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My adblocker suppresses almost all of the popups.
I often visit allmusic for reviews and to research credits. Sometimes to sleuth BFT tunes. 😉
Seems like the site got redesigned a couple of (few?) months ago. For a while it was wonky and I stayed away. Seems to work OK now.
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Thanks for your generous hosting.
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Me too, subject to minimal due diligence / research. 😉
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47 minutes ago, king ubu said:
Thanks - too bad though!
Obviously Childs might still be playing - what I meant to express: some bits are not exactly with the line-up provided for the entire set.
It's just vague. The statement on the cover "featuring Childs, Dumas, Pentland" IMO doesn't guarantee they are on the final tracks 10-12, though they certainly may be. I am sure, based on liner notes and other info, that they are the band for tracks 1-9. Since no exact date is even given for the final 2 tracks (Two Dollar Bills "1980"), I suspect that details of tracks 9-11 have faded into oblivion.
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52 minutes ago, king ubu said:
Waiting for my (CD) copy to crawl here ... I wonder, does the physical set have line-ups for the final tracks that are not w/Childs (there's a sax at some place, too)?
Not that I can see. No formal personnel listing at all. The cover says "...featuring Childs, Dumas, Penland", and that lineup is duplicated on a photo of a poster of the Maiden Voyage date, but no mention of players on the other 2 sessions (1 track Sound Room Dec 78, 2 tracks Two Dollar Bill's 1980).
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5 hours ago, sidewinder said:
Incredible - new to me too. Presumably Reggie Johnson on bass and Joe Chambers on drums but who is the pianist? Is that Hal Galper? Venue - Jazzhus Montmatre? (Carlsberg beer on tables).
I can't be certain, but the pianist does look like Hal Galper.
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9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:
Evan Parker and Barry Guy – Incision
This morning marks the day that my kids finally snapped. My 3 year old daughter told me that “this music is just talking gobbledegook”.
The age-old problem...Free jazz, improv, avant-garde classical, etc. generally can't be listened to in the presence of others. 😶
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8 hours ago, felser said:
Sound quality is pretty abysmal, especially the miking on Ranelin himself. Reluctant pass for me unless I stumble onto a bargain copy.
I was really disappointed on first listen. Agree that Phil comes across the worst on miking, which is unfortunate.
Liked it a lot more on a second, more careful listen. But it's never going to get played (here) as often as the Tribe-oriented releases.
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I thought SI effectively died years ago, within a year or 2 of ceasing physical publication (my sister used to work for the parent company). The current incarnation is "name only" / smoke and mirrors and couldn't really have fooled anyone with a financial background.
I grew up with SI, and back in the old days ('60s through '80s that I recall), it really had a lot of quality journalism and featured some prestigious authors, though the touted photos mainly seemed to be retouched. I even resubscribed for a few years in the oughts (due to $10 annual subscription), but it became clear that the traditional magazine could not survive in the Internet era and was struggling for direction.
I dug The Sporting News back in the day, occasionally purchased though never subscribed, but that seemed to (effectively) bite the dust before SI.
Many old media names no longer bear resemblance to their ancestors...outside sports, Forbes is a good example.
No longer a sports fan to speak of. Agreed that The Athletic seems quality, but I just don't care enough about the underlying events to subscribe.
When I played hockey and was a serious fan, I subscribed to The Hockey News for a few years in the '90s. Had to google, but that publication still seems to exist. Amazing! Presumably devoted Canadians keep it going. 👍
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1 hour ago, mjazzg said:
OK, listening again and I think that's John Taylor. And then it would be Ron Matthewson perhaps. I didn't get that recent Jazz In Britain but I bet you did...
Yeah, definitely John Taylor, who really has a touch on electric piano. I somehow forgot to mention that above, even though it's the only real clue I had.
1 hour ago, sidewinder said:Correct.
Too easy for someone living in this country !
Oh good grief, I own the (fairly recently acquired) album...a few hours ago I pulled it off the shelf and thought of checking the tracks while at home (now at work), but didn't follow through. 🙄
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Received this a couple of days ago.
The whole thing is now on Bandcamp so dumbass commentary from me isn't necessary. 😉 https://orgmusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-found-tapes-live-in-los-angeles
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28 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:
I watched one episode of the 1980s revival and hated it, I never watched another episode. It was the idiotic rewrite about the story where a man found a stopwatch that caused everyone to freeze in place. The revised episode had a housewife yelling "Stop talking!" to freeze everything in place, which made even less sense. I figured if the rewrites were going to be that bad, I wasn't going to waste my time with the revived series. Surely Rod Serling wouldn't have approved had he lived.
