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Most excellent, thanks for posting this. I thought about last night's program at Tubby's, but too late given a busy Monday at work. Also missed yesterday's Lace Mill event due to conflict with an Indian music series I attend. Joe McPhee appears in Poughkeepsie quite often, but that's a bit far for me.

Thanks, Rod and Niko. A couple of early string quartets are on Youtube, but from a completely different recording: SQ #1 SQ #3 They sound pretty good, but 7 CDs of quartets in "modernist idiom" is a lot for all but committed enthusiasts. I'll look for more to audition.

Listening on bandcamp, going to purchase. Trio w. Michael Bisio, Newman Taylor Baker. Bisio regularly hosts music events not far from me and I've often heard him live with Shipp in various configurations.

I'm a string quartet buff and extremely curious about the 7-CD volume of same. But unlikely to take the plunge on such a big package. So the Chicago Symphonies would be more likely.

A lot of Byrds albums

I have this excellent set. When released it could be purchased for a song, but now oop.

I fully understand your reaction and reasoning. 😆 Although the Bruce interviews were less than scintillating, the footage of him taking the stage in a massive stadium to "Once upon a time in the West" music while spectators held up colored placards was pretty impressive cinematically.

Unfortunately Bruce gets quite a few talking head segments, one of the turnoffs (I've been almost oblivious to BS, but he comes off here as obnoxious). Apparently in his football stadium shows he uses Morricone music as a backdrop when he goes onstage, and a big clip of that gets shown too. I don't recall any of the other three, checked on IMDB and they're not shown. FYI, you can check the list of IMDB credits here. The three interviewees I could've done without are Bruce, Oliver Stone (though he told a relevant anecdote) and Quentin Tarantino (though he would've been difficult to omit since Morricone scored one of his films).

RIP OJ (Simpson). No disrespect meant, but I felt that starting a separate thread might be trollish.

I believe in proofreading, but it seems to have become rare. These days, I would not expect a podcast transcription to be carefully proofread.

I enjoyed it. Recommended. 2:36 running time but held my interest. Only minor quibbles: 1. Lots of brief "talking head" interviews, some of which may be annoying; 2. If you don't speak Italian (I don't), some of the interview subtitles run over black/white film and are difficult to make out. [Added] The film had a lot of footage of Morricone playing chess. I didn't know he was an enthusiast (or perhaps had forgotten, because I regularly read the site linked to below), so dug up this story about Morricone and chess.

I got that [And did those feet...] since a US vendor (DG) stocked it, saving a boatload on shipping. The CDs are indeed good. I've read most of the book (focusing on the composers I know more about).

I don't know enough to make worthwhile recommendations, but can vouch for Don Ewell, whose recordings I greatly enjoy.

Does Werner release box sets? 😜 He's mined some of the Silveto material: https://www.discogs.com/release/25124686-Horace-Silver-Quintet-Live-New-York-Revisited

New arrivals: Scott (Hutch Fan): Based on one at-home listen, a very strong recording by this lineup of the Yamashita Trio. Definitely worth a listen...as with some other things (e.g. '70s live Rahsaan or '80s live Ra) one might ask "Do I need more of this stuff?", but I'm happy to have it. Liner notes all Japanese so I don't know details, but despite the cover image it was recorded in a studio. This is very good and definitely recommended unless you're allergic to electric piano.

Well, it was cheap and I hadn't heard of it. 😉 Don't expect it to be Hannibal's best, but listened to some on youtube and the vocals didn't turn me off too much.

If I can remember, I'll post something when it arrives. All three of the tunes are on Youtube (though seemingly not the whole album continuously), so I was able to audition the whole thing once I got the DG arrival notice. Here's a Youtube link for the first selection. Once I started playing that, the algorithm displayed the next track in the right column, etc.

It's on bandcamp, so I assume you could listen to some (if not the whole thing) there: https://newbraxtonhouse.bandcamp.com/album/quintet-tristano-2014

[Suzuki KdF] New release that got significant praise and I enjoy . I auditioned the whole thing on Youtube, liked approach and sound quality so ordered. But I haven't heard many KdF recordings, or Bach harpsichord recordings in general, so can't meaningfully rate it vs. the many alternatives.

One of my favorite box sets. Although Art's bandstand banter gives a strong impression that he was at best a "complex personality" if not a complete Richard.

I've previously read quotes and anecdote to the effect that Carmell Jones was "too sensitive" for the music business. That's been posited as a reason for Carmell's relocation to Germany. But I wasn't aware of the Peps story. Thanks.