David Ayers

Audited on spotters. Sehr interessant! The blurb describes these as transcriptions, but that is a bit slack as these are orchestrations. The blurb writer not so well informed maybe. It would be clarifying to give proper credits. I want Naxos to release the Reykjavik concerts.

Very happy birthday, Flurin!

Let’s not forget that Columbia also had a go with James Blood Ulmer.

Any details..?

Good job it’s not a pipe. As crazy as it may seem, there have been items which I have found on Amazon only through a Google search. The same item could not be located at all using the Amazon search. It is beyond belief.

Got it. Some of the outcomes are pretty shocking.

I got the impression that amazon uk changed their search engine a few weeks/months ago. Since then I’ve noticed some gross omissions and inclusions on searches where I used to know what to expect (too much to detail). Is this a thing?

Very nice photo.

I think you're going to love it.

Wish I’d bought this set.

Well, not relevant to the search for youth and newvoices, but, Evan Parker is just on fire on tenor these days - check out Music For David Mossman on Intakt, as a recent example.

That set arrived rather quickly. Next time an order from the EU may be held up at customs while they calculate the duty 🙁

Disk 1 emanating from the (TV) speakers as I write. Not a very effective taunt, I now realise.

We might all be wondering why jazzmessengers has details about this set, including track titles, that are not on the NotTwo website... https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/79881/dkv-trio/the-fire-each-time-w-joe-mcphee

DKV + McPhee now on its way. When it gets here I’ll post on it every day until Steve’s birthday. Well, if I get chance to even listen to it... meantime Steve, maybe you could make do with this:

Parker/Edwards/Noble https://m.soundcloud.com/free-range/fr-122-evan-parker-john-edwards-steve-noble-full-set-2016-02-25 I was at this gig though I have never played the recording... Should have mentioned Edwards breaks a string - don’t know if the subsequent filling has been edited out. Hope not.

Thank you for this tip, and thanks also to Steve. I’ll order the box direct, I think, and check out serpent for future individual purchases.

Thanks, Steve. I have a good handful of single CDs from this label and the sound is just great. I’d pick up more (even though I’m mainly off CDs) but I don’t like their shipping calculator. It will be one box only for me this year, or at least only one box at a time, but I think this one has my name on it...

So you won’t have a report on SQ of the DKV + McPhee yet? Would be a rare box set purchase for me and since each session has a different engineer I find myself wondering...

I don’t know. Mine is in the loft. It is the long Schuller piece which appears to be missing. Trying to remember if I ever heard it...

Same content as the enja lp, which has a differently cropped version of the same photo on the cover. In the attic.

Recording has had a huge effect on how we listen, to be sure. Without recordings we would all know so much less about what music is and how it can work, and music itself has developed based on that knowledge, on that level of audience familiarity with the rules in general, with certain pieces and performers in particular, and in many genres relies on recording and the attendant studio technologies for its existence. It also makes us lazy as listeners - we can rely on repeating a recording to learn it without firm attention - and it also makes us better: we do learn it, we learn to appreciate every nuance (or notice its lack)... and so on. I like to hear new music for the first and only time when I can, to remind myself what that is like. Many refections on this but the office beckons!

So much going on - exciting but, as with so much modern music - never really sure what I’m hearing and why...

I heard the LAPO doing Play. It was exhausting!