Stompin at the Savoy

Somebody mentioned this recently and I love Dick Hyman so I ordered a copy which happened to arrive today! (Amazon has 30% off on this at the moment). Looking forward to listening to it.

Right. Well, I don't actually buy mp3s from Amazon any more, preferring cd or better resolution. But I do like the principle that having bought a record, you can download it again if your drive blows up. Amazon applies the same reasoning to Kindle books - you don't need to back them up, just download again if your copy gets lost. It's a good idea because otherwise we all end up spending way too much time curating our collections and keeping them stable (!).

One trend that is developing out of this issue is shifting the burden of backup to file distributors. So if you buy mp3's from Amazon, you don't need to back them up because you can always download again from Amazon. I think Qobuz also has unlimited or at least several download opportunities for each file. Now that the need is well established people will probably come up with better long-term storage options.

Very, very low if you copy them properly (operating system, robocopy, quality backup utilities, etc). The operating system is set up to do checksum and validation when you copy files (apps typically use the operating system under the hood).

I liked Brasil 66 when it first came out. It got a fair amount of air play and they were on TV. They seemed so Brasileiro at the time but now I discover that foxy lady who sang great lead did not speak Portuguese and in fact is a nice Jewish girl from Chicago!

The arrangement is kind of cheesy but he has a good voice.

I listened to most of it on youtube just now. I found it likeable and the sound was very clear - very well produced. Harrell's solos seemed unfocused and meandering and even at times seemed like noodling to me. And there was a sameness about everything, the overall sound and texture... all the angles have been smoothed out. Very little tension created and released. Not enough space. Well, that's one man's opinion.

I suppose it is possible to make music with an animal horn that has no holes or keys. Historically I think the shofar is similar to horn fanfares, or fanfarade, also referred to as a flourish. The idea being some loud, fixed tones which would draw attention (to the entrance of royalty, an announcement, etc) or signal action in battle. I'm not even sure that shofars are tuned to a specific pitch (or pitches).

The animal that produces that horn is not a sheep. It's a kudu, a sort of antelope. I've blown an actual ram's horn and they are much smaller and kind of hard to get the horn to come alive and vibrate. The kudu horn he has is quite different and produces a vastly different tone.

The video is interesting and the horn he uses is not the familar ram's horn of synagogues. It's a lot bigger and more resonant. Nevertheless, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson, the shofar's use as a musical instrument "is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It's not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Unless you put some holes in it, it would be hard to do much more than bugle tunes.

I don't have much on record by him but saw him in Berkeley a few years back with the Dave Douglas band. Very enjoyable set. They did a number where the time signature changed back and forth between two rhythms and it was pretty good. I had no problem with the sax tone and his solos were creative, IMO.

Thanks, will check those out. I also ordered the Self Portrait box (used) which is supposed to arrive today.

I wasn't sure if I really liked Artie Shaw. A while back I gave his Centennial Selection disk a good listen and decided yes, this is good big-band stuff and quite a bit of it does swing pretty nicely. And I've gotten into big band a lot in recent years. So recently found a copy of the Mosaic and have been checking it out.

I've been thinking about getting that. I have this other one.

The Getz set is 2 hrs and 37 min. By today's standards there would have been enough room on the 3 cds to include the Sittin' In With material; not sure about cds manufactured in 1990. It's also possible that the material wouldn't fit on 4 lps - I have no idea how much fit on an lp in 1990.

I have that MJQ set and love it. Very good price and value. The Black and White set is also great if you like that kind of thing, which I do.

That bit about the dog really turned me against Delon. Selfish bastid! If he really cared for the dog he wouldn't behave like some ancient emperor or pharoah... Good for his family.

I didn't catch that mention in the notes, I guess because it was a sideman appearance.

I've been listening to a lot of Sidney Bechet recently. Great stuff!

I have the set. There is no explanation or mention of these cuts in the booklet. Part of the booklet is here: https://www.billcrowbass.com/getz-raney.html Possibly Charlie Lourie and Michael Cuscuna were unaware of these back in 1990 when the set came out.