Hoppy T. Frog

since the pandemic I have discovered the magic of streaming European classical radio, especially France Musique (have already been into BBC Radio 3). Listening to "Bach du Dimanche" right now a weekly Sunday all-Bach program

AB will "B" at the Library of Congress Sunday, March 8, 2025 w/ ANTHONY BRAXTON Composition 222 Composition 100 Thunder Music Performers Anthony Braxton, saxophone and electronics Jean Cook, violin Erica Dicker, violin James Fei, saxophone Nick Hallett, voice Chris Jonas, saxophone Adam Matlock, accordion and voice Dan Peck, tuba Reut Regev, trombone Tomeka Reid, cello Anne Rhodes, voice Stephanie Richards, trumpet Aaron Siegel, percussion Carl Testa, double bass, electronics Cory Smythe, piano Katherine Young, bassoon Also I was at a performance at the Library of Congress a few days ago and they announced they will be getting AB's papers, I think?

re: sexuality, I've been a bit out of the jazz loop for a while, but is Miles's bisexuality confirmed?

Well, you can scratch Hussain :(. Glad I saw him earlier this year!

This year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival has the music of Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith. Excerpts are on the New Music Show. Show #2 has a short interview with Smith. Show #1 (Braxton's Composition 284): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00253b1 Show #2 (Smith's Third String Quartet) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0025c47

BTW the Proms performance of Composition no.27 (46, 59, 63, 146, 147, 151, Language Music) with James Fei, Ingrid Laubrock, and Katherine Young with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is available here for 30 more days: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021pxw

Joe was fantastic when I saw him in a duo with McCoy Tyner doing some of those great 70s Tyner tunes.

There is a lot more that is interesting to me this year, compared to last year, but passes are getting expensive...$750 for a premier pass at the early bird rate is a lot...The headliners are very "Pitchfork/NPR" as someone on another music message board described it.

How am I a subscriber and yet I never get these emails? I also seem ti get the sets after you all. Oh well, at least I do indeed get the subscription I paid for eventually. Also I wish they would stop it with releasing every album in a different different format weirdness, I would much rather have a CD or legitimate download of the Century City Playhouse album, for example, than a super expensive record set that I don't have room for.

I was there and indeed saw her perform Drumming all by her lonesome. It was great, of course! Somehow, I kept running into Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey on the street or in restaurants (they were both performing at the festival). They probably thought I was stalking them! 😆

I'm a jazz slob. Ok, just a slob.

I'm only semi-joking about reassembling my collection. I'm trying to have fewer "things". Also needed the $$$ and was moving to a smaller place.

Saw her do lieder with Reinbert De Leeuw, shortly before he died. Wonderful presence, great singer, great champion of neglected repertoire and, dare I say it, a sexy, sexy woman.

Did Faletta conduct?

the owner of Dusty Groove came to me, and hauled it away. He didn't take everything. I've bought from them for years, and I found his price incredibly fair. I had no patience to sell everything individually. I had some out of print Mosaics that I guess I could have gotten an higher price for if I put it on Ebay but I didn't want to do that. I was 48 when I sold my collection. I will have many years left in me to rebuild another massive collection (to the mild consternation of my wife!).