mikeweil

Complete survival kit for Blue-note-aholics. Who buys these things?

Will check this out, although I'm kind of bored by most remixes, due to the dominant heavy disco beat most of the feature, at least on the two concord picante discs I just revisited:

Thanks! Listening to samples/tracks lon the web does not really convince me. The sound of the MAW mixes is so much better.

Can you post a link, please?

... Followed by these two immediately afterwards:

Just finished listening to this one:

Brother John Sellers was a blues, folk. and gospel singer - he had no problems crossing over between these genres. John Hammond recorded two 10" LPs with him in 1954, one used Sir Charles Thompson, Freddie Green, Walter Page, and Jo Jones as the rhythm section, with Ruby Braff playing an occasional trumpet obligato. Sellers is a good singer with a broad expressional palette finding an individual approach for each song, the excellent backing seems to inspire him, and it is nice to see Jo Jones hitting the right groove without using the common R&B cliches. Thompson gets all the solo space, hearing Braff playing bluesy phrases with his gorgeous tone is a treat. You even get Freddie Green's rare take on folk/blues finger picking in one song. It's a very nice listen, as the Rushing albums, and its 20 minutes could have been squeezed into the box alongside these. The CD depicted below is a 2006 reissue on the British ACE label, adding the 27 minutes of Sellers' other Vanguard album (with Sonny Terry and guitar player Johnny Jones) in strict folk blues style. It is still available and worth a puchase for any lover of this type of music. There is an elaborate biographical essay on Sellers' career by Chris Smith.

It is always problematical when the esthetics of the producer concerning music, sound, and cover design tend to dominate the artists' choices, and that IMO is the case with Manfred Eicher.