[What Are You Watching]

Next Monday I'm going to see the Bill Evans documentary Time Remembered in a (newfangled with hi-tech sound system) cinema.

[Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons First CD Issue]

More added today: MEV, Terry Riley and Freedom.

I'm cribbing from DG's site. Checked cdjapan yesterday and none of the titles showed. I have no other Japanese source of info.

[Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet]

The little I've heard of Andrew Imbrie I liked quite a bit. Granted he's in the "academic composer" genre and those people tend to blur together.

Long ago I heard a concert in Merkin Hall, NYC...ISTR he was the featured composer, but am not sure.

I still have this CD, which is rather good.

 

 

[What music did you buy today?]

Preorders

[Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind]

1 minute ago, kh1958 said:

Unfortunately, shipping charges from the UK to the US are almost equal to the cost of the item. I hope dustygroove gets this in.

DG offers preorder on this, CD and vinyl

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DG, but closely watch their inventory.

[Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons First CD Issue]

New batch seems to be in the pipeline for preorder. I see:

AEC #29

Dave Burrell #30

Sunny Murray #32

Grachan Moncur III #33

Dewey Redman #34

Frank Wright #36

Sonny Sharrock #37

[Charlie Mariano - Not Quite a Ballad]

I like Charlie a lot, but will hope (if I don't forget) that it materializes at Amazon or discogs sellers. Looks like too sketchy a label for "the bastards" to stock.

[Charlie Mariano - Not Quite a Ballad]

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.

[Japanese Jazz]

I wanna see it!

I googled and got a couple of hits with full-length video, but they seem to be Russian pirate websites and I'm afraid to click on the links.

DG is showing a number of upcoming Ultra-Vybe CD soundtrack releases from bizarre and cheesy Japanese films. This isn't the only interesting one.

[Charlie Mariano - Not Quite a Ballad]

Me too.

Graphics look like it'll be the original German record company Intuition. Apparently a subsidiary of Schott, I found some pages on Schott's website but they were unusable.

US release looks like a ? to me. Amazon has one US $ seller of the 2003 release FWIW.

[Charlie Mariano - Not Quite a Ballad]

This is a reissue. Hope it gets some US distribution, as no discogs offerings of the original 2003 release are priced in US $.

[Jaleel Shaw - Painter of the Invisible]

Not trying to be a smartass and no disrespect intended to anyone, but does that qualify as "on a label"?

[Jaleel Shaw - Painter of the Invisible]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Is this on a label?

Press release  says "Changu Records".

But the only titles discogs shows on that label are two prior Jaleel Shaw albums.

[Ivo Perelman with Matthew Shipp String Trio - Armageddon Flower]

 

[Japanese Jazz]

Yosuke Yamashita film music.

From what looks to be a super-weird 1972 Japanese film.

Ecstasy of the Angels / Tenshi no kokotsu (1972) | Japanonfilm

 

[Blue Note never-ever titles]

On 6/8/2025 at 3:05 PM, felser said:

And that label tends to do a really bad job at it, so often lopping tracks from classic albums, and reissuing parts of two classic albums together on one CD (their "Revisited: from.... t..." series.  There is value when they include two full albums, and I like their design, but I wish the label would think.  I thought everyone learned their lesson when MCA was doing that nonsense 35 years ago.

 

23 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

I would assume the abbreviated reissues are a way to get around any claims. They're just PD/grey market comps. Currently avoiding the label with the exception of remastered Coltrane bootlegs and Ayler I didn't have.

I had figured ezz-thetics dropping tracks from CD reissues was just a way to fit 2 LPs on 1 CD. Interesting theory about the PD claim fiddle. 

I also avoid those dodgy ezz-thetics reissues on ethical (IMO) grounds, but do own 2 (Ayler and Marion Brown) purchased used on this forum. 

[Solo bass records]

In the cello category, Dave Holland's Life Cycles is pretty good.

I don't think I own any full solo bass albums. In the modern/avant sector, a lot of solo bass entails heavy use of extended techniques, which IMO comes off a lot better live.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

[What Classical Music Are You Listening To?]

31 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Panocha?

Really strong ensemble named after their (I assume lead) violinist, many recordings on Supraphon. You can trust anything they record to be good, especially Czech composers.

 

[What Classical Music Are You Listening To?]

32 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Remember the poster here 7:4! He was a microtonal composer himself and swore by this guy.

I have yet to go there (yet) but it sounds like it's just a matter of time.

I need more time...

Yes, David Beardsley who I recall going way back to rec.music.classical.contemporary days, long before I knew of this forum.

There are some good Ben Johnston interviews on the interwebs:

Ben Johnston Interview with Bruce Duffie . . . . . . .

Paris Transatlantic: Johnston Interview

A Conversation with Ben Johnston - New Music USA

[Bartok String Quartets]

Looks like he just does complete cycles. Earliest thereof for Bartok SQ is Juilliard 1 (1950) on Pearl. To my surprise.

Your inquiry is interesting, but I don't even know how to research it! Maybe it's closely tied in with the history of the classical recording industry.

Pretty wild that the first recording was 1925 or later, considering that SQ #1 was first performed in 1910!

[Mark Masters Ensemble Featuring Billy Harper new releases]

19 minutes ago, felser said:

https://newworldnjazz.com/mark-masters-ensemble-ft-billy-harper-dance-eternal-spirits-dance-capri-records/

Look great to me!  Their 1990 collaboration, Priestess, is quite wonderful.

Thanks. I stumbled across those last week, wondered if they were good but never followed up.

[What Classical Music Are You Listening To?]

Finished up with the Ben Johnston quartets. The more I listen to these, the more I like them and the more "important" I consider them. But not "easy listening".

[Bartok String Quartets]

Thanks. I'm familiar with the site from Google and the author's posts on a classical forum. He tries hard to be comprehensive, and does the same thing for lots of other classical cycles. I actually consulted the site for my Bartok SQ addition, and have also read his LvB piano sonata and SQ surveys.

[The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings - New Mosaic]

Thanks for the tip.

I was fortunate to cop the Eternal Myth Revealed set when Stefan Wood was a big seller here.

And I have a Campbell discography in Szwed's book.

On the negative side of the ledger, I'm an old fart and have been too much of a Luddite to go the download route, so grouping by date or session looks like a daunting project.