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  1. Wow. 1972, baby!

    I am listening as I write....

    Such an intriguing line up of horns, and as it turns out, a very eager,varied, roiling percussion landscape from Keno Duke. The "Reasons in Tonality" track is fantastic - searching, probing, brimming with ideas. The live setting gives this an off-hand, impromptu sound scape overall.  It all evolves, of course, but the horns push and halt, bubble, stop, and pulse with intensity. Mabern's piano is by turns bluesy and starkly staccato, at points reminding me of McCoy Tyner. Now searching out the second side of the original album, consisting of Keno Duke's composition "3-M.B."

     

  2. Hardly "obsessive," but Trane and I are birthday buddies, so I just spent the weekend re-communing with his music (along with some Springsteen and Ray Charles on the side - also 9/23 dudes). Listened to a range:

    • Some first Miles Quintet - Relaxin' and Cookin'
    • Miles again, Kind of Blue
    • Coltrane, Plays the Blues
    • Coltrane,  Africa Brass
    • Coltrane, Meditations
    • Coltrane, Ascension

    I found myself absorbed in it all, but I was surprised by how much I was enthralled by the later albums I spun - Meditations and Ascension. I've listened to them and admired them a number of times off and on, but somehow they just now clicked for me in a different and more complete way. Time now to revisit some later, stellar spaces, perhaps.

     

     

  3. Not to bring up the subject yet again, but Somewhere has far less of Keith's "vocalizations" than most of the trio's recordings. It's a terrific and inventive single-disc set on all fronts, but it does warrant that distinction. I love this trio, but that .. um... "feature" of the group has been a consistent problem for me. Largely removed here, i'm glad to say.

  4. To start, I'd advise Barshai/WDR for the complete symphonies (on Brilliant Records), and Fitzwilliam Quartet for the complete string quartets (London label, I think?). Both of these sets are cheap; sound is great and performances are great, though as with all "complete" sets, there are better individual performances/recordings of certain symphonies/quartets out there. These are excellent reference sets, though, and as others have said, you can explore other recordings of individual works from here quite nicely.

    Have fun!

  5. Okay guys/gals be patient with me on this: I've downloaded bit-torrents from DAD, and for the past two days have been trying to get burn it to cd, I've tried all my programs, looked at faqs, no luck. Do I need a special program to get the torrents to cd? I know, I'm hopelss.

    Depends on the file type - that is, the compression format used to create the files you downloaded. What is the extension on the filenames you downloaded? (.flac, .shn, or what)?

  6. I only discovered Malachi in the last couple of years, and he'd quickly become one of my favorite contemporary players and leaders. The Africa Brass band is incredible. I'm listening to Buddy Bolden's Rag right now, to be followed by 47th Street, and probably Blue Jazz.

    I'm so sorry I never got to see him - I was hoping to have that chance. RIP, Malachi.

  7. I'd love to see a box that brings together all of the material by this loose musical collective working around Kantner-Slick-Crosby at the time. I'm thinking totally remastered original and alternate takes, unreleased tracks, and so on. I guess the box would include Blows Against the Empire, If I Could Only Remember My Name, Sunfighter, Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun, Slick's Manhole...

    Ever heard this Lp set? Flight Log-Jefferson Airplane

    It has some of those songs...from the side project bands.

    A nice little comp. :cool:

    Yes, I used to own Flight Log years ago, and thought it was a terrific compilation. No other comp (that I've seen) has really come close in the CD era, IMO, especially in representing the related projects (Kantner-Slick, Hot Tuna, etc.). I'd love to see a much-expanded box version released, including lots of Airplane alternates and outtakes, as well as large doses of the "side" projects. Something tantamount to a complete and well-rounded picture of the Airplane, early Starship, and relevant satellites.

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