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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Here's the cover as included in the 2019 box: Still no indication why the record was withdrawn...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!

And Roy Brooks too?

Don Schlitten @ Prestige (as both producer and cover designer) damn near exhausted the global supply once upon a time. But as we can now eat buffalo, so now can we resume exclamating-point our jazz record LP covers and CDs too!!!

Are all those prices for base models? Any common options or packages included?

How's Kenny?

That Mingus collection is deep.

Mono!!!

Not so much ignored, they got reviewed and were stocked in stores, but...a lot of things were happening in 1965-66 and I'm not sure that these records were among the most interesting... Having said that, yeah, they're good. But Chet is the least interesting player on his own records here, imo.

A return to exclamation-pointed album titles would be a welcome turn of events!!!

That's a good record!

No detail or implication left unexamined. Too often in my experience (small sample size to be sure) this type of material is played in a "glossy" way in an attempt to sound "nice". Our local classical station seems to favor those type of interpretations almost exclusively...classical music as lifestyle accessory. Yuck. This is not that. This is make you listen intently every step of the way because you don't want to miss anything music. Fascinating and gratifying.

Seriously.

And too often, to me, it's made to sound easy. And that makes it sound cheap or something. This does NOT sound easy, in any way. Nor does it sound strained. It just sounds...serious.

Ricky Stumps Jr. - Humstoldt!!!

I will be in Detroit for the festival over Labor Day weekend. They always have a booth/ tent. Sometimes the staff can be asked serious questions, sometimes not. Depends on who's there at the time. But I'll drop by and tell them thank you, ask what future plans are, and maybe buy some stuff. If I get good info, I'll pass it on.