Posts Tagged ‘recommended’
Claude Williamson: ‘Round Midnight (1956)
It’s funny to see how much mail I get via this website from people who hope that I can help them out with this or that. Funny, because I’ve never considered myself to be someone who knows all that much about music in general and various artists and bands in particular. I am a listener, [...]
Observations 06-2009
“Life sucks … and then you die.” There was actually a graduating class at the school I work at that had my “motto” printed on the back of their graduation T-shirts once, well-knowing that I love to play the eternal cynic with a bunch of virtual winking smileys added for good measure. So, before I [...]
Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess
Epitomizing. You know it when you see it (to quote the infamous Justice Potter) and you get a lot of it around here. If I like something, I tell you so, and I don’t hold back on the verbiage to get my point across. So, should we give it another go? Oscar Peterson, who in [...]
Ted Nugent: Double Live Gonzo!
How’s that for a change of pace around here? A post about the “Motor City Madman” by the only German that doesn’t have a driver’s license? As is always the case around here, the memory tag is securely attached to this double-LP, which I invested a whole summer’s earnings into. But. If you have at [...]
Observations 02-2009
For the first time in 2009, I had a look at the statistics for this (rather lifeless) site and, alas, I have more readers than ever before. My Google page rank even increased (go figure). I guess it’s the “curse” of any site that was once updated more or less regularly to get all comfy [...]
Ed Thigpen: Gentleman of Jazz
A Profile of Sorts I pride myself on hardly ever having misjudged people. Naturally, I have been completely wrong at times (and when I am/was wrong, I am/was completely off), but as far as I recall, the number of blunders were rather limited. It is my profession to evaluate people and although that is often [...]
John Coltrane: “Fearless Leader” and “Interplay”
It’s been quite a while since I started a series entitled Trials and Tribulations. In that series, I wrote about things that can drive us collectors up the wall …and down again. At the time I only hinted at it, but right now I’m planning on expanding on one of the issues I mostly left [...]
“Zweitausendeins” … And More
I know quite a few collectors who actually plan their shopping sprees. I used to do that too, at times, but today I neither look at my usual online haunts all that regularly nor do I head into town as often as I would like. The shopping patterns I adhere to are not based on [...]
Trio Pim Jacobs: “Come Fly With Me”
I had never heard of Pim Jacobs when, unsuspecting, I accidentally hit one of those sites that discuss more obscure music releases or reissues and, although I can’t quite recall, the album was even offered for download. I quickly read through the veritable epitomizing of this reissue and started investigating in more detail. It’s become [...]
Recent Acquisitions
End of the year, which starts in Germany mid-summer with the sale of Christmas cookies at major supermarkets (go figure), is usually a busy shopping time. I don’t know why that is, but every year I seem to find bargain prices all over the place at a time when things should actually be full price [...]