David Ayers

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.

I just spent some time in the very well-stocked CD stores of the bookseller Gibert Joseph in Paris - as well as time in some of the great Paris bookstores - and I was reminded once again what a fine thing the record store can be. The Joseph store had racks of Japanese imports and lots of current titles. Fancy prices, maybe, but lots of customers and a sense that people still actually cared. So maybe the return of HMV to Oxford Street is a good thing, though whether it would replace the jazz and classical stocks in foyles bookstore for me personally is a moot point.

Sleuth City!

'Here to Hear' is a very good track. We don't talk about Byard much here, do we?

That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo... :tup :tup Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly). Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!) Hum Dono? And that's enough to fill a box?

Didn't the Oliver Nelson box include a lot of his Impulse! material? It had 'The Kennedy Dream' and 'Sound Pieces' on it (but not the 'Live In Los Angeles'). Good prompt to dig it out for a listen.. That's four votes: you, me, Bol and Romualdo... :tup :tup Vocalion have now put out so much of the previously rare Joe Harriott Lansdowne Series material and with much of the earlier stuff also on CD (Proper etc.) such a set - although a fantastic option - has probably now been overtaken by events (sadly). Ditto. What's missing? (though of course the thought is beautiful!)

I may need to get that. The clips sound great! Who knows if/when this stuff will ever be available again. well, it is a cheap download on amazon and it is also on spotify, so you have your options...