Hoppy T. Frog

Different in each language.

Cd liner notes that are totally different in different languages--the PolyGram group seems most guilty of this, at least back in the day. (Listening to John Eliot Gardiner's Missa Solemnis and Reinbert De Leeuw's Ustvolskaya prompted this). I wish my German and French were better than nonexsistent.

me neither

Thanks!

How do you order? I was putting 10 cds in the PayPal cart, but when the time came to "send" the money, no discount was applied.

It looks more like the "that'll be $13.75, please drive up to the window" type of mic.

Oh man, that Tapscott Hat CD is a total desert island disc for me. So intense.

Great! thanks - i just snagged a used copy on-line for 5 bucks!

Is it better than the real thing? Or is it the real thing? Recorded music is pornography. well you can't touch the performers at the opera house either. (the management has warned me so).

No bad connotations here. It's just too expensive to go in person. And I mostly dig 20th C. stuff anyway, which American opera houses almost never do. I've never done one of those Met Opera in the cinema things, because they are always Saturday afternoons.

I was just about to ask that question. In the last number of years Omnitone, Pi, Palmetto, Sunnyside, Clean Feed, Firehouse 12, the stalwart Delmark and just a few others seem to be the labels most likely to put out the kind of jazz I'm interested in. Forget the majors. Me too. And all of those labels have seriously slowed down their release schedules in the last year or two. I was worried the Firehouse was a goner until the new Mary Halvorsen came out. And just a few years ago Clean Feed seemed to be releasing a dozen a month.

I always found CRI's cover art for the "music by Gay Composers" and "Music by Lesbian Composers" to be just as odd. Cheescake appeals to all, but the composers inside are worthy of better.

Big Beat Steve, they want to talk to you. http://donredman1946tour.wordpress.com/

Fuck the country stuff post punk! post punk!! post punk!!!

I traveled from Maryland to NYC that weekend to see the show. I agree, it was stunning.

The cult has a one-entry blog!

I'm not so sure about this..... I know of one artist personally that has a few concerts up there that has never been contacted by them..... I don't know how royalties work. Wouldn't WV go through ASCAP/BMI to pay royalties, rather than pay the artist directly, or is it different for dowloads that are sold, rather than streamed?

He's like a wise old owl.

"Where were you" b/w "I'll have to Dance" is one of my favorite 45s ever, "The Quality of Mercy Is Never Strnen" is such an underrated album.

Any thoughts on Tanya Tomkins? I picked this up after missing her performance of the complete suites at the Library of Congress. It's only the first recoding of the complete suites I've heard, so I have no basis for comparison.

No one's mentioned the Warne Marsh records yet?

Thanks, that gives me at least something to go on. I think my life's work will be to give (musical) credit where it's due for this film.

So there's this movie, "Manos" The Hands of Fate, that was filmed in El Paso ca. 1966. Its lurid atmosphere and technical incompetence combine to make it one weird mama-jama of a film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdBchFDwWY0 It has the most amazing jazz piano quartet soundtrack, credited to "Ross Huddleston and Robert Smith Jr." Much ink (or pixels) has been spilled researching the making of the movie, but no source ever mentions the amazing soundtrack, or who those guys are. The saxophonist (who doubles on flute) definitely has a Coltrane thing going, but there's also some bossa nova and torch singing by an uncredited singer. Does anyone know? JSngry, have you every heard of these guys?

Finnissey's 2nd and 3rd String Quartets on NMC have been haunting me lately, along with the Jonathan Harvey "Bird Concerto with Pianosong".

Whenever I see vintage addresses referenced, I always have a compulsion to look them up in Street View. Thanks for your accuracy!