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Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

It's all over youtube as well, though at least some of it seems to be attributed to AI, and doesn't pretend to actually be the artist. Here's Freddie Mercury singing a song that didn't exist until after he passed away.

This one is very good

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...enabling impersonation of famous jazz artists... Wow, when did this begin?

Had the album presentation this night here in Viena. Full House, and much more powerful played than on the record.....fast tracks like "Miss Ra´s Choice" really burned, Miss Lili sang soooo beautiful and is a great stage presence, very dramatically, the spoken words on "Tune for Pharoah". Round Midnight soooooo deep with her voice. Important people in the audience, austrian radio and so on........ Things look good. My one and only love Andreea especially liked "Miss Ra´s Choice", anyway, the key idea is her´s Erratic now, many concerts, also with other surroundings, other music.....

This one's a future buy for me. Jazz in Britain has proven to be an excellent label.

I too grabbed that Mujician set. I think I have the first disc/performance as a FLAC somewhere (inconstant sol) but the other two discs were new to me. Excellent group, and prolific, though I've never heard a set I didn't like.

I bought that a few years ago and think it's great. Relistening to this recent Jazz in Britain acquisition:

Really loving this record: Live performance of Ardley's Kaleidoscope of Rainbows from Oct. '75

Damn. He's pretty good! I'd been unaware of his classical piano training, though after watching the above I Googled and found out.

Spotify seems to have veered head on into gray-area ethics for the bottom line. Sucks because they have a better platform than Apple Music - but definitely poorer sound quality. But to me they both kind of suck for discovering new music which was surprising to me. The algorithms get pushy with the same suggestions over and over again. If you're after more discovery, I'd rec using Bandcamp. Stream-wise it's pricier than the other two with no audiobooks, no podcasts, etc. But it seems to be the most artist-friendly at the moment...?

I have no use for Spotify, period. They need to be sued into bankruptcy for false labeling of bad music that is likely AI-created slop. The fact that they don't require sufficient data to verify the music made available is legitimate is inexcusable.

Dang!

Poncho Sanchez “Afro-Cuban Fantasy” Concord cd

Mark Lindsay - 1942

Johnny Hammond – Don't Let The System Get You

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Have this, have not spun in a long time. Thanks for reminding me!

Spoiler: Sure seems that way (and not the first time I've read about AI slop proliferating on the platform) I finally opened a Spotify account last year, but most musicians I've talked to about streaming favor Apple, saying that the audio quality and musician compensation is better. (Apple's basic monthly streaming service cost is also two dollars cheaper than Spotify's.) I have no illusions about Apple being any kind of paragon of corporate virtue ("corporate" and "virtue" are pretty much antithetical anyway. Corporations are out to make money, period, and making even more money will always trump--er, win out over any kind of greater good), but do other posters have an opinion about the pros and cons of each service? Or others that are available?

Good stuff!