David Ayers

....c'est la question... PS They already restocked most of the titles!

This series concerns works of composers labelled by Nazis as 'degenerate' - meaning they were Jewish, Avant-Garde, Jazz inflected, sexually scandalous, or communist. Most of the material comes from before 1939, though some comes from after. Some composers were killed by the Nazis (Haas, Krasa), others pursued alternative careers abroad (Korngold, Goldschmidt). The basic thinking behind the series is to map part of the history of German music which is considered to have been interrupted and broken off by the Nazis. Very little of this work is well known (though Schoenberg and Korngold are the most eminent figures, even if Korngold's 'Wunder' was little known). It is an interesting series (though how many of these compositions would become anybody's permanent favorites is another matter), and the jazz angle of it is that we can hear how German composers heard and re-presented jazz. In fact, 'Jonny spielt auf' (which doesn't translate well ...) is an opera about a jazz saxophonist, with a mild though not dominant jazz content. Many of these disks wre reviewed in Gramophone and can be seen at the Gramophone review site (remember always to check the 'show deleted' box!). http://www.gramophone.co.uk Click on reviews. Its free but you have to register. PS Sorry Claude I was writing while you were! PPS Claude is right about the Korngold violin concerto - very widely recorded and often played in concert. The Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony has now become well known through records, and this version is particuarly good, being combined with the Symphonic Songs to texts by Negro poets, sung brilliantly by Willard White. The Schoenberg is all available elsewhere and is obviosuly important. But Claude, I don't know whether I would put my hadn on my heart and describe Krenek's symphionies as famous! Among the Operas, the Korngold and Shreker are late romantic blockbusters, fine if you have an appetite for that kind of thing. The Schreker was recently revived in Germany so is not as 'dead' as some of the others perhaps are. I see several of these are now said to be 'out of stock' - but it is worth checking back as the situation may change.

Only just relevant to a jazz board, I suppose, but some of you may wish to plug gaps in your collection of this interesting Decca series - and the price is right, though some titles are currently out of stock. click click

Ornette himself seems unlikely to sanction release of these tapes. Both LPs are magnificent and it would be great to have more available. What label was the CD reeleased on? Was it Giants of Jazz? I certainly don't see it listed any more. I have a feeling that there were two CD releases.

Heavy Soul was a 1999 JRVG and is also still available as a a TOCJ. The TOCJ of Bossa Nova Soul Samba is still available, and this is due as a JRVG in September. The JRVG of IMAWBS is due on October. So no-one need be without!

The existence of the Selects will scupper the possibility of bringing out many Mosaics. The Selects may be 'affordable', but the selections are arbitrary and there is (obviously) no book. So the consequence of a John Patton Select is that there can now be no John Patton Mosaic and so it goes from there. The more Selects people purchase the fewer Mosaics we will see. I am sorry it is going this way - we should remember that the advantage of Mosaics is not in their sound quality (never the best) but in their editorial integrity. The Selects sacrifice this - its a pity.

IMAWBS is coming back as a JRVG. The note choices in IQ's playing are muscular enough to prevent this from going limp and being merely 'nice'. Worth picking up.

Wow. Talk about different perspectives. Are you sure you're not listening to them on the microwave? Cuz they sure as hell sound irritating on that. Seriously... most people consider early McMasters to have a nicely graduated tonal range, even if the result is usually a little soft focussed and sometimes recessed. But the ARE musical sounding, which is exactly what I find the grating RVGs NOT to be.

I wonder if we are expecting too much of the Hill? I'm not as keen as some people on previously unreleased sessions, in this case because this one has gone well to the bottom of the pile - Hill's unreleased catalog has had many bites of the cherry with BN both on vinyl and on CD. Having said that, Hill seems to have approved it...

So... why did they close down the BNBB - just remind me...?

This was slated as a possible BEFORE the days of the Moncur Select. I don't know if the plan to issue it survived the Select.

Wow. I see that evil has spread like a cancer to the very heart of society. I never realised how the warped minds of those corporate dudes worked until I got the internet (yeah and I only got that after Michael Moore told me about the global conspiracy to prevent internet free speech). Well, that does it, not only will I boycott Blue Note, I am gonna smash up all the BN records I already own (could take some time see you guys later).

This may have been covered, but I just saw my first BN Copy Control CD, a compilation of Blakey tunes. Me no likee. Where will it end? Has anyone seen other examples of this from BN?

In any case, after zweitausendeins dumped all those Larry Young sets for $15 I would have thought the market was saturated. OK I'll quit fooling around. So who did it? Hang the bounder.

Well I read this thread because, based on the title, I was shocked by the thought that an SUV might roll over. How could that possibly happen, I wondered. Actually I have no idea why people drive these things. They handle like a garbage truck and flip over just turning into the drive.

Best wishes, Tod. Feel free to bitch away - the rest of us do!

I didn't see the word 'vinyl' anywhere. Is he going to reissue any of the old titles, or is the whole point that he never bought them outright anyway so the label doesn't own anything and can't reissue? The original releases are very good quality vinyl, marred only by special rice paper inner sleeves which seem to stick to the vinyl if stored under pressure.

PS NOT who I said, who was NOT my first thought. PPS I don't care either - now if the 2for1 TOCJ sale at early music had been a hoax then I really *would* have been angry.

Actually it's obvious who it was. Look at the language of the original post.

Of course, with a name like Chicken Shack, and abuse of our collective love of Larry Young, we just have to ask ourselves: who do we know who hates ORGAN BANDS - ? Pass me my pipe, Watson.

Whoever did this has obviously penetrated our mindset and now knows that he can twist us around his little finger. We're DOOMED!

Just an average day's viewing for Mr Tanno. Mole Jazz will never seem the same. Though you can sometimes see Bill Oddie in there. (In joke for Brits). Hey I also like the optical illusion on the ebaumsworld site. Move your head forwards and backwards while looking at centre dot. Oops - I tried to post it and failed. You'll just have to go there.

Ok I've calmed down now.

Woo Hoo!

Bring on the spray ons: Spray on stocking fashion in Japan Meanwhile I'm gonna get me that spray on Cecil Taylor hair...