Courtney Pine: "Back in the day", 2000, Verve EU, 543 580-1.
Perfect dynamics/pressing.
With Acid Jazz back in the new week. With a swing.
Listen to Curtis Mayfield's "Hardtimes" A3.
Courtney Pine: "Back in the day", 2000, Verve EU, 543 580-1.
Perfect dynamics/pressing.
With Acid Jazz back in the new week. With a swing.
Listen to Curtis Mayfield's "Hardtimes" A3.
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Witty and bold compositions. Tradition, technics and prowess. Direct metal mastering by TELDEC. Listen to guitar solo by Allan Jaffe in "Slickaphonic Stomp" B4. Modern jazz from NYC. But is it new? At least it's all good clean fun!
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Swiss Ethno-Jazz. Why not? Anybody knows the Swiss music instrument "Hackbrett"? It's a hammered dulcimer from the Kanton Appenzell. It awakens associations to gypsy and Persian music. "Da pfeift der Wind, rumpelt der Berg, dann wieder reitet die letzte Hexe Europas auf einer Kuhherde zur Walpurgisnacht, bis zuweilen ein Gletscher durch die Gegend schlafwandelt.= The wind whistles, the mountain grumbles, and then, the last of Europe's witches rides on a cattle herd to the walpurgis night while a glacier sleep-walks around sometimes." (liner notes on inner sheet) Na, ja...
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Listen to the Jazz-suite "The patient prince" B1: all acoustic, but very funky part "First sight". Great dynamics. Listen to the acoustic bass played by George Mraz. Sir Roland Hanna, piano. Gottseidank, welche Wohltat: keine Synthesizer!
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The first problem is there's not much guitar. But the other problems are weightier: the album is dominated by dated drum machines, synthesizers and cheesy keyboards. The synthesizers pretend to be orchestras. Too much technology. No soul at all. No personality. Just MOR jazz.
P.S.: look at the prices for this German pressing at discogs. Unbelievable! (The price is just a sign of supply/demand for an artificial market. So forget discogs' pricing!)
P.P.S: Am i too critical of the US music business?
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He was one of the best studio guitar players. But what crap did he produce on this one?! Too much dumb technology. "Stuff" was an inspired band of superb musicians. But this one has no soul at all. Don't listen to "I heard it through the grapevine" B2: it's the ultimate sin....
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2LP special edition. Grammy winning reggae legends Sly & Robbie (Black Uhuru) feat. Norwegian Jazz innovator Nil Petter Molvaer. Beyond all boundaries! Blooming meditative sound landscapes...
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Flutist Friedemann Leinert is Lenny Mac Dowell. No chance with a German name? In fact this album had no chance at all in Germany in 1980 . In 1980 the "NDW"= "Neue Deutsche Welle" was rampant like an epidemic disease. After 40 years we may find this a delectable playful psychedelic jazzrock album. Dumb NDW is (nearly) forgotten, but this one is somehow ageless. No dull minute.
PS: anybody owns the "direct-to-disc-cut" vinyl version?
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Recorded live by Martyn Webster with the Pumacrest Mobile, 7. & 8. Nov. 1987, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London.
Jon Hiseman dr, Phil Mulford b, Peter Lemer kb and striking guitar playing by Paul Dunne.
Barbara Thompson: fantastic compositions and performance! "Member Of The British Empire" since 1995. Stopped her career because of Parkinson disease: https://www.melodiva.de/reports/buhn...a-thompson-gb/
Superb live recording conditions.
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Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom
Too many audiophiles listen with their eyes instead of their ears
My (yesterday) link to a crispy solo by Barbara Thompson here: http://www.audioheritage.org/vbullet...l=1#post440677
Best wishes from Switzerland
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Successful cross-over of tradition and technology.
Listen to the cool track of this enthralling album A1 "The Beaten Side Of Town": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSIuK208Ac
Thanx for the tip to Peter of Vinylpunkt in Schaffhausen https://vinylpunkt.vpweb.ch/
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Freude herrscht! Great quality out of the depths of German Schwarzwald from the Tonmeister!
You may buy every MPS-record on fleamarkets or in secondhandshops: all winners, no losers!
Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (1927-2004) at MPS Studio Villingen/Schwarzwald was guarantor for it.
Perfect vinyl pressing. Perfect engineering.
Listen to B3 Jobim's "Wave": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdKbpqVEenE
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As noted on front cover: Swiss Jazz Singer Brigitte Bader meets Johnny Griffin ts, Dado Moroni p, Luigi Trussardi b, Alvin Queen dr and many others from different countries.
Wonderful version of Charles Mingus/Joni Mitchell "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" A1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8aVYBIG-E
As Bruno Spoerri writes in his liner notes: "In a time when technology and artistic perfection seem to count more than personality and honest feelings, recordings like these are particularly important."
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