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Fender Rhodes? MIDI saxophone? Of course there might be "classical" compositions involving those instruments, but most people would not consider them typical for a classical setting (=classical instruments). Lately, some topics here seems to derail rather quickly. Anyway, I've never warmed to the harpsichord. And, oh - I am also very fond of Glenn Gould's Bach interpretations, espescially the French suites where he doesn't have to worry about counterpoint.

I`ve never heard Monuments, but the track above was actually much better than I had anticipated. I think it's fascinating to hear McLean on this material, which I don't think was so bad. Didn't care so much for the spoken lead voice, though.

I’ve met Couw (twice), Claude - longtimers will remember them - and etherbored. All great people.

You can always identify a Big Mac, but does that make it great food?

I am not sure that it will work out, but it is said that Mats Gustafsson will take over the shop. He would employ someone to keep it running but oversee the general business himself from a distance. We'll see.

I am by no means an Idris Hotep Galeta expert - in fact I can remember no other album he plays on at the moment - but I can't help feeling he is not always an asset on the Hutcherson Montreux album. His comping is sometimes a bit mechanical (repeating the same voicings and accents chorus after chorus) and he also gets lost in the form of "Moontrane" and skips the B part for most of the tune. His soloing is idiosyncratic, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Woody's playing is absolutely terrific, though.

I agree with Brad that this discussion is a bit bizarre. And it could easily slip into an even more depressing outlook on the relevance and future of this very message board, but I'll resist going into that. To me, it seems as if the initial request was made in a positive spirit. And it seemed to come out of a passion for Mobley, not a particular interest in Down Beat. So if trying - and maybe even succeeding, how improbable that may seem - to get Mobley into this hall of fame can make some people feel good about honoring the memory of him, there doesn't seem to be any obvious downside to that. In the light of that, a seemingly negative outburst stating the pointlessness of this exercise may be an example of someone just exercising his freedom of expression (let's for a moment disregard the fact that this is a private website), but it also seems to take away the positive spirit without adding much else. So if some people think there is a point in doing something, why keep telling them it's pointless? Obviously, that's incorrect since it meant something to those people, which was the main point in the first place. And forgive me for keeping up the bizarre-ness. ☺

Good to see you here, Hans! From the looks of this diagram, the future of the CD looks uncertain at best: https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/ I agree that fans of classical music tend to be more conservative in relation to streaming/downloads, but at least in Sweden also classical CD sales have collapsed. A guy I know at one of the majors says that some new releases don't even sell ten copies nationwide in a country of ten million inhabitants.

I'm still not sure. The reason LPs "disappeared" in the 90s was that they were replaced by another physical format with "digital" and "convenient" as the USP:s. (They were also falsely advertised as indestructible/durable, but we know better now) The "hipness" of LPs today is to a large extent related to the format being non-digital, while CDs are just an anachronistic means of distributing digital files. So, since non-physical is now replacing CDs, LPs still have a few USP:s that CDs don't: large covers and being non-digital, all while CDs (in the eyes of the consumers) no longer have any distinct advantages over non-physical files.

Nice! However, it does not include what is rumored to be Bergman's worst film, a poor attempt at a spy thriller from 1950: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0043019/ Apparently, Bergman did not want it to ever be available again, but I believe there are (illegal) copies circulating. I haven't seen it.

On the contrary, I think CDs are really going away. And a digital file is a digital file, regardless of storage media. A plastic disc is a less durable format than any sensible, modern file storage solution. Streaming has all but replaced downloads these days. However, I can sort of sympathize with the fear of losing access to music that is not stored locally; you cannot count on the streaming service to keep your favourite music available indefinitely. But if you want to ensure eternal access to your music, do not rely solely on CDs. A day will come sooner than you would expect when it is as hard to replace a malfunctioning CD player as it is to find a working VHS VCR today. And I've tried to sell CDs at gigs myself, but nobody is buying them anymore because they don't even have CD players at home any longer. So, since the CD has lost its function as storage media for music it might even make more sense to sell equally unplayable LPs, because they are still more of an "object" to display at home, look at etc.

