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John(ny) Carisi

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Yes! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks! I confess that this is a Farlow group I know little about. Fixing that!

Hip!

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Nice. Forgot about those Cuozzo records! I'm also hearing echoes (pre-echoes) of Charlie Haden on that Costa date... I'm guessing it's just the guitarist's sensibility coming through. But it was not something I was expecting to hear!

Thanks all! Yes, I can hear the Pettiford as well. But Burke's sound, at least here, is "guttier" (not, like, more gutsy, but with more string audible.) Remembering now that he's also on Gil Melle's GIL'S GUESTS.

OK, I have to admit, prior to today, just a name to me. But I'm listening to the Costa/Burke trio record (Josie, 1956) for the first time in a long time today and I'm totally getting why Burke received co-leader billing. His opening solo on "Fascinating Rhythm" alone merits as much. I can totally hear a guitarist's sensibility in his work, but I feel the need to listen more closely now. Will probably pull out those "with strings" sessions he did with Mulligan next. What else is out there/does the board recommend?

Maybe this is apocryphal, but I seem to recall reading somewhere that rampant pirate of sheet music -- the home taping of its day -- played a major role in the establishment of modern-day copyright law.

I was supposed to attend AWP (https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/) in San Antonio last week. I had to cancel for other reasons (financial, mostly). Got then to sit back and watch as other writers started cancelling en masse beginning last Monday. Conference organizers then met with city officials to assess the threat level, decided to move forward, then had their newly minted Co-Executive Director resign in protest. Best estimates suggests 5-6K registered attendees stayed home; AWP attendance averages 10-12K. Lots of photos in my social feed of half-empty exhibition booths and conference sessions. https://therivardreport.com/thousands-write-off-san-antonio-conference-over-coronavirus-concerns/

This was probably not the case that should have precipitated a correction in the application of the inverse ratio rule. I mean, it looks like some long-term good has probably been done, but at the expense of the plaintiffs in this specific case. (That LZ's liberal borrowing from Spirit's catalog overall -- "Fresh Garbage" being a staple of their live sets in the early days -- strikes me as less than circumstantial.) The bad luck streak continues for Spirit...

Thank you for being, McCoy Tyner.

ZACHARIAH! Gerry Mulligan in BELLS ARE RINGING.

Yes! And leave us not forget the Kashmere Stage Band... https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5599377

Thanks for linking to this. Add to this list G.A. Baxter of I. M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth.

That first Opal EP...

That Nabatov record is very special indeed. I have a live recital/broadcast he did around the same time somewhere in my digital archives too.

There's also the three Herbie Nichols Project recordings... two for Soul Note and one for Palmetto. https://www.discogs.com/artist/3136938-The-Herbie-Nichols-Project

Damn. Sad news.

Yes!

We did! Very stirring performances of all the pieces. This one stood out, though the last two movements of the Sibelius were quite intense.

The Doric Quartet's renditions of Britten's String Quartet's, especially the 3rd.