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https://www.discogs.com/label/95676-Astrée-Auvidis https://www.discogs.com/label/199787-Astrée?redirected=true Yes, but the label is no longer active. Jordi Savall reissued his recirdings on his own label Alia Vox.

The gallery concerts were fine as expected, with some rare music that I will most likely never hear again in my life. The format is nice: six programs of 20 minutes each, all of them perfomed twice, in three galleries, so you can har a total of four different performances hopping from place to place. We chose pieces by C.P.E. Bach and Carl Heinrich Graun for two violas and harpsichord, a solo harpsichord recital with Froberger, Sweelinck, D. Scarlatti and Buxtehude, and third a set of quartets for oboe and strings and Gaßmann and Druschetzky, two rather undersetimated Haydn/Mozart contemporaries. As if this wasn't enough, this afternoon we attended the fourth and final concert of a series dedicated to the lesser known sides of Georg Philip Telemann. Songs published in a magazine as exemplary examples for basso continuo practice, some so-called "moral cantatas" with humorous texts, and concertos and suites for flute and harpsichord, usually performed as trios, but also possible for just two players with the harpsichordist playing two parts at once. Georg Poplutz was the perfect tenor voice for this, who confessed enjoying this welcome secular music where sacred music is what he most often is called for. Daniela Lieb and Eva Maria Pollerus, both professors at the Frankfurt music high school, were great as always. Pollerus brough her great sounding copy of a Zell harpsichord, the perfect instrument for this music. We are lucky to have such great performers in our region, and this month is packed with great concert programs - I consider going to the Clavier-Abend Monday night, where students of harpsichord and fortepiano present what they are working on.

Thanks for researching and posting. This kind of sharing information is what makes this forum so great.

Going to the regular autumn concert of an assocuation of young musicians and their followers to advance early music, I became a member earlier this year. Little concerts of ca. 20 minutes in the rooms of modern art galleries in the old part of Frankfurt. I will report. Three of the musicians rehearsing at the studio of the man who built the harpsichord, Christan Fuchs, who happens to work in the 18th century house where my grandparents lived until grandma died in 1959.

If I'm not mistaken, the last time he was in Europe was with the Giants of Jazz in 1972. I was busy with finishing school but had a classmate that enjoyed jazz like me, we went to about two concerts together before he left school due to some family/health issues, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Mann ... but the Giants, nowhere near where we lived, and I wasn't that deep into jazz history at age 18, reading Berendt and buying records whenever funds allowed. Will be fun meeting some other classmates at the end of the month. p.s. Just looked it up and saw he was in Europe in 1974, but by then my mind was occupied with being in love with a girl that turned me down and whatever keeps one busy at that age ....

For those who don't know his owrk, here's the video of his farewell concert at the FRankfurt music university, where he had been teaching for eleven years.

..... and Sonny Clark! I like Clay best as interpreter of Clark's compositions.

Probably the cover of the later reissue:

Somehow I overlooked this thread - a belated R.I.P. I have the New York Trilogy sitting on the shelf for years, waiting to be read ....

Pretty wild version on this album: https://www.discogs.com/release/2090180-Eddie-Harris-Live-In-Berlin-At-The-Jazzclub-Quasimodo

Yes! One of the best bands Mongo ever had! One track was omitted on the LP, Saoco. Conversation in Drums is the last 1 1/2 minutes of it. The complete track is on YouTube:

I just learned that pianist Christoph Spendel has passed on November 7, 2025 at age 70. He was one of Germany's best, and had been teaching at the Frankfurt music University.

All of their recordings are listed here, btw https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/don-patterson/index.php

Well, yeah, but the groove and feel is kinda stiff and cerebral compared to Walton, Carter, and Higgins.

Credit is due to this thread. I knew of him, but only now checked out this, his first album.

I think 14 of these are with Don Patterson. They were a great, inspiring combination.

Eddie wrote several tunes with such angular melodies; Mean Greens is my favourite. The part resembling Freedom Jazz Dance is in the middle, before the sesond and third solos. Ambidextrous is another one, more or less a new version of Mean Greens. What is remarkable about Mean Greens is that the boogaloo riff is present from start to finish, selfless Cedar Walton plays is all the way through except when he solos and Eddie and Roy Codrington play it for him. Walton also plays the riff all through Freedom Jazz Dance, freeing Ron Carter and Billy Higgins. These guys groove the hell out of this tune!

Maybe he has run out of ideas or inspiration. I saw his group with Rainer Brüninghaus and Trilok Gurtu some years ago. Gurtu was the most engaging that evening. He is currently touring Germany with Gurtu.

75th anniversary of the local Bach Festival. Tonight, two Harpsichords recreating the contest between Louis Marchard and Johann Sebastian Bach that never took place. Alexander von Heissen, now teaching in Leipzig, and his former teacher, Eva Maria Pollerus in a nice local baroque church.

Chick Corea's "Is" sessions were the first time I heard him in such a context - still very much worth hearing: IMHO his playing was a little too busy to be one of my favourites. But I love the Directions and Special Edition albums. Saw him live twice with these groups. and it was great. Unfortunately the last time I saw him, in a trio with Foday Musa Suso and Jerome Harris, he seemed kinda uninspired, playing routine grooves instead of trying to sound a little more "African". Foday Musa Suso was great, really leaning into the music, but Jack played like he was watching the performance from his favourite tv sofa.