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2 hours ago, ejp626 said:
Just saw Aki Kaurismäki's Fallen Leaves. On the whole I liked it, aside from the playing of alcoholism for laughs in a certain sense, plus the main character just deciding to stop drinking overnight and succeeding. I suppose this may happen in a very, very few cases, but this part of the plot didn't ring true for other reasons.
I am likely to try to catch The Holdovers tomorrow. This is basically gone from the main theatres but is kicking around a few second-run theatres in Toronto.
Check the copyright notice in the credits at the beginning.
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2 hours ago, T.D. said:
Their press agent mostly works for classical music-related groups?
Young to me.
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2 hours ago, JSngry said:
Ok, that does it. After decades of getting by with some Decca LPs and other sorts of partial gap-fillers, I finally went ahead and got this. Wanting to hear more of the early Braud/Greer hookup and this seems like this is gonna be it for this subset of same.
It's a gotta have set and (I think) not duplicated by the RCA or Mosaic sets.
5 hours ago, BeBop said:I spend most of my time off-the-grid: no internet, no electricity. But I'm on my annual trip to on-the-grid Malaysia. So what have I got? No LPs, no CDs, no Spotify (does that still exist?). Nope, from this computer, I can access the couple-dozen MP3 files I own. Organissimo Christmas music and downloads of albums "bought" (?) through Kickstartr.
Do you mean that all of Malaysia is off the grid or just where you are? ( I ask because my son-in-law's parents have moved to an island off Malaysia and even they have internet-- though I don't know about Spotify.
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"Erasure" by Percival Everett, the source for the film "American Fiction". The protagonist is named Thelonious Ellison but his nickname is Monk. I like that this is not explained in either the book or the movie.
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And how to submit it.
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On 1/3/2024 at 1:12 PM, JSngry said:
The Spector "Back to Mono" box set is terrific but everything seems a bit compressed to me. I'd love a well mixed stereo version of The Wall of Sound. Did he do any stereo releases or was he always mixing for mono car radios? BTW In the book about The Wrecking Crew there are some funny stories about Phil and Barney Kessel.
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1 hour ago, T.D. said:
I've no problem with mono. If a session was originally recorded in mono, I'd rather hear it that way than in fake stereo.
I don't think anyone likes fake stereo, but I usually don't mind issues where they've gone back to the original tracks and done a stereo mix like the one for Pet Sounds. (Of course if they screw it up that's another matter.)
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Not my experience. Everyone I knew had a cheap stereo by 1965. I remember being at parties where you could dance to either the Beatles vocals or their instruments depending on which side of the room you danced.
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Where I grew up we didn't have poutine but we did have chips with gravy. and that's what we always ordered.
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I just listened to the Mingus Moves 4 track. Loved it and can't wait for Svengali but it seems to have disappeared from the Rhino website! (It was on Amazon but no longer is.)
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Now that we have the Mosaic Don Byas with more Timme material does anyone know what else exists and is in the Danish University collection? Are there more Monk tracks and could the Byas/Monk Mosaic material be from the same session as Midnight? The latter is listed as November 11, 1944. and the material on the Byas collection as from "Autumn 1944".
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Just starting Xmas day here on the Left Coast. A Merry Christmas to all!
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2 hours ago, jazzbo said:
Like Dan I wouldn't RELY on the car's safety/warning features, but they can be very helpful.
I use mine when I'm changing radio stations or (especially) cds.
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38 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:
Oh yeah! I went on a late-70s Rush binge myself recently
Is this because of the recently published Geddy Lee autobiography? It sounds really interesting to me and I'm not even a Rush fan.
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My wife and I were at the part of Iceland 6 years ago. At the time there was just steam coming up from the ground/ice. Didn't seem dangerous. Shows what I know.
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Thanks. I just ordered it. I bought a bunch of the Commodore cds at reduced prices when I had an office on the Universal lot but unfortunately didn't buy this one. (Though I'm not sure this was part of that series. ) Also I think I did find I Got Rhythm on Spotify-- I'm not sure because Spotify gives so little information but it is Byas and Slam and there's applause at the end.
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I'm referring to jusst the Town Hall /concert. (One cut-- Slam Stewart and Byas playing Indiana is on the Commodore cd set that Universal issued a couple of decades ago.)
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On 12/14/2023 at 1:03 PM, Lazaro Vega said:
It came out in the gimambo Commodore Set from Mosaic.
Is it available in any digital form (including cd)?
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I will risk the ire of the hip and add that I like Kieth Jarrett's The Koln Concert.
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26 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:
I finally took the plunge and bought the first new car for my use in my lifetime. The lack of a CD player is a pain and I wonder if anyone has a recommendation of a good CD player with USB to connect to the vehicle.
I've bought one on Amazon that works with both fm radio and/or Bluetooth. Pain in the ass but better than nothing and sound is fine.
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I worked with her on a film many years ago and she was no more difficult than almost any of us are.
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Gotta admit that I started with disc 4-- the Timme recordings. They're great. I'm presuming he used 33 1/3 recording discs. Was the big breakthrough that Columbia made later the use of a micro-groove? Obviously 33 1/3 had been used earlier (e.g the Ellington "stereo" recordings).
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5 hours ago, miles65 said:
Miraculously my set arrived without VAT or import duties.
Congrats!
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1 hour ago, jazzbo said:
Is that a Nero Wolfe book?!
Return Of The Film Corner Thread
in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Posted · Edited by medjuck
Yes The Holdovers. In the front credits there's a copyright for CMCLXXI. (The actual copyright notice is in the end credits.)