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The Kennedy Center is presenting it in the coming season, not sure if they have had a funding relationship. Sonic Portraits: Iphigenia Sonic Portraits tells the story of legendary women through song in brave theatrical stagings. Iphigenia, co-commissioned by the Kennedy Center, is a new operatic collaboration between two of the most visionary and daring musical voices of our time: 11-time Grammy Award®–winning composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and four-time Grammy Award®–winning bassist, composer, and vocalist esperanza spalding. Architect Frank Gehry, a luminary creative force of his generation, will create set designs for a production by award–winning theater and opera director Lileana Blain-Cruz that will play in the Eisenhower Theater December 10–12, 2021. Improvisation becomes a living metaphor for choice as compositional hierarchies are disrupted in Shorter and spalding’s adaptation of the Greek myth that is also an intervention into myth-making itself, and an intervention into opera as we know it.

@AllenLoweScrew IP ownership, you should make these available!

For those contemplating the digital release, be aware when you buy downloads from New World you have to download each track individually tediously.

Wish I could get the vinyl only Tapscott stuff as downloads.

Not sure why Dusty Groove never got copies, so I am ordering straight from the label. Glad to hear they seem to have no issue getting their CDs to the US.

I've listened to everything that Vol. 1 of the book covers-- can't wait to dive into the rest when Vol. 2 comes.

I like the new Noriko Ogawa recording, she varies each repetition just a little so it doesn't get boring. 80 minutes flew by in fact.

Baltimore Symphony has been doing hour-long streaming concerts, with interesting off the beaten path repertoire. This is Marin Alsop's last year and it's such a kick in the gut to not be able to see live music. \https://www.offstage.bsomusic.org/en/bso-sessions

Gilchrist has several archived concerts on demand from Baltimore venue An Die Musik. https://andiemusiklive.com/

Lester Bowie now has a mural in Frederick, Maryland: https://www.fredericknewspost.com/music-is-medicine-new-downtown-frederick-mural-honors-jazz-legend-and-native-son/article_73d0b50a-e545-564f-aaa8-5b7811b8fbd4.html

Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor (at least official releases).

Would have seen him in Maryland in the spring if not for COVID...

LOL, one of the ephemera they have is an interview with Cecil Taylor in the Minnesota Daily from 1979, love the exchange about Amiri Baraka at the end. I can just hear it in Taylor's arch voice too.:

I've been on this all week. Too bad there's not more Ornette Coleman and Wadada Leo Smith (just excerpts). I'm really in love with the Braxton/Teitelbaum duet. There's three full Braxton concerts actually, the most of anyone. I was living in Minneapolis when many of the early 80s concerts happened, but alas, I wasn't very hip for a 9 year old.

Bought it, haven't read it yet. I saw it had "Non-Cognitive aspects of the City" so definitely had to have it.

Any reviews? Is it essential?

where's "jazz death"??? A travesty I tells you! (oh, not that Bowie)

A true loss. I know a new generation needs to step up (I look around in embarrassment and shame)...

Some of them are available for streaming on Spotify!

Re: Furtwangler's 1942 Beethoven 9th, I know music transcends, etc. but I have a hard time with the idea of Germans singing "Alle Menschen Werden Bruder" in 1942 when their relatives and neighbors are committing genocide in their name. It's a sick joke, not uplifting. Here's my recommendation: (And I know FiDi served in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. He probably saw, and may have participated in, some horrifying things, which makes this combination of composition and performance so much more the chilling.)

Loriod is my favorite, but I saw Steven Osborne perform it live, and was suitable moved. Some yahoo started clapping and hooting before even the last note died away. Osborne looked annoyed. The rest of the audience sat in silence for a good stretch before showing its appreciation.

Fantastic stuff, as always. Are you ever coming to America?

Vol. 22 is now available on Amazon Prime and for MP3 purchase...no sign of the CD but Amazon gets them eventually.

Yeah, it's like, who the hell is buying those "ambrose" CDs?

Ex-Military was my entree to Death Grips. You can (or could) download it for free on their website. You might like Dalek, I would highly recommend "From Filthy Tongue Of Gods and Griots" and the collaboration with Faust.