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I always prefer CD, unless the cost is really painfully prohibitive (especially if I'm staring at an LP that's half the price). Over 90% of my collection is on CD, and that's my medium of choice. I certainly will buy on vinyl if there are no other choices (or not other good choices). Vinyl is a pain in the ass to listen to, and half the time I have 20-30 CD's stacked on top of the cover to my turntable -- so it's not like I can pop an LP on without unearthing the player. I don't hate vinyl, but it has a lot of limitations and negatives in my mind.

Agree on all points, including that I also vaguely half-remember/imagined that Sizzle (1976) was coming out on CD not all that long ago. But looking through Sam's output on Discogs, I'm betting you're remembering (or I'm pretty sure *I'm* remembering) that Contrasts (1979) actually did and only came out on CD for the very first time in 2014 (out of Germany, or so says Discogs). I'll bet THAT'S what we're remembering. https://www.discogs.com/Sam-Rivers-Contrasts/release/5327732 Maybe that's it.

Saw this on the /r/jazz subreddit this week, and thought some others here might enjoy. This YouTube upload is the entire album... https://www.discogs.com/Otomo-Yoshihides-New-Jazz-Orchestra-Out-To-Lunch/release/1253019 01 Hat And Beard - 00:00 02 Something Sweet, Something Tender - 06:11 03 Gazzelloni - 15:31 04 Out To Lunch - 19:50 05 Straight Up And Down/Will Be Back - 29:31 Personnel: Otomo Yoshihide (guitar, arranger, producer, conductor, mixing) Axel Dörner (trumpet, slide trumpet) Aoki Taisei (trombone, bamboo flute) Tsugami Kenta (alto saxophone, soprano saxophone) Alfred Harth (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, trumpet) Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone) Takara Kumiko (vibraphone) Cor Fuhler (piano, inside piano) Mizutani Hiroaki (bass, arranger) Yoshigaki Yasuhiro (drums, percussion, trumpet) Okura Masahiko (alto saxophone, tubes) Ko Ishikawa (sho) Unami Taki (computer) ONJO (composer) Eto Naoko (arranger) Numata Jun (producer) Sachiko M (sampler, contact microphone) Kondo Yoshiaki (recording engineer, mixing) Nakamura Toshimaru (no-input mixing board, mastering) Dig the album cover too, nice homage without being too similar...

Rio!

Has Sizzle really never been on CD yet? I guess not, or I'd already know about it (and have one). Came up in a discussion over on the jazz subreddit, and now I need to pull my vinyl out and give it a listen this weekend (not sure I've spun it in a few years, come to think).

Also...

Good question. Anyone know?

More than most will ever know...

Do we know Rudy recorded this session? I've forgotten whether that was stated as a matter of fact, or an assumption. Probably was Rudy, I realize, but do we know?

I have this recording on CD (YouTube upload of the entire CD) -- the only Alkan I've ever heard. Concerto for solo piano (49:58) -- as performed by Marc-Andre Hamelin (Music & Arts, 1992) It's both a real barn-burner of a work, but this performance (again, the only one I know) does seem to have an air of restraint about it (as I'm listening now - a disc I haven't spun in at least 5 years). There's a lot going on in the work, certainly (maybe too much? - for some, probably yes). FWIW, I do think it's a little less bombastic (or at least this performance) than say perhaps Louis Vierne's "symphonies" for solo pipe organ -- about the only (other) pseudo-symphonic work for solo-instrument that I can think of (as a sort of parallel). Apples and oranges, perhaps -- and maybe organ is just intrinsically way more bombastic. But I do find Hamelin's read here on this lengthy work pretty compelling (that I'm remembering, from the first 10 minutes I've gotten into the work, in 5 years). Or maybe 40 more minutes (into the 50-minute work) I might think differently, but so far, so good.

Walking bass in and of itself is OK, long as it doesn't always walk where I'm expecting it to. Excessively predictable performance techniques, employed religiously, is a definite recipe for my mind to wander. I need to left turns! - or a bunch of unexpected switchbacks. It's not the "walking" itself that's the problem -- it's where it goes (or always goes, more so), that might leave me cold (or colder than otherwise).

Total dick move.

I'll confess, I've never seen a Thornhill CD that didn't have that exact same look about it. Like, I've never known what was a definitive Thornhill CD to pick up, because they all have looked line cheap budget-line "who-knows-what-you're-really-getting" affairs. My interest has always stemmed from the connection to Gil, and I understand there is one(?) Thornhill CD that seems to focus on stuff with Gil's involvement, but it also looked like a very budget (maybe even public-domain) type release too. Anyone's guidance welcome! - and thanks in advance.

