David Ayers

Tutte. All women.

Will do!

Well, I just wanted to mention this festival, I saw there was every big name I could think of except those two, so I thought I'd humorously allude to the two board bugbears in the title. The rest is literary history. It's true that Wynton plays in London most years, and I never go. But Marshal Allen and the Sun Ra Orchestra were here last week and I didn't go to that either. I'm inscrutable. PS in fact I don't know frank but I'll look out for him...

It is a question of musical ideas, not of doing things quickly.

That's the key distinction - how much work is the mind doing, not the fingers.

Don't let the Big Band of the Bulgarian National Radio hear you saying that!

It's going to be a desert - all that we've got left are Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Bill Frisell, Jan Garbarek, Ravi Coltrane, Brad Mehldau, Wadada Leo Smith, Marcus Roberts (oh he has Jason Marsalis in tow, I see), Ken Vandermark, Peter Brotzmann, Jack DeJohnette, Paco de Lucia, Lonnie Liston Smith, Egberto Gismonti, David Murray, plus other rabble like John Surman, Orphy Robinson, Terence Blanchard, Seb Rochford, Melody Gardot, Matthew Shipp, Jason Rebello, Kurt Elling, Sheila Jordan, blah blah blah. That's just some of the leaders. Standing behind them are even lesser figures, such as Joe Mcphee, James Blood Ulmer, Don Byron... wake me up. Even Alex Hawkins gets a go. Still, it only lasts ten days and they can only squeeze in about a dozen gigs a day. Can't be over soon enough. We're not crowing though. Not us. Heh. Heh.

And some of the greatest lyrics ever should not be lost to history: Every generation Of this life Reflects a movie scene Often more than twice (R. Laws) Oh that one's not on the list. Well, you get the idea. Soft spot for Fever here....

Yeah, I mean, I just can't fork over a grand for an LP that's unavailable in another format. If I could I would! And some people on this board (though probably few) refuse to go the download/share blog route, which is a commendable path to take. Yes on Nommo I agree - I didn't say everything was findable at a reasonable price - but several other things mentioned here go for $30-60, and I'm saying people could buy those if they actually wanted them.

Ding. I think we have a winner. Actually you might be right in terms of the amount of construction and invention in his longer solos. The Vanguard stuff (the LP selection of tracks, I mean) is a benchmark. A lot of his records don't really show what he can do though.

Ah! Good! Thanks for letting me know. For some reason I hadn't listed those before - so now we've tested the system...

Not all the albums you guys list are available, but many are findable indeed. Isn't it really that people don't want to pay collector's prices? I won't say which titles I found, but I found them within two minutes of seeing them in this thread.

I was gifted Branford's first LP on issue. It was a bit light for my tastes at that time and I never went further. Like kh I have the VV box set (what is it about box sets on this board...). With the best will in the world, I found what I got to quite dull, with little tension or drama. When I listen to it now I ask myself what are the goals of the music, and I genuinely don't know. Wynton's projects are evidently more highbrow and complicated than Branford's. Branford is an honest, light music player, but with his last as with his first I miss bite, and also after a little admittedly pleasant listening I start to get bored with a lack of harmonic and rhythmic tension. Tension, not complexity (too strong - complicatedness [?]). And no real beauty of expression in either - not a moment that you can take to heart.

I don't think they notify you. It's recent sets I think - the mostly Universal-owned ones that they have ready to goi digitally. They missed off disc 7 of the Rich!

You did it - I got an email!

Thanks for posting that list!

When you open it in Spotify, at the top of the main window it should say Mosaics by me. 'Mosaics' is in bold. So if you right click on that it should say Browse and below that Subscribe. Best I can do.

Poor Branford and the three other blurry MFs. I feel their work isn't getting a serious hearing.

I listed some here though it's not complete: http://open.spotify....0hYshc4mo5M8MRo Thanks David! That's terrific! How do I "bookmark" your list while I'm at spotify? I *think* you right click on the title at the top of the page and select 'subscribe'. I think.

I listed some here though it's not complete: http://open.spotify.com/user/davidayers/playlist/4VzRzvG0hYshc4mo5M8MRo

It's like going to the bathroom at a club! What a shame though that you have to join Facebook. I'll pass, unfortunately. You don't. We covered that. Scroll down the signup screen and it lets you register with an email address.

I don't suppose many estates have a say over rights that were signed away by the original performer. You guys are barking up the wrong tree. As for the question of compensation and the making of new recordings, supply and demand will take care of that. Not everyone who can tootle on a clarinet (or a shawm) is Benny Goodman.

Some decades ago, the Musicians Union in the UK ran a 'keep music live' campaign. The theory was that recorded music was destroying live performance - people could get music more easily and so there was less need to go out to hear actual musicians play in actual venues - consequently musicians got fewer gigs, especially the lesser ones with no real recording presence. In other words, recording is the convenience - for both musicians and experiencers. So it is recording and not streaming which makes for convenience. The need to own was a function of the technology. Now of course it is not necessary, though the market itself will discover how much demand for ownership there actually is. Ownership is neither here nor there - you don't 'own' what you hear at a gig, you don't own a library book, and you don't own the internet though you probably access it all the time. You don't own a sunset either and what this tells you is that ownership need not be important.

Listening to it now. Pleasant, light, swinging music - or 'jazz', as it is widely known. Played by Branford Marsalis and three blurry guys behind him who are as essential to the quartet as he is.

And I thought the internet was your friend.