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I'd missed this thread earlier. That's really cool! Congrats! :rsmile: :rsmile: :rsmile:

Thanks Green Dolphin, I'll do that! :rsmile:

Thanks Red, I'll check out Poem of Ectasy. I've heard some of his piano sonatas. I couldn't tell you which ones, though. Being a big McCoy Tyner fan, I look forward to hearing more Scriabin. :rsmile:

That's a drag, but you've got a couple days left. Actually, you have as long as you want. I look forward to your review. :rsmile: Peter, I look forward to your album of the week pick. I bet it will be a good one. I'm glad to see another Albert King fan here. He's one of my all-time favorite bluesmen. His rap in "I'll Play the Blues for You" is so smooth. I don't know if you dig mid-seventies King, but his I Wanna Get Funky album is one of my favorites. I love the song "Flat Tire" - It cracks me up. I've never gotten into Hayes' Black Moses. I'm more of a Hot Buttered Soul type of guy. I'll give it another listen. Today's listening: John Coltrane - Transition Charlie Haden/Pat Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky Donald Byrd - Byrd in Hand Non-jazz Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (new reissue) - sounds REALLY good! :rsmile: :rsmile:

I haven't heard much Scriabin, though I have liked what I have heard. Most of my 20th century Russian composer listening has been taken up by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. I really enjoy Prokofiev's symphonies. My favorite 20th century composer is the American, Charles Ives. I was taking a music appreciation course in college the where first heard his, Three Places in New England. I almost fell out of my chair. I loved it so much. It had an incredible use of dissonance. Any Scriabin recommendations? I'd love to hear more. :rsmile: Clinton, I'm also a BIG Fahey fan. I have most of his reissues on Takoma. I enjoyed his older stuff more than his recent recordings. Have you ever heard Jim O'Rourke's Bad Timing cd. That's one of my favorites in the Fahey vein. I'm also a fan of the rural stuff. I've picked up the Dock Boggs and Stanley Brothers reissues on the Revenant label. Heck, I even play banjo too. I have a couple John Martyn records. I picked them up years ago when I read that he was friends with Nick Drake. One lp is a John and Beverly Martyn record (Stormbringer) and the other is Solid Air. I think I listened to each one once years ago. I should give them another chance. I also dig some minimalism and electronic music. We are so fortunate to have so many types of music to enjoy! :rsmile: :rsmile:

I agree with Alexander. That's a great group of musicians BN's got. I've picked up every cd (except Modernistic) so far by these guys. Two of my favorite pianists are Andrew Hill and Jaki Byard, so I'm a natural Moran fan. Soundtrack to Human Motion is still my favorite Moran cd. :rsmile:

I dig Air too! I put my favorite tracks from Moon Safari and the Virgin Suicides on 1 cd. I listen to it while I'm working often. :rsmile: :rsmile: My listening: Jazz: Andrew Hill - Judgement Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul Non-Jazz: Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet :rsmile:

I wish that Mutley had audio on it. That would be fun. I'll start looking for Timeless. He seems like a very interesting player.

Thanks Green Dolphin! You guys are really making me want to go shopping. BTW - I love your avatar. Mutley rules!

Parkertown, I went ahead and fixed your image. I had to make the image itself smaller so it would work as an avatar. It is now 100 pixels by 75 pixels. It is now 13k. If you're curious, I used ImageReady which is part of Adobe PhotoShop to make it. Here it is:

Thanks Bev and Michael! You are making me want to do some shopping.

Cool! I 'll give it a shot. :rsmile:

It would be a lot more entertaining that way.

I've not listened to the Donald Byrd this week. My Gerald Wilson Mosaic arrived in the mail a couple of days ago and I purchased three new CDs from a 'Borders' visit (when I'd planned to purchase nothing). I know the goal, on this Board, is to write new reviews, posts, etc.. I wrote an excellent review on this CD at the BNBB. Alas, I've not been inspired to write another review. The BNBB = pisses me off (I can't get a copy of my own words anymore). I hope you're enjoying the Gerald Wilson. That should keep you busy for a while. I understand how you feel about the BNBB. It's disgusting how much amazing information was lost. They should have either kept it up as an archive in a locked state, or offered the posts for someone else to host. It's a great responsibility to run a Bulletin Board. I host one for my family and I have found that to be the case. They are trusting me to keep this valuable information for them. Since you already wrote a review, how would you rate it on a letter scale? For me it was a B/B+. I hope you'll join us for future albums of the week. :rsmile:

Thanks Jazzhound! I've been curious about Abercrombie for a long time. I used to read about him in my guitar magazines, years ago.

I'm not. I have only heard John Abercrombie on a Charles Lloyd album from a couple years ago. I would be interested in hearing more. Do you have any recommendations on where to start? :rsmile:

I'm with Noj. I'll take Inquisition: The Musical instead. I think if I hear that "and all that jazz" loop that they kept playing at the Oscars, one more time.... aaaarrrgh! I never was a big fan of musicals anyway, though, I'd bet money that I'll end up watching it with my wife sometime. I'll console myself by cracking gerbil jokes during the movie. Heck, I'll probably end up liking the movie anyway.

Yeah, that was really good. :rsmile: I love the Simpsons.

I became aware of Jaspar throught the J.J. Johnson Mosaic set. I really enjoy his playing on that set. :rsmile:

I haven't heard it on headphones yet. Thanks for the tip!

I've spent the day listening to this cd again, and I find that I enjoy it more with each listen. I really wasn't into it at first, but it has really grown on me. I still haven't read the liner notes. :rsmile: :rsmile:

Is there anyone else out there listening to the Donald Byrd this week? :rsmile:

Cool! I love this kind of stuff. I have a huge collection of easy listening records and a big favorite of mine is the late '60s stuff. Thanks for the info and link!

Damn, that is COLD! Yeah, it was cold. But we got a sort of karmic payback a month later. We were playing a show in front of a couple thousand people (our biggest show yet) and our drum machine went nuts. Our singer who had been a drummer had programmed the damn thing. It was stereo drum city. I really hated it. So we're playing away and the drum machine goes bananas, it's playing everything possible, and it's panning between the speakers. I just stopped. Put my bass guitar down and walked away while the singer was trying unsuccessfully to get it to stop. It was really embarrassing. Needless to say, the next week we replaced the drum machine with the lead singer's sister on drums. I have to give her credit, she did a good job. :rsmile:

When I was in high school, our band had a drummer who LOVED the band Rush. All he could do was talk about their drummer. Our band sounded nothing like this band, so it wasn't really a good mix. Our drummer would overplay all the time. It really sucked. The capper was his China Boy cymbol. Our drummer spoke in hushed tones about this amazing cymbol for weeks before he finally bought one. Unfortunately he debuted his new cymbol during a show. That was the most godawful thing I ever heard. I think it stopped space and time when he hit it. It was horrible. Everybody in the band turned around when he hit that thing. He sure loved that cymbol. We replaced him the following week with a drum machine. :rsmile: