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I fully understand your reaction and reasoning. 😆 Although the Bruce interviews were less than scintillating, the footage of him taking the stage in a massive stadium to "Once upon a time in the West" music while spectators held up colored placards was pretty impressive cinematically.

Unfortunately Bruce gets quite a few talking head segments, one of the turnoffs (I've been almost oblivious to BS, but he comes off here as obnoxious). Apparently in his football stadium shows he uses Morricone music as a backdrop when he goes onstage, and a big clip of that gets shown too. I don't recall any of the other three, checked on IMDB and they're not shown. FYI, you can check the list of IMDB credits here. The three interviewees I could've done without are Bruce, Oliver Stone (though he told a relevant anecdote) and Quentin Tarantino (though he would've been difficult to omit since Morricone scored one of his films).

RIP OJ (Simpson). No disrespect meant, but I felt that starting a separate thread might be trollish.

I believe in proofreading, but it seems to have become rare. These days, I would not expect a podcast transcription to be carefully proofread.

I enjoyed it. Recommended. 2:36 running time but held my interest. Only minor quibbles: 1. Lots of brief "talking head" interviews, some of which may be annoying; 2. If you don't speak Italian (I don't), some of the interview subtitles run over black/white film and are difficult to make out. [Added] The film had a lot of footage of Morricone playing chess. I didn't know he was an enthusiast (or perhaps had forgotten, because I regularly read the site linked to below), so dug up this story about Morricone and chess.

I got that [And did those feet...] since a US vendor (DG) stocked it, saving a boatload on shipping. The CDs are indeed good. I've read most of the book (focusing on the composers I know more about).

I don't know enough to make worthwhile recommendations, but can vouch for Don Ewell, whose recordings I greatly enjoy.

Does Werner release box sets? 😜 He's mined some of the Silveto material: https://www.discogs.com/release/25124686-Horace-Silver-Quintet-Live-New-York-Revisited

New arrivals: Scott (Hutch Fan): Based on one at-home listen, a very strong recording by this lineup of the Yamashita Trio. Definitely worth a listen...as with some other things (e.g. '70s live Rahsaan or '80s live Ra) one might ask "Do I need more of this stuff?", but I'm happy to have it. Liner notes all Japanese so I don't know details, but despite the cover image it was recorded in a studio. This is very good and definitely recommended unless you're allergic to electric piano.

Well, it was cheap and I hadn't heard of it. 😉 Don't expect it to be Hannibal's best, but listened to some on youtube and the vocals didn't turn me off too much.

If I can remember, I'll post something when it arrives. All three of the tunes are on Youtube (though seemingly not the whole album continuously), so I was able to audition the whole thing once I got the DG arrival notice. Here's a Youtube link for the first selection. Once I started playing that, the algorithm displayed the next track in the right column, etc.

It's on bandcamp, so I assume you could listen to some (if not the whole thing) there: https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/quintet-tristano-2014

[Suzuki KdF] New release that got significant praise and I enjoy . I auditioned the whole thing on Youtube, liked approach and sound quality so ordered. But I haven't heard many KdF recordings, or Bach harpsichord recordings in general, so can't meaningfully rate it vs. the many alternatives.

One of my favorite box sets. Although Art's bandstand banter gives a strong impression that he was at best a "complex personality" if not a complete Richard.

I've previously read quotes and anecdote to the effect that Carmell Jones was "too sensitive" for the music business. That's been posited as a reason for Carmell's relocation to Germany. But I wasn't aware of the Peps story. Thanks.

Lee Pan-Geun and Korean Jazz Quintet 78, Plays Arirang and other assorted classics I've probably lost my mind, but this is pretty good. I particularly like the drumming.

Books 3 and 4 of 6. Listened to books 1 and 2 a couple of weeks ago.

Good point. I forgot about that one but relied on the Blue Note website. 🤣 https://store.bluenote.com/products/horace-silver-doin-the-thing-lp-blue-note-classic-vinyl-edition “We’d like for you all to help us get in the groove, let your hair down, and come on and get in the music with us,” says Horace Silver in the spoken introduction to Doin’ The Thing, the only live album the great pianist made during his remarkable 3-decade tenure on Blue Note Records.

Doin' The Thing. That's the only live recording he released on Blue Note.

Fairly recent Morricone documentary looks like it could be good. Showing in this area next week. Has anyone seen it? Trailer here IMDB here

It was a really nice event, both musically and tribute-wise. I got there just in time to catch the rehearsal as well.

Thanks, but that only goes to 11...through 2011, that is 😄. The post-2011 volume must be immense with all the box sets.

+1 on the Kharma thing. I'd even go for the above-mentioned box set.