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Hey Kids!!!! Here's you chance to catch up all at once!!!

Interestingly, the JSQ continued to "record for" Epic all the way through 1966, while simultaneously recording for Columbia (again). Same company, but still, I wonder if the Epic deal was for recording more "popular composed. For Columbia, in 1963, the recorded their epochal Bartok cycle. In spite of the fact that it's somewhat "legendary", it has yet to receive a CD release in America. However...French Sony Classical put this out in 2002: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2422878 I monitored this item and one American seller popped up with a quite affordable set. So it does exist, and I did Carpe Diem all over it: Could probably benefit from a modern remastering, and its a drag that #4 is split between two discs. But these are THE 1963 performances, it IS on legit CD, and you CAN make it into 3 CDs of your own making AND have them all in sequence. So overall, life is good, and Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet continues!

Ah, publishing! I know Wergo as a mostly experimental/modern label, so it was a bit of a (pleasant) surprise to see this item there Then again. the releases of theirs that I have are always quality on every front. So yeah!

JSQ on Wergo it is. WERGO!!!!+

QUITE alas.

He posted here for a while as JWH. That label did some meaningful reissues as well.

Apparently Rusty Bryant stayed pretty active for all of his like, just off the jazz radar. It was a time when you could do that. Play regularly, just locally/regionally and live a comfortable(enough life. Different world then.

No, you're not the only person who likes that one. A lot of people I know also like it! It's a bit rambling, but just a little. I like her post-whatever stuff well enough. It's more overtly pop, but there's good players playing it, and that matters to me. The one that caught me by surprise was that standards album with the orchestra. She did REALLY did that one well, imo. No surprise, she conveyed a deep understanding of the lyrics.

Hejira is one of the great albums, period.

Yes, that's it. Shockingly authentic for a Verve record. Highly recommended!

That's a really good record. Do you have Potato and Toquito, also on Verve?

Skye records usually had ultra short playing time. Probably served the context of the music, but still....

Hey, it's a lot better than that! Very inventive music, actually. And she was able to tame Jaco, which was no small feat All told, it's my favorite period of hers. I just don't have a need to go back to it in a big ass set like this one.

Thanks! The Juilliard set (made by a post-Mann group);gets a strong review, as did the Amar quartet, which seems to emphasize slower than usual tempos that highlight color and texture. I like edge but I also like color. So I'm gonna marinate this for a while. Any further input from our community is certainly welcome!

Unconscious greatness.

Now I'm interested. But complete sets are not that many, and mostly by groups with whom I'm not really familiar. Which means nothing of course...so ...anybody?

So yeah, most people do cable, streaming, or both, and the trend continues.

Joni was certainly interesting, but like I said, been there, done that, don't need anything extra, you can call me Hank Snow.

Cord-cutting is tempting, but the numbers aren't adding up for us yet.

But even broadcast signal is digital now. You got subchannels and whatnot, and our cable company carries almost all of them. And almost all network shows can be streamed at any time. Time-shifting as the called it when it was done with a VCR. I think the reality is probably a lot more nuanced than this report says

Michael Brecker as Tom Scott as Wayne Shorter!

Not just Norah, but (kinda) Bobby McFerrin (Manhattan, not Blue Note proper) and US3 (definitely). Bruce Lundvall had a knack for getting hits to feed the coffers

Check this out,: Maybe it's all in my head, but I get a special thrill from hearing things like this, now-conventional pieces being played in their original non-traditional state. There's a certain ..rawness there that exists to me