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  4. Dark Classical Reccomendations

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    Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta" is dark enough for most purposes, I should think.

    Varese's "Ionization"----I don't know about 'dark' but it sure can clear a room!

    The endings of both those pieces are absolutely joyous. There's some darkness along the way, but the endings are pure sunlight. For me anyway.

  5. Mistakes in covers, booklets...

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    My Lucky Thompson CD called "Good Luck in Paris" (JazzTime 827217-2) has a cover photo of Don Byas, not Lucky. (Don't have a scanner; otherwise I'd post a copy of this.)

    I've seen a CD of performances by the stride pianist Joe Turner illustrated with a photo of the blues shouter Big Joe Turner, but this one isn't in my collection.

    And I just saw a disc of a Bruckner symphony illustrated with a photo of Brahms.

  7. Dark Classical Reccomendations

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    Posted · Edited by Spontooneous

    Another big welcome back to Clem, whom I've missed. Send more dispatches from Gritsville!

    ****

    This thread has me thinking, what's wrong with me? I don't hear a lot of this music as particularly dark. Not Feldman, not Webern, not "Verklarte Nacht mit umlaut." Nor most of Varese.

    But yes to Pettersson and Zimmermann, as Clem said.

    The Seventh Symphony and "Tapiola" by Sibelius scare the crap out of me, because they sound like a human being shutting himself off from the world. That's dark.

  13. Tenor player w/ biggest influence on players today

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    Posted · Edited by Spontooneous

    I've heard a pretty good-sized bunch of under-30 tenors who take after Joe Lovano.

    I've also heard a major alto saxophonist whose name you've all heard complain that there were too many young Lovano imitators out there.

    Stump Evans rules. (I live about 40 miles from where John Chilton says he's buried. I need to locate that grave some day.)

  14. Who axed Woody for Wynton ?

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    And now, a short and far from complete list of artists who were pushed off Columbia yet were not pushed into a "death spiral":

    Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Cedar Walton, Benny Golson, and several guys named Marsalis.

    After Columbia, Woody landed at Bruce Lundvall's Elektra/Musician, which had great distribution and pretty good promotion.

    The "death spiral" thing seems over-the-top.

  19. Higher Ground Relief Fund concert is on now on PBS

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Didn't see the whole thing, but...

    I was most taken with Terence Blanchard's spot.

    Wynton acolyte Irvin Mayfield's spot was raw and passionate.

    I liked the Marsalis "family" spot with Ted Nash on tenor. Wynton behaved himself on this one.

    The Jon Hendricks and Paquito spots were a lot better than OK.

    But the Wynton-as-King Oliver spot creeped me out.

    Still, the highlight of the evening for me was the speech from Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte.

  21. frank strozier...

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    My memory is that "Remember Me" was more even in its quality. Still, the title cut of "What's Goin' On" sticks with me more than anything on either disc.

    But it's been a while since I've heard them. Won't have time to re-listen this weekend, alas.

  25. CBBB - OPEN DOOR (Muse 5056)

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    Another CBBB collector here, dreaming of a CD reissue of "At Her Majesty's Pleasure"....

    And still, 15 years later, remembering the name of the auction seller who screwed me after I sent him my money for a copy of the US Columbia LP. Ted Major of Albuquerque, NM, I still have a problem with you...

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