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Preorders

DG offers preorder on this, CD and vinyl Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with DG, but closely watch their inventory.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Press release says "Changu Records". But the only titles discogs shows on that label are two prior Jaleel Shaw albums.

Yosuke Yamashita film music. From what looks to be a super-weird 1972 Japanese film. Ecstasy of the Angels / Tenshi no kokotsu (1972) | Japanonfilm

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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".

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.

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.

I think Sun Ra LLC has been killing it with Ra reissues, quantity, quality and sound-wise. Hard to imagine Mosaic stepping into their bailiwick. More than happy to "build my own".

The Ben Johnston (microtonal) string quartet cycle. Starting with this, the other 2 discs probably later.