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  5. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    Somehow a somewhat strange concert. I have the CD that has both volums of the original LPs, omitting the Oldtime musicians, keeping only the "modernists". 
    It´s strange that the Don Byas-Idrees Sulieman-Bud Powell unit played only the eternal "All the Things You Are" and 3 slow ballads. So there is not real range of tempos, those guys are supposed to play more fast tempo stuff and maybe one ballad during a set. And it is strange that they didn´t add Kenny Clarke who was their regular drummer in Paris. The organ player "Lou Bennett" is nice, it seems to be somehow in the vein of Jimmy Smith, but.....I´m not an organ specialist. 

    The music of Bill Smith is quite nice, but somehow sounds very unusual to me, And actually I don´t know much about it or the musicians. Someone told me that Bill Smith was Brubeck´s horn player for many years, but Brubeck again is not a musician I´m really common with. 

    And it´s really strange that this European concert happened in Koblenz, which is a nice town but you are supposed that some big event like this is in another bigger town like Berlin, Koln, Stuttgart or Essen, main jazz centers in the 60´s in Germany. 
    It´s also strange that it was recorded by Impulse, a strictly American label I like very much because it´s involvement with Free Jazz, with late Coltrane etc. 

     

    The reason for this concert taking place in Koblenz was a strong Influence of Jazzpromotor "Hans Roßbach as local hero. Later he organized concerts with Bill Evans, Art Blakey, Chet Baker , The Woody Herman big band a.o. in our Jazz club for a smaller audience in the 1970s.

    These were the days. Long gone and Mr. Roßbach too. FYI here are 2 fotos. The upper one  might be made at the concert day.

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  10. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    5 hours ago, Joe said:

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    👍😁 "Third Stream" was interesting but never made it in the end. Have one with John Lewis & Stan Getz & Tony Scott.

    13 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    From the music it is quite similar to another live recording from Newport, also with Trane and Cannonball. I think I remember that Miles is barely audible on one track, maybe it was "If I Were A Bell". 

    You mean certainly this one?

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  18. Trading and/or selling duplicate vinyls & CD's

    in Offering and Looking For...

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    In the course of building my collection I have  bought over the years a bunch of vinyls & CD's (mostly jazz) by error.

    I'm not interested  to make much money with these Items and would be interested if here in the Organissimo Forum

    other members have the same problem and are willing also to trade (mint/sealed / mint-  against similar Items)

    Can make a list if there is interest.

    Thanks

     

  19. FS/FT: Singers Unlimited - Magic Voices (7 CD box set on MPS)

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    On 3/17/2023 at 6:54 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

    I find that I am less interested in particular albums by Singers Unlimited than I am by particular songs they sing.  While Gene Puerling's aesthetics with the Hi-Los were very much reflective of and applicable to Great American Songbook stuff, I find that his aesthetics with Singers Unlimited are much more aligned with what I would call the 60s-70s international jet set aesthetic, which would include that songs by composers such as Jobim, Legrand, Bacharach, Webb, Hatch, Lennon/McCartney, Paul Williams, and others.  The kind of set list that would comprise an Astrud Gilberto or Claudine Longet album.  One of the reasons I was tempted to get this box set is that digitally, I can sequence my own ideal Singers Unlimited albums.  With the LPs, I have to skip around a lot.

    Well I have all the vinyls + the  7CD box + this one

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     I do not classify  their music as jazz or not. It simply is a pleasant sound  I like. The 3  "a capella'  LP's are a bit special for me.  Saying this I should mention that I am also  beside  beeing a  jazzfan  a fan/ collector of the Four Freshmen and some Hi-Lo's.  One great CD is the one from Manhattan Transfer with the Manny Albam arrangement of the classic "Snowfall". Give it a listen if you can.

  25. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    2 hours ago, porcy62 said:

    Everybody is on discogs nowadays. There are several good sellers from Japan over there, but the good old days when one deals personally with seller has gone. Discogs has its merits and I meet some nice guys but Tanno San was the last real gentleman in a market made of “seller”. Deal with him was a pleasure.

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