David Ayers

Piano very under-recorded and rhythm section in general efficient but plain-sounding.

I love Ben but even ten years ago I am not sure I'd put this at the top of my list to buy. Today, I'm perfectly happy with all of the other live recordings I have of Ben in Europe playing these exact same tunes. True, but if it hits eMusic, I would probably give it a go... It's on Spotify - listening now - it's...ok so far...

I rooted round on the EMI Japan site and found the list of titles but no details about remastering. Sorry.

In case you miss them on your searches and travels, fifty classic BNs not as TOCJ but as TYCJ. You heard it here first. http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/search/music/advanced_1/category_1/catnum_tycj/formattype_1/pagesize_2/sort_datedesc/

Oh wait. Just saw the US price and in I jumped.

I made up mind to buy this while reading this thread - the changed it when I saw the price went up since I looked a couple of hours ago. It is just such nonsense.

Don't know. Only 1600 customer ratings so not a huge outfit.

Leave me out of it! I was trying to close the debate with facts! Complete?!? Without the 11th one-track bonus disc featuring the fifth take of Flossie Lou !?! my dear boy... This one is a bargain price, like the Dolphy, but unlike the Coltrane Prestige which seems rather pricey.

Here's the track listing: http://www.universalmusic.it/jazz/artista/discografia/?ida=300681 1 Delilah 2 Darn that dream 3 Parisian thoroughfare 4 Jordu 5 Sweet Clifford 6 Sweet Clifford (Clifford's fantasy) 7 I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you 8 I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you 9 Stompin' at the Savoy 10 I get a kick out of you 11 I get a kick out of you 12 I'll string along with you 13 Joy spring 14 Joy spring 15 Mildama (I alt. take) 16 Mildama (II alt. take) 17 Mildama (III alt. take) 18 Mildama (IV alt. take inedito) 19 Mildama (V alt. take inedito) 20 Mildama (VI alt. take inedito) 21 Mildama 22 These foolish things (remind me of you) 23 Daahoud 24 Daahoud 25 Coronado (I alt. take) 26 Coronado (II alt. take) 27 Coronado 28 You go to my head 29 Caravan 30 Caravan (alt. take first issued as The boss man) 31 Autumn in New York 32 *Introduction by Bob Shad 33 What is this thing called love? 34 I've got you under my skin 35 No more 36 Move 37 Darn that dream 38 You go to my head 39 My funny Valentine 40 Don't worry 'bout me 41 Bess, you is my woman now 42 It might as well be spring 43 Lover come back to me 44 Alone together 45 Summertime 46 Come rain or come shine 47 Crazy he calls me 48 There is no greater love 49 I'll remember April 50 September song 51 Lullaby of Birdland 52 I'm glad there is you 53 You're not the kind 54 Jim 55 He's my guy 56 April in Paris 57 It's crazy 58 Embraceable you 59 Don't explain 60 Born to be blue 61 You'd be so nice to come home to 62 's wonderful 63 Yesterdays 64 Falling in love with love 65 What's new ? 66 A portrait of Jenny 67 What's new ? 68 Yesterdays 69 Where or when 70 Can't help lovin' dat man 71 Smoke gets in your eyes 72 Laura 73 Memories of you 74 Embraceable you 75 Blue moon 76 Willow weep for me 77 Stardust 78 Gerkin for Perkin 79 Take the "A" train 80 Lands end 81 Lands end 82 Swingin' 83 George's dilemma 84 If I love again 85 The blues walk 86 The blues walk 87 What am I here for? 88 Cherokee 89 Jaqui 90 Sandu 91 Gertrude's bounce 92 Step lightly (Junior's arrival) 93 Powell's prances 94 I'll remember April 95 I'll remember April (I alt. take inedito) 96 I'll remember April (II take) 97 Time 98 The scene is clean 99 Flossie Lou (I alt. take inedito) 100 Flossie Lou (II alt. take inedito) 101 Flossie Lou (III alt. take inedito) 102 Flossie Lou 103 What is this thing called love? (alt. take inedito) 104 What is this thing called love? 105 Love is a many splendoured thing (I alt.take ined) 106 Love is a many splendoured thing (II alt.take ined) 107 Love is a many splendoured thing

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/high-fidelity/at-last-high-resolution-audio-is-about-to-go-mainstream

The Henze disc is very worthwhile, very involving, even if the 8th is lighter than the 7th or 9th (!) and, being based on Midsummer Night's Dream, has some unfortunate mimetic donkey-braying which apparently counted for humor in Henze's mind. My copy which I bought a couple of years ago came without any liner notes, only blot on what is now a bargain. Henze's music is often very richly layered - some think he overdoes it - and this is a case where SACD helps to sort out the morass.

