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Guys, you might want to check it out on Spotify before ordering, it's not that great of an album:

It probably costs so little to do these reissues of 70-year old material that business case behind them is most likely just "why not".

I love solo bass records, and there is a lot of good stuff out there. My favorite one is Camouflage by Barre Phillips. Here are a few other I like: https://www.discogs.com/lists/Solo-double-bass-albums/1408762 .

There is a lot of jazz in Vienna, but please note that the live activity dies down somewhat over the summer. As far as I am concerned, the best jazz club in Vienna is Porgy & Bess. Excellent sound and a wide range of world-class acts. Here is the program: https://www.porgy.at/en/events/upcoming . Jazzland is an old-style club for solid mainstream jazz: https://www.jazzland.at/e_index.htm There is a nice club called Zwe. I was there just a couple of times. Good atmosphere, jam session type of place: https://www.zwe.cc/ Cafe Celeste is a no-frills underground place with often excellent free Improvisation jams (on Mondays, mostly): https://www.celeste.co.at/ There are many Viennese micro-labels, and this one is particularly excellent and criminally poorly distributed: Handsemmel (https://www.crackedanegg.com/handsemmel-records/) - just 11 releases in as many years, but each one is really high-quality stuff. Jazzwerkstatt Wien (https://jazzwerkstatt-records.myshopify.com/collections/catalogue) releases a lot of interesting music, but it is all streamable / bandcampabale. This one is a sleeper classic, for example: Enjoy Vienna, it's a great city - for music and much else!

It's a surprise and I am probably in.

Jim, how about you put it up on bandcamp? I'd be happy to buy it.

Very sad to hear this. An original composer and player. I heard quite a few of his records, and enjoyed all of them. This is an excellent one:

And van 't Hof's Eyeball too:

To clarify a bit, whoever posts the music on bandcamp gets this payout. Not necessarily the artist. In the case of Mr. Hawkins (whose "Song Unconditional" album is really excellent), this would be the label, INTAKT. I would be very curios to know how the label / artist revenue split for digital downloads works, but I appreciate the sensitivity of the issue.

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How did you like this one? I love it.

I love this album - and normally I can't stand Murray. Got rid of all the CDs by/with him except this one. His whining unhinged tone fits very well with tipsy-turvy Hungarian gypsy tunes. And I like these tunes. Ferenc Kovacs (Ferenc is the first name) is mostly known as a violin player. He is on many records. I would recommend this one under his name: https://www.discogs.com/release/1786220-Kovács-Ferenc-Beli-Buba , although it's more on the folky soft side. He is also a member of Mihaly Dresch groups, whom you probably know from this (excellent) album: https://www.discogs.com/release/1546927-Mihály-Dresch-Quartet-Archie-Shepp-Hungarian-Bebop

How about Wolfgang Dauner's Et Cetera?

One of the few, really? You consider Gentle Giant or (early) King Crimson not creative?

Never heard (of) Quiet Sun. Listening to it now - excellent album. Thanks!