Schoenberg's neighbor, George Gershwin.

Thanks for sharing that!

With the new Mobley Mosaic in shipping limbo, this set is now very tempting. I really like Pepper's clarinet playing.

Dig.

Listening to the Schoenberg quartets right now. I think these are the first commercial recordings of Schoenberg's string quartets. So full of life. Not in the least academic or esoteric. I highly recommend this box set. Sound is "historical," so you have to deal with that, but as the set goes along, the sound gets better and better.