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Jerry Gonzalez “Ya Yo Me Cure” American Clave/Muzak cd japan A demo quality presentation of percussion, intriguing arrangements and performances.

I love that one! Last night:

Available for preorder: 4000 yen per disc ($25.38) at cdjapan, $30.99 apiece at "The Bastards". If I needed more reason to pass...

I can't edit my initial post. Just to highlight that the correct spelling of Kees' first name is 'Cornelis' and not 'Cornelius'. My mistake!

Another warm morning! Slept well and decided to start the day off with a cd I found yesterday mixed in with my wife’s cds: “Americans in Holland–The Great Thirties, Vol. 1” on Timeless cd. A great collection of obscure live tracks from jazz greats Louis Armstrong and His Hot Harlem Band, The Boswell Sisters, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Carter. Sound on many of these is not that great at all but. . . how could I resist playing “I’ll be Glad When You’re Ded You Rascal You”?

I somehow skipped this one when it came out in February. In my list for next-future order from Storyville.

This confirms what I figured. Hazevoet's work certainly is second to none, and this becomes evident to the reader. Yet it seems to me that somehow the reader does not gain much additional information if he is just reminded over and over again in the footnotes that the dates and places mentioned were researched and documented by Hazevoet. Since his work IS such a cornerstone among the available sources it should be evident that this is where the information comes from. I frequently referred to the footnotes just so see what additional info there might be. And most of the time all I saw was "oh this is where he got it from". Fine, but shouldn't the reader have assumed anyway that a diligent author uses reliable sources? Discographical details in particular, once researched in a definite way and documented accordingly (which clearly is the case here), IMO should be taken as hard facts where there is no need to prove to the reader in each case where the author looked them up. This, too, would have helped to unclutter the footnotes. As for overdoing things with the footnotes, about the time I finished this book and got ready for another purchase (the "This Is An Orchestra" biography of Stan Kenton), I came across an online review (by a professional reviewer) of this book, and the reviewer complained about the huge number of footnotes caused by the author quoting so many musicians verbatim. Well, the Kenton bio has some 540 footnotes for 308 pages. Now what would this reviewer have said about the quantity of footnotes in the Byas bio? (And no, the huge flow of footnotes in the "Saxophone Colossus" biography of Sonny Rollins does not deter me. This is an altogether different concept IMO. ) BTW, I did notice you were credited. Well deserved! And I agree that overall the Byas biography is important. To make it clear - I did not at all regret buying it. And some vinyl purchases of latter-day Byas recordings that, by coincidence, I made in recent months appear in a slightly more nuanced light now that background info on the sessions has been provided in this book.

Amazing! now playing:

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