Pim

Great haul!!! Now spend the rest of your salary at DG

Rest in peace.

i use ChatGPT mainly to alleviate the annoying and boring aspects of my work. in education we have to justify a lot of things in writing. the mountain of policy documents keeps growing and although you are obliged to have it all on paper, there is not a soul who reads it... it is mind-numbing and demotivating. because I am half in front of the class and half in management as a department head, it takes up an even larger part of my work. in this area AI is real and a godsend. it produces high-quality documents, can critically review and test them and gives good instructions in areas that I know less about. it really saves me hours of work that I can now put into my lessons and students. in addition, I notice that ChatGPT can search much more efficiently and specifically than a search engine. another way I use it is to clear up difficult passages in philosophy books I read. For exception now with Hegels book, it provides excellent explanations and summary’s which make me able to check if I actually understood what I’ve read. it could also be very useful with jazz music. You could ask for 10 albums where Evan Parker plays solo saxophone or on which albums a specific jazz musician played with another. of course I realize that ChatGPT makes mistakes. when I asked as a trick question whether Charlie Parker and Coltrane had ever made a recording together, he replied that they had indeed 🫣

Yes definitely a:

Yeah cant get much cooler than this… well there’s always Superfly of course 😇

Kant could be tough but Hegel is definitely more complicated. I read in Dutch and I think reading it in another language than my first will make it even more complicated 😉 but I don’t mind. Just means I will get slower trough it and leave it aside on those evenings when I am tired or unfocused. Got his biography for those evenings which is very fun to read and gives his other book more context.

The biography is an easy and enjoyable read. The Phenomology of the Spirit is also enjoyable but in parts almost unreadable. But I like a challenge and I’ve got ChatGPT on my side to get me trough it 😇🤣

I avoided those ezz-thetics releases up till now for several reasons. I always enjoyed the released by Hatology but came to find out they made the silly decision to omit essential tracks for cds there as well. The latest cd reissues of Steve Lacy’s Prospectus and Blinks for example should have been two cd sets but they decided to omit tracks and make it 1 cd. I bought the vinyl instead for that reason.

Yes that’s a great one. The Strata East is cool but nothing spectacular. I think on this record he comes more into his own. Very solid band. I’d say @Dan Gould will like that one.

Thanks ! Been awhile since I’ve listened to the Kowald. I do know both the Wadud and Friedlander and like them a lot. Thanks for the tips Thanks Mark. I’m not familiar with him (yet)

Never been there physically (well when I was 2). I’ve ordered lots of music from Black Monk who is specialized in jazz. https://maps.app.goo.gl/KuYze4tDVrQK174q8?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy https://www.schallplatten-ankauf-verkauf.at

Ah Rhodesian Ridgebacks are beautiful dogs, congrats Dan! It’s only going to take a few days before he puts his teeth in that cd/dvd/book collection 😋

so glad this one was selected for the TP series. I just love Andrew Hill. I could definitely see why Matthew Shipp mentioned him in his ‘Black Mystery School Pianists.’ A true original on the instrument.

As I was listening to the Sankt Gerold Tapes by Evan Parker, Barre Philips and Paul Bley I really enjoyed the parts where Phillps was soloing. Well I enjoyed every single part of the album but it made me realize i havent got a solo bass record. So my question: what are your favorite bass solo albums? Thy may only name five

Really like his sound on that one. A favorite of mine

I've always liked Heart is a Melody and the Live album a lot. Not so much into the other stuff so I am not picking this up. But I must say: very nice to see Mosaic selecting less obvious material for a new set

I always find this series highly enjoyable and among Petersons best work.

Agreed and very recognizable. When I was in Gent last weekend I visited 5 record stores and didn't buy anything, nor had I seen anything interesting. They all had a coffee bar filled with people who probably call themselves 'hip'. Some of them had enourmous ammounts of second hand bins with the same 1 dollar crap. All unsorted which really doesn't make me want to explore anymore. Small jazz sections with the same Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins compilation LP's no one is interested in. Yikes...

Yeah that’s a great one. I love Elmo Hope. I agree. There are some very good arts but also less interesting parts. It’s too inconsistent.