Enjoying this now, thanks!! Big Gil Evans fan, I've never really explored Thornhill as much as I've often intended. Thanks again!

I have my uncle's entire subscription run of DB's from April 1965 thru all of 1985 (20 years worth), when he passed about 7 years ago. Chuck, I'd be very interested specifically in any DB issues from before April 1965 (I think that's the cut-off, or at least that's what I posted here in 2012 -- I'm in St. Louis right now packing up my Dad to move into a retirement community in a couple weeks). I've always wanted to expand on my uncle's collection going back to about 1960, but I've never pursued it very far, beyond some random and sporadic eBay searches (leading nowhere). Chuck, I'd really appreciate you considering my interest. I could do a outright purchase (payment to you), or I'd be equally glad to make a very decent donation to Jim for the upkeep of this board. Or whatever you like. Here's a thread my post from back in 2012, with the timeframe of what I already have...

I heard him here in DC about 4-5 years ago in a small theater, and I had a tough time connecting with his music. On paper, it should have been right up my alley, but it just didn't hit me, for whatever reason. I love lots of avant-garde music, but there's lots that leaves me cold too. I tend to like progressive trumpet (better than sax), but I just wasn't feelin' it that night. Might have been him, might have been me, or maybe some of both. Haven't ever bought any of his recordings yet.

Crosby has always, or for a long time at least, seemed like a real ass. Not of the very worst variety, but defijtely chaotic-neutral (at best). Kind of reminds me of Morrissey a bit. A coworker was reading Morrissey's autobiography a couple years ago, and I asked him how it was. He said "ok, I guess, but it's all so misserable and whiny."... ...to which I processed to laugh and laugh quite heartily in his face, my retort being: "well, duh. It's Morrissey!" Similarly, Crosby is exactly who he is, and long as you know that going into it, nobody's gonna get surprised or nothing. I like CSN(Y) well enough, but haven't followed them too closely. In think Four Way Street is all I have on CD, though I've had another title or two in years past. I think I saw them once back in high-school or early in my college years, 6th row (iirc), maybe circa 1987-89. I remember them being quite good. I'd probably pony up to see the Crosby doc, just cuz I love music docs. Not a huge priority, but I be open to paying to see it in a theatre at matinee prices. (FYI, I generally like Morrissey, probably more than David Crosby. But Morrissey is definitely an ass. Saw him live twice in the late 90's, and was blown away, couple of the best non-jazz concerts I'd ever been too. But we saw him again a couple years ago, and he was more annoying, and I don't think we need to go hear Morrissey again for another's 5-10 years.)

It just always seemed comically incongruous that Lauren Bacall, would be claiming in all these (radio ads) that she just had to shop at Tuesday Morning whenever she needed that perfect something or another. Mind you, the chain was housewares that were middling, at best. Similar to Target's mid-century modern furniture and occasional pieces (though, frankly, Target's stuff was/is better than Tuesday Morning, far as I'm remembering). It wasn't the junkiest store of its type ever, but for someone like Lauren Bacall to go on, and on, and on about it (through the wonders of repetitive radio advertising, at least), always seemed entirely incongruous with what I would perceive to be the "Lauren Bacall" brand of style she might more logically have been able to promote stuff. Presumably 'actual' high-style Lauren Bacall, just can't get enough of what was clearly very faux (and very cheaply mass-produced) fake 'high-style' stuff, that didn't look like it would last more than about 5 years, tops. Just a funny memory.

Maybe, but what in the hell was she doing radio advertising for Tuesday Mornings all those years back in the late 90's and early 2000's? My wife and I were hear her talking about how she just HAD to get to Tuesday Mornings whenever she needed a certain something special to give to a special friend, that she just couldn't find anywhere else (or some ad-copy drivel like that). She was always so (over)-emotive and earnest in her devotion to Tuesday Mornings, that we used to laugh that she either had tons of stock in the company, or more likely that her 2nd cousin twice removed must have started the place. Like it really HAD to be because of some weird family-connection that Lauren Bacall -- of all people(?!) -- would be pimpin' the crap stuff Tuesday Mornings sold. Many laughs over hearing those radio ads, for years.

Never even heard of Madura, that i can remember. (But I've forgotten a shit-ton of stuff over the years too.)

Better (more detailed) Wikipedia entry than I was expecting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_(band)

Total dick move.

Is there a list of all the performances/artists somewhere? Would be fun to puruse sometime.

Maybe I'll take my shoes off the next time I listen to KOB at home.