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David Ayers

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  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. Now the Chambers is gone. Am I the only one that even looks any more?
  4. everything seems old-fashioned to me - seriously
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Well my car is over ten years old.... but my amplifier is over thirty years old!
  8. Yeah I wasted 10-15 minutes on that quest myself in response to this thread!
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. We like the look of this and we will preorder it!
  13. 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
  14. 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...
  15. Yes I was thinking about the impression they created, not so much about if they are understood.
  16. 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!
  17. Police were called to a science fiction convention after an argument between two rival groups of fans. Trouble flared at the fourth Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia, organised by Norwich Star Wars Club. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22542222
  18. 'In Action' appeared on Spotify last year under the label 'JR Monterose Estate'.
  19. Allen is right on all those things, over-recording, shortage of ideas. All fine though as the audience for CDs is a niche audience of collectors. Worth amplifying Allen's point that jazz musicians are all supposed to be composers. 'Classical' concert music made huge strides by the division of labor. We don't e.g. demand that Olga Neuwirth be a concert pianist. In fact in the great period of jazz the labor was divided and specialist composers/arrangers employed. Which brings me to my next theme, which is that in all its classic periods jazz basically was a commercial music and was a cornerstone of the culture industry. As 'bourgeois' as they come, if that's the vocabulary you want to use, or as 'vulgar' if you prefer. A certain musician-driven art-jazz came out of the end of that, again with many figures (Davis, Hancock, Shorter etc) able to develop large-scale audiences. Others created decent and artistically meaningful careers in the niches they chose to occupy, mainly by touring all of the venues worldwide that could support their work, and often doing so on a shoe-string. Only very little of that music is at a high level of artistic importance. On this board we are part of that narrow set of people who value or over-value it. As I am always saying, if we fail to understand why a lot of what we like is basically boring to most people we are missing a point. It is not boring due to their lack of education. The argument for educating the young in jazz already betrays a provincialism. The most advanced musical art is not jazz or improv in any of its forms. So it is not a question of levels, but of genre. As Miles clearly understood and as we should. Not everyone is a genius and not everyone deserves a hearing, though it might be fun to hear them play and pick up some CDs.
  20. Offer to pay for music lessons.
  21. Is it this one? It was mentioned in the Comments: JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank Wonderful! Thanks!
  22. Does anyone have a link to the famous 'tank' on amazon?
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