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I can't tell you how many hours I spent advocating for Billy at NT in the face of rampant Liebman/Grossman-ism and a parallel Brecker-ism. nothing wrong with them, but at the time their math just seemed a little too obvious to me to really be grabbing. Finally got one guy - a guitarist - interested. He was an instinctive transcriber, that was how he learned the languages. He came to me about a week after starting on one of Billy's things and said whoa, I thought this was going to be easy...

Yeah, there were three Denons. This one and Knowledge Of Self are desert island Billy, imo.

Started listening in the car this morning. so far, it's a beautiful ballad album, very nice.

The Garner record is not all with brass backing, that's a little deceptive. Maybe on half of the cuts at most. They're arranged by Don Sebesky, have a totally modern sound, and contribute nothing to the overall proceedings. Nor do they detract from them. They're just there. It's Erroll's show all the way. I have a CD of a collection of (some of?) Bartok's actual field recordings. That's something to hear!

I think jazz would be more popular if more people liked it. Seriously! I read into the blog past just the one link here. There's some thinking going on there.

Ordered last night, delivered just now. Amazon understands the urgency!

Really clean vinyl, too. I think I hit this Half-Price location at the right time, plenty of good classical LPs of this vintage in there, all very-well cared for at really cheap prices. Seems like somebody's parents or grandparents died, survivor's loss, my gain. That'll come full-circle at some point, but until it does, hey, it's nice to experience this music in this way To wit: Comes complete with a Dover Records inner sleeve that gives little conversational blurbs about each record, a nice touch. Guess they sold them for $2.00 each. If so, HP screwed me, then, I paid $2.00 for it myself. Vinyl is not consistently clean, but the shit jsut ROARS off the record, amazingly live and vivid quality. I have visions of some urban-suburban "longhair" type playing this rec ord on one of the bigass console hi-fi systems, just cranking it up, and scaring the hell out of everybody in the house and outside of it. But it's not scary music unless you get scared by it. I embrace it's roar myself. I'm wondering if it's a US release of this: My LP is a LOT less noisy than is this 78.

Not one group brought product to sell during this last Dallas Chamber Music Society season. It was a disappointment, to put it mildly, but when I asked the DCMS about that, they said it was 100% the artists' choices.

Well, there will be that, (tape more than electronic, per se) but I don't find it to be really "aged" not as in "dated". It all seems natural enough to the music at hand, it's just one more thing going on, not the thing itself.

yep.

Come down off that fence! Personally, I think it was some of the more..."outside the box" music being made at the time in that part of the music world. And it's held up for me very well.

dude, I just got back from dinner! now I've just ordered this record! The dinner cost more! BEFORE tip! http://wildmirchi.com/ The dinner was pretty damn good! But...

Well, Jimmy Ford AND GT Hogan!

Good old George Butler, he really made things happen.

Wow, I guess I should start practicing again, the better to get a gig to sell records at. Taking the coward's way out, that's my current model.

But what do I do when I run out of ones I haven't listened to yet? Go back and start over?

So it's over? Forever? Damn, I've bought records before, but never like that. Too late for me, huh.

I have not readily warmed to Milhaud, but this record is immediately warmy!

When is this going to be?

Yep. Life is fucked, and I alone can fix it. That's just how it is.

Jewel Brown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Brown Freeze the video at 46:03/04 and contemplate that magnificent visage!

btw, that Garner record came with an absolutely gorgeous/pristine thick-ish paper inner sleeve, one of these. I had never seen one before, never knew about them, so it's an unexpected treat!

Yeah, this: http://www.theaterjones.com/ntx/reviews/20190419155139/2019-04-19/Dallas-Symphony-Orchestra/Fabio-Luisi-Conducts-the-Dallas-Symphony While Swiss Calvinist composer Martin is not widely known in the U.S., his music is evidently performed more frequently on the European Continent. So, this seems like a message from Luisi. With William Grant Still, Luisi is familiarizing us with our own native music. With Frank Martin, he’s familiarizing us with (kind of) his. One wonders whether that’s going to be a theme of Luisi’s tenure with the orchestra, and so far it seems as if it might be. His concerts next season are similarly a mix of the familiar and the unexpected—Beethoven, Brahms, Copland, Strauss, and Rimsky-Korsakov, yes, but also Augusta Read Thomas, Julia Wolfe, a lesser-known piece by Samuel Barber, and Franz Schmidt’s The Book with Seven Seals.

Wasn't Ernie Andrews in the audience a lot at Merv Griffin's early 70s CBS talk show? Seems like I remember Merv always (I guess "always", he was never my go-to guy for late-nite) during his monologue taking a break and saying something like "ladies and gentlemen, Ernie Andrews", and the camera would cut to him, he'd smile or something, the audience would applaud, and then on with the show, and I kept thinking who the fuck is this Ernie Andrews guy, is this s joke or something? If it wasn't MErv, it was somebody else, because I distinctly remember finding out a lot later that Ernie Andrews was a real guy, a real singer, and a real presence, and it was like oh, ok, THAT Ernie Andrews, the guy in Merv's audience all the time.