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Agree it got better by the second verse, but I was rather disappointed by the particular tunes they played (not that I was expecting anything much different). Something more along the lines of this would have been nice (an excuse to post this great clip)...

I really prefer "Skies of America" over "Forms & Sounds" by a wide margin -- and I (otherwise) LOVE a fair bit of 20-century string quartets and wind quintets. "Skies of America" really speaks to me. "Forms & Sounds" doesn't.

Two 90-minute cassettes I made in college, and played to death round about my Junior year (circa 1989)... Side 1: Kind Of Blue Side 2: Nefertiti + the individual track "Prince of Darkness" (from The Sorcerer) Side 1: Mode For Joe + the individual track "Gary's Notebook" iirc (from The Sidewinder) Side 2: Power To The People And to this day, Nefertiti and Power To The People remain my very favorite Miles and Joe Henderson albums...

I'm as big a fan of Charles Ives as they come, but I can't imagine he'd be a very good dinner guest. Or even reasonably good. Or even remotely good.

Just got a copy of this (finally). I'm not quite yet all the way through it (just on track 5 of 9 as I'm typing this) -- but, good golly, there's some mighty fine playing here. Reminds me more than a bit of Harry Whitaker's "Black Renaissance", and some other similar mid-70's efforts. The Dusty description mentions some similarities to various Mizell productions, and though I get what they're saying, I think the playing here is a LOT deeper (normally Mizell stuff gives me the willies, but this doesn't). Also reminds me of more than a few 70's (post-"Capricorn") Eddie Henderson dates, though the vibe is a little different. Maybe the most 'fun' date I've heard in a good long while.

How is it even possible that a biopic of Buddy Bolden could be produced before a biopic of Miles.

Not so sure those recordings with Pope are lost. I've forgotten the details, but I know I've read around here that there's a good chance they do still exist. My memory of the details is pretty foggy, and the person I heard it from around here hadn't ever heard them (and I'm almost positive they don't circulate), but I do seem to remember getting the very strong impression (from a reliable source) that they possibly weren't lost.

Very nice, thinks for posting this.

Here's the quote from an upload on Youtube, all cued up and everything... Celine at 1:28 Note: the quote is only two phrases long (barely 9 seconds, if that), and the cue I've linked to starts about half a second before the quote.

René McLean, and father Jackie -- recorded together a number of times, close to half-a-dozen albums by my count.

I saw a recent BBC doc recently on-line, that measured people's "hunger" both when they drank a couple big glasses of water before each meal, and when they didn't. And they ALSO measured people's "hunger" when they made a sort of "soup" out of the exact same food that combined the water and the non-water food. Drinking the extra water has some effect, but fairly slight. The thing that REALLY had an effect was the "soup" option of (essentially) drinking the water and consuming the food AT THE SAME TIME (in one impossible to separate "combined" package). The soup oprion won, hands-down, and by a mile (iirc). (I think I've got a reddit thread about it saved (which is where I first saw it), that I might be able to find, if I dig a little.)

Adam always seemed like the nicest and probably the most approachable Beastie. Plenty of their tracks I love to this day. "Root Down" and "Sabotage" are the first two that come to mind. RIP.

PM sent, RE the Mel Brown & Lovano/Osby discs

Better, and less cynical than I was expecting. Thanks!

How sad that the guy who scored "The Saint" and "Danger Man" had to end up collaborating with the likes of Pete Townshend. Have you listened to any of the results?

Flat?

There's also Elvis Costello's collaboration with the Brodsky (string) Quartet -- "The Juliet Letters". Here's a couple samples (two songs in the same clip)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOCnLUMH5kc

And here's the last two... All six tunes come to about 30 minutes total. Two more, and you would have had one hell of an interesting album.

Here's the (complete?) list of Townshend/Ted Astley colaborations. Street In The City (Rough Mix) Football Fugue (Another Scoop) Brooklyn Kids (Another Scoop) Praying The Game (Another Scoop) The Ferryman (Another Scoop) I Like It The Way It Is (Scoop 3) In addition to the above two (two posts above this one), here are the others - or at least what I can find... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgCXuFBNuYY

There are about 5 or 6 tracks in all (maybe close to 30-35 minutes of music total) that Pete Townshend wrote in the late 70's with his (then) father-in-law, British composer Edwin Astley (aka Ted Astley) -- most of which I think are nothing short of spectacular. IIRC, most have come out on the first second two volumes of the three Townshend demo collections ("Scoop", "Another Scoop", and "Scoop 3"), but one track is found on the "Rough Mix" album proper. Maybe "wrote with" isn't completely accurate, as I think Pete wrote the songs and Astley composed some fairly elaborate arrangements around them - but in any case, I'm sure it was collaborative at least to some extent. Here's two I could find quickly off the top of my head (on Youtube)... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftRRGbrYcc If there's interest, I can probably dig up the titles of the other tracks, and maybe even some more Youtube links.

Also curious. I heard Napoleon Murphy Brock a few years ago in KC with the Zappa tribute band "Project Object" (they also had Ike Willis on the date) -- both sounded great!! Random thought on Don Preston - he has a really fantistic piano trio album from 2001, called "Transformation", with a couple great Carla Bley tunes, and a really cool version of Zappa's "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbeque". Curious, and tempted.

How different is the mix of "Early Minor"?? - from the version on the IASW box.

Shame on you, for hot-linking and not uploading.

Wow, that's great to actually see such good footage of Page! - and so clearly see his "thumb-picking" style. Kind of an obscure player, and almost impossible to believe that there would be any classic-era footage of him.

Copland's early work was pretty modern, and at least 'fairly' thorny (imho) -- and (gasp!) he even dabbled in serialism in the 50's (seriously!). Seems like I remember his tone-rows were only 11 notes long, which I always took as a sly way of saying he wasn't totally on board, even if he did want to - well - dabble! Heck, now that the Google has reminded me, Copland even thought himself to have dabbled in a sort of serialism back in the 30's... Serialism in the Early Music of Aaron Copland