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In addition to Humphrey, Zappa's other drummers, Terry Bozzio and Chad Wakerman, attended Ellis clinics and workshops. Vinnie Colaiuta, another Zappa's drummer, mentioned that attending Don Ellis Big Band concert as a child was a formative experience for him. Trombonist Glenn Ferris and bassist Dave Parlato played with both Ellis and Zappa. And Ellis played on Zappa's "Absolutely Free". Otherwise, no connection.

Perhaps "Meat Light", the expanded / remastered edition of "Uncle Meat"? https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Light-Uncle-Project-Object/dp/B01M69ONQZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487552122&sr=8-1&keywords=zappa+meat

You can buy a download (presumably from McPhee directly) via Bandcamp: https://joemcphee.bandcamp.com/album/joe-mcphee-trio-impressions-of-jimmy-giuffre

I am selling a new copy of the Melodiya 100th Anniversary Edition set:

Selling a new copy of this excellent 50-CD Richter set. This is from the second (and last) batch of 1000 copies, a white edition. Included are concert recordings (most of them never released before) spanning most of Richter's career (but predominantly from the 60's and 70's) in very good remastered sound. The set was released in late 2015 and is already officially OOP. Content is listed here: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Melodiya/MELCD1002270 Amazon US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016OW2DBQ/ Price: € 290 including shipping to Europe; € 310 ($ 350) to North America or elsewhere. PayPal or direct bank transfer. And a YouTube fetishist video, of course:

This is the first 1990 CD edition of this FMP classic: http://www.fmp-label.de/fmplabel/catalog2/fmpcd025.html , with a different cover. Good condition. $43 postage paid to North America, €33 postage paid to Europe. Other locations will quote individually. Accept PayPal or bank transfer. Offers welcome. PM me or send me an email to djmdavid at yahoo dot com. Thanks.

Very saddened by this news. A wonderful under-appreciated musician, and at 59 way too young to go. He's been living here in Austria for some time, but to my regret I never caught him live.

I like Dantone playing Handel's keyboard works: https://play.spotify.com/album/6hZOVR3LlTMnn6fOS3lxw9 and https://play.spotify.com/album/1Bzb6iWyuTdHf7bsyt7uVn

I guess your point is that Moore is not particularly overlooked. Maybe. OK, here's some more: Christine Abdelnour Urs Leimgruber Wally Shoup Biggi Vinkeloe Lotte Anker Jean-Luc Guionnet Michael Lewis

Yes, these Liebner discs are excellent. I like the Tilbury set as well.

Michael Moore Matt Bauder Jonathan Moritz Rodrigo Amado Alfred 23 Harth Martin Küchen Gianni Gebbia Katsura Yamauchi Lucio Capece Joachim Gies Bobby Wellins Mikolaj Trzaska Marco Eneidi

I am not a fan, I find his playing tedious and predictable (and that's on tenor, on soprano it's godawful), but I can wholeheartedly recommend this one: John Law "Extremely Quartet" on Hat - Law, Moholo, Burry Guy and Dunmall. This one is long OOP, unfortunately. "Ghostly Thoughts" is also very good, but mostly due to fascinating interplay of Mark Sanders and John Adams. The CD is OOP, but it's available on Spotify.

Tonight: (London) Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting, Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano. Program: Ravel - Pavane (for orchestra), Piano Concerto for the left hand, Stravinsky - Firebird (ballet version). This is fantastic music that I am quite familiar with - heard all of these works live a few times. Excellent, tight playing by the orchestra, OK playing by Aimard (I have a feeling he got out of sync with the orchestra at one point). A funny touch was the trumpet player hiding somewhere at the balcony playing a solo during Firebird - acoustically this actually worked out well. Dynamic shifts we executed perfectly. Very enjoyable evening. I was surprised that the concert hall was not full, perhaps at 85% capacity. Might be the heat.

Malipiero - if you like Debussy, Ravel, early Prokofiev and early Stravinsky, most likely you will enjoy him too. Great melodies. Perhaps start with his shorter symphonies, ##3-4.

Thanks for the recommendations, gentlemen. Keep 'em coming. sgcim, cool insight into MIlhaud's writing method.

Pondering whether I should buy this recently released Erato / Warner set, but any Milhaud recommendations are welcome.

Good reading, both of these.

Windkraft – Kapelle für Neue Musik, Ensemble Marcus Weiss, Saxophon Manuel de Roo, E-Gitarre Kasper de Roo, Dirigent PROGRAMM Edgard Varèse Intégrales (1924-1925) Georg Friedrich Haas … über den Atem, die Stille und die Zerbrechlichkeit …. Versuch (1994) Arturo Fuentes In der Luft Johannes Maria Staud Violent Incidents (Hommage à Bruce Nauman) (2005-2006) Iannis Xenakis Akrata (1964-1965) Giacinto Scelsi I presagi (1958) Very good concert by a wind ensemble (plus a mighty percussion section). The present-day composers' works were so-so, but Varese, Xenakis and Scelsi were outstanding. I have heard them all in recording, but hearing it all live played so well is a different story. Xenakis was quite funky, actually. Wise decision to put Scelsi last - this was a monumental work, it would be hard to find anything to follow it with.

In case you need it, you can search by label on Spotify too. Type label:"labelname" (e.g. label:"blue note") in the search box.

Well, 5-minute trailer has footage of Tchicai, Brötzmann, Hampel and Bennink, all non-Americans.

€5! Crazy!

Hellstrom is indeed a stunning album. Yes. It can be heard online in full at Bandcamp: http://mathka.bandcamp.com/album/hellstorm

Guys, thanks for your input.

So which Boulez box should one go for, if any at all? Sony/Columbia, DG, Erato or Accord? DG box content: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4794261 Sony box content: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Sony/88843013332 Erato box content: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Erato/2564619048 Can't find the Accord box content listed in one place. These are Le Domain Musicale 1956-67 recordings.

We have quite a few concerts where artists / moderators would talk to the audience in between pieces here in Vienna. I hate this. I am there for the music, I am really not interested in hearing about the troubled life of the composer during the concert, I can read about it at home if I choose so. I am not sure what is so "class system" about the tradition of focusing on music during the concert. I also saw a few orchestras performing while not wearing tuxedos, it did not feel like a revolutionary event of rupture with tradition, and did not enhance my concert experience in any way.