David Ayers

I just spent some time in the very well-stocked CD stores of the bookseller Gibert Joseph in Paris - as well as time in some of the great Paris bookstores - and I was reminded once again what a fine thing the record store can be. The Joseph store had racks of Japanese imports and lots of current titles. Fancy prices, maybe, but lots of customers and a sense that people still actually cared. So maybe the return of HMV to Oxford Street is a good thing, though whether it would replace the jazz and classical stocks in foyles bookstore for me personally is a moot point.

Sleuth City!

'Here to Hear' is a very good track. We don't talk about Byard much here, do we?

That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo... :tup :tup Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly). Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!) Hum Dono? And that's enough to fill a box?

Didn't the Oliver Nelson box include a lot of his Impulse! material? It had 'The Kennedy Dream' and 'Sound Pieces' on it (but not the 'Live In Los Angeles'). Good prompt to dig it out for a listen.. That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo... :tup :tup Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly). Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!)

I may need to get that. The clips sound great! Who knows if/when this stuff will ever be available again. well, it is a cheap download on amazon and it is also on spotify, so you have your options...

Speaking of PB, an upcoming August treat in London: http://cafeoto.co.uk/Peter-Brotzmann-John-Edwards-Steve-Noble-Jason-Adasiewicz.shtm http://www.tumrecords.com/037-2-occupy-the-world mentioned in another thread, all over this

I've pretty much given up on reissues for this reason - BUT with the added doubt that I am not much convinced that I will get a sound I would like from those old tapes on any CD reissue. There is a problem with those old masters that engineers struggle to compensate.

Nope Just you and me, eh Pip?

Now the Chambers is gone. Am I the only one that even looks any more?

everything seems old-fashioned to me - seriously

I've seen Boulez conduct dozens of times but I wouldn't say his quiet and precise manner indicates boredom. He would never have conducted so much if he hadn't been on a mission with it. That said I sometimes wonder whether he has programmed certain things just to satisfy concert promoters and his record company.

I never heard Boulez with CSO except on record, where I have a feeling it is the CSO I don't entirely get on with. The question as to what interests Boulez vs. what he conducts for form's sake is a good one though.

Well my car is over ten years old.... but my amplifier is over thirty years old!

Yeah I wasted 10-15 minutes on that quest myself in response to this thread!

Stitt is gone!

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Not new these but not seen them discussed, three CD sets from Columbia, The Real Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Bennie Goodman etc. In HMV stores at 3.99 and on amazon for a shade more.

Into this for the Finnish and other Scandinavian guys - hope the trumpet solos are not too dominant even though Smith is obviously the catalyst for the project and the selling point for the CD.

I remember reading, as the CD age began i suppose, that the average household had x (5?) cassette players. So I counted up, including cars, and found 14 in the house between two people. That tells me how truly ubiquitous the cassette was.

We like the look of this and we will preorder it!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22533522 The humble cassette tape, a happy memory for many music fans of a certain age, has staged a comeback for one Canadian company

Well, as I said in another thread, I am interested in the string quartets though I am looking for a warmer recording than the Ardittis. I heard Barenboim give an impressive, Brahmsian performance of the Piano Concerto with Boulez conducting. Unforgettable and such a large orchestra! Recordings of that I know are Brendel, Uchida, Ax. I have only ever heard Hahn perform the Violin Concerto, and her recording is amazing. I guess i also heard whoever recorded it for DG way back when. Erwartung I saw in the LePage production. I've heard Aimard perform many of the piano pieces but I don't think he has recorded them - several records of those: Uchida, Hill, Helffer, etc. I've heard Pelleas und Melisande conducted by Boulez - lots of respect for this score though like so much Schoenberg I find it too deliberate. I've heard Boulez and others conduct a number of pieces, and I do have most of his compositions on CD and could go on... but your question is a great one which I had been thinking of asking here myself - how much of it can you take to heart as a listener? I am quite familiar with several pieces, but while i follow them well enough I am not sure how much I love them. Barenboim, Hahn, though, just as sheer human spectacle...

Yes I was thinking about the impression they created, not so much about if they are understood.

So as a Yorkshireman I am delighted at the props given to my county accent in Game of Thrones. But how do non-Brits hear these accents? I am interested to hear, but no plot spoilers please I haven't seen any of series three yet!