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After googling, and finding that Back cover and label both state A side timing as 15'45", actual timing is 11'15", I had to use my stop watch: Mine is indeed 15'45".
Which seems to mean that it is not available digitally. Mine was bought - without sleeve - at a junk yard. And sounds like that.
My 1995 record cover for the self-released "Deathprod Recording The Jörg Mager Trio". I was asked to do this cover by Helge Sten aka Deathprod himself. Quite an honor given how much his work inspired me at the time.
Scans taken from Discogs.co, as I don't have any copies of these files left.
www.discogs.com/Deathprod-Recording-J%c3%b6rg-Mager-Trio-...
Vinyl, 7", 33 ⅓ RPM, Limited Edition, Clear
Rubin of Low Factor.
Info:
Bandcamp: lowfactor.bandcamp.com/
Discogs: www.discogs.com/artist/2491561-Low-Factor
New Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9Jtq3ET0M
[Hasselblad 500 c/m / 80mm Planar / 2014]
Artist (group): Weather Report
Vinyl LP (1974)
Label: Columbia
Catalog No.: KC 32494
Stereo
Vinyl, out-of-print (original pressing)
Number of Discs: 1
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▶ Rear cover: here.
▶ LP on turntable: here.
▶ Inner sleeve: here.
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☞ Side 1
1. Nubian Sundance 10:40
2. American Tango 3:42
3. Cucumber Slumber 8:22
☞ Side 2
1. (4) Mysterious Traveller 7:18
2. (5) Blackthorn Rose 5:02
3. (6) Scarlet Woman 5:47
4. (7) Jungle Book 7:20
The album cover and inner liner erroneously list Jungle Book after American Tango on side 1, and omit Cucumber Slumber.
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▶ Musicians (Weather Report)
☞ Joe Zawinul – leader, electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer, guitar, kalimba, organ, tamboura, clay drum, tack piano, melodica
☞ Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone, tack piano
☞ Miroslav Vitouš – acoustic bass (tr. 2)
☞ Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
☞ Ishmael Wilburn – drums
☞ Skip Hadden – drums (tr. 1,4)
☞ Dom Um Romão – percussion, drums
☞ Various guest musicians, including:
Ray Barretto – percussion (tr. 3)
☞ Helmut Wimmer (Hayden Planetarium) – front artwork
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▶ "In 1974, three years after the band's inception, Weather Report became one of the world's most popular jazz groups due to their uncompromising originality and musicianship. This was the year that founding member Miroslav Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson, who became a critical asset as both a fluid, creative bassist and a composer. Drummer Ishmael Wilburn and Brazilian percussionist Dom Um Romao, with a shifting cast of supporting players, laid the foundation for the band's most exciting incarnation yet. The overdue reissue of Mysterious Traveller is a welcome acknowledgment of this mid-period lineup's importance in the evolution of fusion."
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▶ To me, 1974's Mysterious Traveller marked Weather Report's transition from the improvisational sound of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, in its first albums, to the more composed-through funk/rock vamping of its later efforts. It's also my personal pre-Jaco (Pastorius) favorite of Weather Report's oeuvre, and, in particular, the cuts: Blackthorn Rose with a beautiful soprano sax/piano duet, the miniature electronica of American Tango, the ethereal (and mysterious) title track, Mysterious Traveller, and the jazz-funk workout of Cucumber Slumber.
A wonderful find in a local thrift shop — and in good condition— in...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
13 August 2020.
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Artist (group): Weather Report
Vinyl LP (1974)
Label: Columbia
Catalog No.: KC 32494
Stereo
Vinyl out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
▶ Front cover: here.
▶ LP on turntable: here.
▶ Inner sleeve: here.
