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Yeah, my guess is that the writer's a college-age kid or around that at least. Doesn't seem too knowledgeable, but enthusiasm is good enough for "regular folks press."

Some people use the term "skip" to refer to a repeated click.

That is so sad. You should've donated to the public library!

I have some recordings from a Paris concert in '64 that are really wonderful. I assume that the bootleg is really good...

Well, I'll take those Mingus 78s and the Paul Bley one too.

I'm sure it's good... but I might have enough Brotzmann to work through now. Granted, most of the duo & small-group stuff is good, but those last few Tentet sides were pretty underwhelming.

Chaney may not have a turntable. But otherwise, I think this sort of thing is better left to PMs rather than in the open (yes, I've made that mistake as well).

I doubt laypeople really know much about what goes into playing the saxophone. Science isn't exactly an academic journal, y'know.

Fontana Discog Andrey Henkin and I collaborated on it.

Never bought it. Always thought it seemed like a stupid idea.

I'm trying to get one too, for review at AAJ. Really looking forward to (and almost sweating over) this'n. I've never been able to make peace with either line of thinking, fwiw.

This is the one I have, and it gets under my skin...

obvs you got a new blog. Now I have it saved.

Exactly, and "song" does not equal "record" either". "Record" = song + performance + arrangement + production America has mostly been a singles-oriented musical culture even before recording began (sheet music used to be the big thing). OK, I think I get it. As in, Herbie didn't have a "song" off of the "album."

Dunno. Welcome, though!

What is the difference between "Album of the Year" and "Record of the Year?"

TTK, have you read "Avant-Garde & Kitcsh" by Clement Greenberg? It is a great critical essay on modern art and culture, and is probably one of the best treatises on high/low culture ever written. The standard meaning of "kitsch" is the one he's using, although the detail with which he defines the term and its societal ramifications is pretty deep.

Asshole seller, foolish bidders.

Indeed, I forgot that one - and I even own it!

Chant du Monde may now be in EMI's control, but I'm not sure it was at the time.

Alan Shorter - Verve, America. Charles Moffett - one for Savoy, one for his own CMR label. Marzette Watts - ESP, Savoy. Until you get to the Universal and Label Bleu years (1990s), I believe Michel Portal label-hopped with every release. Kees Hazevoet - Peace, KGB, Snipe. Marc Levin - Savoy (reissued as a BYG), Enja, and a self-released thing that I am entirely forgetting the name of. Sirone - Of The Cosmos, Serious Music (now reissued on Atavistic). Revolutionary Ensemble - ESP, India Navigation, RE: Recordings, Horizon, Enja/Inner City, Pi.

I started similarly to you, porcy. Now he is near the top of my list, quite easily.

The tune you put up is very strong - listening to it now. You have an excellent collection, Alan, it's quite obvious!