David Ayers

Why the need to wait? Why can't the samples properly reflect the files which will be used for the CDs? The opposite, surely. The samples are and must be reliable.

Re. Kowald: UK-ites might still be taking a risk on duties and charges...

Well, she said more about one album than anyone has ever posted on this board. She thinks about affect which most of us here struggle to discuss. If you read most record reviews, they are no more technical than this, in fact. I quite like reading someone who has ZERO interest in piling stuff up, getting the extra tracks, comparing masterings and, uh, all the extra-musical non-aesthetic stuff we usually bang on about. Jus' sayin'.

Glad you said that.

Very sorry to learn of this.

This thread makes me think of Adorno on (Beethoven's) 'late style' in Moments musicaux.

I guess I don't mind supporting things I care about. Things I don't support, it doesn't arise. It is a question of price structure, price point perception and absolute cost. I guess I've got my head round it by now. For baseball I go to the window though!

I'm interested to hear folks get on with itunes. I use it and understand it but find it laborious.

Agree.

Just heard Matsuev in Prokofiev 3 with LSO under maestro toothpick from ten feet away. I take it all back.

Re. storage - that costs you money ANYWAY - the hardware is also not free and is much more likely to fail than the cloud - in fact it inevitably DOES fail. Cloud storage isn't obligatory - and there are of course other options than Apple - but storage is never free....

Strange to think the iPod itself has gone the way of the home stereo...

Hadelich is no slouch either. DSO though is not cheap!

I hear piano concertos in concert all the time, but...

I love HH.

To love the iPod don't you need to love itunes? And - isn't itunes pretty old and clunky and no longer fit for purpose? PS probably significant that my iphone spell corrects iPod but not itunes. Though I now notice it doesn't correct iphone either. So....

I have heard many of the older and younger living greats playing piano concertos, some if them more times than I am really bothered about, and I realise that the concerto for piano outnumbers the violin concerto by far. But for whatever reason it is the violin repertoire I love. The piano concerto leaves me a little cold. More than a little in fact - I rarely listen to recordings of piano concertos and I don't have even one favorite which I keep rebuying (well, the Schoenberg I guess, but there aren't so many versions of that). The violin concertos I'll buy any number of times and never tire of hearing in concert even the ones I don't love so much. So - anyone else have a strong view on this?

Nice post.

On the subject of Old and New Dreams I see that the two ECMs are slated for re-release. Probably straight reprints but maybe part of the remastering program, who knows. As you were.

Don't the Ornette Atlantics fit the bill?

Strange maybe but while I can enjoy some or much of what he allows to happen around him I just feel he very consciously marketed an idea of "sophistication". Edited to add I hadn't seen Steve's post and just to report that I am long familiar with all periods of Miles, still listen to new releases and rebut and relisten to old stuff, but that I just never really believed in it. And while I own KOB and have even recently rebought it I haven't listened to it in many a year. Strange but true.

Miles Davis is "of interest" but the comparisons you often see to Picasso are just barmy and a reminder just how deliberately if artfully MOR his venture was.

I thought the Downbeat article was a good discussion and was plainly positive on the topic of Coltrane's new interest in community playing.

Was in a store recently but didn't see this. On the subject of bassists, is there a photo of Steve Davis when he played with Trane? Noticed last night there isn't one in the Atlantic box set booklet.

I.e. Adorno, who mentored Mann on this.