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  2. What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by mikeweil

    13 hours ago, T.D. said:

    This looks interesting. I was a fan of Vasks back in the '90s, then lost track and have been unaware of his piano works.

    It was a birthday present from a friend who works at the German publisher of Vasks' works. Definitely worth a listen - partly calm, partly energetic, but never hyperactive, the music takes its time to develop, is never bland. He has a style of his own. The CD, btw, plays a few seconds over 80 minutes! 

  4. How Dates Enter The Jazz Discography Canon, In Error

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    Sometimes it's just sloppiness when filling out the data sheets accompanying a tape box, especially when it's done after the fact. While researching Cal Tjader, S. Duncan Reid was lucky to find out there was a Tjader fan among Californian journalists who announced upcoming concerts and/or reviewed them. The dates in the Fantasy archives often were a week off. Sometimes dates in the album credits had the wrong days of festival appearances. 

    I'd rather not muse about studio recordings involving overdubs over a lengthy time period. How do you date these? 

  7. Does Oscar Peterson get a bad rap?

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by mikeweil

    On 3/3/2024 at 3:05 AM, JSngry said:

    Errol Garner was one of those people who could sound perfectly innocent while being pretty damn subversive. 

    Magician indeed! 

    That one convinces me. Just found a nicely priced copy and ordered it.

  8. Can song lyrics ever be literature?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted · Edited by mikeweil

    12 hours ago, felser said:

    I treat at least parts of some song lyrics as poetry or, less often, prose.  I own Dylan lyrics 1962-1985 book and the Springsteen lyrics book. Dylan's "My Back Pages", "Chimes of Freedom", those are poetry to me.  Something like Norman Whitfield's "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" and "Cloud Nine" and Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe" and Mann/Weil's "On Broadway" and Springsteen's "The River" and "Thunder Road" and "Racing in the Streets" are prose to me.

    It's hard for me to imagine some of your examples without the meoldy they are sung to. So I would say it depends. I know a lot of excellent poetry that could not be sung. In classical music, composers chose the song lyrics according to their potential as songs. But these were not written with that in mind, which may be the main distinction to song/sung lyrics.

  20. Kip Hanrahan

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by mikeweil

    On 2/23/2024 at 7:08 PM, soulpope said:

    Probably it was different to hear these as new releases in the 80`s first, even more as the Classic Salsa releases started to drying out while top congueros like Nicky Marrero, Jerry Gonzalez, Daniel Ponce, Gene Golden, Milton Cardona got the call and didn`t hold back .... btw recording/mixing by John Fausty, who recorded tons of Salsa jewels ....

    Agreed. It was so nice to have a series of CDs which heavily featured percussionists.

  22. Post a pic

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by mikeweil

    Pic from a surprise family meeting a week ago. We were invited by a  friend who had just moved to Lübeck, and my wife secretly arranged that my daughter showed up to congratulate me for my 70th birthday. My daughter in the center, where she belongs, with the two most important men in her life at her sides, me and her husband to be, her mother on the left and my wife on the right. She is blessed to have two mothers now. 

     

    Lübeck 2024-02-17 a.jpg

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