Hoppy T. Frog

I endorse selling to the Bastids. My collection started feeling like a ball and chain and not a joy. I love music, not the object. Plus I was having to move, and I was trying to transition from owning bulky "things" (or, to you Marxians, "fetish objects") and largely go to a digital collection. I own too much music to listen to in a lifetime, and I was always adding more. My sale to DG paid for my share of the wedding, the honeymoon, and a couple subsequent European trips that I will treasure for a lifetime (visited Bach sites, Heinrich Schutz' house, saw operas at the Semper and concerts at the Gewandhaus and the Berlin Phiharmonie. I see more live music than ever (jazz, classical) now that I live on the doorstep of Washington (than when I lived in an exurb with admittedly more space for my then-massive music collection). I admit I still get a little twinge of nostalgia when I see them listing things I know were mine, even almost two years later.

between this and the Fremaux Ellingtons I'm spending too much!

do you get the notes with the downloads? NM shipping free or 5 euros per order???? mais oui!!!

Got it too. I only have 7, I think I'm missing the first in the series?

I'm wondering if the Sony person meant "bandwidth" as in literal bandwidth for the high-res files or as in "we have too much to do and not enough people at this moment,"

I'm envious that in Germany, even smaller regional opera houses, not just the biggies in Berlin, Munich and Bayreuth, seem to do frequent Ring cycles

That's great! Ilan Volkov is such a champion of new music.

saxophone and viola and piano!

I haven't gotten mine yet. Anyone else?

When did record release dates become standardized across the US? In the 1990s I know Tuesday was the release day for almost all labels, now it's Friday.

I mixed you up with mjzee!

It was premiered complete, we need a recording or video.

yeah I am so glad I pay for the subscription, I've learned so much. Are there any other Jazz substacks worth reading?

I heard this song 1991 or so on WXCI, never heard Can before--sent me on a subsequent journey--an abstract James Brown? I'm there!

I use wikipedia now or discogs for the info I used to get from AllMusic. Haven't been to Allmusic since the maybe early Obama administration.

I always had the impression he was in the "good, not great" category.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/j-cumberland-obituary?id=5973432 @DIS Maybe you could ask around any Washington DC record stores, or Second Story Books? Maybe these guys? https://www.facebook.com/iajrc/

I saw all of Smith's 2019 Big Ears performances and didn't see a snit. That would be very out of character of him!

That makes sense

welp, that's on me

Huh,a Google search shows he was a Washington DC-area band leader, and founded a precision ball bearing business, died in 2011. A link to his obituary in the Washington Post won't work for me, and won't let me embed it here.

A lot of "Mojo Magazine" jazz at this festival, one reason I've soured on it. I'd be back if they bring Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, or Anthony Braxton back like in the pre-covid times.

Volume 7 is available on Quobuz today

In the letter to Coleman Hawkins, he puts a lot of emphasis on being a "MAN", which in context, seems to Sonny to mean taking responsibility and keeping healthy in mind and body. Those are always good values to have, but I credit his equating it with "manliness" to the times. I'm sure Sonny would use less gendered language today.

Very early, when I was getting into jazz, I was sort of listening to Sonny chronologically, but the RCA stuff when I got to it, blew my punk rock and 90s techno-trained ears away