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This again:

Navigating is easy. It's the music that is fluctuationsl. That's no secret. But listening to it all in sequence is clarifying. At least it is for me. What I find more and more is that it's the quality of the energy that matters here, less so than the specifics of the content. Although when you get both, hey...

The Count of Monte Cristo on PBS Masterpiece Theater. Really well done imo.

you mean the music itself or navigating them on that app?

A Spotify playlist of Sonny Rollins's Milestone records. Frustrating and exhilarating in equal measure.

There's a wicked temptation to suggest a neo-colonial impulse on display in giving one scene an entire part of a city as a nomenclature... But that had happened before with "uptown". Still. "Loft scene" refer to venues. ",Downtown" is land + buildings, everything.

Brahms - String Sextets No.1 and No.2

I think it actually reminds me a lot of the cool/“west coast” scene in that respect. Also in terms of how the downtown white musicians engaged with their counterparts - more with older black musicians they idolized than with their black contemporaries. Reminds me of the cool musicians and their musical relationship with Basie, Ellington, etc.

I went to a microtonal concert last night (Lyraccord - Timothy Hill and Sasha Bogdanowitsch) and found out that composer Michael Harrison passed on 17 April. RIP. I only have this old piano recording on his own label, but there's a more recent release on bandcamp https://michaelharrison.bandcamp.com/album/revelation (also on Cantaloupe Music).

https://archive.org/details/18ShakeYourFeet There's a lot of interesting music from the 20's in these Chronologicals which is barely covered at all in the Study in Frustration collection. I like the use of baritone (bass?) sax as the bass instrument!

I am constantly pleased by the number of young people I see in the stores. Record Store Day was insane here (Kansas City). Make me feel good about the hobby. Personally I been buying almost exclusively in local stores, aside from filling in a few gaps from Discogs. My Amazon purchasing of new things is near zero.

Ooh that looks good. Now Took a cold walk with Tobi as dawn was coming in. . . enjoyed the quiet neighborhood, at least until a barrage of turkeys from the forest across from us broke the quiet! Started off with Grateful Dead “Dave’s Picks Vol.16” the third disc, the awesome final set Springfield, MA, on March 28, 1973. Garcia’s guitar sound was excellent this night!

Just an update about whatever vinyl "resurgence" there is in the music buyers' world: Returning from another of those 2-day clearout sales at our #1 local record store (whch yielded a fair share of "great finds" for me too, but at 1 EUR apiece you cannot often go totally wrong anyway ), I found my impressions of the two sales days of last year confirmed again throughout all the hours I spent there on Friday and Saturday: The percentage of young'uns (between, say, 15-16 and 30) was really high, and a fair share of them were female. This was particularly evident in the vinyl rooms (the share of youngsters in the CD room seemed lower). From what I noticed at casual glances at the stacks these youngsters had pulled out or what I overheard of their discussions, even jazz and jazzish pickings were not that rare. Though of course they often searched out the well-known names such as Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, a.o.). What also baffled me were those two kids in their early 20s who patiently dug through the crates of 78s in the regular shop section. Some patience I hardly ever can muster anymore because there is very little of interest in the fields of jazz, R&B or rock'n'roll in there. You usually have to dig through about 100 or 200 items of popular ("Schlager")/light classics/folk pop etc. dross before finding anything of some interest. The only marked generational difference I noticed was (as always) that the early birds who lined up well before the shop opened to get an early start on everyone else were almost all of them well past 40 or even 50. Even at other recent trips to the shop I noticed that vinyl does attract a lot of youngsters, and nowhere near all of them hung out around the hip-hop or Metal crates. Anyway, nice to see vinyl isn't something only for the 50+ or even 60+ generation yet.

Continuing shitstorm in Boston. Only answer is total house cleaning. A huge part of this horrid start is pitching - but pitching coach didn't get shit-canned because he is the GM's buddy. A crap roster is the GM's fault but firing him - immensely justified IMO - doesn't change the people on the field so Cora had to go. He'll be fine and probably much happier. The team, who the hell knows?

Brahms - Sonatas (with Barenboim)

This should have made it to CD...

My personal favorite BGO reissue.

Ts find

I was positively surprised by the sound quality (but I only heard the first Antibes concert so far). Nice package, no regrets.