David Ayers

Um, was in the specialist Early Music Shop and started to covet one. Resisted but... anybody play one? I'm guessing nobody would even attempt this who doesn't already play a double reed instrument, which I don't.

Here's your Evans track list. http://www.universalmusic.it/jazz/artista/discografia/?ccidp=30434360259 Oh. I see it doesn't display properly...

I heard her recently performing the Elgar Concerto. She projects wonderfully and completely took control of the work. She has recorded Carter so she is no slouch, and has a solo disc out that I haven't heard. A fine young musician.

IIRC a couple of valuable LPs of Thomson's settings of Stein and Wuorinen of Ashbery on Albany...

Fair enough. Totally get it.

No it was a stage work with kids. Supposedly his most famous thing. La Strada, maybe? Don't recall.

Albany's promotion of George Lloyd has led me to disregard them. I've heard Lloyd only on recordings and don't rate him. It feels like there's a reason no-one ever mentions most of the composers promoted by that label. Of course there could be much there that would interest me, but Lloyd stands over the whole operation like a head on a spike.

No to Nino. Saw some thing of his with a load of kids running around. So dull.

Thanks for posting.

Maybe not so interested in a shed load of concert duos though. Or solos either come to that. Those things are fine in performance but only rarely are the recordings anything other than documentary. Though documenting things is fine of course. To whom who keeps a record.

Love the sheer madness of the triple format!

Fair question. Lack of interest in life? In others? In musical possibility? In the things that any educated person knows about music? Like if you never read a book by a person who had been alive during your lifetime and didn't think anyone else should either? Could be anything, I don't know.

Oh if we are going outside jazz, Suzie Quattro. Well, I haven't got her first LP any more and in any case I have no filing system so my opinions are worthless. And of course Queen. Though I never owned any Queen.

Quest! The Quintet!!!!!

Guys! Enough with the off remarks!

Great album! One of the few Hats i have. Agreed. I bought Köln when it first came out, and while my copy no longer has the price label on it I know it would have cost more, then, in 1995, than amazon uk's current list price. And yet, As Serious As Your Life is about to arrive, so somehow the reissues continue. And there are so many new releases across the board that there must be a market of some sort. I am guessing that almost everything makes a loss for the label or as Chuck describes is subsidised by the artist.

As for hat reissues, I notice that the reissue of Köln 1978 from 2009 is still in print. That makes me wonder if the demand is really there. No wonder the program is slow.

There are a lot of people whose products are sold on amazon who have been convicted of serious crimes including child sexual abuse. Hm.

I guess your thread title covered all eventualities.

I wish I hadn't asked.

I'm sorry to ask this - why should this have been removed?

Well going to the opera is always great, even if most of the time it falls short in some way. You are surely right to go to see Le Nozze di Figaro, one of the greatest of all operas, even if productions are often a bit twee. My second pick would be Don Carlos, which is very hard to cast - they will struggle - and which will also require good production and direction to keep it alive. I strongly suggest that you go and see it, it is a huge undertaking for them, and you can be certain that it will fall short by international standards, but it is the company's big venture of the season and I'd say you should be in the best seats supporting them, appreciating their guts, and hoping for some real magic and a triumph.

They did. It will be included in 2064, when it is released as...well, nothing will be 'released' in any 'format' any more, we will all simply have the whole of everything implanted directly in our heads....

Likely what you say is right. Let's see if others wade in.

Ok thanks. Is that definite? I don't have any of the Miles books and I don't have the Miles/Coltrane box. The notes to the Columbia stereo CD don't mention this issue. The Wikipedia entry states "On some editions, the label switched the order for the two tracks on side two, "All Blues" and "Flamenco Sketches". " but there is no further clarification and no reference is given.