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"The Bastards" show the album with #2 back in stock, though perhaps just a single copy.

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.

Weird things I've been meaning to pick up sometime:

That's a really funny cover in the context of the foregoing "!" discussion. Apologies if belabo(u)ring the obvious (not sure how well-known this is), but in chess notation "!" indicates "Good Move".

Wow, thanks for the link. I didn't know you could even search Google Groups any more! Indeed a strange story. Withdrawn seems most likely, but I can't say for sure. If anyone ever wrote a "bio"/history of the Juilliard SQ that'd be a good place to look, but I never heard of such a book.

According to discogs it was recorded in 1957, scheduled for release in 1959, but withdrawn.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11 x CD, 2019 [r13368663] | Discogs CD 3: Note: LP LM/LSC-2192, scheduled for release on April 24, 1959, got withdrawn.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

+1 Well done. And I won't waste any more time looking for covers with higher exclam counts. 😁

That's the very album that came to mind when exclams were mentioned. 🤣 This one goes 2 better on exclams, but it's Contemporary rather than BN:

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

One of those (probably pirate) box sets on B.Free. I bought it before learning about the label, but I doubt there's an alternative source for their festival boxes. Perhaps a mixed bag, but plenty of excellent music on this one.

This is a good record. This one came up in another forum thread and I like it a lot.

BTW, I seem to have acquired DG's last copy (for now?) of the album with #2. Happy I got it, plenty of other enjoyable tracks.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 $.