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Bateman on bass?????

Well, I love PBS, but fuck Blinky.

Who the hell is Binky?

Having a listen to this now with the "collector's circles" copy...it's HOT!!!! and with better sources and a good modern clean-up, you better start the requisite conditioning to prevent blisters from non-stop finger-poppin', cramps from unstoppable foot-pattin', and if you're so inclined and confined, butt-wigglin'. DA' BOMB ABOUT TO DROP, GET YOUR ASS READY!!!!!

The Atomic George Duke! A reminder that before there was "fusion", there was "jazz-rock" or "rock-jazz, point just being that people just came to play whatever they were playing the way they were going to play anyway. Richard Berk on drums, NOT Richard Bock. Gotta look closely!

NOTE: Produced by Duke Pearson

The wheels on the bus go round and round. oh, btw - no Joe Castro collection complete without this one!

badass...

I like Lenny Popkin.

Pretty damned nice performances of a pretty damned inconsequential set of pieces. Whatever happened to Vivian Rivkin (then Mrs. Dean Dixon)? There seems to be a story there? Rivkin was a student of Dixon's, something like that? She made a few records anddied at 55, that I can find. And a later packaging of this record omits Dixon's photo: She plays really well on this one too.

Now THAT'S irresponsible music-making!!!!

Weird as hell to hear a Baroque mandolin concerto....so weird that it wasn't even listed on the cover, just in the liner notes.

But what gets sold certainly does have at least a claimed owner, and that process can arouse at least the aura of a theft.

does she tell the stories of the songs?

It's only "stealing" once it gets monetized and commoditized. Until then, it's just love doing what love do. Oh, I'd gave it a lot of thought long before I was given the power to delete posts. One thing I noticed was that "free speech" always seems to be a lot freer when it's being spoken from power than to it, especially when it's a demand/request to sit down and STFU. Like I said, funny ways sometimes.

It takes so long... Just finished: and I'm thinking, hmmm....something nor really right about this...and so there's a review of it by Virgil Thomson where it is called "irresponsible musicmaking" Yes, THAT! https://academic.oup.com/mq/article-abstract/XXXIX/1/147/1080949?redirectedFrom=PDF So hey, fuck it, there's a Barbara Hannigan record of it with just piano accompaniment, and I need to check here out some more, so ok, I will, as soon as the CD gets here. The Esoteric record (recorded in Paris by Jerry Newman, btw) is one of those things where the "offness" of it makes the desire to hear the music a different way stronger. It's not like you hear it and say oh, that sucks, never want to hear THAT again.

Yeah, but that's obvious. Hopefully everybody knows that Dinah Washington was truly one of the great singers of the 20th Century. If they don't, they either don't care about that type of thing or else are just wrong. This LaVern Baker record is not.particularly obvious. I've known about it since the aforementioned 20th Century and never thought it would be all that it is. Well, I was wrong. Just wrong.

That "free speech" thing works in some funny ways sometimes...

I don't think that I can take it.

I paid five bucks for a copy of this, one previously owned by one Melinda Lacy, who did NOT take care of her records. so...on the hunt for a cleaner copy, becuase the music is better than excellent. Apart from that (and the psychedlic-ish cover, which Melinda DID take good enough care of) is the fine-print notation that this was "an 8-channel Dolby recording mixed under the supervision of the conductor". Horenstein would have been about 70 at the time, and he was supervising mixing of 8 track session tapes...I've only been aware of him for a few years now, but wow, his fine attention to detail went beyond "just" interpreting the scores. When the scars of Melinda's carelessness recede on occasion, the recording itself sounds really, really good. But really, wtf? is up with that ending, did Mahler have one of those sneezes that never really goes away until, like 4-5 tries?