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Just finished a first listen to this one ... a mixed bag ... some of it is very good ("Chaos", "Mindset", "Tango Palace"), some good ("Notes", the Giuffre, and rather unexpectedly the two guitar albums, the duo with Maslak, too), some is beyond odd ("Sonor") and the one I had the highest hopes for, "Memoirs", I found pretty weak - not bad, but I was hoping for this to be one of Bley's finest, going from the line-up - but that, it is not. At least that's my first impression.

has this one been mentioned? from what little I've heard by these dudes and dudettes, I'm pretty interested! 27 € at amazon.fr currently: http://www.amazon.fr/Magnificat-Rinaldo-Alessandrini/dp/B00EO7XPXO/

Happy Birthday, David!

Oh, usually it's not pornography, it's just the telenovela of another era

Sure they could, if they bother to spend money ... not sure they do. Also, no matter if the engineer is capable ... he goes from the sources they hand him, doesn't he? But I certainly am crossing my fingers for this to be a good box!

Now I'd be really interested to know if they found a better source other than the low-bitrate version that was around in the interwebs some years ago for those titles!

They do that here, too (not live usually though, but occasionally that, too ... once they had one broadcast into the large hall of main station ... I think they even staged one there once ... the silly event culture crap) ... never considered that. I could do DVD if I wanted (got a few in the mean time, also occasionally record something onto our lousy tv box), but I rarely feel like watching any music video recordings (I'm amassing lot of jazz though and often enjoy those bigtime when I finally am in the mood to watch any).

Dahlhaus is way over 100 € in German (128 from the publisher's, even more elsewhere, no used copies around at all, it seems) ... seems silly to read a translation. Can get it from the library though. Grout is around ... no time to read these now, but I'll take a note. Had a long post typed up some months ago here, but it got lost and I never felt like trying to re-create it ... anyway, early on, when I listened to hardly any classical music, I used to go to see opera live several times a year (could get cheap cards for five nights per season whilst in high school) and I mostly enjoyed it a lot ... but I'd never have listened to any of it at home. Nowadays, it's the other way 'round. Tickets are so incredibly expensive and the few okay seats at acceptable prices are gone fast ... I've not set foot into the opera house for a dozen years and am not sure that will change too soon, though they have "Jenufa" on ... already saw that one here once (probably the last time I was at the opera) and loved it, so ... The whole elitist aspect of it, the fact that a huge part of public cultural expenses (and lots of corporate sponsoring on top) goes into opera (and of course hardly any into jazz, and what goes into jazz mostly to more high-brow stuff that I prefer, too) does annoy me very much. But for once, there the issue isn't dead maestros but living divas ... guess that opera actually just isn't feasible anymore the way our eventizized moronic society wants sthings to happen. I'd love to be able and experience the music live, even if was just "concertante" productions ... but with the silly star cult (which grew excessive in Zurich in the long years of Pereira heading the opera, though I guess in the end he did a fine job under the circumstances ... but possibly he's the kind of person who strenghtens exactly those circumstances, too, turning it all into events and crap for local wannabee-celebrities yadda yadda yadda) in play, it won't work out. Politically, I'd be all for shutting down those money-eating opera houses, right now - and spreading the money that is around to support cultural activities in a much broader way. But then I guess if we go on like we do (heading, I'm afraid, into decades of social unrest, if things won't start to change pretty soon), opera houses will be shut - or will morph into closed high society places ... they're almost there - anyway.

Okay, thanks! It's the only of that series that I happen to have ... got the Minguses and Coltranes in the respective boxes and have alyways been very happy with those (had some of the old "domestic" Atlantic CDs by Mingus before, but back then - I was a teenager - I wouldn't even bother to compare anything, rather just gave away duplicates).

Uhm, why do you picture that edition of the Blakey/Monk? Happens to be the one I've got ...