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☞ Side 1
1. Nubian Sundance 10:40
2. American Tango 3:42
3. Cucumber Slumber 8:22
☞ Side 2
1. (4) Mysterious Traveller 7:18
2. (5) Blackthorn Rose 5:02
3. (6) Scarlet Woman 5:47
4. (7) Jungle Book 7:20
The album cover and inner liner erroneously list Jungle Book after American Tango on side1 and completely omit Cucumber Slumber.
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▶ Musicians (Weather Report)
☞ Joe Zawinul – leader, electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer, guitar, kalimba, organ, tamboura, clay drum, tack piano, melodica
☞ Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone, tack piano
☞ Miroslav Vitouš – acoustic bass (tr. 2)
☞ Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
☞ Ishmael Wilburn – drums
☞ Skip Hadden – drums (tr. 1,4)
☞ Dom Um Romão – percussion, drums
☞ Various guest musicians, including:
Ray Barretto – percussion (tr. 3)
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▶ "In 1974, three years after the band's inception, Weather Report became one of the world's most popular jazz groups due to their uncompromising originality and musicianship. This was the year that founding member Miroslav Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson, who became a critical asset as both a fluid, creative bassist and a composer. Drummer Ishmael Wilburn and Brazilian percussionist Dom Um Romao, with a shifting cast of supporting players, laid the foundation for the band's most exciting incarnation yet. The overdue reissue of Mysterious Traveller is a welcome acknowledgment of this mid-period lineup's importance in the evolution of fusion."
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▶ To me, 1974's Mysterious Traveller marked Weather Report's transition from the improvisational sound of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, in its first albums, to the more composed-through funk/rock vamping of its later efforts. It's also my personal favorite of Weather Report's pre-Jaco Pastorius oeuvre, and, in particular, the cuts: Blackthorn Rose with a beautiful soprano sax/piano duet, the miniature electronica of American Tango, the ethereal (and mysterious) title track, Mysterious Traveller, and the jazz-funk workout of Cucumber Slumber.
A wonderful find in a local thrift shop — and in good condition— in...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
13 August 2020.
***************
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Vinyl LP (1980)
Label: Time-Life Records
Catalog No.: STL-J10
Monophonic / Stereo
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 3
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▶ Benny Carter (1907-2003) was a composer, arranger, big-band leader, and multi-instrumentalist, fluent on alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, and clarinet. His instrumental tone was gorgeous; his chops, wicked good; his solos, logical yet inventively surprising. He was a great among greats, without, perhaps, as much renown as others.
▶ This album is one in the 3-LP set, Giants of Jazz: Benny Carter (1980) — itself one in a Time-Life series of jazz compilations— that provides a snapshot of his career, comprising 40 recordings from 1929 through 1977.
A wonderful find in a local thrift shop...and in good condition.
10 January 2020.
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▶ "No jazz musician has ever exceeded, and few have approached, Benny Carter in all-around achievement. If a jazz decathlon were held that included competition in alto saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano, and trombone performances, as well as arranging, composing, conducting, and instructing, Carter might not win every event, but his point total almost certainly would eclipse that of any conceivable rival."
— Morroe Berger (LP pamphlet)
▶ The sound of the set is very good. A crucial reason is its recording engineer: Frank Abbey (1922-2008). In 1951, he began working at Capitol Records, recording pop, jazz, classical, rock, broadway, and spoken word for nearly two decades. In 1968, he moved to CBS Records (later Sony Music) where he specialized in remastering —and then digital remastering. Abbey retired in 1988 but continued to freelance from his own New Jersey studio. In 1991, he received a Grammy for technical excellence for re-mastering the original recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson.
▶ The notes to the accompanying 52-page pamphlet —at times overly fulsome— were written by Morroe Berger (1918-1963): a sociology professor at Princeton University who wrote about jazz. The notes on the music —detailed and less florid— were written by Morroe's son, Edward "Ed" Berger (1949-2017), a longtime curator at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.