Bobby Hutcherson's 'Total Eclipse'! My favourite post-Lion Blue Note album. However, it was co-produced by Duke Pearson, so maybe it doesn't count.

Well, in the home where I grew up there were a few jazz records (my father's). Not a large collection by any means, but a couple of important ones. Of course, before I started to buy records myself, those were more or less the only ones I listened to. The first two jazz albums (in this context I am referring to the Peter Nero album as a "jazz album") i can remember hearing around the age of five were Peter Nero "In Person" and Ernie Wilkins' "Flutes and Reeds" (with Wilkins on sax and Frank Wess and Jerome Richardson on flutes). Listening to the Nero album today, the "improvisation" appears a bit stiff, but nevertheless it was my first taste of jazz. The Wilkins album is another matter (and it includes Hank Jones and Kenny Clarke in the rhythm section). A bit traditional, even for 1955, but still very good. After Nero, I tried to look for something similar and then took the perhaps obvious step to the "Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie" album. I continued to search for jazz pianists among my father's records and happened to find a Red Garland EP, "Manteca". I also tried Coltrane's "Soul Train" because it had Garland on it, but I was not ready for it yet. However, I bought my first own jazz albums, two Red Garland Prestige albums. There was a Louis Armstrong LP (can't remember which one), but somehow it sounded too "old" for me. But he was blowing a trumpet on the cover, so I assumed there could be other jazz trumpeters as well. The two albums I found were important steps in my jazz education; "Study in Brown" and Miles' "Blue Haze". After that, one thing led to another, and they still do I suppose.

Nice to see "The Blue Note Kid" on a visit! With everything else in life going on I am not often here myself, but anyway.

It was a great show, perhaps not because immortal music was played but because of the range of great musicians on the same scene at the same time. During the next act I saw Land and one of the other players strolling behind the audience; it was an outdoor festival and the weather was as great as a Swedish summer night can be. He had a very warm smile and seemed to enjoy just relaxing and listening in. Nobody around him seemed to take note. I wanted to approach him and say something about how I appreciated his music, but he seemed so happy and peaceful that I decided I didn't want to disturb. The next year he was gone, but I didn't regret I let him be.

The impact of "lightweight" music should not be underestimated. My journey into jazz started with a Peter Nero album.

It aims at forcing people to consent? :-) No, what I tried to say - although in retrospect perhaps not very well - is that the point of a GDPR compliant consent to processing of personal data is that it needs to be "freely given", meaning that you can not force anybody to consent - *unless* the specific processing is necessary for the performance of a contract between the parties. From the looks of it, tumblr seems to want to do more with the data that just delivering the service (the Gazette?), but I will admit I didn't look very closely before deciding I didn't want to consent.

If I convert the gas price over here to $ per gallon, I've never paid less than $6.00 for the last six years. American cars are close to non-existent here, and lack of fuel economy compared to most European cars is one (but maybe not the only) reason.

Article 4(11) ‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her; Article 7(4) When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract. Not to be overly lawyer-like, but it seems that one is forced to consent to processing of personal data that is not necessarily necessary for the "performance of the contract". Must admit I didn't look too closely at the exact conditions though.

I saw Woods in 2000 in a Monk tribute band including Johnny Griffin, Steve Lacy, Harold Land, Billy Higgins and Ronnie Mathews, among others. Several of them passed away in the following years. Steve Lacy sounded very frail, and while Phil Woods face looked completely grey (typically a result of a lack of oxygenated blood) he sounded better than most of the others in the band, except maybe for Mathews.

From reports of recent Tyner appearances, he might no longer be recalling a lot of detail.

Jim Dye?! It's been a while. Hope you're doing fine

While true, is it not Phil on the left on that cover (not smoking)?

Thanks, I always wondered! This is only heresay of course, but I've been told that the digital version of that set suffered quite heavily from bit conversion issues (this was during Mosaic's short-lived excursion into punch cards).

I never saw the Bob Belden wax cylinders for sale at their site. How was that set advertised?