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I hadn't listened to much polyphony for a long time, but something (maybe springtime?) triggered an urge, so Six discs of the box so far.

The timeline isn't that clear to me. Some earlier recordings are straight-ahead, and some later works are extremely abrasive / noisy. But I'm not sure his style followed a smooth trajectory, because the dates of certain "conventional" and "weird" recordings are really close together. Granted I've so far shied away from the noisiest material such as Mass Hysterism, 😉 and don't have very many recordings.

It's one of those "historically significant" albums. I got it pretty recently, am still evaluating. On first listen I was unimpressed, but am now liking it better. The album starts out as kind of straight-ahead but transitions (Free Form Suite) to exploratory and eventually outside. I'm partial to Takayanagi's late weird/noisy material, and the final track (3d movement of Free Form Suite) is very much in that wheelhouse. At this stage I'd say "interesting" rather than "essential", although that final track is really outstanding. At this point I overall prefer the Cool Jojo (straight-ahead, even Tristano style) and Takayanagi's Angry Waves 850113 (outside/noisy) albums somewhat. I don't regret getting this recording, however.

Well done! Hoping to see it in a theater. Several nearby show a lot of music releases, so there's an excellent chance.

OP is a polarizing figure on this forum, but I enjoy many of his "X with the OP trio" albums, including this one.

Of course it's common. But it always seems funny when the "borrowers" make loads of dosh. Andrew Lloyd Webber (most notably Puccini) comes to mind.

According to Wikipedia, the works were not PD outside the USA and he paid royalties to the Rachmaninoff estate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_by_Myself According to Carmen, he first wrote the solo part of the song, writing four bars at a time, eventually completed the interlude after two months.[7] He needed to put this into a song, and after listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, a piece famously used to underscore the 1945 British film Brief Encounter, he adapted the melody of its second movement to write the verse.[7] Rachmaninoff's music was in the public domain in the United States at that time, so Carmen thought no copyright existed on it, but it was still protected outside the U.S. subsequent to the release of the album. He was later contacted by the Rachmaninoff estate and informed that it was protected.[8] An agreement was reached in which the estate would receive 12 percent of the royalties from "All by Myself" as well as from "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", which was based on the third movement from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.[9][10]

R.I.P. Among classical music fans, All by Myself is famous for repurposing a Rachmaninoff melody.

That, maybe good genetics, plus the health benefits of all that bodybuilding (which often involved collateral PED juicing 🤣). Probably is her. If so, kudos.

I agree there's a resemblance. But that Linked In pic looks too young (for an approx. 60-yo) unless it was taken a while back.

Thanks. I can't f**g read, but otherwise I may not have totally lost my mind. 🙄I thought she looked like a bodybuilder. Per Wiki The national [non-bodybuilder] beauty pageant was called "Miss Holland" from 1950 until 1990.

The plot thickens, because according to the always reliable Wikipedia nobody named Marie-José van der Laan was ever crowned Miss Holland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Nederland

In the stratospheric price range (e.g. $10,000) I doubt the records ever get played, because doing so would diminish resale value. So I betcha that'd work!

OMG, I didn't read the back of the cover carefully. She was Miss Holland! Apologies. Same name, so very possible, but if she was 18-21 in 1983 she's 59-62 today and the photo in that link looks quite a bit younger. Of course, it might not be a current pic. 😅

(with Billy Harper et al.)

No, that one was on Soul Note. That cover, though puzzling, has always made me laugh because the woman pictured surely looks like a streetwalker.

Off-topic, but while searching for names I recalled that Cecil McBee and Reginald Workman are still active, though they were pre-1970 BN sidemen only.

Looks more like a bodybuilder/weightlifter than a beauty queen, which ups the weirdness/disturbing ante. 🤔

Nice cover. But (perusing the back cover) that's a studio album and Woody Shaw isn't included, so the reissue in question must be something different? Despite sharing the title. 🧐 Strange.

Gesualdo binge (just ordered a recording of Tenebrae). I went for a mix of performers of the Madrigals, didn't want to commit to one ensemble.

I was once told by a tech guy that if SSDs fail, they "fail hard" and the data tends not to be recoverable. This was on the occasion of replacing a computer internal hard drive that had somehow failed by developing some "bad spots" (but almost all data was recovered). I've no idea whether that assertion about SSDs is true. 🙄

Nimbus West mini-binge: Nate Morgan: Journey into Nigritia and Retribution/Reparation Dadisi Komolafe: Hassan's Walk I'm a big fan of Nate Morgan even though he "objectively" might sound too much like McCoy Tyner at times. Plus Sonny Stitt w. Barry Harris, Tune-up/Constellation