Stompin at the Savoy

I would agree with you if the compilation were entitled "Classic Early Recordings". The title was actually Classic Early Albums. So that still makes sense to me. Some material from the early 50's made it into the included Soulful Saxophone, a late 50's compilation.

Not sure what you mean. His first albums as leader were around '55. Some great music in pretty decent sound on this compilation.

I've had this on my Amazon wish list for a while. It came up today with a good discount: $10.16 total, so I plunked. I like Harry Edison. I also ordered this one recently and it arrived today. I noticed I had a Gene Ammons deficiency and picked it up when the price dropped to $13.12 (unfortunately went up again).

The sales end of the operation is minimal. Their website ordering system is clunky, and sometimes the notices seem to go missing but I always get what I order. So I don't have any problem whatsoever.

Be sure to check your spam folder. The response to my order ended up there even though I have had plenty of email from info@mosaicrecords.com

Me too. I have the other 6 volumes and enjoy them. Mel Lewis!

Yay!

No but I've got some dentyne.

95 is a very good run. I love his playing and writing.

Somebody mentioned this recently and I love Dick Hyman so I ordered a copy which happened to arrive today! (Amazon has 30% off on this at the moment). Looking forward to listening to it.

Right. Well, I don't actually buy mp3s from Amazon any more, preferring cd or better resolution. But I do like the principle that having bought a record, you can download it again if your drive blows up. Amazon applies the same reasoning to Kindle books - you don't need to back them up, just download again if your copy gets lost. It's a good idea because otherwise we all end up spending way too much time curating our collections and keeping them stable (!).

One trend that is developing out of this issue is shifting the burden of backup to file distributors. So if you buy mp3's from Amazon, you don't need to back them up because you can always download again from Amazon. I think Qobuz also has unlimited or at least several download opportunities for each file. Now that the need is well established people will probably come up with better long-term storage options.

Very, very low if you copy them properly (operating system, robocopy, quality backup utilities, etc). The operating system is set up to do checksum and validation when you copy files (apps typically use the operating system under the hood).

I liked Brasil 66 when it first came out. It got a fair amount of air play and they were on TV. They seemed so Brasileiro at the time but now I discover that foxy lady who sang great lead did not speak Portuguese and in fact is a nice Jewish girl from Chicago!

The arrangement is kind of cheesy but he has a good voice.

I listened to most of it on youtube just now. I found it likeable and the sound was very clear - very well produced. Harrell's solos seemed unfocused and meandering and even at times seemed like noodling to me. And there was a sameness about everything, the overall sound and texture... all the angles have been smoothed out. Very little tension created and released. Not enough space. Well, that's one man's opinion.

I suppose it is possible to make music with an animal horn that has no holes or keys. Historically I think the shofar is similar to horn fanfares, or fanfarade, also referred to as a flourish. The idea being some loud, fixed tones which would draw attention (to the entrance of royalty, an announcement, etc) or signal action in battle. I'm not even sure that shofars are tuned to a specific pitch (or pitches).

The animal that produces that horn is not a sheep. It's a kudu, a sort of antelope. I've blown an actual ram's horn and they are much smaller and kind of hard to get the horn to come alive and vibrate. The kudu horn he has is quite different and produces a vastly different tone.

The video is interesting and the horn he uses is not the familar ram's horn of synagogues. It's a lot bigger and more resonant. Nevertheless, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the shofar's use as a musical instrument "is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It's not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Unless you put some holes in it, it would be hard to do much more than bugle tunes.