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  1. Ted Daniel Quintet - Tapestry

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    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    I have that 2008 Porter CD and consider the sound pretty decent. Granted I'm not an audiophile, and Ted Daniel didn't record for big-budget labels so expectations have to be managed. I never heard the original release. It's an excellent album.

    I have quite a few Ted Daniel CDs. In my experience, the ones on Ujamaa with the black covers (I own the "Sextet" and "Loft Years" but not the solo release from Italy) have dodgy, even outright bad sound but others are OK.

  3. British jazz reissues

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    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    I'm slow to catch on as usual, just noticed this has been reissued and is on Dusty Groove's (USA) "Coming Soon" listardley_neil_symphonyo_101b.jpg

    Also, I finally ordered Keith Tippett's How Long This Time after fence-sitting and missing a couple of low-postage chances.

  9. The new "Pay-It-Forward" Music Giveaway Thread!!&#33

    in Offering and Looking For...

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    This Renaissance polyphony disc is up for grabs, free USA postage. Mistaken purchase: I got it from BRO a few years ago but already had practically all the contents in a (very good) box set.

    https://www.discogs.com/release/13584233-Jacob-Obrecht-Capilla-Flamenca-Piffaro-Chansons-Songs-Motets

    https://www.amazon.com/OBRECHT-Chansons-Capilla-Flamenca-Piffaro/dp/B000EMT17C

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  12. Spinal Tap on Jazz

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    Thanks for posting! :tup 

    1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

    a film -- er, documentary -- that I never tire of.

    For sure. I once had memorized extended periods of dialogue, but that's faded over the years.

    I've also seen all the later "mockumentaries" by the same group. Best In Show being the favorite (next to Spinal Tap, of course).

  13. What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    6 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

    Well, if you like .. ahem, jazz.. you might want to check out this one:

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    Thanks, I might try that later.

    Also this, though "jazz" is used figuratively:

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    But right now I'm listening to

    polyphonie-flamande-ric102-2021111610410

    Discs 1-3 (various/Dufay, Dufay, Dufay), 4 (Binchois/Ockeghem). This is a good set. 

     

  15. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

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    3 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    Same.

    Takayanagi was a huge part of my musical development. I sent a friend who was going to Japan to buy me Kaoru Abe CDs and he came back with a bunch of Takayanagi, including Deconstructive Sympathy / Kaitaiteki Kokan, which was the least musical thing I had heard up to that point, and really put the Abe solo stuff in its place.

    I have no real feel for Takayanagi's timeline though.

    The timeline isn't that clear to me. Some earlier recordings are straight-ahead, and some later works are extremely abrasive / noisy. But I'm not sure his style followed a smooth trajectory, because the dates of certain "conventional" and "weird" recordings are really close together.

    Granted I've so far shied away from the noisiest material such as Mass Hysterism, 😉 and don't have very many recordings.

  16. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

     

     

     

     

    I've never heard that one, T.D.  What are your thoughts?

     

    It's one of those "historically significant" albums. I got it pretty recently, am still evaluating. On first listen I was unimpressed, but am now liking it better. The album starts out as kind of straight-ahead but transitions (Free Form Suite) to exploratory and eventually outside. I'm partial to Takayanagi's late weird/noisy material, and the final track (3d movement of Free Form Suite) is very much in that wheelhouse.

    At this stage I'd say "interesting" rather than "essential", although that final track is really outstanding. At this point I overall prefer the Cool Jojo (straight-ahead, even Tristano style) and Takayanagi's Angry Waves 850113 (outside/noisy) albums somewhat. I don't regret getting this recording, however.

  22. Eric Carmen, RIP

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    30 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

    In 1975, when Carmen's debut LP was recorded, Rachmaninoff's works were in the public domain, so "ripped off" is the wrong word. In fact, his use of those melodies is exactly how public domain is supposed to work.

    According to Wikipedia, the works were not PD outside the USA and he paid royalties to the Rachmaninoff estate.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_by_Myself

    According to Carmen, he first wrote the solo part of the song, writing four bars at a time, eventually completed the interlude after two months.[7] He needed to put this into a song, and after listening to Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, a piece famously used to underscore the 1945 British film Brief Encounter, he adapted the melody of its second movement to write the verse.[7] Rachmaninoff's music was in the public domain in the United States at that time, so Carmen thought no copyright existed on it, but it was still protected outside the U.S. subsequent to the release of the album. He was later contacted by the Rachmaninoff estate and informed that it was protected.[8] An agreement was reached in which the estate would receive 12 percent of the royalties from "All by Myself" as well as from "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again", which was based on the third movement from Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.[9][10]

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