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The soundtrack for a film about Manfred Eicher! Sounds and Silence: Travels with Manfred Eicher

They've just listed all the recent Impulse twofers, @ $6.99.

'Everything fell in my lap, sort of," said Paul Motian, sitting in an office of ECM, a music label he's been associated with for nearly half his 80 years. "I never tried to push things." Mr. Motian referred to the arc of his career. But he might as well have meant his manner of playing drums, so relaxed and unforced are his iterations of swinging time. Whether within a trio or a larger ensemble, such as the septet he will bring to the Village Vanguard here beginning Tuesday, Mr. Motian is both a peaceful presence and a locus of swirling power. A few cymbal strikes are all he needs to indicate velocity and flow. He employs moments of silence with equal emphasis as bass-drum kicks. He distills jazz's pulses into pithy implication through rhythmic phrases that sound personal. By now, he is both eminence and enigma: Everyone wants to play with him; no one can play like him. More here: WSJ

Thanks for that, Unk; interesting site. The posted discography seems to go only through 1944. There must be additional pages, but I don't see a way to navigate to them. Does anyone else experience this?

I think Jim really intended to trash this Oscar Peterson thread. Otherwise, he would have said his piece and gotten out. If someone did the same thing to a Monday Michiru thread, he might get an idea of what it's like on the other side.

Has anyone noticed this thread starting to take a nasty tone?

Citigroup looking to sell EMI, PDQ

A lot of good ECM values on eMusic. For example, I did a search on Gary Peacock: Tales of Another - $2.94 December Poems - $2.94 Shift In The Wind - $3.43

They'll honor the cheaper price if it drops before release date.

I found OP Plays Count Basie very pleasant and enjoyable.

Have a happy birthday!

My general impression of Oscar's playing is one of franticness - he's trying to squeeze every note possible into his playing, and thinks people will judge him harshly if he allows more space. Just my impression, and one borne mostly by the '70's and '80's Pablo (though I've heard some '50's stuff like this too). I think one can critique his playing in a simple manner, by commenting on the music alone (also by stating your piece and getting out). The thread after his death had many crude, vindictive, hostile, nasty, and scary personal comments. Comments regarding Eric Dolphy or John Coltrane should be posted in threads devoted to their music.

The difference is that all the Dylan "bootleg" material was owned and recorded by Columbia (now Sony) (and I know there were some certain exceptions to this, such as the Witmark release, but by and large this is true). The Miles material may well be radio recordings, audience recordings, and the like, that were never in Sony's vaults. It'll be interesting therefore to hear the audio quality of what they'll be releasing.

The programming's identical. Capitol owns the rights, and originally granted a limited license to Mosaic (also, Capitol is a part-owner of Mosaic). The "packaging" (such as it is) of the Capitol Vault sets doesn't mention Mosaic, so there's nothing to re-license back.

Bring a solar battery recharger!

The term "chitlin' circuit" has congealed into showbiz cliché denoting a shabby, second-rate purgatory where oldies acts like Sam and Dave toiled before crossing over to mainstream success. As music journalist Preston Lauterbach discovered, the whole subject hasn't received much serious attention, never mind respect. In books that mention the circuit he noticed a denigrating trend: "Artists were relegated to the chitlin' circuit. Working it was a grind. Even its title is depressing, derived from what black people call a hog's small intestine." It takes a former circuit star named Sax Kari, retired to a trailer on the edge of a Florida swamp, to set Mr. Lauterbach straight about a phenomenon so underground that it didn't appear in print, even in the black press, until a 1972 item in the Chicago Defender plugging an Ike and Tina Turner concert. Behind the color line was an intricate, wildly variegated underworld of entertainment and vice. Its venues ran the gamut from a converted South Carolina tobacco barn to the opulent Bronze Peacock Dinner and Dance Club in Houston, 8,000 square feet of wall-to-wall swank. Full article here: Wall Street Journal

I've never been able to copy and paste a .jpg to here. I've always had to first post the .jpg to a service such as Shutterfly, and then link to that.

It's done identically on a Mac. What sort of error message (or unexpected result) do you get?

I have a Grateful Dead bootleg (on TMQ) that has multicolored vinyl.

I have the 40-disc box. Would it help if I posted what it has from the '20's?

I wonder whether this means Sony doesn't have any of it in their vaults, and so are taking the "Ban The Boots!" route.

Maybe they read our forums! Release date 9/13/11: Amazon

BTW, the WEA "Original Album Series" series is no longer available on Amazon. They are still available on Amazon UK.

It has a very strange cover.