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I was hoping for catching a jazz gig, but there is surprisingly very little of value in town...unless I searched the wrong places.
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The Syndicate lists over 100,000 titles in their Discogs store. That's pretty crazy. They are selling a number of Mosaic sets. I wonder which of the stores you wrote up isn't the most voluminous, but has the best selection of original pressings. My tastes are pretty much jazz, some classical, some "world music". For some reason I never got into buying rock records. The restaurant we like in Philly is called Amada. It's a traditional Spanish fare. We had the roast suckling pig, cochinillo asado there on two occasions. You have to reserve it several days in advance, and pay a $100 deposit, because they have to brine it for one or 2 days prior to roasting. The chef dismembers the piglet in front of you, on a special cart, while other restaurant patrons are watching from their tables in silent awe. I caution that it's big enough for parties of no fewer than four experienced diners and will easily fill 6 average people. Pig comes with three very large traditional Spanish peasant side-dishes: garbanzos and spinach, fingerling potatoes and delicious Spanish white beans with a touch of rosemary. Don't be tempted to have literally anything else, other than the wine, if you've ordered the pig. No tapas, nothing. It's a huge meal. Can you ask your brother which restaurant is a must-go Philadelphia institution that actually serves excellent and memorable food and isn't a tourist trap?
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We will be spending next weekend in Philadelphia, watching the English Premier League matches. Which record stores do you recommend? I don't crate-dig any more, so if you could recommend well laid-out stores with neatly inventoried, clean records that would be very appreciated. I'll probably stop by the Princeton Record Exchange on the way...it's been 20 years.
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Artie Shaw - ENIGMA
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COVID-19 III: No Politics For Thee
Dmitry replied to ghost of miles's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I just spoke to someone who hasn't taken a mask off in public until today. Conversation with me was the first one he's had mask-free in three years. -
Just watched Tar. Blanchett is a preeminent actress of our time. The story is remarkable. I was very moved. The PC world of academia and institutionalized performing arts education system collides with the Artist; it's mediocrity vs. genius, with all the accompanying psychoses. Brilliant film.
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I will agree, but only partially. I am not able to play music (a big disappointment for me, since I love it so), but I love the arts, and competent critics are remarkably important. The art form can't reliably critique itself, no matter how authoritatively Clement Greenberg postulates otherwise. One of the reasons I lost interest in jazz periodicals was lack of good revieres who weren't afraid of writing critical pieces. In digital era (you mean ease of access?), there is so much art of all kinds, vast majority of it being very poor, that the good art may get lost and not discovered until the contemporaries are long gone. Don't ask me for examples...:D
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Question - does a music critic need to be able to play an instrument, and use the accepted terminology established by centuries of professionals and possible to be descriptive, or will you take their word for what it's worth, when sentences containing things like "sheets of sound", "post-impressionism", "fluid ambiguity", "the innocent vigor of androgyny", "strong", "languid", "apocalyptic" are changing hands? "it generates a surprisingly compact, uncommonly straightforward, and dare I say pop-friendly sense of identity and purpose"... does this Christgau look at himself in the mirror when he masturbates?
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Ain't that the truth! That's why I clean my naked stylus after every play.
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Dmitry replied to Dmitry's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Finished it. I don't dislike the score. It's very film-noir'ish. Are you sure it's Thomas Newman? Titles had another composer, initials C.B., I think; Colum Bannister or something like that? It did look like an independent film in parts! SPOILER ALERT : Couple of things I didn't care for - nurse telling the old man to hit reset on the heart monitor (like he would know what to do?! that was realy lame), cop left the hospital room where the older son was held (murder suspect) and he was not handcuffed to the bed (standard procedure), which I thought would've been much cooler, writhing, cuffs sliding up and down the bed rail while daddy was holding a pillow over his face. Pillow was a murder weapon once, and accessory to murder twice. Plus the pillows were featured in several sex scenes and on the drug dealer's bed. Pretty good film overall, although I didn't care for the title. Thanks for the rec! Really liked Marisa Tomei! -
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We still have 30 mins till the ending. I didn’t pay attention to the score. Will report back. So far the most intriguing character is the androgynous drug dealer in a high-rise apartment. -
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Well, it's a good thing our 15 y.o. decided not to join us at the tv yesterday night. The first few minutes would've been rather uncomfortable for us as a family. We did have a lively debate as to Marisa Tomei's breasts. I thought they were youthful and perky, my wife was insistent that they were fixed. Naturally, we had to roll back those frames for closer scrutiny, but still reached no consensus. What do you think? -
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Justin, I'm obviously not violated...well, not by the Side Door anyway. I think they may have had a couple of slow seller acts for those two nights, and tried to fill the room by having this contest. I was probably the only one who responded. Still, it's somewhat less than professional of whoever was in charge of that. Teasing, I forgot to mention that we have been watching the dvds of all the seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm in order, pretty much every night for the past couple of weeks. Our library system has so many dvds and it's very easy to order them right from their app. Never heard of that Lumet title...just ordered it from the library. His THE VERDICT is one of favorites, since I was a teenager. -
The Truth is, Free Improvisation is Extremely Easy to Do....
Dmitry replied to AllenLowe's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I compare it to the abstract art. Being a student of art history and having absolutely no preconceived prejudices, I am doing a fair amount of reading on the subject and I can't help thinking it has ran its course many decades ago, much like the free jazz and avantgarde music (how long can you call something avantgard, before it becomes a well-established conventional art?! If you can take classes in it at every single art school in the world ...how avantgarde can it be?) . Scam may appear like a very strong accusation, but I think it's spot on. -
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Dmitry replied to Dmitry's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Fixed the rear brakes on my son's bicycle (really my bike that somehow is now his. Squatters rights, I guess.), put up the wire mesh chicken fence around our vegetable garden (plastic fencing turned out to be no match for the rabbits, they chewed neat oversized passageways in several strategic places), saw a FB ad for jazz albums, went out and bought a NJ address 1958 pressing of Cookin' in tremendous visual condition. Haven't played it yet. How about yourself, anything interesting other than the trip to the Side Door? -
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The Side Door bamboozled me. They were supposed to announce the winner by noon on Friday, and responded to my message more than a day later, on Saturday at 6:30PM, telling me that I had the tickets for the show that would start in a hour. I feel violated and wronged. Only a new set of free tickets and drink vouchers will change my mind. Side-swiped by the Side Door... -
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Blistering barnacles! The impostor! I keep thinking if the two bass players that haven’t been identified yet; they look old enough to be known. -
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My man! I bow to your knowledge! At 6:40, the cat at the piano has what looks like rubber bands on all of his fingers. Is this some piano players work-out trick? Never seen that before. -
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Don't be catty! -
I can score a pair of tickets to the Side Door this weekend, if I name the most people in this video. Here's who I go so far: Bobby Watson Christos Rafalides Javon Jackson ? ? Jimmy Greene Nocole Zuraitis Bill Charlap ? Jonathan Barber Ken Peplowski ? ? Maurice Robinson ? ? ? ? Peter Bernstein ? ? Brian Charette
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Is the Blue Note Discography by Cuscuna and Ruppli still a valid and desirable resource? It was first printed in 1988. I have not seen the book myself, hence the question.
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Anyone else is going to the WFMU record fair?
Dmitry replied to Dmitry's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
This year’s WFMU RECORD FAIR is October 14-15 at some place called the Knockdown Center in Maspeth. 52-19 Flushing Ave, Queens, NY 11378