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The Beaten Generation
During the course of 2015 I recommissioned my 21st birthday present from my father – a Micro Seiki MB-14ST that I brought over to the UK from my mom’s place in South Africa. I’ve also been slowly bringing over my collection of vinyl albums, meticulously selected and acquired, and lovingly cared for between the early-70’s and the late-80’s. They’ve also been stashed away at my mom’s place, protected from the elements in plastic sleeves and stored in bespoke cases holding about 50 albums apiece. Over the course of the past few months I’ve been playing some of the gems in my collection, and it’s been very rewarding to reconnect with my past. Both the good and the “interesting”.
On one of our trips to Europe in the late-80’s my future wife and I made our regular pilgrimage to the music stores, including WOM (World of Music) in Germany. It was here (in which city, I don’t recall) that I bought the LP "Viva Umkhonto!" a compilation of punk and hardcore music that featured previously unreleased material by European and US bands. The record was released in April 1987 as a collaborative effort by two independent labels, namely Mordam Records (USA) and De Konkurrent (Holland), both of whom were strong backers of the struggle against Apartheid. According to a statement on the back of the sleeve, “All money raised by this record goes to Umkhonto We Sizwe”. So this was a benefit album for the military wing of the ANC (African National Congress).
For context, allow me to turn to Wikipedia:
“Umkhonto We Sizwe (abbreviated as MK, Zulu for "Spear of the Nation") was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its founding represented the conviction in the face of the massacre that the ANC could no longer limit itself to nonviolent protest; its mission was to fight against the South African government. After warning the South African government in June 1961 of its intent to resist further acts of terror if the government did not take steps toward constitutional reform and increase political rights, MK launched its first attacks against government installations on 16 December 1961. It was subsequently classified as a terrorist organisation by the South African government and the United States, and banned”.
The album itself was definitely banned in South Africa and so possessing it was illegal. I took it into the country through Jan Smuts Airport (subsequently known as “Johannesburg International” and now, “O.R. Tambo International”) on my return from my trip to Europe and kept it safely tucked away in the belly of the beast in South Africa's capital city, Pretoria.
On the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, the Nationalist regime declared State of Emergency in June 1986. It forbade any action that could undermine the Apartheid state, nationwide. Also forbidden were any kind of “subversive statements”, defined as statements that promoted unlawful strikes, boycotts or civil disobedience, attacked military conscription, promoted disinvestment or sanctions, or that “aggravated feelings of racial hostility”. The penalty for engaging in these actions was a maximum of ten years imprisonment. Ouch - I definitely did not want to be caught with this album!
Of the people detained under these draconian regulations (circa-8,000 in the first couple of months) no names were published with the exception of those released at the discretion of the South African Police. Throughout the State of Emergency, newspapers had to engage in self-censorship, at the risk of being closed down by the government, and many used to print disclaimers alongside their articles that read” “This report has been restricted to comply with the Emergency Regulations”. Some newspapers and magazines were not able to appear, and no news came out of the black townships, except through the state’s Bureau of Information. At the time I stuck stickers on the front of my television screen and computer monitor that read “SABC News is Biased” just to remind myself to be vigilant about government disinformation.
The music on the compilation album is okay, but it’s the packaging and presentation that I really enjoyed as a snapshot of the times, and as an interesting piece of social history. Along with the record were included a poster and a booklet filled with newspaper clippings and ANC propaganda about the armed struggle against Apartheid. It also highlights companies that were breaking economic sanctions by continuing to do business with South Africa. The “Throw Well – Throw Shell” slogan is parody of oil the giant’s official marketing tag-line at the time, namely “Go Well – Go Shell”. I have uploaded a scan of this booklet to my DropBox.
I’m not going to comment on the accuracy or veracity of the information in the booklet, but in those turbulent times – under a state of emergency, with broad media censorship and where owning certain music could earn you a jail sentence – it was thrilling to see what people abroad were thinking and to read material that was not towing the official National Party line. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s fascinating to see how right Matt Johnson was back in 1989 (The The – “Mind Bomb”). Although he wasn’t talking about South Africa, per se, when he sang that we were the “beaten generation, reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation”, he pretty much hit the nail on the head. Prejudice and misinformation were weapons in the arsenal on both sides of the struggle in South Africa. I was one of the few pale South Africans to have the privilege of being exposed to both sides of that deformed coin.
