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Sabicas & Escudero re-release
Just a note to say that their Latin American album, Romantic Guitars, has just reappeared, under the rather bland title of Masters of the Spanish Guitar.
Amazon apparently has it available on CD in the US (ASIN=B0149EB3YY), but only on MP3 in the UK (ASIN=B011EL3ZVO)
(As I mentioned previously, Fantastic Guitars and Flamenco Styles appeared some time ago as a twofer (B005Q46HSO).)
RE: Sabicas & Escudero re-release (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
Cool! Thanks for posting about this. On a similar note, it's surprising that the Sabicas and Nino Ricardo recordings never emerged publicly. I'll have to post them one of these days!
RE: Sabicas & Escudero re-release (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
They are low quality recordings, but they are duets that Ricardo and Sabicas recorded while staying at a hotel together. I don't remember the details -- I'll have to ask Humberto the next time I see him.
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RE: Sabicas & Escudero re-release (in reply to Pimientito)
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the way Paul....how many of the original Sabicas recordings do you have now?
Hard to say, because the CDs don’t always map to the LPs exactly: forty-something, at least, plus more on MP3. He told me had made fifty-something, but putting together a discography’s a huge task.
For a start, there are the recordings he made before he left Spain, which were in Limbo for decades but now seem to be appearing piecemeal; this is complicated by the fact that some Spanish labels are now putting out his recordings from the ’50s and ’60s and passing them off as from the ’40s.
The core of the LPs is the Decca and ABC recordings (none of which carries any recording date ). I read somewhere that the ABC masters are now in bad shape; luckily for me I bought most of their Sabicas LPs when they first appeared (one advantage at least of being old!).
After decades of total neglect, record companies are now putting out so many garbled reissues, it’s making my head spin (I try to keep track of them on Amazon, but it’s an uphill job). So many that it makes me wonder if some of them (particularly the Art of the Guitar) have passed into the public domain.
Are you after one in particular?
P.S. As regards the reissues of the pre-war stuff, by far the best IMHO is Al compás de mi guitarra.
RE: Sabicas & Escudero re-release (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
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Are you after one in particular?
No...but i have been collecting Sabicas Vinyl for several years now ( although not as seriously as the recent Paco investigation) I have over 20 LPs and a bunch of EPs as well, not to mention other colaborations like the Sabicas and Enrique Morente double LP. I didnt know he did over 50 albums though....thats insane!!!!
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). I read somewhere that the ABC masters are now in bad shape; luckily for me I bought most of their Sabicas LPs when they first appeared (one advantage at least of being old!). 
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