Do, though it might be one of those box-sets that has usurped the market of the semi-interested but doesn't do the composer full justice. Good, though, don't get me wrong. It's just that...well, you know...

I dunno. Whenever I have been to US concerts and operas they were sold out. Sounds like the music gets along just fine but the fancy new venues are bankrupting the orchestras. Here in UK everything I go to is sold out or very full. The Proms concerts I have been to this season I was calling all week to get return tickets, and that is in a venue which accommodates well over 5000 people. None of the events I attended had star orchestras or conductors or soloists. Nashville is not London but it is a world center of music of other kinds, at least historically, and you can have a serious conversation about music with just random folks you meet in a bar. Not *that* kind of music though and I guess maybe their catchment doesn't allow them to fill their concert hall as regularly as they would like. The crisis so-called just doesn't square with all the full venues I go to...maybe it's the ones I don't go to that show the truer picture.

Well he was certainly into counting, that's a fact.

Maybe they just tested the water and it worked? And maybe the sale justifies the 'hit'? there is no upfront discount to the customer so customer price-perception is not affected. Probably they just figured that if people are looking for their stuff on ebay anyway why not join in.

All old folks look alike - ?

PS just been looking at the new and very current Cambridge Companion to Bruckner (2013). Excellent and, should I ever get time to read more than the sample, a way to press (far) on from the old school.

Just a few reflections on this thread as I have been thinking about it. The question 'which symphony is best' is in a way revealing, since the answer appeared to be certainly 4,7,8,9, probably 5 and (perhaps only just) possibly 3. I am reminded that whichever Bruckner symphony I decide to listen to I find myself thinking about the others and wondering, well maybe really one of those is the best. The reason I think that is that something in the one I am listening to does not do it for me, and I wonder now if this decentered effect of the Bruckner canon arises because in truth not one of these works is quite right - as if Bruckner never really quite gets there. Thinking about the (I'm afraid) pedantic Robert Simpson, I do also query just how difficult these works really are. The main things get repeated a lot and that often invoked notion of 'attention span' is (IMO) a fogeyish myth. Most movies are longer than a Bruckner symphony, and we know that 'attention span' which is what classical music buffs with conservative tastes always bang on about (you learnt it off records you dufi!) gets you nowhere with musics that require a little more - say with '...explosante-fixe... '. Though I suppose indirectly related to this consideration, I have been wondering whether the issue with Bruckner is not the musical sophistication - a great long-term planner of course as we know - but in the end the gaucheness; not the supposed Christian zeal but the peculiar misreading of Wagner's paganism which makes these such strange works. Though referred to as 'cathedrals in sound' this is more a question of architecture than of faith, it seems to me, and of course in contrast to Mahler there is no explicit Christian reference at all. Oh except to church bells, in a tediously mimetic fashion. Not devotional, not erotic, not narrative or descriptive. What are these works really *about*?

OK I of all people should know it is not the RED Army any more which is why I didn't find it on youtube - I posted a link to the whole thing in the What Are you Listening To thread

Bev and Trotsky were wrong to oppose art-for-art's sake - or maybe not. What could be more socially useful than art you can dish out with the tea and coffee after the sunday morning service....

Behind a paywall so not sure if you can see it - I love this song so molto molto off topic - and only ten seconds here (can't find the whole thing)... Russian Red Army choir doing Skyfall! http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3850987.ece

You're lucky probably to have that LP. The original LP is pretty terrible. Subsequent CD versions I have heard are to harsh for my tastes. You can go the streaming services to hear the compete version, if you want to know what material you are missing.

Not sure if we need a thread for box sets as such, but not every box set is a bargain and vice versa. Anyone have the time/stomach for the complete JEG Bach Cantatas, about to be released? Not me I don't think but you never know... http://www.mdt.co.uk/bach-cantatas-complete-john-eliot-gardiner-soli-deo-gloria-56cds.html

A compilation CD will appear in Album View as a compilation as long as "Part of a Compilation?" is checked in that album's info. The artist name that appears is "Various Artists." If this field is not checked, then every artist on that compilation will appear separately. OK thanks - still means it all has to be reset manually, what a bore. In fact I just did it by setting Album Artist to 'various artists' - where Album Artist is not set - which did not happen with many of the CDs we loaded, the stuff is all over the place.