dealing with megaboxes

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD42/PoD42PageOne.html

"At a time when the CD is supposedly going the way of the dodo, boxed sets are currently being issued at an arguably indigestible pace: vintage Earl Hines sessions; Vancouver’s NOW Quintet’s complete self-produced recordings from the late 1970s; a heretofore unreleased passel of Miles Davis concert recordings from 1969; a trove of New York Art Quartet tapes; a multi-angle snapshot of the Wandelweiser movement of post-Cage composers and improvisers. Close listening of the 28 discs comprising these collections (granted, the NYAQ consists of five LPs and the Davis includes a DVD) would require being cloistered for a month or more. Otherwise, under normal, distractions-filled listening conditions, nuggets like Hines’ s 1940 electric piano solos, NOW Quintet’s unexpected and jubilant reading of Karl Berger’s “Five Feelings,” and prepared pianist Philip Thomas’ pristine minute-plus reading of Cage’s 1944 “Prelude for Meditation” might well slip by."

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"That’s why, partially at least, Max Roach contended that recordings distort what jazz really is in practice, and have an inflated influence on current and future histories."

Edited May 5, 2013 by alocispepraluger102

[JSngry]

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"That’s why, partially at least, Max Roach contended that recordings distort what jazz really is in practice, and have an inflated influence on current and future histories."

hmmmm....yes, the key phrase there being "in practice"...and today, where "the document" is pretty much the object of the game, maybe not such a distortion any more...

[Chuck Nessa]

Fascinating response.

[JSngry]

Well, "working bands" were as much about "working" as they were "bands"...and I use the past tense advisedly. They still exist, even if as "ongoing projects".

But it's a different world trying to "do a project" than it is to "make a record" than it is to "have a band" than it is to "have a gig" than it is "make a gig".

Not saying it's "better" or "worse". But it is different, especially in terms of who you play to and why you play to them (and, especially, how you get to get to them in the first place), and that is where Max's comment about "what jazz really is in practice" really seems accurate to me.