At the third attempt. Having got mugged by the kopyright kops twice. But now I seem to be over the border, so...first off, what's missing? From this double album.
Well, I had already done some editing. When I got this, my first impression was that there was some great stuff on there, but also some real dross. So much so that I put it to one side for a while. When I took it out again, I discovered it was not hard to avoid the smelly stuff. Just stick to Oscar Peterson and a handful of musicians. It was when the Big Band turned up that things started to head toward Las Vegas (did string sections ever do anything but ruin jazz?). And as for the tracks featuring The Singers Unlimited...the kind of music that could only be enjoyed by people who have to have all their food puréed...
So, I'd already cut This Guy's in Love With You, Wave, Sesame Street and Catherine. Eisenhower jazz. Then my first upload got canned for copyright infringement. That was the end of Ja Da. Then the #2, sans Ja Da, also got taken round back o' the cowshed & smacked over the head with a shovel. Bye bye If I should Loose (sic) You. Leaving:
Exactly Like You
Soft Winds
I Love You
Younger Than Springtime
You Stepped Out of A Dream
Seven Come Eleven
Wheatland
Someday My Prince Will Come
Smile
Watch, What Happens
featuring Oscar Peterson and
bass, by the frankly absurdly monikered Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Ray Brown, Sam Jones and Jiri Mraz
drums, by Bob Durham, Louis Hayes, Ray Price
guitar, by Herb Ellis, and
vibraphone (don't worry - not much) by Milt Jackson
Apparently all these tracks came from sessions at a place up in the Black Forest - a personal recording studio owned by a Big Fat Bavarian jazz nut called Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer (that's him in the picture) who used to get jazz musicians to come by and record there. Most of the recording quality is absolutely top notch - on a par with good Pablo or Blue Note - and while some of the tracks are a bit...Bavarian?....I've cut most of them out, so you'll never have to shudder as I must when I play the actual records.
One apology - some of the surgery in removing the now missing tracks is a tad ragged. Nothing too grisly, but I'm not what you'd call an Audacity whizz. Hope it doesn't interfere.
Fingers crossed that it evades the border guards....
