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Pleasant surprise to see Henry Lowther on this.

RIP. Interesting guy. I always assumed he was Italian, never bothered to research. As an actor he had pretty much one routine, but did it very well.

Off-topic, but I also admire Rob Schneiderman because he's about my age (b. 1957) and became a mathematician as a nearly middle-aged man (B.A. 1994, Ph. D. 2001). He now has an academic career. 👍

And widespread online per Google.

Thanks, I very likely would enjoy it. I discovered Schneiderman through his Reservoir releases. First one was Dark Blue, an old-fashioned straight-ahead hard bop quintet (incl. Ralph Moore and Brian Lynch) but I was stunned by how good it sounded. I also have and can vouch for the Reservoir releases Back in Town (trio), Glass Enclosure (quartet w. Chas. McPherson) and Radio Waves (hard bop sextet also w. Moore and Lynch). I've long intended to get more of his recordings, but like many other things I haven't gotten around to it. Last month's BFT renewed the idea of trio sessions.

I've also seen that in several places. Not at home, else I'd check Szwed. Gotta be online too, but I'll leave it for the OP to google.

This does look good. I like Schneiderman and didn't know of the recording (Concord is a label I rarely think about, so no wonder).

I posted this a couple of times in recent years: https://thequietus.com/articles/29717-carla-bley-interview Most recent (2020) informative interview I've been able to find; she seems to have been rather private. Had been ill for quite a while, brain surgery (cancer) c. 2018. RIP.

I saw "Reddit" and stopped paying attention. Signal-to-noise ratio = 0.

I just preordered through Dusty Groove, which saves a bundle on US shipping. $31.99 for a 300+ page book featuring Guy, Tippett and Westbrook plus 2 CDs has to be worth a punt.

Damn. I only recently discovered that Arts Society of Kingston has been having concerts, but forgot to bookmark their page. 😢

Thanks, Mark. Great material and congratulations to Mr. Porter for digging it up.

I'm always behind, but just noticed this book+2CD from JIB: https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/merch/pre-order-and-did-those-feet-six-british-jazz-composers-by-duncan-heining-includes-two-cds-of-previously-unreleased-music-not-available-separately And Did Those Feet… examines in depth the lives and work of six British jazz composers – Michael Garrick, Mike Gibbs, Barry Guy, John Mayer, Keith Tippett and Mike Westbrook. Each of these musicians began their careers in jazz in the 1960s, years of artistic and political ferment and upheaval. Music historian Duncan Heining locates those beginnings in the context of changing times and shows how these composers’ work continued to develop whilst remaining influenced by values that continued to be informed by social and cultural concerns. Comments? I'm seriously interested in preorder, subject to any caveats brought up here. Thanks.

After long fence-sitting I finally ordered the Krakow 2020 box. This has two discs of larger ensemble pieces, which I really like, versus one for the Krakow 2018 set. Might still consider the latter at some point.

Thanks. I've gotten all Pfizer so far w/o bad side effects and am avoiding Moderna because I know a number of people who had rough experiences. BTW, I had my first shingles shots over the past year (just turned 66), and those (it's 2 installments) really knocked me for a loop.

More on #12: The Message from the Tribe album posted above had three releases. The first version does not contain #12: side A is three tunes from what was released as Wendell Harrison's An Evening with the Devil, and side B is three tunes shared with later releases of Message from the Tribe. The two subsequent versions of Message from the Tribe added five more tunes. The third version consisted of remixes of the second version. I don't know if the three tunes shared by the first 2 versions used the same mixes. Harrison's An Evening with the Devil was the first Tribe album I acquired, so I purchased "version 2" of Message from the Tribe (cover pictured upthread) to avoid duplication and get more music. I'm not compulsive enough to have picked up versions 1 or 3.

I'll listen to non-vocal selections if free online, but decline to commit funds. 😁

I only skimmed through the Musicweb review at warp speed, but got the impression that the sole obvious candidate for said material is disc 54 (scroll way down. quoted below). But there is also material that has only been released in Japan or on obscure releases. The final disc in the box, CD54, is of previously unreleased recordings. The Schubert “Unfinished” from Danish Radio – recorded on 1st October 1950 during the WPO’s European tour – has been known about for many years. Furtwängler is also known to have performed this symphony on the same date in 1949 when the orchestra visited the United Kingdom – and comes from a BBC studio recording. It may be nice to know if this also exists, not least because Furtwängler had a very special way with this Schubert symphony. Although his tempi were not especially slow, the weight and nobility he brought to the “Unfinished” were of unusual power. And it is simply profound and overwhelming in this performance because the sound is so spectacular. The sheer weight given to the strings, the resonance, and the very natural surround sound makes this an epic “Unfinished”. It comes close to being the finest thing in this box, certainly sound wise. The play-through of the Götterdämmerung Siegfried Funeral March from January 1950 – already published on Testament – offers nothing remarkably new, although the sound is impressively wide-ranging. The Vienna/EMI takes from February 1949 would have been a more enticing prospect. The Elegia from Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C major is beautifully done, and interesting given that this is one of the very few Tchaikovsky pieces that Furtwängler played beside the last three symphonies. The WPO’s playing is remarkably beautifully and the sound is exquisite. It is not listed as stereo but it has almost all the attributes of an early stereo recording.

This might help: https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Dec/Furtwangler-Warner-9029523240.htm Seems there are many DG recordings (particularly live performances) from a prior box that are not in this set. If you care about what David Hurwitz had to say (I don't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyGzuiG0bQ