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I saw the Neil Swainson Quartet at the Rex. He was here 4 nights, but I only managed to get out tonight, and only for the second set. But it was still quite nice. The Rex was packed. In general, it's been quite busy on Friday and Sat. for the 8:30 and 10 pm sets, which is quite good news for them. I do wish they managed to bring in more out-of-town artists, but that's fairly rare. My copy of that live Woody Shaw set, Vim 'N' Vigor, showed up, so I brought it in and had Swainson sign it. He said no one had contacted him and certainly not gotten him a copy or paid him anything. I said I could try to bring him a burned copy the next time he plays the Rex, which should be in June.

Reinhard Goebel Complete Archiv box, disc 33.

Kurt Masur - The Complete Warner Classics Edition, disc 47.

Nate Chinen

I have the 2013 HD download. That version is fine, and more than acceptable. This new download is a little better. Fuller with more depth. Was it worth the upgrade. Perhaps. But now that I have the new release, I won't be listening to the older one.

Are you referring to the Sonny Freedom release? If so I have no idea how one could say that. I have only been through CD 1 but sound is terrific.

Watching the Tour of the Gila https://livefromsilver.com/

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CD 1 >72:09< 1 Updraft (2009) for ten trombones 9:34 Matthew Russo, trombones 2 Splectar (2023) for electric guitar with Max processing 13:31 Matt Sargent, guitar and Max program design 3 Night Garden (2013-14) for five contrabasses 12:18 Robert Black with Large Furniture: Greg Chudzik, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Ken Rescsanksi, Evan Runyon 4 Infinity Avenue (2015) for laptop and improvising ensemble 36:43 Robert Carl, conductor, laptop, shakuhachi Christopher Beroes-Haigis, cello Henry Birdsey, electric guitar Trevor Saint, glockenspiel Matt Sargent, electric guitar and lap steel Zach Rowden, bass CD 2 >43:36< 1 Symphony No. 7, “Infinity Avenue” (2020) for laptop and chamber orchestra 27:33 Foot in the Door, Edward Cumming, conductor Daniel Minogue and Robert Carl, laptop 2 The Inevitable Wave (B) (2011-12) for percussion octet and fixed media 16:01 Crane Percussion Ensemble, SUNY Potsdam James Petercsak, conductor/director

Discovered this morning:

It is too bad I was not old enough to be in the loop back then. All of these tunes had lead sheets deposited for copyright. I had a bunch of copyright deposits pulled in the 90s for many composers and they are now collected in boxes, accessible to researchers in the Music Division at the Library of Congress. It is not advertised on their website, however. This is the same source used for many of the unrecorded pieces that the Herbie Nichols Project premiered. Now, the Nichols family found more music in a trunk, and Ben Allison just recorded 6 of them. Bertrand.

Claus Jacobi’s Charlie Johnson & His Paradise Ten Orchestra - Whitley Bay Jazz Festival 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvZ7dTLQ-4 ... with announcements of all titles in English by Claus Jacobi! Whitley Bay is a seaside town in England.

I love Resonance and Zev but listening to those samples is very difficult - even on the live stuff someone has added horrible reverb; it also sounds terrible in the studio; I find it unlistenable, and the eq is awful.

Waxahatchee: Tigers Blood

Ken Peplowski: Unheard Bird

Bought a lot of books over the last decades, obviously more than I could read during said times .... nowadays working through my stock and buying much less (mostly exhibition catalogues and art/photography books) ....

I picked up the Bernie Worrell - Waves From the WOOniverse. It is excellent. Wasn’t sure it would be good how since it’s other artists finishing unfinished Bernie songs, but I am pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

It's up at both Band Camp and Amazon.

Counting Crows „Butter Miracle“ (BMG) 2021 ….