David Ayers

I guess it is findable but i can connect you to a copy of the Paul Cram LP if you don't have it and want it.

Bought this recently for a ridiculous price and the sound quality is excellent : http://www.amazon.com/8-Classic-Albums-Three-Sounds/dp/B005SQ3B2K That's a European public-domain release. Those PD labels do not have access to original sources like mastertapes; usually existing CDs and LPs are used as sources. I'd say that set is the way to go. I've got many Sounds titles on JRVG/TOCJ, and I dare say anyone who loves that music will try to get hold of some of those...but, I'm not really convinced they are so essential and this set is a way to get the general idea without breaking the bank.

Well i was *thinking* of spinning a disk from my still-sealed Curtis Fuller Mosaic, but..... you'll easily see why I am hesitating Got one myself - a glorious sight...

Oto were very disturbed to learn that someone had said something mildly crotchety about them on the internet. While they seek an injunction to have the entire web closed down pending legal action, they have advised improv lovers to stay away from ALL Scottish Lochs.That last part made me wonder if they had maybe misheard what I was telling them, but I pass it on anyway.

Okka. I might be able to provide. Okka! I thought he'd stopped issuing new titles. Good.

William Burroughs also did art and sold quite a lot. He was bemused by its commercial success.

Wait! Pianist AND composer?

FWIW here's what I managed to find on spotify [Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9], doesn't cover all of above, but a few alternatives, and does include some of the arrangements. I'm in the market for CDs though.

Thanks Larry and all for the recs and links (makes life very easy!). I'm making an effort to work through these. As for that Boulez recording, it maybe worked better in the LP age, but unfortunately for me I don't get on two well with some of those Sony SBM remasters.

Just for fun, the topic of a musician with a second art (painting) came up in Clifford's Ivo Perlman thread, and the question came up whether an artist could practice a second art to any kind of significant level. So I started to think about musicians who paint and other people who were or are bi-artal. So, names and comments please! Since we are talking about Schoenberg in another thread I'll nominate Schoenberg first up - his paintings are interesting - but do they ever go on display as anything other than the paintings of the composer (maybe they do, that's a question). I thought of how some musicians come out of visual arts then self-teach music but keep up visual arts in some way - Brotzmann, Eno came to mind. But does their stuff count much beyond the fact that they are the ones who did it? Shifting arts I thought of D H Lawrence, who did paint a lot...and then I came to Wyndham Lewis who I guess really is one of the few who is both artist and author - endlessly exhibited as a painter, but still in Penguin Classics and with a scholarly edition of his entire written works about to get under way. Other examples of bi-artalism?

On this one I only know and own the Boulez/Columbia version, which is certainly followable but is unnaturally miked. I would like a more natural-sounding version but still one played and conducted at a very high level. Any recommendations?

I guess there should be a prize for the first person to find an inverted piano.

There's an infinite supply of these reverse photos...some of them aimed at the most discerning collectors by a race of extraterrestrial perfectionists...

No it is a good point - Adorno's take on modernism now seems of its time.

I've heard him only on record. Evan Parker is touting his virtues to anyone who wil listen.

Thanks for posting.

In UK we chuckle over British footballers who move to France, Holland etc and start speaking English with an accent.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3U-r8T31Ns

On a related topic, while I'm sure Peter will not feel too cheered about having his stuff ripped off, I wonder if he can at least take some solace in the name recognition of this latest PD venture... More use could and should have been made of him back in those days. Superior quality, please note.

5 - tracks from lost tapes are not on the fresh sound or the blue note, at least the ones i checked..... can't identify das is jazz on spotify, if it is here it has a different name

oh wait answer to 4 is yes they are frankfurt bridges is blue skies cool dogs is frankfurt special two oranges is lover man

answer to bertrand's question 1 is yes answer to 2 is yes 3 is yes after that... life is too short

The Hipp is pretty much all on Spotify. I *started* trying to work out the answers to bertrand's questions but.....

and yet - it looks like a bear doing tricks....

https://soundcloud.com/abstracktmusic/the-spy-who-jazzed-me

Oksanen's novel Purge was translated from Finnish into English and did well but once again it was left to the French to press on with translation and this is now her third title to appear in French. The background of this one as of Purge is Estonia and the legacy of Soviet domination. I recommend Purge as a historical thriller centered on questions of women's lives. Don't whatever you do read the blurb which contains a plot spoiler! This one, When the Doves Disappeared deals with the legacy of the Nazi occupation of Estonia 1941-4.