T.D.

Agreed that there's a huge amount of bluesy jazz. Bird probably should be represented, so I'll suggest "Parker's Mood".

Frank Wright, Unity

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My copy arrived yesterday. Very much enjoy the music, and the booklet is excellent (though it seems to omit playing times of the tracks). But track #8 does not seem to be "Keshava Murahara" as listed in the booklet...as far as I can tell, it's very similar to track #5 ("Hari Narayan") but with some vocal passages in the middle that I couldn't make out. Did anyone else notice this, or am I hallucinating? And unfortunately, track #8 on my copy skipped and stopped playing before the stated (9:44 by allmusic and Amazon) conclusion, so I returned it today. Replacement on the way.

Didn't work for me either, but I searched for the seller (uncle_b_jay). To my great surprise, only positive feedback showed. But on further reflection, I wouldn't expect a buyer to spring for a murky-looking $1,775 item unless the eBay feedback was good. I rarely visit eBay any more, and am even less likely to now!

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Mosaic's weekly "Jazz Gazette" e-mail today had a link to a JazzTimes item on this release: https://jazztimes.com/news/luaka-bop-release-new-alice-coltrane-compilation-may-5/ I'll wait to hear some clips, though I admit not owning any of her Impulse recordings (which I'd be inclined to look to first).

I really enjoy Sir Roland's playing, but there are so many solo recordings that I haven't been able to keep up! Purchased this from Clifford (thanks!), just arrived today:

My brother strongly recommended Herron's "Slough House" books a couple of years ago. I instead read Down Cemetery Road (because it was available @ local bookshop), wasn't overwhelmed, and left it at that. Will have to look for Slow Horses.

RIP (unusually, I saw a copy of the physical NYT and read the obit before seeing this thread). I read and enjoyed many of the Inspector Morse novels. Also watched a number of the BBC TV episodes (John Thaw as Morse). I share the enthusiasm for (British) cryptic crosswords Morse was a relatively complex character with some rather noticeable character (shall we say) imperfections.

Hadn't spun this recently, but had an urge to hear Iron Foundry.

A personal favorite.

Tribute to Pauline Oliveros this Sunday (3/19) at City of Kingston.

Just Sinfonia (with the New Swingle Singers!). Eindrücke is a kind of once fashionable Darmstadtian serial piece that never interested me (disclosure: I enjoy certain serial works and composers, but it's not a big percentage of my listening).

RIP. An amazing story. PS: "...Then 73, he became the first person age 70 or older to complete a marathon in under three hours, finishing in 2:54:48. He is still the only one..." My best marathon time was 2:54:40, but I was 32 years old...Kinda embarrassing next to Mr. Whitlock!

PM sent on Harry Beckett.

One thing I've noticed in classical is that Outhere often makes box sets out of collections of previously released single discs (for instance, I just now noticed the complete Haydn quartets by the Festetics Quartet on Arcana!). Just speculation, but some significant boxes could be assembled from the Hat catalog. Maybe not so relevant to those of us who already own a lot of the individual releases, though. [Added: the Festetics complete Haydn is currently download only; another possibility is to go the download route with the Hat catalog.]

This was posted in the "All Things Hat" thread on 1 Feb . I'm hopeful. I recently bought two classical box sets on Ricercar (one of the acquiring company's labels) and they were classy productions with excellent art and booklets (full-size book in one case). Outhere seems to own several niche labels including Linn and Arcana. Their Outnote label has a lot of jazz. English homepage here

On the allmusic site, his most recent credit is from March 2007 (release date), but up until that time he had a steady stream of remastering/mastering credits. My guess is that he retired a little over 10 years ago.

! Among the French "spectralists", I enjoy Grisey as well.