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The weekend bottle: Le Mas des Flauzières, Cuvée Julien, Séguret Côtes du Rhône Villages AOP, 2018

I would certainly like to hear that! As soon as I have renewed my Frankfurt library card I will consult the Verve discography.

Thanks for posting that link. They added the bonus tracks in a different oder and to different albums than the reissues I have. The single edits are not different takes, just edits. Maybe they now have better discographical info, which would explain their changes in bonus track order. Being a big Nina fan, I'm tempted. German retailers list it at € 64 to 70.

I have the seven single CDs that EMI/Parlophone issued in 2005, all with bonus tracks, remastered, and new liner notes. Folksy Nina was included on the Carnegie Hall CD as they come from the same session. I want to read track lists before I go for this new box. The tracks on my seven CDs add up to 107 also, so I don't expect new material.

As I said, Jungla is a 6/8 part. My guess is the studio staff mesed up when naming a re-take. "Okay, let's do another take of the 6/8." Which is the part titled Jungla. The Verve discography is full of such items.

My mistake, of course it is a different system.

The two versions from the Afro Cuban Suites have different master numbers. A "Finale" is the last part, always - O'Farrill's other suites always have the 6/8 part somewhere in the middle. A corrected track list would be: Manteca Theme Contraste - Bolero-Son Jungla - 6/8 Rhumba - Finale As I said, the "6/8" may just have been misplaced in the layout.

Cats and knees!

Dangerous for your bank account, for sure.

Here in Germany NHS covers ear cleaning, and only doctors are authorized to do so. Audiologists look into your ears, but when they discover the gunk they send you to the doctors, who also have to inspect and approve the functioning of your hearing aid.

I have a French 7 CD box set on United Archives that claims to be the "Complete Big Band Studio Sessions 1946-1960", lists the track "6/8" in the booklet and on the paper sleeve of the respective CD, but does not include it but has the suite as on the Norgran LP MG N-1003 (which I have a Verve LP replica CD from 2002). I smell a discographical messup here: The third part of the suite "Jungla" is in 6/8 time - maybe this part was re-recorded at the end of the session and given the track title "6/8" and a new master number but used replacing the original take of "Jungla". Musically, that part is pretty much identical to the parts titled "6/8" in both "Afro Cuban Jazz Suites" that Chico O'Farrill recorded for Verve in 1950 and 1952.

That may or will result in improved hearing but will not show you any deficiencies compared to your hearing capacities at age twenty without suffering from rock concert PAs. I tried one of those without satisfying results. Modern hearing aids prescribed by a doctor and adjusted by an audiologist will be customized to improve your hearing in the frequency ranges affected - those intenet gadgets cannot do that.

Probably my top favourite male harpsichord player is Skip Sempé, born in New Orleans but moved to Europe for advanced studies and stayed. I can recommend any of his solo or duo harpsichord recordings, but these stand out (the first two were reissued with differerent covers: He linked several videos of his playing on his webpages: https://paradizo.org: https://www.youtube.com/user/CapriccioStravagante/videos If I could take only one Scarlatti disc to the desert island, it would be the one above!

You all should consult a doctor and get an accurate survey of your hearing deficiencies. It 's not just the volume that's reduced. With my ears, e.g. there is a loss of 20-30% in the perception of high frequencies that makes it difficult to understand spoken language as I do not hear certain consonants any more, like "s" or "f", and no longer hear the overtones or the rings of cymbals etc. I know the music and what I do not hear anymore! At least without a hearing aid. Gheorge - try a hearing aid - you might hear things you never heard before, like the ring of cymbals that you miss on recordings (although I agree with you that drums are too low in volume on most recordings). You simply cannot feel high frequencies in your body! Hearing deficiencies develop slowly and you get used to them without noticing what you do not hear when you first hear a new recording. I thought my speakers were getting old until I got my hearing aid and all the treble was still there - I just couldn't hear it as well as before.

Better quality here: http://www.cantando.ch/images/cover_schultz.jpg

Absolutely beautiful with just four strings (the way it was originally performed by the composer) and a piano owned by one of Chopin's pupils!

Strange that this very elaborate Joe Henderson Discography has nothing about these extra or substituted tracks. If you have proof of evidence, please contact the author.

Here's an appetizer, Willism Babell's transcription of a Händel opera aria that shows pretty well what you can do. The player, Alexander von Heissen, is a rising star on the scene I witnessed his exams concert at the Frankfurt music university a year ago and have a ticket for his concert at the city's biggest venue next week. The man who built this copy of a Ruckers instrument happens to have his workshop in a 18th century house in Frankfurt where my grandparents used to live, btw.