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Yes! I'm very fond of Invernizzi (played yesterday, contains two of the Rossi cantatas also on the LeBlanc). Of these three, I still prefer the LeBlanc by a margin! Zomer I guess I prefer in French and somewhat later ("galant") repertoire, she's a bit too cool and too straight, not quite emotional and warm enough for me here, the "Odi Euterpe" is better in that respect, but LeBlanc is just perfect!

started the day with this most fascinating disc: now, disc one of this - Charpentier:

Can't make it for weekdays (only Friday, maybe Thursday - my vacation plans for this year are already settled and alas I don't have nearly as much vacation as I would like ) - but I see Roscoe is on Saturday - guess I should try. Don't usually follow what's going on in Mulhouse, Strasbourg (or even Basel) mostly - should change that!

Late to the party - all the best, my friend! Keep making great music! Looking forward to those Moholo gigs ... can hardly wait

earlier: now:

I like the vocal version on Ayelet Rose Gottlieb's "Internal External" (her debut album, I think - has Matana Roberts in the line-up, before she got her break)

Yeah, a warm-up for the sold out show at Globe Life Park, I'm sure!

oh well, definitely not something I'll ever be guilty of

@Scott: Yeah, I know, should drop those parentheses, even failed to close them all - glad this isn't a maths exam @Jim: Don't assume you're addressing me, but it's pretty obvious Sly was one of the most important ones in the lines of Prince's ancestors - times change as well though and it seems Prince was indeed on top of the game most of the time, while Sly was probably not, but educate us if you really know about it.

Most interesting discussion here, thanks everyone (and particularly Jim and Karl, as usual ) But I'd rather not read silly stuff like "put Brötzmann on the stage in so-and-so stadium in front of gazillions of people and see what happens" ... I hold him in high esteem (much higher than many here seem to, I can't hear that Ayler-rip-off sheet and all that any more, and I'm also pretty convinced that his high energy thing - you might call it shtick, so be it, then, your loss - is quite unique still, and has no real counterpart in US jazz or improvised music - different discussion, different geography (as has been mentioned above, so please ahere to that, thanks), different lineage, obviously not without some cross-pollination (hey, Prince made use of 19c romantic music, too, after all, and if that's fine - and I bet it's not, at least not for everybody at all times, but - then I guess it kinda should be okay-ish at least if yurpeens play some kind of jazz, and even more so if they actually do develop their own thing, right?). Brötzmann, for one, chose the underground path and he can take it, props to that. This is really off-topic, but I had to get it off of my chest nonetheless, after all it was triggered by some minor silliness here.

discs one to four of this last night and this morning - very good! (disc five is a selection of the June 1958 and Jan/Feb 1960 Scriabin, of which there's more on two Denon single and double disc sets) love this disc very much ... and am going to spend a few days in Ferrara in June

disc three: Leçons de Ténèbres, Cinq Méditations pour le Carême

Both BD and (hybrid) SACD included ... but poo' me is listening to the CD layer of course

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV (1865-1936) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor Op. 82 (1904) Viktor Tretiakov, Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra/Vladimir Fedoseyev (1985) Concerto Ballata for Cello and Orchestra in C Major Op. 108 (1931) Mstislav Rostropovich, USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra/Evgeny Svetlanov (1964) Concerto for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra in E flat Major Op. 109 (1934) Lev Mikhailov, Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra Soloists Ensemble/Alexander Korneyev (1976)

Wonder if the Braxton really sold that well (that would be cool - and with all the (justified, I find!) hype around these recordings and their long unavailability, I guess it's possible) or if the deal runs out? Either way, glad to have that box!

Yup, got it while it was still regularly available - lots of great, loose playing there, you get Budd Johnson on one of the (three) dates ... and Louie Bellson on one as well if I'm not mistaken. Not amongst my very top favourite Mosaic sets, I think, but still a highly enjoyable one, and one that includes a whole lot of music still not easily available elsewhere. There has to be more discussion of this hidden in some general Basie and/or Mosaic thread, I'm quite sure.

Yup, but Sonorama seems to either aim at 40 or at 75-80 minutes these days, mostly, as they will do a one or two LP set. One of the recent OP releases runs on the short side, and somehow with this kind of jam session (I know they did rehearsals and all, but still) that means things are over about the moment when you really get into it.

Happy Birthday, Steve! May the upcoming year bring many great concerts

Crazy, isn't it? The greatest (not my choice of words ;)) country of the world is run by corporations ... not that this is news (or very much different in other parts of the western world) - but this is really one crazy ass story! First read about it in Ted Gioia's great book on "West Coast Jazz".

covers: no news yet on the actual contents of the LT it seems

It is on CD, mini LP foldout style - need to revisit to comment on the music.