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Off-topic, but I see Connie Han (solo and piano trio) will be nearby this summer. About 7 years older than Alexander, has recorded on Mack Avenue, seems to play a lot of standards as well as originals. Rarely mentioned on this forum except for a few old CJ Shearn posts. I'm open-minded, but will audition some online programs before spending on tickets.

Peeked at Jim's post on #10 after listening and drawing blanks. My first reaction to the piece, after about 20 seconds, was "Oh dear...", not digging the male speaker. On full listening, I loved everything else about it, especially arrangement, female vocals, trumpet and trombone. A certain irony in the lyrics brought to mind somebody like Eugene McDaniels, who surely is not involved. Would never have ID'd anyone, even though I own a couple of the leader's albums and an extremely well-known drummer/percussionist is included. After a couple of listens I think it's a great cut, but the male vocals would probably keep it off "heavy rotation" in the household.

Good point, that.

That's interesting, because IMO the term "Young Lions" in current usage implies a musical category or grouping into which I would not pigeonhole several of the musicians listed. Bluiett, Davis, D'Rivera, Freeman, Wadud for instance.

I was a big beer drinker but quit drinking alcohol in 1998. Before giving it up, I had become fond of Belgian-style brews such as Never heard of Blue Moon. Found Heineken OK, but there were many better import choices. The 2 Mexican beers are good compared to the US entries, but mediocre. The remaining 4 are awful; I always found Miller especially bad and wouldn't drink it at all. Nowadays the US has so many local craft beers that there's no necessity to drink pisswater corporate swill.

Even if comped on the cover, I dunno if I could afford even the coat check there. 🤪 Not to mention food/drinks. Maybe parking as well...I wouldn't be surprised if that joint charged big bucks for something like valet parking in their own lot. For "smooth jazz"ers, tickets to the Yellowjackets on 27 April can be booked for a very reasonable $22.50-$82.50!

Small local events. Last Sunday: Jason Kao Hwang, Michael Bisio, Juan Pablo Caretti This Saturday: Steve Beck, classical solo piano Sunday: Abhisek Mallick (sitar), Pt. Subrata Bhattacharya (tabla)

Legit. Jazz in Britain bandcamp you can audition the whole thing. https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-spontaneous-event-live-1967-1969 "Coming Soon" to Dusty Groove for another physical CD (twofer) option...might be cheaper w. shipping.

OK, #3 is the tune Black Diamond written by Milton Sealey, which I know only in the RRK version from Rip, Rig and Panic. The BFT selection is of course another recording. Too early in the month to sleuth...I'll try to reason something out.

Yeah. I misposted earlier. I have the free Adblock Plus. Periodically, including every time the software updates, I get messages touting the upgrade to paid. All Free features, plus: Block floating videos, site notifications, and more Block cookie consent pop-ups Keep your ad blocker on If I click on the ABP symbol in the upper right hand corner of the browser, a mini-screen appears, including a button to upgrade.

The Teal (S. Africa) release which includes the Chris Schilder Quintet's Spring album

I use the free Adblock and (as mentioned above) saw zero popups.

Tonight, Indian music. Sahana Banerjee (sitar) / Aditya Phatak (tabla)

I think the Lyons might have been re-pressed in both reissue "batches". Cdjapan had a 1400 yen release in the first batch for quite a while. By the time I got around to ordering that was gone, but the album then reappeared as a 2000 yen release with the second batch and I included it in my order.

That image (from cover of album released in 1961) is of interest to geeks! It looks somewhat fractal, and the term "fractal" was not coined until 1975. 🤔

I'm also nearing satiation point, but one of these releases features Frank Wright. 🤔

[Can't edit post] I also suspect an internal ECM pecking order: some higher-profile or better-selling artists are allotted more cover/design resources than the rest.

I always fall back on "Follow the money", so I figure that the design budget went down. I just visited the ECM website and clicked through a number of new releases, Shop - ECM Records . Looks like roughly 75% of the catalog has bland cookie-cutter covers, but there are a few more attractive and eye-catching ones. For instance a Paul Bley release scheduled for July: By way of comparison, I sometimes buy contemporary classical CDs from Another Timbre in the UK, another timbre home page . Their covers have distinctive typeface and aesthetic, but are generally far more attractive than ECM's IMO. [There are exceptions, but the pale/greyish ones seem to be artistic choices that reflect the music in some way.]

Apologies for the belated notice. I just read about it tonight on discogs. Passed on November 16, 2024. I learned about Aketagawa on this forum and have accumulated more than a few recordings. I enjoy his music, and he seemed like a real character one would enjoy meeting.

I'm going to stop being particular about the CD-R trend. With the sharp decline in CD issuance, seems like one has no choice but to accept it. However, I won't pay premium (e.g. Japanese import CD) prices for CD-R.

Thanks. I knew I'd seen that article on the forum before, and some time ago. Beyone that, no comment. I abandoned vinyl around 2001, but have no issue with those who like it.

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