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Jiří Mráz Phoebe Snow Johnny Winter ....

Cypress Hill Andrea Berg Milos Kopecky ....

In trouble double 🎅🎅🎅 ....

Your impressions .... ?

Can't go wrong with Sviatoslav Richter .... btw excellent Cover Photography ....

Kip Hanrahan ....

Nice portrait photography of a good looking lady ....

Underappreciated Kinks platter ....

Thnx for sharing your view initially .... it's not easy to critize composers/recordings pozentially being favourites of other members .... but it is a vital part of the forum to discuss/communicate and (especially) the Classical Music Thread is no exemption ....

Angela Hewitt "Beethoven Piano Sonatas" (Hyperion) .... Cover Paintings by Caio Fonseca ....

CBBB key members at work .... features some unissued tracks ....

An additional blow for the CBBB was that they never "crossed over" to the U.S .... after winning the "Melody Maker" Big Band poll in 1969 an extensive U.S Tour was in the plans, but never did materialize .... Ex-pat Herb Geller was chosen as Derek Humble's substitute....

Btw Brahms suffered life long from excessive self-criticism .... what a irony ....

Probably misleading, my bad .... individual CBBB musicians aimed for more commercial music, whereas Francy Boland had different ideas about the Big Band's sound in the 70's .... "Off Limits" set these diverging views even more apart ....

@ "HutchFan" : could not resist 😎 .... off course a complete exaggeration, still making ironically the point his Piano Concertos are hard to digest ....

Don't get me wrong, this is exiting music .... it was the beginning of the 70's and the music was changing .... but maybe it has a reason, that this was- apart from the Stan Getz collaboration - their last album .... I had a lengthy talk with Gigi Campi in the late 90's and he stated that it became increasingly tedious holding the key members of the CBBB together .... "crossover" to more popular music was tempting .... means it was also about money ....

Both Brahms Piano Concertos are monoliths, no question ....

Really love the CBBB and although a good effort this swansong also mirrors a bit "jazz-rock" territory championed by MPS stablemates Peter Herbolzheimer Rhythm Combination & Brass subsequently, means more groove oriented than sophisticated ....

What are your impressions .... ?

Superb playing by Cecil McBee ....

Terrific 👌👍 ....

Interesting observations .... would disagree about Ahmad Jamal sounding " cold" on piano though ....

Isabella Colbran Jacopo Ferretti Gaetano Donizetti ....

🤯🥳🤯 ....

Gigi Riva Enrico Albertosi Sandro Mazzola ....