I was fortunate to get to hear Rod Serling in person when he visited Tulane University in 1974, the year before his death. He was absolutely fascinating and he had a great sense of humor as well. One of the funniest memories is when he stepped to the podium and said, "Good evening," there was a vocal response of amazement at hearing his famous baritone speaking voice that so many of us had grown up hearing on Twilight Zone reruns and his narration of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" documentaries.
Night Gallery was a mixed bag because he didn't have creative control of the scripts and he hated the blackouts that were inserted as filler. Far better is the one season western he created starring Lloyd Bridge called The Loner, it is available on DVD. I need to watch the rest of the episodes, one guest starred Allan Sherman as a phony Civil War hero appointed sheriff.
I loved the original series, saw some of the original broadcasts as a child.
Was overall disappointed by the Night Gallery series, though I watched much of it. Passed completely on the '80s revival because I assumed it couldn't be anywhere near the original.
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Given that you like the Satie piece mentioned in OP, Mompou is a good recommendation.
I think that Howard Skempton might work, though I haven't listened for a while. Many of his pieces are short. I rather like his piano music, though there's a question I've never been able to resolve: is it "deceptively simple" or just "too simple"?
Here's one of the better-known:
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Funny...I was listening to an obscure Japanese disc, and the tune "My Love", attributed to Bob James, sounded classical and really familiar.
It's of course (despite the weird attribution) from Bernstein's Candide, which Bob James included on his debut album. Youtube ...don't laugh, Bob James was once a serious jazzist who studied at U of Michigan with some heavy avant-garde classical composers.
Now I have to listen to my recording of the Bernstein.
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@sidewinder: nice tune, seems familiar but I can't place it. Could be expectation bias, I'm thinking "British jazz" from '70s or '80s considering electric piano. The tenor (who is perhaps not the leader) seems to have some Trane influence, suggesting Alan Skidmore (since I listened to his box set last night), but I'm likely off on all counts.
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@randyhersom: of course I'm very fond of this one, Youtube link
By about 45 seconds in it's kind of a gimme, but I always enjoy hearing this soloist (not the leader here).
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NYT has serious paywalls.
For many sites you can view paywalled links in "incognito" (Chrome) or "InPrivate" (Bing), etc. tabs. That generally doesn't work (well, maybe once) in NYT and others of that nature.
I already shell out serious $ for 2 journalistic news sources: Bloomberg (financial and intl news) and The Economist (intl news), plus a pittance for local journalism...sympathise with the Times but the budget is not unlimited and I don't care about The Athletic.
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31 minutes ago, JSngry said:
I've never liked it and have never claimed otherwise. Ever. It's corny as fuck.i felt that way before I knew any better and the more better I knew the deeper my loathing for it.
I've never been bashful about disagreeing with Iverson, but on this one, I totally concur.
Gershwin in general...whatever. But Rhapsody In Blue...please die. Go away and never come back.
I never liked the piece overly much and have pretty much heard it enough. I have a token recording (out of a sense of obligation) which I haven't played in years.
But I found the article irritating and pointless, abandoned it after a brief scan.
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Considering the LP market (and prices paid for special editions) I can understand any editorial decisions made in that context. 🙂
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1 hour ago, JSngry said:
Sundazed?
They have some reasonable looking recordings, though jazz seems to be a minority category. I am puzzled by the number of Sun Ra offerings, and wonder whether those were done in collaboration with Sun Ra LLC, the Irwin Chusid entity that I consider the gold standard of Ra reissues. The one I looked up did not make any such claims, which would not be a plus.
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I wonder about provenance, legitimacy, etc. as well.
But I have quite a few live RRK recordings of that vintage, so the bar for me to add another is pretty high. Definitely would need to hear significant clips.
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Good chance I'm in.
I like JW and have a number of albums. Of her large discography, trios seems to significantly outnumber ensembles with horns, so this is welcome.
[Added] I'm not sure what to think about "liner notes by Scott Yanow"... 🤔 most of his Allmusic reviews seem to be telegraphic / mailed in, though his opinions and tastes are often similar to mine.
What music did you buy today?
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Two items that have likely never been ordered together 😄