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Up With People Elisha Otis Yuri Gagarin

They're leaving off the alternate(s) of "If".

There were a few (four?) on the Blue Note two-fer.

Eartha Kitt Felina John Dos Passos

Oh, do not ask be to decide how much sense something makes where the premise is based on a $30 lp sourced from digital files!

You mean the terrorists who keep trying to get an audience for new non-recreative music?

or if you prefer:

Do you always play the old record right before playing the new one? Or are you just going by memory? Just asking, because if I have to play a record twice to listen to it once...I ain't got time for all that right now. I DO like that they're doing all this from files rather than tapes, because those tapes, some of them are going to get run once too often and then what?

I.M. Pei Palladin Zell Miller

But truthfully...I got the last HankBox when it went on LastCall just because of the excited SQ chatter over the years. But I can't tell you what that means, because I've yet to listen to it. Again, I know those records really well. So,like the old hen, I just keep on sitting on it. But you know, Mosaic/BlueNote, it's a damn Pavlovian response. And $85 is not the least I've been conned out of by such impulses. But now I wonder....if this is truly the "best sound ever"...where is the equivalent for the rest of the entire catalog? Or is that just not going to happen, ever?

I liked more of the music this time than the last, although, some of them seemed more like sketches than finished compositions. But hey, maybe they will evolve furhter, in which case, every seed has to get planted in order to have a chance to grow.

Anybody seen the Iggy Gucci print ad(s)? They should have had The Turbinator in there as well.

I dunno man...for me, it's like, I know this music. I don't think there's anything left for me to hear in it (audio-wise). "Sound quality", maybe a difference, but, hey, I'm a longtime married man and have long ago learned that different is not what you get, it's what you give, so I might not be the right person to ask about this. It's not like you're going to hear any new instruments or anything, it's still the same music and you know it pretty well, I'm thinking. Still, hey, if you get the CDs (and these may be the ones to get if you don't have any - and, really how does THAT happen to a guy like you?!?!?!?!)), you can save your vinyl and not have to worry about wearing it out by listening to it. Collectors (and your wallet/estate!) will thank you for this, maybe. As for the highly competent Bob Blumenthal doing these notes, uh....ok.

Titus Underwood came to play!

Herbie knew he had value and believed that he would have worth. Donald Byrd helped him break the spell that had too many people for too long believing otherwise. Thank you, Donald Byrd.

Bob Blumenthal?

The Gay Divorcee The Merry Widow The Singing Nun

Except as fodder?

Oh, so this is going to be vinyl, then?

Not sure I understand "complete" as it is applied here?

Lilliputian Lilly Pulitzer Jonathan Pryce

Once is probably enough, two or three times over as many decades, sure. But "never" is not really a good option either. It's a record that happened, and it can't be unhappened.

PROGRAM [set times are approximate] 1pm Michael Abels Anguish from Falling Sky (world premiere) for Vicky Chow Matana Roberts witness… (world premiere) Joan La Barbara ad astra…for cellist who sings (world premiere) for Iva Casian-Lakos Anton Batagov Chaconne in A minor (world premiere) 2pm Rudresh Mahanthappa How Was Your Year? (world premiere) for Ken Thomson Timo Andres House Calls (world premiere) for David Byrd-Marrow Leyla McCalla Meditation #1 (world premiere) for Arlen Hlusko John Hollenbeck Persuasion (world premiere) for David Cossin 3pm Carman Moore STALLION (world premiere) for Robert Black Kelly Moran new work (world premiere) Michael Fiday Song for Eric (world premiere) for Jeff Anderle Jonathan Bailey Holland new work (world premiere) for Mark Stewart 4pm Michael Daugherty Six Riffs after Ovid for solo oboe (world premiere) for Titus Underwood Soo Yeon Lyuh See You on the Other Side (world premiere) All works were commissioned by Bang on a Can with the generous support from the following people: Joan La Barbara and Timo Andres commissioned with support from Raulee Marcus & Stephen Block John Hollenbeck commissioned with support from Meredith Monk and Maria & Robert A. Skirnick Rudresh Mahanthappa and Matana Roberts commissioned with support from the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation Leyla McCalla commissioned with support from Anonymous Donors Kelly Moran commissioned with support from Alan Baker Soo Yeon Lyuh commissioned with support from Lisa Bauso & Joe Rojas Michael Fiday commissioned with support from an Anonymous Donor Michael Daugherty commissioned with support from David Tochen & Mary Beth Schiffman Carman Moore commissioned with support from Alan Lewine Jonathan Bailey Holland commissioned with support from Jani Naverfeffer as a tribute to Charlie Fefferman additional major commissioning support for 2021 from THE HOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION