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Bob Feldman -----Triplicity-------(One note) I don't know anything about the leader. As I recall this disc was recommended in these parts on his passing. This is a fine set.

Well I'm very different. I don't need to be piping music all over my house. I don't need to have everything at my fingertips or command, I don't need to be hip and trendy. And no living in the present is not living in the past, sorry, don't buy the hype. Sure, if I were younger I would be approaching things differently. That's an if that has no relevance to me, I'm not younger, don't want to be younger. I was trying to answer a few questions here and explain a bit how playback actually works as there are some errors here. And I listen to music through equipment, I spent time and money when I had the latter to set up a really nice system and I spend/spent far more on music and instruments, and value accuracy and expressiveness in playback. I get why others don't, can't, and have other needs and ideas about playback etc. I'm out of the discussion of this so have a nice day.

Interesting observations ....

I seldom know birth dates, but the Sun Ra birthday is interesting. It was in Alabama. It must have been great influences of early jazz that made him become such a great artist, one of my favourites in my early beginnings of loving jazz. I even might say that I "learned" about traditional jazz thru Sun Ra when they sometimes at the end of a set would play just for fun some late 20´s, 30´s stuff and it really sounded great....., he was an important figure for me, as was Mingus, both having come up in the old jazz tradition and become leading figures to talk jazz beyond the boundaries, exploring new areas. That meant jazz for me in my very beginnings with that music.....

I also think I never heard him, but is it possible that somewhere I read that he was deeply influenced by Thelonious Monk ? That might be great.....

oh, never saw that thread. Well for me it is only the music that counts, so the cover is less important for me. If I have an original LP and it still works and don´t have scratches I try to record them on an USB, or at least I started once, but I don´t have the time to spin stuff that I don´t need to listen to right now. Let´s say I have all the electric Miles double albums they made in the 70´s because I lived then and bought what came out, but if I´m not in the mood for that kind of music right now in the moment, I wouldn´t spin it, as much as I love it in general. So, if the LP still sounds ok, I spin it, and I don´t think I have bought CDs of the same album, if I already KNOW the music. For me it would be a waist of money and time. I buy CDs if I don´t have the original LP or if they were recorded when the LP era was over. I know that it´s other way round for other folks, for who the cover art or the different issues of recordings are a kind of hobby in their hobby of listening to music, and that´s mighty fine. It´s just that music is my passion and I just didn´t find the space for something else.......

Great music indeed. I saw the same group in 1983 in Austria. Electra Musician was Bruce Lundvalls try to record all the artists who where dropped by CBS after Lundvall left the company, It must have been terrible frustrating for men like Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon to be dropt by a major label and forced to record for a small label and maybe this led to there abuses with harmful stuff in the following years, that´s my opinion. I saw both Woody and Dexter after the loss of the CBS contract each one on stage and from successful artists on the top of the field they turned to frustrated men, loaded with all kinds of harmful stuff and their was an air of death during their gigs, it was a tragedy back then, as the 80´s went on......

+1 I listened to this throughout my childhood (my mother tap danced and was a huge Astaire fine - it rubbed off...). I purchased it again recently as my copy was so worn out!

From gospel to Thelonious Monk and back .... beautiful .... btw released originally via two individual CD's on the french 52e Rue Est label ....

Woody Shaw "Blackstone Legacy" (Contemporary) 1971 .... beautiful Fold-Out Cover and Photography .... btw furthermore do believe some tracks were edited slightly to squeeze the DoLP on one CD ....

Friday at SFJAZZ: Dave Holland w/Kris Davis, Jaleel Shaw, Nasheet Waits

Sam Rivers BN box

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Thank you TTK, certainly sounds like I should hear it

I wouldn't disagree abut Selmer. But it seemed surprising to me that this was first released in France and not in the USA. So I (apparently mistakenly) assumed that the US Baronet release listed in the Bruyninckx discography was the first one.

oh yeah, I have that CD with the complete RCA recordings. "Hey Pete let´s eat mo´meat" I already heard in my teens since there was a black cover RCA album "When Bebop met the Big Band" or so, but you know when you are a teenager you are so deadly serious, not much humour, so at first hearing I found it "silly", but I still listen to it 😄

Okay yeah, it´s possible that the early 50´s dates have better drum sound, but the late 40´s sessions have a terrible weak sound. The only one on which Shadow Wilson replaces Blakey, with Bags and even the great vocalist Kenny Hagood has such a weak and miserable sound that it´s barely enjoyable. The other one with Roach on drums is a bit better and the Prestige sessions have better drum sound, you are right !

Iverson is more opinionated than he is talented, both as a writer and a musician.

I've learned that living in the present immediately puts you in the past. I'd love to think that at some point I'll have everything on a server, controllable by laptop (or phone!), and available anywhere in the house. It's doable now, but hell, I was a late-is adapted to CD and didn't totally abandon cassettes until the truck stops stopped carrying them, so that ain't happening here. But if I was a young guy, hey... I'd be going all in on that and not looking back. Because 30,000 is a butt load of anything except dollars. And the future ain't about buttlosdd of anything except dollars. I concur! Except for this vinyl foolishness, but that lesson will be learned sooner or later. Or else become the fetished collectable that it should already be.

"Audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment."

Yeah.

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Actually if it's digital audio the present is files too. CDs contain files. Hard drives, flash storage, etc are also containers for files. Even a SACD contains files but in a vastly different format than CDs and requiring very different handling. They all require some physical storage. What you are searching for is: the distribution system and the physical file storage are moving towards no longer being the same thing. For young people that appears to already be true. IMHO that is a very good thing for the ecology of our planet.