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OMG, I'm a HUGE dark chocolate fan. Gotta find me some of those dark kit kats!!!!!!!! On a related note, I've always thought chocolote covered pretzels would be even better if they were covered in dark chocolate, rather than milk chocolate. Has anybody here every seen them sold?? (Not I, I'm afraid.) And one other joy I've found: dark chocolate covered dried cranberries. Found them once on a road-trip, and LOVED them a ton. I love cranberries as it is, and with dark chocolate, they're amazing. (The ZING of cranberry really works with dark chocolate!!!)

Shoot, I forgot that was you!!

Brandon -- Yes, basically the "Emerson Concerto" is (in part) a 'piano concerto' version of the Emerson movement from the Concord sonata ( By the way. for everyone reading this thread, I should mention how absolutely amazing I find Ives' works for solo piano, especially his two major piano sonatas. Fans of Andrew Hill (and especially Hill's solo piano discs) should definitely check them out. ) Supposedly all the music ("every note") of the Emerson Concerto is Ives'. Certainly parts had to be expanded upon, in terms of orchestration and the like - but it is VERY much more of a 'real' Ives work than the Universe Symphony (which is really only half an Ives composition, at best). Don't get me wrong, I dig the Universe Symphony - but it really was one of those works that was completed by somebody else, with lots of "filling in the blanks" going on. Not so with the Emerson Concerto, which seems (to my ears, anyway) to be 99% Ives.

There's a "new" piano concerto by Charles Ives (called the "Emerson Concerto") which has just been released this month on Naxos, in that same "American Composers" series. The Naxos recording is the world-premier recording and release, if I'm not mistaken. Ives completed some of it in short-score form (leaving only the orchestration yet to be completed), and other parts of it were still in sketch form. It was only just 'assembled' about 4 years ago, with it's world premier in Cleveland in 1998 or 1999. I heard it performed here in Kansas City last year (only it's second-ever performance in the U.S.), and the work is truely amazing. Can't recomend it enough. On the Naxos recording, it is paired with a new recording of Ives' first symphony, supposedly from a new 'critical edition' of the score. I haven't heard the recording yet (damn local stores still don't have it, even though the street-date was about a week or two ago), but I'm sure it's gonna be great. Here's what I'm talkin' about... Link: 8.559175 "IVES: Symphony No. 1 / Emerson Concerto"

I'll admit, I had my doubts at first. Took me about a week of lurking (and not all that actively, as I recall), before I joined (about a week after this board first became active). But now, heck - this place is way better than the old BNBB ever was -- or at least in most ways.

Naxos is supposed to have a complete Ruggles disc out in their "American Composers" series, sometime within the next year. His entire output is only like 75 minutes of music, but all of it is FANTASTIC!!!

Sample their new album here, and I think there's a video-clip as well... www.childrenonthecorner.com

More from the same site. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!!!

I sure as hell hope this means that Airborne Express is picking up the tab for the replacement discs, and for shipping them as well. I've never had anything lost in the U.S. mail (well over a hundred items purchased on eBay, or in trades on boards like this), or by UPS either (which is how I've gotten all my Mosiacs sent to me). What if these had been one-of-a-kind items, that couldn't be replaced so easily???

More similar fun HERE. Note that there are several pages of images, not just the one that comes up first. Click on the page numbers that say "one - two - three - four - five - Beatles - sexy!" for more.

or (Atmosphere - Overcast!) (Clinic - Internal Wrangler) (Mono Men - Wrecker!) (The Beatnuts - Intoxicated Demons)

VAN MORRISON Rare 2003 "WRONG" Promo SAMPLER CD $31, with 28 hours left to go...

Homestar Runner Costume

Yes, the "Antwerpen" disc (which I have in a different issue), is from a different date that the Nov. 6th, 1967 show (which was in Paris - if I remember right). The "Antwerpen" date was from a concert about a week before. Very similar set-lists, but a different night. I'll look up the details later, and report them here to this thread...

Miles Davis, November 6th 1967. Excellent sound quality and performance (especially "Round Midnight"). There's a more complete version of this same performance on the JMY label called "No Blues" (which includes one extra tune for about 12 minutes more music), but if you can find this "Gold Collection" one cheap - it's well worth getting. MILES DAVIS CD THE GOLD COLLECTION SEALED NEW Several years ago these were available in every Best Buy in the country, for only $4 or $5 a pop. I bought it every time I saw it, and passed it along to several friends, and even a couple relatives as Christmas presents. $10 (including postage) is an OK price for this, but don't spend much more than that for it, if the bidding goes up much above the minimum price on this auction. All the usual disclaimers apply: I'm not the seller, the seller ain't me, I don't know the seller, the seller don't know me, I never bought nothin' from the seller. Oh, and package sold by weight and not volume, and some settling may have occured in shipment...

So, everybody go get TEXAS TWISTER - it's one hell of a good CD. I got mine on the strength of Sangry's recomendation (in another thread), and was 100% happy with my purchase. Way more 'meat on the bone' than any of his BN output.

Oops, wrong thread.

I sure wish Miles had played live more in 1968. THAT'S the band I would have REALLY wanted to hear live (based on the studio recordings). I mean, we've got tons of live Miles material from '64, '65, '66 (a little bit from '66, anyway), '67, and '69 (and so on, through '75). But damn near nothin' from 1968. Well, there's only one tape (and I've never heard it) from December of 1968 - but none of the tunes are contemporaneous (expect "Directions"). Man, what I wouldn't give to hear some of the "Miles in the Sky" and/or "Filles de Kilimanjaro" material performed live. (Granted - he did play the tune "Paraphernalia" live several times in 1969, and even a couple times in 1970.)

Don't have it, but here's some info... SOURCE No idea where to get it. Hey, you could start a thread... ...oh nevermind, you already did.

No shit. Many a time I'd buy a CD back then, and get out to the car and want to rip it open to read the linernotes (no car CD player back then). And man - I'm sure I drew blood on several occasions. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This could be right. I mean, there's already an RVG of "The Real McCoy", and "Asante" was released as recently as 1998, and "Extensions" is still currently in print. Along with "Tender Moments" (as an RVG - the most likely candidate) - that's a fair percentage of the McCoy BN catalog right there.

Just like politicians in political debates... ...just give some huge, long-winded answer that doesn't even begin answer the question that was actually asked.