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Per Siri, the pianist is Paul Berkowitz.

Larry, I just got from a board member the Lennie Tristano Mosaic box, and I noticed you quoted Charles Rosen in your liner notes.

This was a good week for Mosaics for me. Through a board member I got the Tristano, and just got word from Reckless Records that they're shipping the Serge Chaloff.

Ah, OK. I have this on a Collectables twofer, where the cover is reproduced so small that I'd never noticed before. Thanks.

Nor the one-record effort of Ferris Benda. This is his Prestige Records thread....... It's evolved into Jackie's 50's thread, to compliment the 60's and 70's-and-beyond threads. Having said that, "Ferris Benda" must be one of those cool, inside references I don't know about.

Let's not forget this almost magical pairing with Art Farmer:

Martha Argerich: 5 Classic Albums. $8.96 + shipping from an Amazon reseller.

Review of Bob at the Beacon - NYT Two Dylan Songs You Probably Never Heard Of, but You Can Buy Them - NYT

Interesting idea about the frequency analyzer. The speaker's specs say it should play down to 20 hz or so, but aurally that's not very true.

New Wine was one of the first Jackie albums I heard; I always liked it, though now think there are stronger versions of these tunes elsewhere. Hat Trick is really good, as is his last album, Nature Boy.

OK, I tried it. On first pass, I think I still prefer using the controls on the subwoofer than those on the preamp. But I'm sure I now have some months ahead fiddling with all the controls to find that sweet spot.

Thank you! That was fascinating. I have the box set linked-to at Discogs, and compared the Hartman disc to what I think was the first CD release from 1986. I only compared My One And Only Love. I think I prefer the version with Coltrane's overdubs.

Scott (or anyone), can you recommend a good procedure for setting the crossover for a subwoofer? I've never done this before. Is it just setting the preamp to control the crossover, then turning the screw little by little until it sounds good? (And why is it a screw and not a knob?) Also, on the Emotiva there are 2 screws: one labeled "high pass" and the other "low pass." Do I just adjust "low pass" or both?

I'm going to send the Georgia address a thank-you card.

http://www.oberlin.edu/kohl/collection-neumann.html

I see the Complete box is now $82.79 at Amazon; this might sway me.

The ancient Greek chorus wasn’t called a chorus for nothing. The theatergoers of Athens expected it to sing. You would never know this from modern practice: Think of the 1957 Tyrone Guthrie film of “Oedipus Rex” or, better yet, the comically serious version of Sophocles’ tragedy that Fred Astaire watches with alarm in “The Band Wagon” (1953). In any number of modern performances, tuneless choruses chant in dismal unison. What happened to the music of Greek theater, which for Aristotle was “the greatest of the pleasurable accessories of tragedy”? Alas, it is lost to us. Unlike the text of the plays, the music wasn’t set down on tablet or papyrus in any way that we can now reconstruct. As Thomas Forrest Kelly observes in “Capturing Music: The Story of Notation,” music was for centuries preserved through an aural tradition—songs were learned by listening. In our age of recorded sound and easy playback, it is hard to imagine how fragile and ephemeral music once was. We may have the architecture and art of, say, the eighth century, Mr. Kelly says, but we don’t have the music. He quotes Isidore of Seville, the early medieval scholar and cleric: “Unless sounds are held in the memory by man they perish, because they cannot be written down.” Mr. Kelly’s fascinating book tracks the centuries-long process by which pitches and rhythms were codified. More here: WSJ (Or Google the review's title "Making a Note of It")

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Got an email from Blue Note today: FOUR "NEW" MILES DAVIS TRACKS RELEASED ON VINYL FOR RECORD STORE DAY 4 newly-discovered Miles Davis tracks will receive their first-ever release exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday as the 10" vinyl piece Enigma. The never-before-heard tracks from the legendary trumpeter are alternate takes record in 1952-53 including "Enigma," "Kelo," and "Chance It." The package includes new liner notes from esteemed writer Ira Gitler. Click HERE for a list of participating stores.

I'd like to hear Jackie's two Jubilee dates in great sound. I have them on a Roulette two-fer called "Tune Up" that's in reprocessed stereo.

Bob Dylan Plays Concert For One Person (really)

Spaceballs is one of my favorite stupid movies (high praise from me). I still LOL at some of the lines: "Yogurt! I HATE yogurt!" "I'm a mog - half-man and half-dog. I'm my own best friend." "What's the combination? OK, I'll tell you: 1.......2.......3.......4.......5."

Back in the early '70's, I noticed some releases that seemed to all come from recordings Hooker made for a Detroit record label in the late '40's - early '50's. There was a single album, a double album, and a triple album boxed set, all containing different tracks. I think some of these reissues were on United Artists, one may have been called Coast To Coast Blues Band, another may have been called John Lee Hooker's Detroit. I haven't seen these discs in years, and was always kind of intrigued by them. Does anyone here know them? Were they all solo recordings? I imagine 6 discs of solo Hooker might begin to sound a bit repetitive. Does anyone have any favorites?

I got my replacement disc in the mail today, shipped with the pages scanned above. This is an incredibly nice thing to do in this day and age, and my hat's off to whoever in Georgia sent this to me.

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