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It's a tombstone, don't waste your money. Unless you're specifically a cultural historian of Heifetz, what's the point? Musically, the only sides you'd want to hear more than once are those with Rubinstein-- get that box instead. Or, better yet, buy ten random CDs on the BIS or CPO labels and hear wondrous and/or extraordinary music, old and recent, that you probably haven't heard before.... Isn't already everywhere, cheap, not just stuffed into a cardboard coffin etc etc. Again, unless the very speficic elements of Heifetz' Lithuanian Jewish-American success story is important to you... forget it. And, even so, Heifetz' repertoire was largely dogshit, when you consider what he could have peformed/recorded and what he did... Not everyone knew better then be we surely do now. Please note, I'm not diminishing Heifetz' Jewish diasporic story but... for dem bones, dem bones get some Dave Tarras, that Yazoo cantorial CD, Bear Family "Beyond Recall"... etc etc. Throw in some I.B. Singer...

compare & contrast... it's this kind of shit that makes people think hey... maybe white man is the devil! fucking ponderous & painful both... at least Roger's take reminds us of all the better Byrds records that preceded it.

now you want to talk white boys with soul (+ Jesse Ed Davis, guitar & the Indian of the group.) i once, for a few weeks anyway, paid lip service to the idea "No Other" was overrproduced but that's ridiculous; it's PERFECTLY, brilliantly produced... that some younger musicians have recognized it's towerring acheievment is one of the happier pop/rock resucitations of recent years (decades). Moment to moment, only peak Lowell George matches it & Lowell's peak-- ends with a couple songs on "Dixie Chicken" & never returns-- was a whole lot shorter. to be continued

Is this true, Amir? "Burrito Deluxe" kinda, mostly sucks, remember? Even side one of "Gilded" nearly fucking dies with the atrocious soul covers. You know what's better than anything but the best parts of "Gilded"? The Hillmen album. And the Dillards shit all over the Burritos and all Gram generally. And that's no cut on Chris per se, he was a good musician trying to make a career but compare to what what Gosdin bros did together and separately. I try not yo "blame" Gram Parsons fans because they generally come from a background of rock-oriented ignorance but please; the extended discussion of Gram's place in country or 'country-rock' is inane. As for Gene Clark, there's NO WAY he's 'overrated'; just because he's gotten SOME ovrerdue attention in recent years, he was a virtual non-entity for decades, Byrds excluded, and that's NOT even his best work, which includes * Gene Clark w/ Gosdin Bros * first Dillard & Clark lp & a few parts of the second * "White Light" = masterpiece * "Roadmaster" = near masterpiece * "No Other" = towering masterpiece, Thomas Jefferson Kaye included * contribution to the "American Dreamer" soundtrack = stunning booze +++ took it's toll, obviously, but he comes back mostly strong w/ that RSO album (which is NOT a masterpiece, OK) and then more booze +++, more tolling, but... moments. This was Bear's Choice, it's my choice too--

University of South Florida?

William Albright William Albright William Albright http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Rags-Scott-Joplin/dp/B000000FNA http://www.amazon.com/Marches-Waltzes-Rags-Scott-Joplin/dp/B000000FRE you-- everyone-- needs this "Treemonisha" in your life also-- no cut on Gunther Schuller who had good intentions & is musically sound but... but here is much vaster, more subtle soundworld. William Albright no slouch composer himself btw.

Total agreement with David here. I don't care how clumsy or reticent one is... Especially when one considers how important tutelage was to great composers... just to follow Schoenberg's students-- whatever one thinks of Arnold himself (whom I love)-- throughout Europe (not just Berg & Webern but Gerhard, Skalklottas etc) and America... Hindemith... Think of all the jazz cats who crossed paths with Stefan Wolpe... Bartok Mikrokosmos... Both Peter Yates books are fantastic btw (the other being "An Amateur at the Keyboard"... hold on, let me check something-- ah! here's some Peter Yates' Harry Partch presentations from mid-1960s KPFA-- https://archive.org/search.php?query=peter%20yates%20AND%20collection%3Aaudio_music Yates a fine poet also-- though he's not the sometimes awesome-- no superlatives enough for "The Friends o Eddie Coyle"-- film director of the same name. re: Berman, do you know his Ives recordings, LK? re: "silence," there's a woman named Sabine Liebner who'd made some brilliant Cage recordings for the Neos and Wergo labels-- some of thee greatest Cage recordings I've ever heard. There's noone now living that can't learn from Cage though how much that's needed, daily, afterwards, is subect to determination.

oh I like Quinichette a lot-- just more, ah, 'functionally' than as an inspiration or whatnot. And for the many Basie-ite functions I yet host & have attended, those two Swingville sides are corkers. re: Moishe / Mieczyslaw, anyone know, rate the "Requiem"? Mark Stryker, very hep you saw Kremer and having a top Weinberg program on ECM will hopefully kick awareness up a notch. Listening to this now btw--

sometimes we are blessed

anyone nostalgic for "Gram" & "Emmy"... how is that possible in a world where Melba Montgomery... Rose Maddox... please!!!

