David Ayers

Since this is basically my field I won't get started.

This the one that was released in the UK on Pye, I believe. NSPL 28240.

I guess Schoenberg's Die Eiserne Brigade counts.

Ivor Gurney fits the bill, notably his War Elegy.

Nielsen's 4th and 5th are usually thought of as war symphonies.

Louis Vierne's Piano Quintet op. 42 is a sometimes angry lament for his son lost in the war. Enescu's grandiose romantic Symphony No. 3 was written 1916-18 and maybe 'reflects' the war.

I guess I'm the only one here who follows Gergiev but I'll mention anyway that in June his Shostakovich cycle continues with a 2 SACD set of symphonies 4, 5, and 6. The recent 8 is very worthwhile, if these works interest you.

Or guess the anagram.

Now Jack Teagarden is about to bite the dust....

Lucky one or two who got the Berigan. Few creaky vocals maybe - and some of the great vocals of all time from Billie Holiday - but basically an involving set. Yes, I do know it was ripped off and is available elsewhere.

I have no idea but why not ask this lot: http://www.iwojimaassociation.org/index.php/about-us/books-about-iwo

HB2U!

Very interesting article and thanks for the link. In fact you don't see many pieces that get into the nuts and bolts of restructured jazz quite in this way - at least, I don't see them, but what do I know...

I guess for me it is fifties for jazz, sixties for 'avant-garde'. Jazz as such struggles a bit in the 60s.

We learned in another thread that cassettes are very cheap to manufacture. That's one thing. It surprises me that many people have a cassette player though. that seems odd. If you have an older car then you will. If there is an old stereo system in the house then you will. A few boomboxes are still sold with cassette. Probably these cassettes are listened to in car or on boomboxes by people who otherwise would listen to mp3 on computer or ipod. There won't be many who are buying hi-fi separates, although the vinyl enthusiasts will be. My guess is that people like the organic access of buying cassettes at gigs. The sound is probably often perfectly good for the equipment and contexts it is played in. There's a feeling of reality too, I should think, in the whole transaction which is unlike the experience of (basically) illegally d/ling oceans of mp3s. It isn't about collecting music but about real-time access to things that are happening. S'cool.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/27036235

Aren't those all after the time-period in question? I'm essentially after all the late 60's and early, early 70's stuff Hubbard did after he left Blue Note, and (essentially) before he was on CTI (or as he was transitioning to CTI -- so everything that wasn't on CTI, from around that time). I'm not 100% sure, but the titles you link to in your post all seem to be from the mid-to-late 70's, including (primarily? - or entirely?)stuff he did after CTI (or as he was transitioning away from CTI). Yeah you got me - I realised that after I posted but decided to leave it in... Still, it means those interested can now find all 7 of the Columbias, except the Sony Japan Gleam. Some but not I think all of these were previously on Wounded Bird. I see that Wounded Bird also did Gleam.

See my post in other Hubbard thread

These are all on their way back as 3-for-2 packages from BGO. http://www.bgo-records.com/search?search%5Bq%5D=hubbard

I've learned that the Scriabin cycle toured by Gergiev and LSO will be issued on LSO Live later this year. His next and final season with LSO will concentrate on staples - Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich - so this Scriabin has been the last of his programming adventures in London, at least for now. Did we need *all* of Scriabin's symphonies? Well, worth giving the cycle a go and it does tell a story. I know folks here don't much warm to Gergiev, but really he is one of the most interesting around and there is no substitute for following a conductor and orchestra in real time, season after season, over an entire appointment span. That will be 10 years, or 11 if we count the Prokofiev cycle that preceded his appointment. Good run and I'm not sure if there would have been anywhere more interesting to be in the last ten years.

These are now UCCQs, i notice. This batch is very different in nature from the previous series. Looks like many/most/all of these were first on LP in Japan only. That's the theme.

I'd be interested in Tippin the Scales as version I've got could be bettered I'd imagine. Yeah - they could have played better...

Thanks for the link. A lot of titles that people will go for - Blue John, The Rajah, Tippin' the Scales, Far Away Lands...

I also like that Iyer singled out Live in Seattle. Also find it sort of sweet that some of the contributors in the article have such belief in the meaning and purpose of the history of their own taste. I guess the idea of the 'album' is itself dating. In fact, choosing an 'album' can be hard as one great track does not an album make. Some people struggle to count to four. Those people must never be the banker in a game of Monopoly.

Glad to see credit for Machine Gun. Bit of an oldie list.