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Weird mix of obscure items from Dusty Groove bargain bins:
(Prestige twofer reissue w. one solo track omitted)
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I remember that. The clip of Pres. Carter singing Salt Peanuts was all over TV. It made the nightly news IIRC.
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On 1/3/2025 at 10:13 PM, T.D. said:
Second half of this box. Then will take a Beethoven break, though the Kempff mono and Serkin (incomplete) sets will move into the queue.
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6 hours ago, sgcim said:
Yeah, that's how we read it.
+1
And he happened to be correct in that particular case. 😆
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That Jazz Times story has been up since at least 2021, which is when I first saw it.
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Thanks for the recommendations.
That one was 1000 yen for a long time at cdjapan. Probably still is, per Lon (I haven't checked recently, cutting down on purchases).
I was intending to buy but passed due to lack of reviews and Andorran issuer. Will try to find a copy.
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Thanks, Rooster. I've seen that fuller account quite a few times before, and posted passages (about RVG's reaction to plucked piano) on other boards. The jazztimes link says "updated Sep 27, 2024", but it's been around quite a bit longer than that. I suspect the account/interview/whatever has appeared on other websites, but have forgotten them.
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Not that big on compilations, but this was cheap and I don't have any of the underlying albums.
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Thanks, John. Enjoyed the BFT. Got caught up in year-end things and never made a 2nd post.
Lots of intriguing and surprising tracks. The obligatory one I own and couldn't ID (Sam Jones) and one I have to acquire (Tyner). I'm much more positive than the consensus on the Spirit selection: dig the music, but lyrics haven't aged too well. Wishbone Ash was an adventure: I really liked some passages but disliked others, could tell it was a British group with 2 lead guitars but nothing else. That band got no radio play (in my area) when I was growing up, and nobody I knew listened to them.
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43 minutes ago, Smith said:
Let me know if anyone manages to track down Matt, or any contact info for him beyond the Nimbus West email address he's ignoring.
If he went broke and he intends to leave folks in the lurch the least he could do is own up to it and say so - happy to provide that opportunity.
Will never happen. For instance, if he's lawyered up (which is very possible), no attorney would let him do that.
Best hope for any kind of statement (which would be bland and generic) is if this causes a big enough stink to get media attention. Which I doubt.
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Been revisiting some old LvB collections
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And Ted should demand that Congress pass laws establishing subsidies, NEA grants, etc. for bagpipe performance and studies. 😆
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14 hours ago, soulpope said:
Heard the Cuarteto Casals in concert quite some time ago without lasting impressions .... probably will give their Beethoven a try as available on YT ....
Sign of old age, but I recall making the same comments about Cuarteto Casals quite a while ago (a year or more? too lazy to search). You may even have had the same reply. But at that time their whole Beethoven series was not yet on Youtube, only 1 or 2 of the 3 underlying 3-CD releases. Sadly, I promptly forgot about the project.
I am really going to listen to the whole Casals cycle on Youtube soon. Honest. 😁
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32 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Seems to me that Baker lived a life of perpetually looking for enablers, including through his playing.
Part and parcel of the long-time addict's world IMO. I am inclined to agree, but of course can't pretend to know.
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Yes on all counts.
To continue an earlier discussion, the Cuarteto Casals Beethoven cycle is a modern one I'd really like to hear, but I'm not going to spend the money [Added: OMG, it's on Youtube]. The old Hungarian Quartet Erato reissue (at $18.95 on Amazon) would be far more likely.
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Since it came up earlier:
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2 hours ago, Smith said:
Pretty rude.
The annoying part (aside from the theft) is the inclination to give the benefit of the doubt, to make excuses, to make allowances against one's better judgement.
Probably should have called the credit card company a few months ago - not sure they'll cover something I paid for in July 2023.
But you wanna trust, don't you.
Ah well, not the first time and almost assuredly not the last - hope everything is okay on the other end of it.
Yeah, the "pay $250 upfront" thing should have been a huge red flag.
I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't a scam. More likely it was an ill-conceived project, and the officers kept running up unrecoverable losses rather than pulling the plug (possibly poor judgement, or OTOH unwillingness to admit mistakes and "lock in a loss").
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Have always been a fan of Grumiaux, even though my violin tastes have drifted to the HIP end of the spectrum.
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22 minutes ago, JSngry said:
Congress should investigate ethical violations at music streaming businesses—just like they did with payola. Laws must be passed requiring full transparency. Even better, let’s prevent huge streaming platforms from promoting songs based on financial incentives.
LOL @ #whatcenturyareyoulivinginbro?
That's not a reality-based strategy.
A reality-based strategy involves a lot of individual responsibility. But it's easier to whine about what other people are doing.
Once again - lots of emotion and no workable plan for success. Government stepping in? In 2025?
Grow the fuck up. Seriously.
The stuff in bold is so tone-deaf that it's beyond comical. This dude is living in some incomprehensible fantasy world. Expecting people or entities not to respond to "financial incentives"??? Good luck with that. The "Congress..." and "laws must be passed..." screed at this moment in time??? Surreal.
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1 minute ago, rostasi said:
Same feelings for Rick Beatoff too...
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Rick's videos are a taste I never acquired. Having seen a few I now pass. But so many people link to them that it's nearly impossible to be unaware of him.
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21 minutes ago, Д.Д. said:
Yes, you got it right. The most-streamed "jazz" tracks on Spotify are by-the-numbers tunes churned out in hundreds by anonymous musicians who are contracted through low- or no-royalty deals (unlike tracks from "real" artists where Spotify has to pay out around 70% of the streaming revenue as royalties to rights' holders).
Read the article by Liz Pelly that Gioia is referring to - it's a good piece of investigative journalism.
At the same time, I find the whining tenor of the Gioia's article annoying and childish - there is always "somebody else" to blame. No, it's not "industry" or "labels". It's the listeners. The majority of listeners (i.e. the people who consume music in a very different way compared to organissimo forum posters) really DON'T CARE. They start a ten-hour "jazz in the background" playlist at Spotify and it is good enough for their purposes. The listeners generate millions in streams of this muzak...
Emphasis added. I had the same reaction. If listeners "DON'T CARE", the phenomenon described in the article is hardly surprising, and even seems inevitable IMO. [Added] Agreed on the irrelevance of payola, something completely different.
Re. Ted Gioia, I once read and enjoyed his West Coast Jazz book, though I found the writing slightly dull. I then read another book (forgot the title, probably History of Jazz) that made little impression and was definitely dull. Don't pay much attention to his online columns, which indeed seem whiny.
What music did you buy today?
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I was speaking figuratively. Their algorithm recommended a bunch of Delmarks (and variants) at $0.99 through $3.99. Selected one and then piggybacked more algo recommendations plus one that was on my watch list.
They do have clickable links for "Sale Items", "CD Deals" and "LP Deals" now. Scroll down a DG page and look under "Special Offers" in the left column. Warning: you can spend a lot of time and/or $...I guess that's why the sobriquet "The Bastards". 😁
Looks like they've recently modified the site a bit...IIRC the CD link used to be something like "CDs $8.99 or less".
For instance:
CD Deals (new/used, sorted ascending by price)
LP Deals (ditto)