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  1. Well, they were saying the exact same thing in the 60s - that rock music was less complex and a watering down of Tin Pan Alley-based pop. I think that a basic important point here is that complexity in music is hard to measure. It depends on the measuring rod that is being used. If we are looking only at harmonic complexity, for example, then it looks like popular music has become increasingly less complex since the mid-20th century. If we measure by rhythmic complexity, we will get a different result. And, or course, we could also argue about the relationship between complexity and quality in music.
  2. I will be interested to hear reviews on the sound. This is one group of recordings where the sound quality on previously releases has never been what might be hoped for.
  3. Even if you accept that notion that culture today is stagnating relative to the second half of the 20th century, it is still a question as to what is the "normal" pace, ie. the 20th century could have been above normal and now we are back to normal. I find it interesting that the "wrestling guitars of I Saw Her Standing There" is put up as the standard of cultural advancement. I recall in the 1960s how the musical establishment would give you a similar lecture on how the Beatles represented cultural decay in popular music relative to the supreme sophistication of Tin Pan Alley.
  4. I think that I might go with Art Farmer - Something Tasty.
  5. The notifications that you received about a change in password and email should have had a click option of something like "that wasn't me." If you click on that, you will be given an option to restore your account.
  6. Count Basie, Freddie Green, Walter Page, Jo Jones
  7. Some interesting comments here. Yes, it is very hard to absorb new music the same way as back then. But I attribute that mostly to age. It is just like with spoken languages. When you are young, they sink in completely and become a part of you. But that gets more and more difficult as you get older.
  8. I recall that when I first got really interested in Bird in the mid-1970s, there was almost nothing available on Verve. Then they issued most (but not all) of the music on three successive 2-LP sets. I remember waiting impatiently for the next one to come out. It was the same way for The Lester Young Story on Columbia. It took them 4 years to release all of those volumes. I kept reading about all these extraordinary performances that I had no access to. No, I don't long for "the good old days.:
  9. I wish you the very best with all your struggles, Larry.
  10. It is great to have Larry back at Organissimo! Welcome back, Larry!
  11. A recording surfaced some time ago from a concert given the next day as the one on "In Japan." But you probably knew that In Concert : Joe Henderson And Kikuchi Hino : Terumasa Hino (tp) Kohsuke Mine (sop,as) Joe Henderson (ts) Masabumi Kikuchi (p,el-p) Yoshio "Chin" Suzuki (b) Hiroshi Murakami, Yoshiyuki Nakamura (d) Live "Tokyo Toshi Center Hall", Tokyo, Japan, August 5, 1971 Sunrise in Tokyo Fontana (Jap)PAT1064, Philips (Jap)FX-8520 So what - - Get magic again - -
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