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Jan Evensmo's solography of Oscar Dennard finishes with these unpublished recordings: Sometimes these recordings get passed along, and I thought someone here may have them and be willing to share them!

Continuing my revisit of Yes material with “Open Your Eyes.”

Who knows what the licensing situation is.... but from their Bandcamp page looks like a legit label. Shame there's no physical release. https://caligolarecords.bandcamp.com/

On to a new reissue of a session I have not listened to in too long, Manfred Schoof / Irène Schweizer /Barney Wilen “Jazz Meets India” MPS Japan cd

Now if I can just find my misplaced Denny Zeitlin and Jim McNeely CDs.

B.B. King, Broadcasting the Blues: Live From Germany and Sweden (Time Traveler)

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Immerseel noted he was positively surprised by the high quality of Strauss' instrumentation, which Brahms and others admired. His recording goes back to the original scores, which are differentvfrom what modern orchestras use.

Looks like a bootleg? For the sake of being a Mal completist I’ll probably get it. Two of my musical heroes but I feel the chosen compositions are a sign of disappointment to me personally. I would love to hear Rivers playing ‘out’ on Mals dark chordings.

Benny Goodman “Complete 1937 Madhattan Room Broadcasts Volume” Viper’s Nest cd From this box set:

Also excellent. Keep the recommendations coming!

Thanks. Picked up both Tour Volumes.

"Comeback", or a "dead cat bounce"?

The conductions of Butch Morris are an interesting later development within "Third Stream". Wadada Leo Smith has contributed greatly also, start with Ten Freedom Summers.

Robert Schumann - String Quartets Nos. 1, 2, 3

Yes. Mike, I had seen that. But thanks for bringing it up again. I had had relatively high hopes when I first saw it, but they were dampened fairly quickly. At least half of its contents are well present on the reissue market, either on Metronome itself or on Dragon, or in the series mentioned by Jazzbo (of which I have parts 1 to 8 as well ). Particularly little new in the reissue field of Gullin, Hallberg, Domnérus, Theselius and Ericson there. And very litle at all by the likes of Simon Brehm, Reinhold Svensson, Carl-Henrik Norin a.o. As if it was wellnigh impossible for any compiler to look beyond the obvious items for artists like these, for fear of not rounding enough sales. But hey, you reissuers, you are not so much going to sell compilations like these off the beaten tracks to the newbies wanting to expand into this area for the first time but to a not so small degree to seasoned collectors who already have most of the previous reissues and are looking to fil their gaps! Seems like reissues in niche fields of jazz that went out of their way not to duplicate previous reissues but specifically tried to fill gaps died out with the compilers of oldtime jazz or early blues. When did you all last see a reissue that specifically stated on its back cover something like "Additional recordings found on ... No duplications between these!" ? Yes I know - demands like these should not (necessarily) be adressed to Fresh Sounds! (Though they did dare to cover their share of ultra-obscure 50s jazz (U.S., though ...) ).