JSngry

Perhaps the most consistent poster here. It's not like him to miss days like has happened. I do hope he's ok!

She still needs to learn to carry her own damn comb, though.

MLC returned to Grand Prairie this evening with a match (is it match or game?) between the two remaining undefeated teams, San Francisco & Texas. It was a slaughter by San Francisco. An ugly slaughter. Our inning was respectable, but San Francisco continues to look like the 1927 New York Yankees ...or whatever a cricket equivalent is. My son and I are going to a game on Tuesday. It's not against San Francisco, thank God, so we're looking forward to a nice evening, win or lose. Grand Prairie MLC is a good time!

That's a DAMN good record.

I use Pluto to watch some old sitcoms and game shows (currently The Drew Carey Show and 25 Words or Less) and TV Westerns (currently on Season 16 of Gunsmoke and almost finished with Wanted Dead Or Alive, Somehow this Classica thing got a push recommen,dation, so hey. I used to think that The Roku Channel & Pluto were more or less the same. There's certainly overlap, but enough of a difference to matter. And then there's Tubi, which has buttloads of early TV (like, EARLY) and other uber-niche type stuff. Like, I just finished all 4 seasons of the two-network, 2.5 premise Joey Bishop 1960s sitcom, which is nowhere near as shitty as today's online consensus will have it. It's a warts and all time capsule. All of this shit has commercials, but hell, this notion of commercial-free TV runs contrary to my upbringing!

Quatuor Ébène playing three Beethoven quartets on something called Stingray Classica, which I stumbled across on Pluto. A very pleasant surprise!

That Sunny Murray record is a highlight!

Southern Snow - Standing The Strain

All produced by Jo Zabilu.

Bookmarked for future listening, thanks!

Ima Linman - Snow Down South?

Not particularly gripped by this one, but Shubert has never really grabbed me outside of the Lieder. Probably my "problem"...

So...you pay for one month of Netflix, watch those few episodes, and then cancel right away. That's how you do that.

Caught this group twice a while back locally and were mesmerized each time. They've not been around here since and look to have kept climbing the ladder of success. I'm always up for a top-shelf interpretation of these pieces and Amazon has a dirt-cheap price (this complete set was just 10 bucks more than the Late Quartets set, so hey...). The second Dover record remains my "favorite" because of repertoire, but this is just such a fun listening band that if these are the records they make, then ok. But hey, check this one out: This is a good band and a GREAT record

View From Within is the title given to Taurus when it was reissued by Stan Kenton's Creative World label!!!

Is Peter Friedman ok?

Is Peter Friedman ok?

The move from ,Columbia to RCA and then back is another story to tell, I would. One thing I read is that when the JSQ moved back to the Columbia family, they were on Epic because the Budapest Quartet was Columbia's "headliner". It was only after that group disbanded the the JSQ moved from Epic to Columbia. It seems odd to me that there that strict of a heirarchy among quartets on a label that had multiple orchestras and conductors (and pianists?) on their roster, but I claim no knowledge of that part of that business. None whatsoever.

It appears to had been a puzzle for some time: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.classical.recordings/c/50yZCEreaBg Here's the cover as included in the 2019 box: Still no indication why the record was withdrawn...

Here's a find worthy of Mosaic & Blue Note - a catalog number that was assigned to an album that was never released until this set! Why not? Nobody (on the internet anyway ..) has yet to explain. The image above is not the one included in this RCA box, but it is similar. What is included looks more like an actual RCA cover. The above image comes from the official JSQ website, and the act like it's an album that has just always been there. It hasn't. Performances are fine, if maybe just a wee lacking in spunk in #2.

Or maybe because Dolly felt like she was getting her chain yanked just a little too hard?

Why did Dolly leave Porter?

Yep!