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Jaap van Zweden conducts Emanuel Ax piano ROUSE Symphony No. 5 (World Premier) BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2 RESPIGHI Pines Of Rome Have never really felt Rouse's work, but this new Symphony was a kick in the ass to hear live. Seriously took me aback. Ax was one of the most involving performers I've ever had the pleasure to hear live. Visually and musically. Will see him again if/whenever possible. Pines of Rome still seems to me more like a postcard than a painting, never mind a photograph, but a damn well-made postcard it is. Orchestras can play really fucking loud, and pianos are capable of incredibly nuanced response. That's the bullet-point summary for people who don't go to concerts and wonder what they might get out of it. For everybody else, hey, seemed like one of those "zone" nights to me. I mena a lot of the band was smiling during the last two pieces, and the first one, they were visibly thinking in unison. Audience members were actually, physically, leaning into the music. Usually I'm one of the few around me who does that, tonight, a lot of people were doing it. Not that that means anything really, point just being that there was a lot of communications going on in the hall. Love it when that happens!

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Yep.

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So when Bob Porter (railroad service pun unintentional) talks about the impact that Jacquet and "Flying Home" had, here is some of that!

Arista was not Atlantic (nor Malaco), but still... Average song/record, but an incredible video!

So, I guess it's Joe Torre we need to tell to fuck this shit? Or Rob Manfredmann? http://sports.yahoo.com/news/mlb-plans-to-test-new-extra-innings-rules-in-rookie-ball-with-joe-torres-approval-224914115.html No, no no. Hell no. HELL NO. HELL NO. http://www.lonestarball.com/2017/2/10/14573048/apparently-extra-innings-are-boring

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Some of that 300 series was a repacking of 60s things, ones that had great Jack Lohnshein(sp?) covers. Will be interesting to see which covers they use for the reissue, although Maynard's Color Him Wild was reissued as Dues, and the site has the former title. Yes! Uh... Although apparently... If/when CD Japn posts images, that will be cool as far as deciding the decision.

The sponsor of this concert should remind us of the role that rail travel and rail travel workers played in both the dissemination of Black Music and the creation of the economy around it. Curious who the connection for Kirk to get this gig was. Somebody of his age and experience was sure to have had more than ample opportunity to establish contacts within the rail workers world of that time.

I had a person I regularly played EAI-ish type music with tell me one day that they hated the Beach Boys because they used major 7th chords, and this person hated major 7th chords period. Keeping in mind that this was a very skilled, trained, experience, and usually astute player, I allowed him that as an earned quirk, but...really?

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Well, ok. Brian Wilson loves you. But that's enough afaic.

My Mainstream promo stickers usually had a Roulette logo on them, so....Morris Levy. Go figure that.

Hate all you want, but remember...

I found it on some Roku channel. It's an obviously not-so-great print of a PD film that I don't know made much box office noise, but at least it has survived. Seeing Andy Kirk's name really caught my eye, though, because 1947 was pretty late in the game for him as far as bandleading goes. There's probably some link to Rene Hall there, but I have no dots to connect, so that's entirely speculative

Those Charles Williams records are all feel-good treats. The one being reissued here is a much more "produced" affair than the others (which are small group affairs, and yes Don Pullen plays Soul Jazz organ, this was a regular gig of both him and Bubba Brooks), but they're all fun, and I had completely ignored/scoffed at them until Dan Gould went on a Bubba Brooks love affair and hipped me to them.

Yeah, if you're at all interested in Sonny Red, carpe diem like ALL the big dogs.

"It's all good" is an idiomatic expression that does not mean that it's "all" going to automatically be "good", much less excellent. Most shit ends up being excitingly mediocre to varying degrees. So no, it's not all literally good. And neither am I so hungry that I could eat a horse. Nor are my eyes bigger than my stomach. Nor have I ever had a day where everything goes wrong. And not having a valid baseline from which to measure, I am skeptical that I've ever felt like I've been hit by a truck or knocked down with a feather. It does, however, imply that good is anywhere you find it, which is not necessarily where you would think to reflexively look for it, especially not necessarily where one is externally steered to spend disposable income in search of it. So, if anything, consider it a corrective admonition to the sectarian fabulist orthodoxy. And don't ask me what "good" is, because all I'll tell you is what I think. You can have that for what it's worth, and here's change back from your penny!

Little Richard, Beach Boys, Ayler, Billie...nothing in that list to avoid afaic. Waste of space, no. Shortage of space, getting there.

Here's one I bet they don't get to! St. Louis singer backed by Quartette Tres Bien & Kirk Whalum's uncle. Not at all bad.

I would reckon so.

whoa... "unexpected" is right...not a lot on there I'd really call "essential" but still...my LPs will be ok for almost all of this, but the point afaic is that I bought them in the first place (often used or cutout), and don't really regret having done so. I see they're also doing the 60s Mainstream stuff too, which is very cool. This is gonna be a fun ride for some of us, and when they get to Buddy Terry's Pure Dynamite, carpe diem. Again, not a "masterpiece", or anything like that, but..."real time" music and all that comes with that, mess and glory side by side, hand in hand, let no voice go unturned, no plow unleavened, no record go unreissued on cd. None! And YEE-HAH!!! 1 down, 2 and a Booty to go!