are you trying to bait me? Gram Parsons is dogshit; a LOUSY country singer in a genre that demands brilliance, a worse white 'soul' singer (hardee har har, "To Love Somebody" in a world of Bee Gees and James Carr)... at best he had an adequate light voice for some bluegrass/folk tunes on the first Burritos album... Byrds "Sweetheart" is garbage... and the two solo albums are fluff with a couple OK songs... only "rock" heads, by accident or prejudice, unfamiliar with country repertoire & the HUGE # of superior singers & songwriters could be gulled... but he was rich & traded heroin suppositories w/ Keith, big deal... and then there was a generation who wanted to sleep with almost always insipid (but ooooh, so tastey) Emmylou because hey, they understand, man... Gram stole 97% of his schtick from Bobby Bare, who kills him in every way possible except death btw but since "rock" don't know from Bare... re: Nesmith, a pretty good songwriter, a little tedious with the girl/women problems, solo albums are inconsistent but flecked w/ brilliance, even that last RCA one w/ synthesizers, "The Prison" ain't exactly the Prisonaires or "Escape From Alcatraz" (watch for the Don Siegel direction, not Clint) etc etc. Later Mike is a "tastey" snooze, lost it near completely but still, you know, "pleasant," "Spanish" guitar solos included. Ricky Nelson country rock via Buck Owens destroys Gram in every way also but that goes without saying. Spare me the Monkees musical shit otherwise unless you were a adolescent/teenage girl OR are willing to pay no less than $100/foot for your interconnects, of which you must have multiple sets because each brand/forumalation is optimized for different styles of music, etc. TV show was decent, "Head" better than that. i could go continue for days but in no way does Gram rate except legend, while Nesmith is a notable, if not major, country rocker. Gene Clark and Doug Sahm (to say the least) far better than both. ignore the anachronistic Waylon image here & know he was mostly greater pre- "outlaw" than post- (ego tumors & cocaine kill)

'standards'

have you read interviews with the musicians who have taken up Weinberg? they would disagree with the impetus here & since nobody is getting rich-- few probably even breaking even-- recording/distributing, performing Weinberg... Kremer 2-cd set on ECM just the latest...

Larry Kart's been listening and though I initially scoffed, making the Lester Young & Paul Quinichette comparison, I believe that was incorrect, victim of DSCH hegemony... Weinberg is at least-- at least!-- Dexter, Teddy, Harold Land, maybe more... Most people until recently heard (read) so little Weinberg... but this is changing the music is why (i.e. Shosty is great but there's lots else to glom onto there for those so inclined... and who wouldn't be?) more anon

why post-tonal and not pan-tonal? do you know the symphonies of Benjamin Frankel? Milton Babbitt composer >>>>> Pierre Boulez, Paul Griffiths is good but read Peter Yates if you haven't already http://www.amazon.com/Twentieth-Century-Music-Peter-Yates/dp/B0013PLBFY learning basic music theory & learning how to read music is actually pretty easy so...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6296648/herbie-hancock-crack-addict-memoir

i actually pondered what word to use; 'excursions' seemed too flip, but yes, 'studies' too formal... here's the Haba Quartet-- they who have recorded their namesake's cycle for Neos-- btw, in Smetana-- -- which they have recorded, along with Janacek 2-- http://www.habaquartet.com/en/media/cds-en music starts at 2:00 but for us kolach lovers, Haba speaking is likewise compelling--

because I care... for Joe Maneri fans & others-- &, because a new Haba string quartet cycle is imminent on the Neos label-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMI-JT1hOEw if JSngry sees this, have you stumbled into Haba yet in the course of your Janacek studies?

forgot to mention, Mark, I laughed when you suggested parts of MacMillan "vulgar" because 1) I generally like vulgar and 2) that's a criticism oft leveled at Messiaen, whom I mostly adore. The Messiaen ---> MacMillan lineage is obvious to me, of course, though I'm suspecting there's a goodly amount of Vaughan Williams there too? And yes, David, I think MacMillan's prolific discography as composer-conductor threw me also; I think my current plan is to grab each BIS as I can...

thanks for all this; nice work in public too, Mark. reason I asked is that though I'd noticed the # of CDs of MacMillan on BIS-- a label whose CDs I'm nearly always at least curious about-- I hadn't actually bought nor knowingly heard any and... though I'm not dismissive of sacred choral music, having heard some of it on Hyperion I shrugged it off as estimable but... eh. obviously, however, I was wrong and MacMillan has covered quite a bit of territory in numerous forms, including symphony, chamber music etc and, rather than drearily fucking pious a la Part (whom I've kinda paid lip service to before but now live wholly and happily without) or Tavener... (Taverner, however, YES.) MacMillian is surely Catholic but as Scottish socialist also... I'm intrigued.

any fans

travels with gil & billy

excellent date, def. overlooked as an OJC though ezz-thetically, it's cool Fantasy didn't dump it into the oft misnamed if otherwise largely excellent "Acid Jazz" series, perhaps coupled with Wiggins' other organ + deep south transplant to L.A. tenor corker--

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pks01 all hail Hoss Allen, Freddie King, Gatemouth Brown, Pee Wee Crayton, Billy Harper