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  1. I think there is a bit of this old man yelling at clouds going on here, but there have also been some serious studies showing that, in musical terms, the hits of the 2010s and 2020s are much less complex than those from the 1960s, 1970s or even 1980s.  There is a dumbing down effect that is at play, and it isn't simply a case of "it was better in my day"... 

    What's sort of interesting or ironic is that there is also a real fear of being sued for copyright theft (often wrongly) and that would seem to me to call for more complex, not less complex, songs in order to demonstrate originality.

  2. 12 hours ago, rostasi said:

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    I don't think I've seen this before.  I'll have to add it to the list.

    Currently working away at I.B. Singer's Scum.  I'd say there are significant echoes of Joseph Roth going on in this one (which is a positive for me anyway).

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  3. On 3/11/2024 at 8:53 PM, ejp626 said:

    Both look very interesting and I'll see about getting them through Dusty Groove.  The bassist Neil Swason on the Shaw date is surely Neil Swainson, which makes this an even more compelling pick-up.  He's been playing a fair bit locally these past few months, and I expect to see him this Wed. at the Rex and maybe again at the very end of the month.

    Neil confirms it is him.  He was playing with Woody Shaw on that tour.  He had no idea about this release and isn't getting paid anything.  It's probably legal (a radio broadcast or something), but it isn't right.  Anyway, he knows about it now and get in touch with them if he chooses.

  4. Both look very interesting and I'll see about getting them through Dusty Groove.  The bassist Neil Swason on the Shaw date is surely Neil Swainson, which makes this an even more compelling pick-up.  He's been playing a fair bit locally these past few months, and I expect to see him this Wed. at the Rex and maybe again at the very end of the month.

  5. 7 hours ago, jlhoots said:

    Should be great. Archibald Motley has always been a favorite of mine.

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    There was a comprehensive Motley exhibit that went around the States in 2014-5.  I managed to catch it at the Chicago Cultural Center.

    It's documented here: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/archibald-motley#exhibition-catalogue

     

    I was just in Montreal checking out a well thought-out exhibit that pairs Georgia O'Keefe and Henry Moore.  Really nice.  It runs through June 2.

    https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/okeeffe-and-moore/

  6. Friday I saw Drive-Away Dolls.  It was entertaining but not a great movie.  But it was apparently intended from the first to be a B Movie with a lesbian slant.  Despite it being set in 1999, you never see a single person in a car with a seat belt. :shrug[1]:

     

    Then today I saw Kurosawa's High and Low at a 2nd run house.  This was the first time seeing it.  This is a great movie, though I personally preferred the second half, which is more of a police procedural.

  7. So sorry that I only got around to listening to this tonight, and there are only 5 days left to listen to it.  (I think it has been up for 3 weeks already.)  While there are only two live cuts in the program, there is also a pretty interesting interview with two long-time Arkestra members: Knoel Scott and Michael Ray.  Link here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001q14k

  8. 5 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    I remember him more for 'Out Come The Freaks', which I thought was pretty cool at the time. 🤡

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    I think my introduction to Was Not Was was "Hello, Dad, I'm in Jail," which was the soundtrack to some very freaky video or film short.  I don't know if this actually ran as a sort of trailer before an art film (I would have seen in university) or maybe it was even at an art gallery.  I see there is some version up on Youtube, though I couldn't swear this is the version I saw way back when: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6bfpgTgRPk

    In general, I liked their music, which was sort of alternative-lite.

  9. 3 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

    I recently left a job in a classified lab with those same restrictions you mention but we somehow managed to be able to stream Spotify in there. I assume the IT group somehow managed that one network port so that it was "one way", so we had no way to move data out but we could stream things in.

    I haven't tried Youtube, which may or may not be available, but usually raises red flags.  So far, I am able to access and play music from Bandcamp.  (No idea how long this loophole will be available.)  I have a decent Bandcamp collection, and I suppose I will start buying more music that way, so long as I can listen at work, though this of course doesn't address the Mosaic issue...

  10. I came to Mosaic somewhat late, missing out on the original Andrew Hill box and Jackie McLean and even Herbie Nichols.  I would have snatched these up, and only gradually was able to get all the original music on CD (with the 3 CD set Nichols' set BN put out later making things much easier!).  I think the first Mosaic set I ordered was Hank Mobley.  Over the years, I've accumulated a fair number of sets, though I don't listen to them nearly as often as I should.  I think my favorites remain some of the individual Select sets.

    Sadly I've just changed to a new job where it will be next to impossible to listen to this type of music at work (we can't even play ripped music because the USB ports are turned off and needless to say playing music from "the cloud" is frowned upon...).  My recent order of the Don Byas set (and Sonny Clark) is fairly likely to be my last order, but I suppose never say never.

  11. I just ran down to Buffalo to see the Clyfford Still exhibit.  https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/clyfford-still-legacy-buffalo-0

    This is a four room exhibit of all 33 Still paintings in the Albright-Knox collection.  It runs a few more weeks until March 11.  I was definitely glad to have an opportunity to see the museum now that is has expanded a bit with a new addition.

    There is also another abstract painter on view, Stanley Whitney, but I must confess I was very underwhelmed by this exhibit: https://buffaloakg.org/art/exhibitions/how-high-moon

  12. I just read Tim O'Brien's America Fantastica while on the bus to and from Buffalo.  I liked it a lot, though he has a very sour, jaded take on Americans, particularly those of the MAGA-variety.  (I felt he sometimes was trying to channel Hunter S. Thompson, though this wasn't quite so gonzo.)  Indeed, the book is set in the waning years of the previous president, and COVID does make an appearance at the end.  Everyone in the book, with the possible exception of two characters, is a grifter or an outright thief.   

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  13. I'd been having a bit of back and forth with Scott, as I wanted to bundle the Byas and Clark sets to save (slightly) on postage up to Canada.  It's been a while since I ordered with Mosaic (probably the Savory Collection was the last one).  Anyway, I pulled the trigger this morning. 😊  If I get dinged with a huge customs charge 🤕, this might be the last time.  We'll see... 🤞

  14. Glad to hear you got it back at least once more and backed up your files.  I had a few scares with my work laptop.  It finally gave up the ghost, but I had backed up the download folder (which doesn't get backed up on company servers) the day before, whereas the main documents folder is backed up each evening into the cloud.

    I'm generally ok with backing up files on my home computer.  I try to make sure everything is on two different external hard drives, but I am not perfect about it.  I also don't store the 2nd hard drive in a different location, which I should definitely start doing.

  15. Don Byron is up in Toronto this week at The Rex, sitting in with a group fronted by Michael Occhipinti on guitar.  I'm not really sure what to expect.  I saw Byron years and years ago at the Village Vanguard with his own group, but I'm not expecting it to be at all the same.  Anyway, I am definitely going on Thurs., and if I am really into it, I may come back on Sat.

  16. I came fairly close to putting in an order on Amazon (where it is back-ordered) but I just have so many classical box sets that I can't sell back to any music stores in Toronto that it just isn't worth it.  It looks like a solid majority of the recordings are on streaming sites, so I think I'll just satisfy the itch that way. 

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