The The - "The Beat(en) Generation" - YouTube Video Clip
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
Of this once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
Growing in the hearts of its population
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And hypnotized by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right
You may be worshiping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
And if they send in the special police
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
If you'd like to take a listen to "Viva Umkhonto!" I've found a ripped copy of the LP available for download here.
Also take a look at my Blogger posting.
Cheers, 2016 ©
www.discogs.com/Various-Fill-Your-Head-With-Jazz/release/...
Miles Davis Seven Steps To Heaven 6:25
A2 –Chico Hamilton, Gabor Szabo One For Joan 2:41
A3 –Thelonious Monk Rhythm-A-Ning 3:53
A4 –Clark Terry, Coleman Hawkins A Tune For The Tutor 6:25
A5 –Stan Getz, Bob Brookmeyer Jive Hoot 4:40
A6 –Herbie Mann Manteca 4:35
B1 –Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Moanin' 2:35
B2 –John Handy Three In One 4:00
B3 –Duke Ellington Take The "A" Train 3:47
B4 –Art Farmer Song For My Father 4:36
B5 –Eddie Harris What's New 3:16
B6 –Charles Lloyd Forest Flower 7:44
C1 –Woody Herman Cousins 5:03
C2 –Charlie Byrd Here's That Rainy Day 2:47
C3 –Paul Horn Count Your Change 4:37
C4 –J.J. Johnson Flat Black 4:17
C5 –Dave Brubeck Trolley Song 3:03
C6 –Don Ellis K.C. Blues 8:44
D1 –Paul Winter (2) Repeat 3:05
D2 –Bud Powell Ruby My Dear 5:47
D3 –Charlie Mingus* Slop 4:37
D4 –Gerry Mulligan What Is There To Say 4:03
D5 –Bill Evans, Dave Pike Vierd Blues 5:56
D6 –George Benson The Borgia Stick 3:05
D7 –Mose Allison Baby, Please Don't Go
The Beaten Generation
During the course of 2015 I recommissioned my 21st birthday present from my father – a Micro Seiki MB-14ST that I brought over to the UK from my mom’s place in South Africa. I’ve also been slowly bringing over my collection of vinyl albums, meticulously selected and acquired, and lovingly cared for between the early-70’s and the late-80’s. They’ve also been stashed away at my mom’s place, protected from the elements in plastic sleeves and stored in bespoke cases holding about 50 albums apiece. Over the course of the past few months I’ve been playing some of the gems in my collection, and it’s been very rewarding to reconnect with my past. Both the good and the “interesting”.
On one of our trips to Europe in the late-80’s my future wife and I made our regular pilgrimage to the music stores, including WOM (World of Music) in Germany. It was here (in which city, I don’t recall) that I bought the LP "Viva Umkhonto!" a compilation of punk and hardcore music that featured previously unreleased material by European and US bands. The record was released in April 1987 as a collaborative effort by two independent labels, namely Mordam Records (USA) and De Konkurrent (Holland), both of whom were strong backers of the struggle against Apartheid. According to a statement on the back of the sleeve, “All money raised by this record goes to Umkhonto We Sizwe”. So this was a benefit album for the military wing of the ANC (African National Congress).
For context, allow me to turn to Wikipedia:
“Umkhonto We Sizwe (abbreviated as MK, Zulu for "Spear of the Nation") was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), co-founded by Nelson Mandela in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre. Its founding represented the conviction in the face of the massacre that the ANC could no longer limit itself to nonviolent protest; its mission was to fight against the South African government. After warning the South African government in June 1961 of its intent to resist further acts of terror if the government did not take steps toward constitutional reform and increase political rights, MK launched its first attacks against government installations on 16 December 1961. It was subsequently classified as a terrorist organisation by the South African government and the United States, and banned”.
