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Yes, that's the first time I heard him, on that record (it was shared with me by a friend, one more example of why I treasure my musical friends, curiosity and generosity combined are among the finer human qualities, imo). It was a real mindfuck for me to hear a saxophone approached that way, having it do things that I never considered as possibilities. I'm taking just in terms of the instrument's mechanics, how was that even possible?!?!?!?!?!? Just another example of how what gets done is as often as not a result of what one views as what can't be done. Nobody told this guy that it couldn't be done, or if they did, he didn't concur with their assessment of saxoponicalistic physics. For that alone, hero!!!!

No clarinet. Don't know that Sonny ever played clarinet, even as a kid. Maybe some soprano on Horn Culture? Can't recall offhand, that one's never done much for me. There is Lyricon on a few tracks, but I'm not going to be responsible for pointing anybody to them. Next Album is really, really good after you get past the opening cut.

Half Price is full of that shit, the LPs OIO with phony covers that don't even try to pretend and shit, and I'm like, really...

Three Nocturnes...whoa...

Deeply satisfying.

I'll go even further than that - I think The Scribbler had no concept that there could even possibly be good/bad/indifferent "easy listening". Zero awareness leads to zero ability to discern/evaluate. It was like "easy listening" and "crap" were being used interchangeably in this thought. As a visceral reaction, ok, fair enough. But as critical thinking, it's totally moronic. In a music school, you'd like to think that there would be an awareness of the crucial need for both abilities to coexist within the same mind. But music school is no different from the rest of life..

I recall a buddy of mine ca. 1978 was selling a group of OG BNs at UNT (this was when the BN craze was just beginning), and he had a list up on the Lab Band bulletin board (the real kind, with cork and shit), he was asking, like 15 bucks for it, and somebody scribbled on the list - DO NOT BU THAT DUKE PEARSON RECORD. IT IS EASY LISTENING CRAP. And I was like, whoa, that's just wrong. I like the record a pretty good amount of much, actually. I can see where The Scribbler might have had the impression they did, but only if he/she had no awareness of jazzmusic outside of the hermetically sealed confines of where they were at that time. And therein laid that and many other problems, then and now.

Splendid tenor, splendid drumming too.

yep

Really not interested in Rachmaninoff piano concertos. They're big draws locally, and although probably the "contemporary performer"'s fault (as well as the audiences who keep coming out to hear them), they're definitely not what I'm looking for, Seems the same attitude that gave us FUSION, just applied to a different, as Braxton might call it, continuum. But either way, no thanks. That Symphony No. 3, though, that was an interesting piece of music last night. I'm looking forward to hearing somebody who can make it even more interesting on repeated listenings.

I thought so, but Joe, you're a film industry vet, so I wasn't sure if it was a term with which I would not be familiar.

What is a "hold movie"? Or is that a typo? Serious question.

Unfortunately... Fortunately, however, the Symphony #3 is a lot less ponderous than is the Piano Concerto #3.

Heard the DSO do this last night, and I'd like to explore further. Seems like a tricky piece in therms of harmony and transition, attention to the finer points and not essentially "flat-lined". Are there versions on record that are successfully "micromanged" to get the full benefit of everything that's in there? Or is the piece maybe one of those things that's got a lot of good moments but can't quite come together as a whole? Edo de Waart was conducting last night, and I suppose it's to his credit that I'm left asking this, but really, I'd have preferred not having to. So anyway...who's done a record of this one that is magnifilorious?

I really need to start coming out for those concerts..

https://www.news18.com/news/movies/noted-saxophone-player-carnatic-musician-kadri-gopalnath-passes-away-aged-69-2341435.html

Ah, ok.

6 CDs and no room for the original LP mix?

If Clapton was God, I'd go with the one with the guitar,

it does indeed ignore that most basic truth.

AND groovin'!

Listening to him with Monk is still a shocking experience for me. Messengers/etc., exhilarating, yes, but that Monk stuff...wow. Nobody got there with that, nobody.