David Ayers

Any thoughts on the Four Freshman Box? It may be more of their music than I really need/want. Trust your instincts!

Since this thread has bubbled up to the surface again, I'll repeat myself on the topic of the two Fontanas. I really hope that people get to hear these titles in CD release. Maybe a Shepp-Tchicai/NY Contemp 5 Mosaic Select could feature all studio and live tracks? Somebody out there, do something!

You might be in a position to answer this one: had Definitive ripped off the Mosaic remasterings or not? It is often said that they did but no-one seems to have heard both sets. What was your impression? From memory, the sound quality on the Definitives on a lot of the songs is poor - some seemed like direct dubs from heavily used LPs but I'm not sure as it's been almost 2 years since I listened to them. The Mosaics however, are in excellent sound. Perhaps this leaves room for doubt as to whether it was an outright rip-off, more like the borrowing of a concept to undercut Mosaic's release? Thanks for the insight. It seems that the Definitive issue as not as 'criminal' as I had supposed. It also makes the Mosaic that much more essential - speaking as someone who reluctantly passed on it!

I'll have to join that oldsmobile as far as buying the vinyl on first release goes. As for cutting the Qu'ran track - the moral courage of artists sets standards that should shame the rest of us. The more I look at it the more unimpressed I am by the moral retardedness of Eno and Byrne in issuing this with a track missing and not even mentioning the fact up front, let alone explaining it. Are these the kind of guys who will jump on a moral bandwagon when it boosts their back catalogue sales, but run a mile if they fear it might cost them?

Hey! Just wait until I start my Top 100 Conga Players poll!

Congas. Love 'em or hate 'em?

I don't think I've ever seen anybody be given such a hard time over their taste regarding which discs they sell! Leave the man alone! (this board can be a tough environment...)

Peggy Lee seems to have branched out a bit since those Beauty and the Beat days...

Actually, didn't that originate in Marxist circles? The term, I mean. Yes it did, although surveying the sources on this (as I have done for something I am writing) I find that some of the American leftists so labelled by the Right who took up the term were unaware of its origin (not everyone had read up on the Russian Revolution, it seems), although they knew that on the Left it was sometimes used ironically - they just often lacked the context. Part of the masterstroke was finding a term that tended to label liberals as subversive (Leninist) repressive (Stalinist) and downright unAmerican (Russian!), all linked to the well known Orwell novel (and to the received idea of that novel for those who had never read it). But this part only applied to the minority who were in the know on such things. The real masterstroke was in the catchiness of the term combined with the strategy of complete misrepresentation that accompanied the creation of the myth. The left spent all the time whining about how unfair it all was instead of coming up with something as catchy, derisive and unfair of their own. Incidentally, Lyn Cheney has an early part in this, and there is a Paul Wolfowitz connection via his teacher, Allan Bloom, and his teacher, Leo Strauss. It came to a head when the ideas was planted in Bush's mouth, but as you will well know was part of US campus and intra-faculty struggles dating from the diversification of intake and introduction of campus speech codes from the late 1960s.

'Political Correctness' was a masterstroke of naming.

You might be in a position to answer this one: had Definitive ripped off the Mosaic remasterings or not? It is often said that they did but no-one seems to have heard both sets. What was your impression?

FWIW, I see that some of the Universal Classical titles have been marked up to slightly higher prices now, so it may be that these discounts are on the way out...

Meanwhile, the latest Radio 3 feed includes a SOLO set from David Murray.

So CDs are expected to last 25-75 years? No such problem with vinyl. As for the other digital stuff, fuggedit. Family photos is one issue - it needs backing up. As for music, it seems the notion of permament collection (in particular, a collection held on a permanent medium) is a diminishing one, and that collections will rise and fall like ancient civilizations, only in a shorter time frame. Ahem.

Now if you could just reattach all the old BNBB posts... (what did YOU do in the war daddy)

I just received this and it is the "deluxe box" version. A good deal at 30 euros shipped. Nice one! I thought it was the deluxe vesion but I didn't want to say so in case I was wrong...

Heck, two YEARS ago, you guys were writing how it'd be the next one to expire. If this keeps up, Mosiac's gonna have to move it from 'Last Chance' to 'Running Low'. Oh we know our onions round here. Next thing they'll be printing another 10,000...

hmv.co.jp Can be seen here: better to order from amazon or early records.

Are these Japanese issues or something else? I was aware of a Japanese Globe Unity issue, not the others. Ehh... checked around and answered my own question. This is the second Japo Globe Unity to make it to Japanese CD. Maybe Intergalactic Blow will follow in three years or so...

Exploitative and in bad taste. What does it mean to make a commercial aesthetic object out of a massacre? An attempt to legitimate the movie genre as such by finding a content that seems to ground the two modes movie makers peddle most assiduously: pathos and destruction. Selling people the pathos of their own destruction? Is this the movie they are showing at the end of Gravity's Rainbow? Follow the bouncing ball...

Hmm - thanks, I'll take a look...

Very well, thank you! I only used the trial version which worked very well, so I am going to buy it - it is quite cheap. I am trying to work out the best resolution to use. Any tips on that?

How about RVG's Dialogue (Bobby Hutcherson)? Sounds like a car crash.

Back on a complete work-through of the JJJ here myself. In case no-one has made the point, a set not to be missed...

A concert by this group forms the main part of Jazz on 3 this week - it won't be there much longer as the program changes weekly, on Fridays... There's a nice interview with Hutcherson and Redman. Line up: Joshua Redman - tenor saxophone Renee Rosnes - piano Eric Harland - drums Matt Penman - bass Andre Hayward - trombone Nicholas Payton - trumpet Miguel Zenon - alto saxophone & flute Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone & marimba