The album itself was definitely banned in South Africa and so possessing it was illegal. I took it into the country through Jan Smuts Airport (subsequently known as “Johannesburg International” and now, “O.R. Tambo International”) on my return from my trip to Europe and kept it safely tucked away in the belly of the beast in South Africa's capital city, Pretoria.
On the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, the Nationalist regime declared State of Emergency in June 1986. It forbade any action that could undermine the Apartheid state, nationwide. Also forbidden were any kind of “subversive statements”, defined as statements that promoted unlawful strikes, boycotts or civil disobedience, attacked military conscription, promoted disinvestment or sanctions, or that “aggravated feelings of racial hostility”. The penalty for engaging in these actions was a maximum of ten years imprisonment. Ouch - I definitely did not want to be caught with this album!
Of the people detained under these draconian regulations (circa-8,000 in the first couple of months) no names were published with the exception of those released at the discretion of the South African Police. Throughout the State of Emergency, newspapers had to engage in self-censorship, at the risk of being closed down by the government, and many used to print disclaimers alongside their articles that read” “This report has been restricted to comply with the Emergency Regulations”. Some newspapers and magazines were not able to appear, and no news came out of the black townships, except through the state’s Bureau of Information. At the time I stuck stickers on the front of my television screen and computer monitor that read “SABC News is Biased” just to remind myself to be vigilant about government disinformation.
The music on the compilation album is okay, but it’s the packaging and presentation that I really enjoyed as a snapshot of the times, and as an interesting piece of social history. Along with the record were included a poster and a booklet filled with newspaper clippings and ANC propaganda about the armed struggle against Apartheid. It also highlights companies that were breaking economic sanctions by continuing to do business with South Africa. The “Throw Well – Throw Shell” slogan is parody of oil the giant’s official marketing tag-line at the time, namely “Go Well – Go Shell”. I have uploaded a scan of this booklet to my DropBox.
I’m not going to comment on the accuracy or veracity of the information in the booklet, but in those turbulent times – under a state of emergency, with broad media censorship and where owning certain music could earn you a jail sentence – it was thrilling to see what people abroad were thinking and to read material that was not towing the official National Party line. With the benefit of hindsight, it’s fascinating to see how right Matt Johnson was back in 1989 (The The – “Mind Bomb”). Although he wasn’t talking about South Africa, per se, when he sang that we were the “beaten generation, reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation”, he pretty much hit the nail on the head. Prejudice and misinformation were weapons in the arsenal on both sides of the struggle in South Africa. I was one of the few pale South Africans to have the privilege of being exposed to both sides of that deformed coin.
The The - "The Beat(en) Generation" - YouTube Video Clip
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
Of this once proud nation
Can you sense the fear and the hatred
Growing in the hearts of its population
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
By the greedy hands of politics and half truths
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
And hypnotized by the satellites
Into believing what is good and what is right
You may be worshiping the temples of mammon
Or lost in the prisons of religion
But can you still walk back to happiness
When you've nowhere left to run?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
And if they send in the special police
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
When they tell us justice is being done
And that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
The beaten generation, the beaten generation
Open your eyes, open your imagination
If you'd like to take a listen to "Viva Umkhonto!" I've found a ripped copy of the LP available for download here.
Also take a look at my Blogger posting.
