HutchFan

Sorry to hear this news. R.I.P.

The Inimitable Teddy Edwards (Xanadu/Elemental, 1976) Oh yeah.

More Jug:

Now playing: James P. Johnson - Giants of Jazz (Time Life Records, rel. 1981) LP 2 of 3 ❤️

Now: Earlier: Excellent late-in-the-game Ben Webster.

Agreed! The discussion is the point. After all, we're just expressing our individual perspectives.

Another disc from Stoki's big Phase 4 set:

Now playing: As heard in Stokowski's Complete Decca Recordings - Phase 4 Stereo box set.

Various Artists - Chess Blues (MCA) Disc 3 - 1954-1960

Newbury's unrecognized masterpiece.

No need for an apology! We're just talkin'! I've never heard that. Interesting. I just read Humble's Wikipedia page. It seems that he died in '71 after a terrible beating/mugging that happened in 1968. Ugh.

Yeah. I understand that the assertion that "Brahms' compositions are too long" is NOT a new opinion. * * However, the same sorts of accusations have been brought against Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, Bruckner, and probably every other composer of the Romantic era.

If this album represents a play for the marketplace, they had some odd ideas about what would sell. Because I think this music is FAR from "commercial." Particularly the Boland compositions, which move very far afield from traditional big band sounds.

I strongly disagree with the sentiment that Brahms' piano concertos (or his works in general) are too long. . . . However, there might be problems with that particular Barenboim/Barbirolli interpretation. (I'm not familiar with it.) But listen to Szell/Serkin (for a faster, leaner reading) or Gilels/Jochum (for a slower, massive reading). Yes, Brahms' piano concertos are BIG -- they're symphonies with piano accompaniment as much as they're concertos. But they're also MAGNIFICENT. IMO, of course.

Fair enough. That said, I wouldn't describe the album as "groove oriented." To my ears, rather than rock, it's Boland's compositions that increasingly rely on 20th c. "classical" techniques that sets the album apart. You hear more of the same on the Getz record, A Change of Scene. My 2 cents. EDIT I'm listening to Off-Limits again. And, well, maybe some of the music is rock-ish and groove oriented. Point taken. In any case, I enjoy the music.

I like it! IMO, Off-Limits is an excellent final chapter for the CBBB -- putting aside the collaborations with Stan Getz & Carmen McRae. Any you? What do you think?

Schema-Rearward CD reissue

NP: Kenny Clarke's Sextet Plays André Hodeir (Gitanes, rec. 1956)