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Finished Season 1 of Mr. Robot. Was kind of unsure when it added they psycho-drama element to the hacker-drama already in place, but the way they left it all hanging at the very end pulled it all together for me. Now on to Season 2 catch up (hello, On Demand) and then real-time episode watching, hopefully. I like a show where nothing that happens is impossible, even when it gets really out there. In fact, sometimes the more out there it gets, the realer it seems to me. So, kudos for Season 1, and here's to hope for Season 2, because it's not a documentary, somebody still needs to write the shit, and that's where things can go bad. If it goes to 3 seasons, uhhhhhh....nobody quits while they're ahead, which is kinda relevant to the theme of the show, so be ready for irony, eh?

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Oh really????? Like how much and what???? Rhetorical question, of course, looking fir it right now, gotta have it then. But now wait...I have that live session on LP as well...Savoy reissues ended up being pretty thorough...how much more if the Lord entry is correct?

No, that's the right episode, I remeber the score:

Does it have anything that the 2-fer LP lacked? Always assumed that it did not but now I wonder.

Does this mean we'll get Soul On Top Revisited ? There was a time when that would have been a wet dream come true, but now everybody's dead, so it would be more like a drowning nightmare. But, like, the guy's still working for Wein, right?

Paul! Ringo! Lorne Greene!

Stumbled on to this album due to somebody posting it on YouTube as a cut from the Savoy record, kinda tripped me out, didn't recognize anything about it as Savoy, so got to researching, Found it, so I ordered it. It's on that Sonos Frescos label, or whatever it's called, that Spanish place that puts out all the jazz records that have already been put out, you know the one I mean. Georgie Poodles, that guy. Anyway, it's a pretty good listen, Elvin is totally unmistakable, some of the tunes are pianoless, which, June 9/10, 1959, are we mirroring Mulligan, hearing Ornette (this is Herb Geller, remember, he had already heard Ornette up close and personal, him and Lorraine), of did Hank get caught in traffic one day? And Barbara Long. On Atco?!?!?!?!?!

If I tell you exactly what I want, can you tell me no dice and then send it to me anyway, will that count as a surprise?

Dude, they sold record players as furniture, not as turntables! "Consoles". They weren't for playing records, they were for decoration and endless background lifestyle accessories. The only reason we had that Silvertone was that my folks were, as they say, "thrifty", shaped by the Great Depression and not having a real "living room" until way later into the game. But yeah, record player/radio/TV consoles were quite aspirational for several decades here. They could be total shit as far as audio/video quality, but they looked like prosperity, and you know what they say about people hearing with their eyes...

My experience has been that when you talk to a working (as opposed to a "star") "classical" musician about things like gig conditions, bandleaders, crowd response, venue sound, you'd probably not know they were a "classical" musician in particular until you started asking them about "classical music" or until they dropped specifics. Or about drugs and alcohol, maybe alcohol, not so much. Players like to play, just as often as not. We're all, musicians and everybody else, too often held in check by employer expectations and the returns we aspire to get by fulfilling same. It's not complicated, except when it is, and vice-versa.

Oh yeah, I was pissed when they started doing LP sets where you had to change the sides manually. The again, my folks were one to put on a stack of LPs and just let them play for ambient musicnoise, about as close you could come to todays' "random" on today's digital devices. 15-20 minutes of any record at any time, then on to something else. Stacking, bad for records, I get it, and 20 lb. tracking force, certainly an abomination, but in spite of all that, records got played, music was heard, and here we all still are, and all those records still play!

I was in the mood for what I thought it might be, and it was just enough that, and just enough not that, to be fun. What I like about it in particular is that there are moments of big ol' UGLY clusterations that are attacked with a vigor that is almost Kenton-ish in its refusal to even consider subtlety as an option, lest it be confused with ambiguity or indifference. I like that, just as I like that there's a lot more to the pieces than just those moments. I have found Erb in general to be a good repeatable listen, though. Don't have all THAT much by him, though, but it's not like he's one of those mallwalk stores where you just walk by, look in, say, oh, that's here, good, and never stop or look again. OTOH, not sure that I spend hours buying a new wardrobe there either. Something in between, maybe like when you're there, you'll stop in and have a soda and talk to the owner, say hi to everybody, and then leave refreshed.

"Greatness" is quite often a consensus. Things matter in ways that matter to enough people, ok "great"! I'll use the word that way myself often enough, but really, it's a conversational term, little more. And then you got the kind of greatness that comes from somebody just making shit happen that wasn't there before, personal and cultural triumphs of imagination, vision, will, logistics, all that good stuff. Taht's cool enough, but it's not really about the work itself as it is the realization of the work. A different type of greatness, no doubt. But then you got the stuff that really does move things "ahead" or "raises the bar" or whatever, things that you can more or less empirically show that things were one way before, another way after. That's not always going to align with linear historical reality but it will align with enough people saying, hey, this did that to me. In that category you have very few people in very few realms - Bach, Bird, Stravinsky, Einstein, DaVinci, works of that character. And that's just within the realm of recorded Euro-Centric history, which I in no way seek to dismiss or minimize. Just saying that I don't know what I don't know about the rest of the world and its histories (if one allows for the whole Pangea theory - and I think one should - then there are enough questions and propositions coming out of that to keep anybody busy) , so a little humility about what constitutes real, true, unequivocal "greatness" is called for, I think. But as a conversational/marketing game (and take about the snake that swallows itself...), sure, why not. But beyond that...too easy to believer the hype and or take the bait.

Sounds like something that might be worth more than a buck, maybe? I'm open to checking it out at a lesser price, for sure.

She went to work, didn't she. Made a lot of money and such for many others, sent a lot of spotlight a lot of different ways. And generally got the recompense of a common laborer. RIP, great job, and thanks for refusing to remain anonymous.

Here's another batch of stuff by yet another American composer whose works I yet to hear performed live. I think I would really enjoy hearing these, they seem pretty meaty and/or visceral without being in the least bit glaring.

This thing was pretty much warp-repellant in our house. Tracking force of a porterhouse, but hey, records played, no matte4r what.

Found for a buck, very much a dollar well spent. Not my usual area and probably won't ever be, but the Holst items are a real treat harmonically, and the RVW things speak what they speak, so hey. But I do like choral music that ventures basic basic diatonic/triadic harmony, voices resonate in ALL kinds of ways, and there is more than enough of that here to make for an engaging listen.

Arlene Sierra, definitely worth a check out!

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Quite the stealth record here, Jeff! Besides the Mitchell piece, which I enjoyed (enough to pick up something else of his, will explore until put off or run out), there's the David Baker work (not sure how much of his work in this world has been documented, actually), Oliver Lake(!!!!) and man, do I need to check out some more Donal Fox! Videmus....looking at their website http://videmus.org/ I see that I have unknowingly already purchased a few of the releases from out of their orb...this one ties it together now, a broader picture starts to form, none of this is happening in a vacuum. But Donal Fox...I should've heard about this guy by now...

I like the title, relevant to this subject, perhaps. Or not.

Love it too, definitely. Just saying that it happened way after when it was supposed to. Might even say that it took that long because nobody involved had what it took at the time to get it done right, not a condemation, just a sympathetic observation. Psychic health and musical maturity...reach possibly exceeded grasp by juuuuuuust that much, at that time. And fullest credit to Van Duke Parks for sensing that the time was right when ir was and then making sure that thee clock kept ticking. That's one quirky motherfucker, but God bless hin afaic.

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