Cheers, 2016 ©
Happy semi-quincentenary, Maestro Ludwig van Beethoven! (b. 1770, d. 1826)
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Beethoven Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Vinyl LP (1957)
Label: RCA Victor Red Seal
Catalog No.: LM-2124
Monophonic
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
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▶ RECORDING
Piano Concerto No. 5 In E-Flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor")
☞ Side 1
1. First Movement: Allegro (20:15)
☞ Side 2
1. (2) Second Movement: Adagio Un Poco Mosso (8:24)
2. (3) Third Movement: Rondo, Allegro (9:58)
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▶ PERFORMERS/CREDITS
Piano – Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982)
Conductor – Josef Krips
Orchestra – Symphony Of The Air [see below]
Cover photograph – Sabine Weiss
Liner Notes – Irving Kolodin
Producer, Engineer – ?
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▶ MORE IMAGES
☞ Rear cover (and liner notes).
☞ Vinyl.
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▶ NOTES
☞ The year 2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth. Although there is no official record of his birth, his baptism was recorded on 17 December and, so, his birth is assumed, by custom, to be the day prior, 16 December 1770. Beethoven died, at age 56, on 26 March 1827.
☞ The orchestra on this recording —the Symphony of the Air— is noteworthy. In 1937, the NBC television network created its own world-class symphony orchestra, called, of course, the NBC Symphony Orchestra. When the network disbanded the ensemble seventeen years later, in 1954, many of the musicians regrouped as the Symphony of the Air. The troupe played together until 1963 for several commercial recordings (such as this) and occasional broadcasts.
☞ Photographer's notes:
---> This concerto —particularly this recording, in my father's collection— was a favorite of mine as a young teenager...and even now.
---> Digitizing the record collection, one vinyl LP (or EP or 45-rpm) at a time.
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Title comes from The Tear Garden song of the same name.
View the music video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqHQ61Ctkk (courtesy of cEvin Key on YouTube)
Photographed my girlfriend's flower arrangement.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
Friday, January 15th, 2021
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Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer
Vinyl (1958)
7", 45 RPM, EP, Promo, Sampler
Label: RCA Victor
Catalog No.: SP-45-35
Stereo
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
▶ Disc view (front): here.
▶ Disc view (rear): here.
▶ On YouTube: here.
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▶ Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer was a 45 rpm freebie given to my father by his local RCA Victor record store in 1958. It was a Christmas sampler, comprising four tunes, a short disc my father would thereafter play annually at the start of the holiday season.
When my father passed away, I assumed the disc had been lost. That is, until nearly 20 years later, when I discovered the 45 hidden inside the boxed set of a 1952 off-the-air recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one-act opera that was itself once a staple of Christmas Eve American television broadcasting.
For me, hearing "Merry Christmas from your RCA Victor Record Dealer" was (and, now, is again) an aural cue of Crhistmas' advent, especially the fourth track (that is the second and last cut on side two): the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra performing a medley of the Christmas songs, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Adeste Fidelis." It's loud brassy: just what you might have expected at that New York City landmark theater in the 1950s.
So, happy in this audible nostalgia, I wish you a Happy Christmas (I save "merry" for a more appropriate New Year's Eve salutation), and any joy and peace of the season you may find.
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Poètes du 20ème siècle is a disc : www.discogs.com/Various-Po%C3%A8tes-Du-20%C3%A8me-Si%C3%A...
Photo of the back of the disc : fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/57539864/Charles-Boyer-...
Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer
Vinyl (1958)
7", 45 RPM, EP, Promo, Sampler
Label: RCA Victor
Catalog No.: SP-45-35
Stereo
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
▶ Disc view (front): here.
▶ Disc view (rear): here.
▶ On YouTube: here.
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▶ Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer was a 45 rpm freebie given to my father by his local RCA Victor record store in 1958. It was a Christmas sampler, comprising four tunes, a short disc my father would thereafter play annually at the start of the holiday season.
When my father passed away, I assumed the disc had been lost. That is, until nearly 20 years later, when I discovered the 45 hidden inside the boxed set of a 1952 off-the-air recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one-act opera that was itself once a staple of Christmas Eve American television broadcasting.