Which McMaster are you referring to? McMaster is not credited on the 1989 CD reissue, Malcolm Addey is. Talk about catching up late .... so it's Addey, I assume (don't have the disc in my hands, don't know the pile at the bottom of which it must be located right now). I tend to forget that Addey did some of those early BN CDs .... I did keep his old "Money Jungle" though, as I prefer the sound of it over the later McMaster that was a no-brainer as it added several more alternate takes (and I think even one new tune). Oops, and I hadn't seen my previous reply ... perusing this and some other threads right now to look up stuff on cdjapan ...

Seems he's real: http://www.talentris.com/interviewn.php?number=7 There's also an feghbook profile, so anyone playing that game could drop him a question - I'd surely be interested, since Steve sums up my own take: don't think I'll ever land that LP box, so ... On the other hand, I've got several of those Essential Keynote Collection discs - the Hawkins is one fantastic set! - and really don't feel like overspending on what might end up a crappy-sounding (and even worse possibly partly MP3 sourced) box set done by the crooks. Too bad PolyGram/Verve/Universal never really bothered to do the right thing and release this music jazz reissues were still feasible.

there we go again .... btw, of the European ones, amazon.it is selling lots and lots for 4-5 €

The notes aren't that great indeed, but I was never really bothered by that. That Hamp story is weird though ... I assume the notes are by Kurt S. Weil? He died quite exactly a year ago (on Dec 12, 2012), so there's no way to find out, I'm afraid. He was respected and had his well-woven network, I think (at one time he led GRP Europe) ... would be interesting to find out if that was just some lapse or if there's any actual story behind it.

Yep, mentioned a couple pages back, shortly before the box came out ... pretty cool that they added it, indeed!

Very sad news.

Agreed! I was merely answering the question where to start with OM, I'd not be able to do so for Leimgruber in general, wouldn't feel competent.

I would start with "Kirikuki" myself..if you like that you can explore further. They are all good though...none are radically different from the other so... There's a pre-Japo title called "Live at Montreaux" too but either of the Japo titles would do for a start... Actually the ECM CD compilation might not be a bad starting point ... love the recent "Willisau" on Intakt (CD only) ... they did a few more reunion concerts (actually two, I think? would need to check my files at home) that were broadcast on Swiss radio (as was Willisau, before it came out officially). The best I've heard of Leimgruber's was a live set in trio with Christian Weber on bass and Christian Wolfahrt on drums ... gorgeous, very quiet yet intense stuff - but then I only know a small fraction of his large work.

Oh, I love "Portrait of Thelonious" ... never occurred to me that that isn't a good rekkid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck11eDiwxL4#t=306 Sclavis-Texier-Romano - Standing Ovation (For Nelson Mandela)

To stick to the charming imagery here, there's also some oral diarrhea going on ... but that books sounds very interesting, Face of the Bass - just read most of the introduction in the preview up on amazon (the final one or two pages are missing, alas).

And I want "Streams"! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streams_(album)

Delalande: Petits Motets (Christie) - effin' gorgeous! Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Symphonies Nos. 21 & 27 (Portal, Entremont) - best Mozart concerto I've heard ... wonderfully subdued, allowing the music to really shine) others I've enjoyed: Delalande: Te Deum (Christie) Lully: Petits Motets (Christie) Lully: Grands Motets (Herreweghe) Monteverdi: Lamento della ninfa / Altri canti di Marte (Christie) Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale - recueil de 1640 (extraits) (Christie) Ockeghem: Requiem (Peres) guess you can indeed say I love William Christie and his combo (Les Arts Florissants) ... what with singers like Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Guillemette Laurens, Dominique Visse ... the Ockeghem is one of the very few classical discs I've had (AND occasionally played) since high school.

Sure, just had a few minutes and a (free) account there ... glad to help! No time to listen to the whole thing yet though (had to watch two more episodes of "Homeland", I'm 'fraid, I'm on the hook there).

Keith "No End"? Really? Nice about the Rivers, but I'll just stick to my LP, I guess. But why does "African Piano" need reissue, it's been around forever, hasn't it? Was it ever OOP? Anyway, it's a glorious album!