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Clare Fischer – First Time Out (Pacific, 1962)

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2 hours ago, JSngry said:

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1970 offbeat gem. This is what Spotify is good for - finding something totally unfamiliar by searching for a name I was curious about, and then finding, ok, Tony Coe, and then listening...this is a weird record. Weird and fascinating. Farnon only sometimes sticks to MOR practices, and Coe doesn't even try to. He snarls and bites and whispers, not at all unlike Paul Gonsalves playing on a stoned Percy Faith record or something. MOR, but only barely.

The album is apparently also known as:

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Anybody else know this one?

 

That seems to be the Canadian cover. It has another different psychedelic cover on the original.

sounds worth checking out.

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Having a hard time finding the exact Robert Farnon records I want to check out. there's a lot of "light classical" or whatever you call it that is good musically, but not at all what I'm looking for right now. So, you know, just throw "Robert Farnon" into Spotify search and all kinds of stuff comes up. Hit or miss, but when you find a gem, hey. worth the effort.

NP, something completely different.

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On 18.8.2022 at 10:16 AM, Gheorghe said:

Yeah I remember those times very well. 

But many players did include very much of Eastern European Folk music in their brand of jazz. I think this was supported by the governments who would not like that their artists play stuff that was created in USA. 

I got to know some of them personally, mostly from Romania. I knew the guys from Vocal Jazz Quartet (Nicolae Ionescu was the leader), Johnny Răducanu the pianist who also wrote an autobiography which I fear I have misplaced somewhere, Harry Tavitian - Corneliu Stroe „Duo Creativ”, and many others. Female singer Aura Urziceanu I think emigrated to Canada....., and sure I also met some cats from Cehoslovacia, Polonia and Republica Democratică Germania (GDR it was named in English I suppose). Wasn´t there the pianist Joachim Kuhn from over there ?  I think he left to the occident very early , I once saw a picture of him playing at Newport maybe in the 60´s. I think he had a lesser known brother who played clarinet. 

I think I didn´t meet musicians from Soviet Union, maybe from the now independent Republica Moldova (than a Soviet Republic), who had been separated from Romania after 1940.....

Maybe most I liked Valeriu Ponomarev, the soviet trumpet player best known with Blakey. I liked him most because I must admit I prefer american styled jazz, I don´t really have it with "searching the own roots" as it´s about music.....maybe a question of taste...., but I think it always was a secret how he had managed to get to USA....., once he was asked and said "no comment !!!!"

 

Yes thats correct what you say. AFAIK Joachim Kühn (p)  is from East Berlin (Former DDR or GDR).  Also correct - His bother playing clarinet = Rolf Kühn (or Kuhn in engl:)  Both emigrated to the US. Rolf Kühn played very much in the Buddy DeFranco style.  Ponomarev is  known to me. We had him with the Messengers in 1979 in our private Jazzclub in Koblenz (Germany). See my foto below + autographs.

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Here is one of the eastern big bands with guests from the West.

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Yes like her very much. Have some very fine livebroadcast from german & Switzerland radio + a nice concert with

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On 18.8.2022 at 9:47 AM, BillF said:

VOA, of course, was also heard on this side of the Curtain. I was an avid listener to Conover's shows. I often think this early training in lo-fi jazz listening is why I'm less concerned about audio quality than some board members. ;)

Yes a very good explanation.  Listening to VOA (here in Germany via LW coming from Tanger (Africa) to us)  was important for the music alone. No complaints at that time  even when the voice of Willis did fade away and coming back here and then during the broadcast.

BTW his archive is IMO available via net from the University of Texas. Had just contacted them some days ago to provide a link to listen to these broadcasts again.

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4 hours ago, BillF said:

Reminds me I must give this great one a listen:

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2 hours ago, John Tapscott said:

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There exist some more CD's  with Sammy  & the SWR BB on this "Hänssler" label.

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Saw them a few years after this was recorded - 1992 I think. Pretty hallowed venue too - Town Hall, NYC. Remember Marshall Royal on lead alto and also Richard Wyands on piano I think. Also on the bill - Buddy Tate All Stars with Urbie Green and Harry Edison plus Buck Clayton’s Band (without Buck but the rest of the lineup in situ). If only for a time machine to digest it again ! At the time, that concert seemed like an all-out last stand for a near vanishing era.

No prizes for guessing what Jacquet played for the encore !

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Miles Davis "In A Silent Way" Mobile Fidelity SACD

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This is one of the albums that first really turned me on to music itself, and that I have been listening to for about 50 years.

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