For me, hearing "Merry Christmas from your RCA Victor Record Dealer" was (and, now, is again) an aural cue of Crhistmas' advent, especially the fourth track (that is the second and last cut on side two): the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra performing a medley of the Christmas carols, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Adeste Fidelis." It's loud brassy ifit he disc a bit wobbly): just what you might have expected at that New York City landmark theater in the 1950s.
So, happy in this audible nostalgia, I wish you a Happy Christmas (I save "merry" for a more appropriate New Year's Eve salutation), and any joy and peace of the season you may find.
***************
▶ Photo by Yours For Good Fermentables.com.
▶ For a larger image, type 'L' (without the quotation marks).
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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— Edit: Photoshop Elements 15.
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Composer: Gian Carlo Menotti
Vinyl LP (1952)
Label: RCA Victor Red Seal
Catalog No.: LM 1701
Monophonic
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
▶ On YouTube: here.
▶ Cover art: Hieronymus Bosch, "The Adoration of the Magi," ca 1470-80.
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▶ RECORDING
☞ Side 1
1. Part 1 (20:39)
☞ Side 2
1. (2) Part 2 (25:50)
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▶ CAST
Amahl – Chet Allen (soprano)
His Mother – Rosemary Kuhlman (mezzo-soprano)
Kaspar – Andrew McKinley (tenor)
Melchior – David Aiken (baritone)
Balthazar – Leon Lishner (baritone)
The Page – Francis Monachino
Conductor – Thomas Schippers
NBC Opera Theatre Orchestra and Chorus
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▶ "Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed on December 24, 1951, in New York City, at NBC studio 8H in Radio City Music Hall, where it was broadcast live on television as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America."
— Discogs.
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▶ MORE IMAGES
☞ Vinyl: here.
☞ Inner sleeve: here.
☞ Booklet (front): here.
☞ Cast members: here.
☞ Gian Carlo Menotti (composer): here.
☞ Image from television broadcast (1): here.
☞ Image from television broadcast (2): here.
☞ Image from television broadcast (3): here.
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Artist (group): Weather Report
Vinyl LP (1974)
Label: Columbia
Catalog No.: KC 32494
Stereo
Vinyl, out-of-print (original pressing)
Number of Discs: 1
▶ Front cover: here.
▶ Rear cover: here.
▶ LP on turntable: here.
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☞ Side 1
1. Nubian Sundance 10:40
2. American Tango 3:42
3. Cucumber Slumber 8:22
☞ Side 2
1. (4) Mysterious Traveller 7:18
2. (5) Blackthorn Rose 5:02
3. (6) Scarlet Woman 5:47
4. (7) Jungle Book 7:20
The album cover and inner liner erroneously list Jungle Book after American Tango on side1 and completely omit Cucumber Slumber.
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▶ Musicians (Weather Report)
☞ Joe Zawinul – leader, electric and acoustic piano, synthesizer, guitar, kalimba, organ, tamboura, clay drum, tack piano, melodica
☞ Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophone, tack piano
☞ Miroslav Vitouš – acoustic bass (tr. 2)
☞ Alphonso Johnson – electric bass
☞ Ishmael Wilburn – drums
☞ Skip Hadden – drums (tr. 1,4)
☞ Dom Um Romão – percussion, drums
☞ Various guest musicians, including:
Ray Barretto – percussion (tr. 3)
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▶ "In 1974, three years after the band's inception, Weather Report became one of the world's most popular jazz groups due to their uncompromising originality and musicianship. This was the year that founding member Miroslav Vitous was replaced by Alphonso Johnson, who became a critical asset as both a fluid, creative bassist and a composer. Drummer Ishmael Wilburn and Brazilian percussionist Dom Um Romao, with a shifting cast of supporting players, laid the foundation for the band's most exciting incarnation yet. The overdue reissue of Mysterious Traveller is a welcome acknowledgment of this mid-period lineup's importance in the evolution of fusion."
