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I was very disappointed with the show last night. Old man rant coming... it was TOO FUCKING LOUD. Drummer Joe Dyson was the biggest culprit. I should have known he was going to be loud when I saw that he had every drum mic'ed as well as two overhead mics over his kit. He had three times as many mics as the rest of the band combined. It made for a drum-centric sound which was not pleasurable at all. My wife hated it and she left with her left ear "shut down" for a few hours after. It was that loud. I anticipated it and closed my right ear when Dyson really started bashing the cymbals. Other than that, the music was pretty good. Shaw's style is different. Most songs had what sounded like free improv, but more controlled. I don't want to get into the "noodling" argument again, so I will say that there were long streams of sax and Ben Street's bass floating over Lawrence Fields' piano fills and behind Dyson's cymbal crashes. My wife has only recently started attending Jazz shows with me and she was adamant that I never buy tickets for her to see this band again and that she never wanted to see Dyson behind the drum kit.

My comment was in response to Dan's comment that "more tape" allows for "more data". A tape moving at 7.5 IPS will use more tape than a tape moving at 15 IPS. I was not saying that 7.5 IPS is better. I am just saying that his comment missed the physics of tape speed. That is all. I was certainly not looking to start any debates over the tape speeds.

I like it. Buster's bass has a slightly lower center of gravity than Ron Carter's and pushes forward more, so I think he matches better with the heavy Tony and the lighter Hank Jones than Carter does.

I caught his program about Bird’s appearance at Cafe Society in June July 1950. Typically strong analysis. Came across this article. https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/fall-2020/article/radio-days

A German series about the fall of East Germany and the divisions within one German family. Aired through the PBS Walter Presents. Pretty good.

Aleluya Records AR - 17000 (FSR-690 1989) - Enrique Villegas "Tributo A Jerome Kern" - rec. 1977 -

Playbills for Cafe Society.

Sarah Vaughan – Sassy Swings The Tivoli (Sarah Vaughan In Copenhagen)

Thanks for posting.

I’m definitely up for that.

Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 With Greg Osby “The Off-Off Broadway Guide To Synergism” Pi 3 cd set, disc 3 400×400 28.3 KB A fascinating release. THis time around I am noticing how Osby sometimes gets his horn to sound like an accordian or concertina!

Since it was still sitting on top of the rack I’m now playing the first disc in this set. Marvin Gaye “Here my Dear” Expanded Edition, Motown 2 cd set, disc 1

🤙 Is it only me or are these Debussy recordings magnificant ? If i think of Haitink i think initially of Mahler, Debussy. Thereafter Bruckner ... What about you ?

Préludes Morton feldman's music is something i truly admire ... if it's done well ofcourse.

Listened a second time to the recording and i have to say that i don't like 'it' despite some listeners claiming this to be one of the best 9'th ... mwhee ...

Phi-Psonics – Expanding To One One of the better recent fake spiritual jazz records.

Thank you!

A lot happening at any one time.

February 20 Anthony Davis - 1951

An unlikely yet quite successful duet!

Art Pepper 1959 Live at the Cellar. 4 cds. Release date 02/20/26. https://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/live-at-the-cellar/

Edit - this was playing at the same time as the Tjader version above, so I mistakenly thought this wasn't actually a solo guitar tune. Kind of cool actually. But the solo version is good too, once I figured out what was going on.