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BTW, I seem to have acquired DG's last copy (for now?) of the album with #2. Happy I got it, plenty of other enjoyable tracks.

Really interesting on #11. I once heard Jack play a live recital on piano, but would never have guessed him here. Didn't recognize the guitarist: briefly considered sleuthing under Abercrombie, he being the most likely suspect, but his ECM discography is too big so I didn't follow up.

Next Monday I'm going to see the Bill Evans documentary Time Remembered in a (newfangled with hi-tech sound system) cinema.

More added today: MEV, Terry Riley and Freedom. I'm cribbing from DG's site. Checked cdjapan yesterday and none of the titles showed. I have no other Japanese source of info.

The little I've heard of Andrew Imbrie I liked quite a bit. Granted he's in the "academic composer" genre and those people tend to blur together. Long ago I heard a concert in Merkin Hall, NYC...ISTR he was the featured composer, but am not sure. I still have this CD, which is rather good.

Preorders

DG offers preorder on this, CD and vinyl Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DG, but closely watch their inventory.

New batch seems to be in the pipeline for preorder. I see: AEC #29 Dave Burrell #30 Sunny Murray #32 Grachan Moncur III #33 Dewey Redman #34 Frank Wright #36 Sonny Sharrock #37

I like Charlie a lot, but will hope (if I don't forget) that it materializes at Amazon or discogs sellers. Looks like too sketchy a label for "the bastards" to stock.

Put it this way...I sleuthed an "Intuition Records" subsite of the Schott Music site. There was a column on the left of featured artists with checkboxes. I checked the "Charlie Mariano" box and was whisked to a totally non sequitur page of classical music projects...in other words, this s**t has come from the Twilight Zone and I wrote it off.

I wanna see it! I googled and got a couple of hits with full-length video, but they seem to be Russian pirate websites and I'm afraid to click on the links. DG is showing a number of upcoming Ultra-Vybe CD soundtrack releases from bizarre and cheesy Japanese films. This isn't the only interesting one.

Me too. Graphics look like it'll be the original German record company Intuition. Apparently a subsidiary of Schott, I found some pages on Schott's website but they were unusable. US release looks like a ? to me. Amazon has one US $ seller of the 2003 release FWIW.

This is a reissue. Hope it gets some US distribution, as no discogs offerings of the original 2003 release are priced in US $.

Not trying to be a smartass and no disrespect intended to anyone, but does that qualify as "on a label"?

Press release says "Changu Records". But the only titles discogs shows on that label are two prior Jaleel Shaw albums.

Yosuke Yamashita film music. From what looks to be a super-weird 1972 Japanese film. Ecstasy of the Angels / Tenshi no kokotsu (1972) | Japanonfilm

I had figured ezz-thetics dropping tracks from CD reissues was just a way to fit 2 LPs on 1 CD. Interesting theory about the PD claim fiddle. I also avoid those dodgy ezz-thetics reissues on ethical (IMO) grounds, but do own 2 (Ayler and Marion Brown) purchased used on this forum.

In the cello category, Dave Holland's Life Cycles is pretty good. I don't think I own any full solo bass albums. In the modern/avant sector, a lot of solo bass entails heavy use of extended techniques, which IMO comes off a lot better live.

Really strong ensemble named after their (I assume lead) violinist, many recordings on Supraphon. You can trust anything they record to be good, especially Czech composers.

Yes, David Beardsley who I recall going way back to rec.music.classical.contemporary days, long before I knew of this forum. There are some good Ben Johnston interviews on the interwebs: Ben Johnston Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . . . . Paris Transatlantic: Johnston Interview A Conversation with Ben Johnston - New Music USA

Looks like he just does complete cycles. Earliest thereof for Bartok SQ is Juilliard 1 (1950) on Pearl. To my surprise. Your inquiry is interesting, but I don't even know how to research it! Maybe it's closely tied in with the history of the classical recording industry. Pretty wild that the first recording was 1925 or later, considering that SQ #1 was first performed in 1910!

Thanks. I stumbled across those last week, wondered if they were good but never followed up.

Finished up with the Ben Johnston quartets. The more I listen to these, the more I like them and the more "important" I consider them. But not "easy listening".