Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Back to David Diggs with Love Song Strings from 1975







Information discogged here.  I had to get this for completion on the seventies output from this wonderful composer, arranger, keyboardist, etc. I ripped two others recently back here, but earlier, the formidable Elusion album wowed us back here.  As usual, you live and learn. And thank the commenter who suggested the artist!
This one is criminally short, only 24 minutes long, and features composition by others, mostly a Chuck Girard, arranged for easy listening orchestra by Diggs. It's not straight out schmaltz, but close. The compositions are quite generic, but at least there are no cover versions or standards. Now that internet archive is down (shut down by Elon's drive for free speech, no doubt), can't put up samples, any suggestions? For once, youtube is shooting blanks here.

Recent info on the internet archive being down:

On Tuesday, October 8th, the Internet Archive began experiencing a multi-approach cyberattack across several fronts, which interrupted access to our digital library.

Our main priority is keeping our archived data safe, though at the expense of service availability. As a result, we took archive.org and openlibrary.org offline over the past few days to examine and strengthen our services—the Wayback Machine is now back online in a read-only view, and our blog and Mastodon have returned. We are increasing security measures and conducting additional checks on our infrastructure to ensure our archives remain secure.

An attack on our resources is not just an attack on the Internet Archive but a blow to millions of digital learners worldwide who depend on our services. We are committed to strengthening our defenses and constantly improving our security.

We apologize for the impact this caused on you, our valued users. The support of our community is deeply appreciated, and your generosity and assistance can help us during this time. Please consider donating to support continued access to knowledge for all who seek it. We understand if you cannot contribute, but any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Well, would be great if they get back up so we can hear those samples again!


5 comments:

  1. temp link, hopefully longer lasting than the wetransfers:
    https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/cc473138-7737-4d77-a3b1-51c0de8209fd

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  3. Hi Julian,
    Do you have these albums?

    https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/hakon-graf-grafitti/the-grafitti-project

    https://www.discogs.com/release/31165493-Nipe-Nyr%C3%A9n-Kvartett-Live-At-Kongsberg-Jazzfestival-1976

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  4. no, no luck although the second one for sure looks interesting

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