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That Nistico CD example is bizarre, because even freakin' eBay 🤔 has the Just Jazz release much cheaper than DG's price. Maybe your theory is right.

FWIW, the set is offered at $60 + $4.99 domestic US shipping on discogs, so that DG price is consistent. (Based on a limited sample. 😄)

Don't think it's been mentioned, but I have a soft spot for Fuchsia Swing Song on the Sam Rivers album of the same title. You know right away it's not a run-of-the-mill Blue Note release, and the immediately recognizable Jaki Byard isn't on many Blue Notes.

I saw BH live when he was 75 and was stunned at how young he looked (didn't even have gray hair then iirc).

Phil Ranelin, The Time is Now! and Vibes from the Tribe

John, I use a "burner browser" (Edge, but it could be any) just to access sites with paywalls. I frequently clear its entire cache (+cookies, etc), which seems to zero out counters of allowed articles. Some sites have hard paywalls (no freebies allowed), in which case this doesn't work, but many allow access to 1 to 5 articles before enforcing the paywall. I just read the article, which would have been paywalled for me on Chrome (my usual browser), that way.

Thanks. Yippee! That means I already have all the material on CD. Granted, I wasn't going to buy the new package anyway...not my kind of thing, no offense to those who went for it.

Not that new a movie...it was at a semi-local theater the first week of December. Unfortunately, I missed it - limited showings and a 1.5 hour drive. Hope it returns to the area, otherwise will try to go the video route. Film is about classical music, btw...the issue is pretty familiar to classical listeners. Wagner, need I say more? 😄 Plenty of recent cases, for instance the disgraced James Levine. With the recent cases, institutional and audience complicity is a serious issue. A lot of the Levine stuff was well-known for decades. During the early '90s, it was pretty well-known to the cognoscenti that Levine had gotten pinched in Austria for shenanigans with a "choirboy" (major strings had to be pulled to get him back to the USA), and that it was inadvisable for young males to associate with him. I still attended plenty of Levine-conducted operas in those days.

Yes indeed. Just got this, did not have high expectations (being more of a straight-ahead trio than a lot of the Nimbus West material), but it's really good!

It's a matter of taste (with which there's no arguing), but I like Way Out West a lot. And I dig the cover art as well, funny and somewhat ironic IMO.

The review [Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe in DownBeat] was not so positive, 1.5 stars. Respectful of Ayler in general (praised earlier LPs) but down on that particular release. I can't copy/paste from the Kindle edition.

Larry, your 1970 Downbeat review of Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe was quoted in Richard Koloda's Holy Ghost. Strange (almost totally based on reviews, interviews, etc. by others) and rather disappointing book I just finished reading. John Litweiler was quoted a whole bunch of times; Clifford Allen at least once that I noticed.

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Google gives an exchange rate of 6.87 DKK = 1 US $, so about $20.38. You can put it in a cart at Bandcamp, who must use the same currency quote, because the result is "that’s $20.38 USD, plus $5.53 shipping for United States."

I very much doubt that MF would have enjoyed being called a "minimalist". 😄 But I leafed through his book of essays Give my regards to Eighth Street and couldn't find any remarks hostile to minimalism. In fact (in the essay Crippled Symmetry), he discusses Reich's Four Organs in the same paragraph as Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles and Varese's Integrales. Interesting article that touches on possible relationships (in both directions?) between Feldman and minimalism: https://www.kylegann.com/Feldman-DispraiseofEfficiency.html I particularly enjoy the discussion of notation, which came up on another forum* in the context of performances of Triadic Memories, where recordings by Aki Takahashi and Roger Woodward were most faithful to MF's handwritten score. * see https://rosewhitemusic.com/piano/2015/10/07/a-question-about-rhythm-in-triadic-memories/

It's on bandcamp https://karlbergerkirkknuffke.bandcamp.com/album/heart-is-a-melody You can certainly listen there. No doubt purchase DL as well, not sure how physical CD transaction from Denmark would go.

Christina Fong and Glenn Freeman of OgreOgress (the latter used to post on r.m.c.c. in the old days iirc) seem like reliable interpreters of Cage and Feldman. They resort to overdubbing on some of the number pieces; I can go back and forth on the merits of that but it's likely the only practical way to record higher-numbered works. I have a couple of their Cage number piece recordings, have listened to various Feldman (incl. the set cited by Larry, which has been on the wish list for a couple of years) on Bandcamp but never got around to ordering.

That whole Ronnie Scott's video is pretty good. I watched over an hour of it the past couple of days. I was a huge Jeff Beck fan in the early-mid '70s, lost touch over the years.

A little over 100 pages into the Kindle edition of the Koloda book. It's a disappointment, Colin's points are spot-on.

I contacted the Far Horizons record company (Soul Bank Music) to inquire about the possibility of an Oblivion Express box set. Received this response: "...that's already been manufactured and we are just sorting out the release date for late spring/early summer!"