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▶ To me, 1974's Mysterious Traveller marked Weather Report's transition from the improvisational sound of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, in its first albums, to the more composed-through funk/rock vamping of its later efforts. It's also my personal favorite of Weather Report's pre-Jaco Pastorius oeuvre, and, in particular, the cuts: Blackthorn Rose with a beautiful soprano sax/piano duet, the miniature electronica of American Tango, the ethereal (and mysterious) title track, Mysterious Traveller, and the jazz-funk workout of Cucumber Slumber.
A wonderful find in a local thrift shop — and in good condition— in...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
13 August 2020.
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Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer
Vinyl (1958)
7", 45 RPM, EP, Promo, Sampler
Label: RCA Victor
Catalog No.: SP-45-35
Stereo
out-of-print
Number of Discs: 1
▶ Disc view (front): here.
▶ Disc view (rear): here.
▶ On YouTube: here.
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▶ Merry Christmas from your RCA Music Dealer was a 45 rpm freebie given to my father by his local RCA Victor record store in 1958. It was a Christmas sampler, comprising four tunes, a short disc my father would thereafter play annually at the start of the holiday season.
When my father passed away, I assumed the disc had been lost. That is, until nearly 20 years later, when I discovered the 45 hidden inside the boxed set of a 1952 off-the-air recording of Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, a one-act opera that was itself once a staple of Christmas Eve American television broadcasting.
For me, hearing "Merry Christmas from your RCA Victor Record Dealer" was (and, now, is again) an aural cue of Crhistmas' advent, especially the fourth track (that is the second and last cut on side two): the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra performing a medley of the Christmas carols, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Adeste Fidelis." It's loud brassy ifit he disc a bit wobbly): just what you might have expected at that New York City landmark theater in the 1950s.
So, happy in this audible nostalgia, I wish you a Happy Christmas (I save "merry" for a more appropriate New Year's Eve salutation), and any joy and peace of the season you may find.
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banabila.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-viola-and-electronics
A CLOSER LISTEN:
The title may be bland, but the music is not. Music for viola and electronics is music for barren trees and weakening temperatures, shuttered doors and deserted streets. Its elegant beauty arrives just in time to score the starkest segment of fall, when leaves have passed their peak and daylight savings time has begun. This is a lost time, identified by its proximity to holidays, but also a rich time, yielding the last birds, the first frost. Michel Banabila‘s electronics provide the stark backdrop; Oene van Geel‘s viola provides glimpses of life in transition. The center track also includes bass: a throbbing pulse at the center of the set. But one would be forgiven for thinking that bass is present on other tracks as well, especially the booming “Dondergod”, an abrasive selection that sheers slices of sound like branches from a fallen tree. It’s no surprise that the title is Dutch for “thunder.” Banabila and van Geel met while recording last year’s Cloud Ensemble; the collective also included Machinefabriek and Grzegorz Bojanek. After trading ideas, they decided to work together again. In its softer moments (especially the gorgeous “Sinus en Snaar”), one can detect echoes of Richard Skelton; in its louder moments, Ben Frost comes to mind. Yet this specific combination – viola and electronics – is relatively rare. The humility of each performer is apparent, as composition, improvisation, and shaping duties shift from song to song, man to man: a fluid trade that yields far greater dividends. As the set progresses, one can hear the season unraveling. The viola protests: may I not continue to play outside? Yet thunderclouds are forming, and there’s no guarantee they contain rain. “Echoes from Hadhramaut” is a stratocumulus cloud preparing to erupt, which it finally does with a bang at 6:39. But then, as if relenting, the duo offers church bells and tentative melodies, leading to “Nothing But Blue Skies”, the album’s sweetest piece. One remembers a hidden truth: that the sky is as blue in winter as it is in summer. Only below can we tell the difference. Perhaps this is why the final piece is titled “Kingdom of Earth”. Finally the (actual) rain begins to fall, a cold precipitation on the verge of change, but Werner is singing in the rain. (Richard Allen)