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Gaynair is all over this new 3 CD set of unreleased Kurt Edelhagen WDR jazz recordings, often enough in tandem with Karl Drewo. He's on board from the early 1960s through the early 1970s and sounds GREAT every time he's up.

A Rangers loss? You haven't been paying attention.

Realizing that Mingus is a cultural crossover, so that no doubt puts me in a probable distinct minority on this, but more research into John Foster and less quotes from Fran Liebowitz (who I certainly enjoy elsewhere) would have added real value to this already valuable package. I had relatively low expectations, but hell, this band was TIGHT. Even the weak and weakest links (Jones and Faddis, respectively) do right, and Foster grabs the ear and keeps it. Columbia fucked up. Oh well!

He does indeed, but it ain't got shit for biography.

Very nice set. Where can I go to learn more about John Foster?

Charles Brown was a master of zone

The modern string quartets (and there's a lot of them!) almost never do records with single composers. So they get filed by group. Arditti Quartet, don't care if they do 20 records of the same composer, it's an Arditti Quartet record in my book. Caroline Shaw is on some of these records, but she makes her own records of her compositions, so she gets filed by her. I look at it like, who is the real focus of this record for me, why am i bringing it into my house. Tie goes to the composer, but there's seldom a tie, really.

same guy.

From 2005: First "description" that comes to mind is something shallow like "M-Base with clave", but that's not...accurate. This record, though, IS good. Check it out! Personnel - Yosvany Terry Cabrera: saxophone Avishai Cohen: trumpet Mike Moreno: guitar Luis Perdomo: piano Hans Glawishnig: bass James Genus: bass Yunior Terry Cabrera: bass Pedro Martinez: percussion Dafnis Prieto: drums Jeff "Tain" Watts: drums Ok, it's not all "Latin Jazz". But when it is, it IS.

People paying attention.

For classical, I'm getting enough inventory to do the filing thing and I THINK I'm going to go with with filing by performer if the performer is in fact the "star" of the record. Otherwise, by composer. And if it gets too wonky, there will be a group for little children who don't follow the rules. No matter how you do it though, allow me to reiterate my overriding rule - put your shit where you can find it. Even if you forget it for 10-15 years, when you finally DO remember it, have it where you know you'll find it. It's so much easier that way!

containing and Some strange sounds get made!

Ok, case in point, just from today - I need more than one Kenny Burrell record, but there's no way in hell I need every fucking one of them, just no way. There's buttloads of them, and they're all good, but, you know, how many times will you feel like listening to the ones that are "merely" good? I mean, the guy's made a lot of records for a reason, but if 1000 people buy one of them but another 1000 buy a different one, that's still 2000 Kenny Burrell records sold. so he's done his part and shouldn't feel bad about that. Me, though, if I listen to one of them one time and am not pretty damn solid on that, yeah, I'm gonna need to hear this one again at some point, then holding on to it just to have is...not a sustainable practice over the longest haul. Still, there's a good number of Kenny Burrell records that I want to have on hand. But not all of them. NO!

A perfectly professional album of very professional (and occasionally interesting!) playing, and if you have an insatiable and/or yet-satiated appetite for that type of thing, I'd recommend it without hesitation.

Hmmm...it says there is jazz. I think Robin Jazz might be cool.

I guarantee you that for Spanish (ie - univisioneral) language Batman, Pepino would have been a better Robin. But then, we'd never have this gem:

Spanish is spoken everywhere.

Well, in Ethiopia it would have been in Spanish. That's where they could have used Pepino as Robin.

Otto Preminger as Mr. Freeze. It gets no better. Except...seeing Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet, and realizing that Flora MacMichael thing was all just a ruse, she and her brother George were out there to train Bruce to be Batman, like Jesus had to go into the wilderness to come back as JESUS. Bruce had to go to sunny Cal-I-For-nee-A to come back as BATMAN. I thnk that Hassie ws underconsideration to come back as Batgirl, but the poor thing was just a little too attitudinal. Pepino could have been Robin, but the times were not right for bilingual super heroes on TV shows.

Nice enough. It's a John Hammond joint.

Hey, chicken soup.

It's not him, it's Alan Napier's Alfred

Remind me again which one has an invigorated Bud Powell, an uber-keen Kenny Clarke, and a damn near goofy Dexter? But if you're looking at this from a space/storage issue, then you are definitely ahead of the curve here, and on that point I envy you to no end.