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  1. His first recording for this label (which is associated with Bang on a Can)

     

    The Cosmic Piano | Cantaloupe Music

     

    AVAILABLE NOW
    on CD and all streaming platforms

    Matthew Shipp presents
    The Cosmic Piano

    His first solo recording for Cantaloupe Music!

    Shipp celebrates the summer solstice today with
    two concerts at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX

    Avant-jazz pianist and composer Matthew Shipp has been referred to as the "elder statesman" of the art form by DownBeat magazine, but the reach and scope of his music extends much further than mere genre. The Cosmic Piano delivers on that promise — a solo recording that taps into the deeper exploratory potential of the instrument, with Shipp channeling a lifetime of knowledge and a daunting array of influences into nearly an hour of spontaneous, enlightened and joyfully rendered music.

    "The preparation is your life," Shipp explains. "If you're a real improviser — and I mean real by acknowledging that it's a praxis and an art form and a discipline — it's like being a boxer. You do your road work, speed bag, heavy bag and then you spar, and it's an all-day process for you. It's a lifestyle."

    As with all of Shipp's music, this recording goes beyond any simple categorization, and in part informs why he wanted to release the album through Cantaloupe. As Bang on a Can co-founder David Lang writes in the liner notes, "Matthew had the idea that if his music could be heard in the context of Cantaloupe's catalog, it could encourage people to hear a different aspect of what he does. It isn't that he made a different kind of music than he usually makes — this music is clearly his! What has changed is the context in which we are listening to it."

     

  2. 14 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

    Another 👍

    Wow! Never seen these before!

     

    Looks like all of the old BYG titles are being reissued on CD by Japanese labels. There are some related threads on the "Re-issues" subforum. It's more or less carpe diem because they sell out relatively fast.

  3. According to discogs it was recorded in 1957, scheduled for release in 1959, but withdrawn. Discogs now lists release date (I assume; both 2019) as that of the box set.

    Juilliard String Quartet – The Complete RCA Recordings 1957-60 – Box Set (Compilation): 11 x CD, 2019 [r13368663] | Discogs

    CD 3:
    Note: LP LM/LSC-2192, scheduled for release on April 24, 1959, got withdrawn.
    Recording: New York City, Webster Hall,
    December 9 [1], December 11/13 [2], December 11 [3/4], November 25 [5], November 25/29 [6], November 29 [7] & December 4 [8], 1957
    Producers: John Pfeiffer & Richard Mohr
    Matrix Nos.: H2RB-8096 [1]; H2RB-8097 [2]; H2RB-8098 [3]; H2RB-8099 [4]; H2RB-8082 [5]; H2RB-8083 [6]; H2RB-8084 [7]; H2RB-8085 [8]
    LP Matrix Nos.: J2RP-8498 [1–4], J2RP-8499 [5–8] (mono); J2RY-8500 [1–4], J2RY-8501 [5–8]
    ℗ 2019 Sony Music Entertainment

  4. This arrived today and I'm happy with the acquisition.

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    Sound quality is excellent. I'm fine with mono for chamber music (or solo piano) if well-recorded.

    Performance outstanding. I think Sándor Végh's playing here is better than in the 1970s Beethoven cycle I have, where his intonation occasionally sounds a little off.

  5. Really interesting on #11. I once heard Jack play a live recital on piano, but would never have guessed him here. Didn't recognize the guitarist: briefly considered sleuthing under Abercrombie, he being the most likely suspect, but his ECM discography is too big so I didn't follow up.

  6. Put it this way...I sleuthed an "Intuition Records" subsite of the Schott Music site. There was a column on the left of featured artists with checkboxes. I checked the "Charlie Mariano" box and was whisked to a totally non sequitur page of classical music projects...in other words, this s**t has come from the Twilight Zone and I wrote it off.

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