JSngry

Sure. Pop/Rock albums are a different thing. The overall audience has imprinted with certain items, spanning several generations. Pre-LP jazz, not so much?

Still, let's all maintain some decorum as we make our points without escalating any personal hostilities. We can do that. I'm saying this as much as a reminder to myself a to anybody else, really. Been there, done that, don't even have a t-shirt to show for it.

and here we are! Looks to be another strong release, best wishes for its success.

Ok folks, are gonna need to lock this thread too? Hopefully not?

But seriously, would you like it to stay here, or would you like to have it moved to the New Releases or Offering/Looking For forum? It will probably get longer visibility there. Your record, your call.

Like the man said, it's what's in the grooves that count! His math was wrong, his philosophy, not.

And this will be our album of the week for this week, then?

His "How High The Moon" on dot was not humorous as much as it was the verbal manifestation of a parallel universe.

Hey, yeah, forgot about that! Noticed a few months ago how there was a window there when Erich Kunzel had a good run of showing up on any number of "jazz with orchestra" recording, the records were never(?) under his name, but he and the Cincinnatti Pops (or symphony?) were steady there. Kind of a stealth discography there, in jazz terms.

Perceptions of "albums" as it relates to a person's age...as time goes by, it's fair to consider how many compilation/collation albums of the LP era have been or will be reissued as those same albums. Is there a continuity of identity as those being an "album" today? The King Of The Delta Blues Singers LPs resist giving up their LP faces, probably a few others. But mostly? Of course, we're not that far from the whole concept of "albums" being more or less obsolete. PD compilations, cuts and playlists, the future is yours until otherwise directed.

Sorry, Thom, no soundtracks, Sun Ra, Apple/James Taylor, or LBJ. Congrats, though, on needle-drops, Mingus (in general, if not on the cut ID itself), JB remix, John Handy, and not being for casual listening. Relaxed listening, yes, but not casual listening. And yes, there is bowling alley sound. Past that... also, thanks again for hosting all these things. It's a service to the community, for sure!

One could make a nice musical vacation tour of Memphis to Nashville to Cincinnati to Cleveland, if Cincinnati had something worth going to. Those other cities court musical tourism and are built out accordingly. Last time I was in the Cincinnatti airport (about 9 months ago), all the advertising was aimed at corporate relocations, touting the area's "affordability". Nothing wrong with that, nothing at all, affordable real estate and affordable labor always appeal. Just saying, tourism is as equally lucrative a draw, and why not? Why not be attractive to "outsiders"? Oh.... OTOH, one of the best classical radio stations I've ever heard was in Cincinnati.

Another New Voice Singles release, and another piece that is very enjoyable to listen to on its own for the 21-ish minutes it occupies. Oh! Apparently "New Voice Singles" is a nameplate that the Chiara Quartet uses to release some of their their own work. Nice!

That Times article mentions Jerry Lee Lewis...I saw Lewis on Colbert a few months ago, and he was really old-y, maybe half deaf, maybe half senile, definitely in a world of his own. But within that world, he was obviously king and had no intention of every being anything else. It was kind of painful to listen to, but thoroughly mesmerizing to watch with the sound on. Here's hoping that Chuck Berry fares at least every bit as well with this new record.

Look at what Cleveland is doing with the R&R Hall Of Fame, they're building it out past just "Rock & roll", they're putting jazz, R&B, C&W, etc. artists in there too. I'm sure they have a stated "aesthetic" reason for this, but you also know that somebody somewhere knows that this cross-pollination of inclusion means a de facto expansion of the potential visitor pool. If Cincinnati had the unfogged brain about this, they would see a similar, if smaller, opportunity to make the whole King Records thing equally broadened in appeal.

Released by the New Voice Singles label, which has the interesting concept of releasing new works as a single disc, with no other material included. This provides not only a lower price point, but the rather nifty ability to listen to a work in its entirety without it being preceded or followed by another work, which is a first world problem indeed, but still, nice. This work runs just a tad over 25 minutes, so it would have been two sides of an LP. It's a good piece, a 9/11 thing, and played very well. I'm finding value in at least a few consecutive replays.

It's stuff that "everybody" has heard, either in original form or some iteration, but not everybody will know the "who". So simple, but so sweet, so true. And as they used to like to say, if you can't dance to THIS, you ain't got no legs! Oh yeah, Butler's also one Charles Brown's exquisite One More For The Road, as are Earl May, Harold Ousley, & Kenny Washington. Maybe not a lot of soloing on that record, but damn is it good Charles Brown, Billy Butler considerations aside, this is a "must hear" record, at least for me. When you hear old folks talking about people who "know how to play a gig", this is what they mean. Not showing your shit off, but playing, as Baby Dodds put it, for the benefit of the band. "Predictable" is only boring if it's not engaging. When it IS engaging, i's like, yeah, that was there all along, only it wasn't, nor did it have to be. So yeah, Billy Butler knew how to play a gig, just play that good rhythm and take that good solo when asked.

I don't know if these are ALL with Butler, MG would. But ther's enough here to make it worth your while. https://www.amazon.com/28-Big-Ones-Bill-Doggett/dp/B00UP0MHQ0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1476831117&sr=8-3&keywords=bill+doggett

That Prestige stuff is...variable. for my tastes, anyway. But Billy Butler with Bill Doggett is one of the classic examples of the right notes at the right time in the right way.

Is "Honky Tonk" too obvious? or Bill Doggett's stuff in general?

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Could be fun! Janice Gaye...I keep forgetting, how much in Marvin's estate is she? This seems a lot less...complicated.

Looks like we heard different bands playing the same quartet! Tell you what...I'd never want to voluntarily play that "only" card, but if that's how it just ended up...I'd be kept busy, for sure. That's some massively deep content. Chiara Quartet, maybe or maybe not the playing with no charts thing is a gimmick, they read the Schubert, but visually, it is really compelling to watch a quartet that plays like this do it without music stands and paper. They had 4 CDs for sale afterwards, one of the Bartok cycle and three of original commissions. Hell, I bought all four, why not? I dug the band and bought product in support. That's how it works, right? They also had t-shirts for sale (in two colors!) but only went up to XL. I'm gonna need more shirt than that, ok? No matter, helluva good time with this band and this music, helluva good time.

I bet Bob's gonna get Andy Kaufman to show up in his place.

The DCMS season begins tonight, yay! We have eagerly subscribed. This is Brenda's favorite concert series, the general-admission in a college auditorium chamber music sets. She gets no quarrel from me. http://www.dallaschambermusic.org/72ndseason/chiara-string-quartett/