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awesome

This should have made it to CD... And another:

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https://www.trainjazz.com

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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.