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  6. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

    I think you might enjoy it, T.D.  Schneiderman's playing is very strong.  I remember reading an interview with Reid, and he explained how devastated he was when Schneiderman later left the band -- because the two of them had such a tight musical connection.  

    . . . I don't have any of Schneiderman's work as a leader.  Any particular album(s) that you would recommend?

     

    Thanks, I very likely would enjoy it.

    I discovered Schneiderman through his Reservoir releases. First one was Dark Blue, an old-fashioned straight-ahead hard bop quintet (incl. Ralph Moore and Brian Lynch) but I was stunned by how good it sounded. I also have and can vouch for the Reservoir releases Back in Town (trio), Glass Enclosure (quartet w. Chas. McPherson) and Radio Waves (hard bop sextet also w. Moore and Lynch).

    I've long intended to get more of his recordings, but like many other things I haven't gotten around to it. Last month's BFT renewed the idea of trio sessions.

  7. Carla Bley (1936-2023)

    in Artists

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    10 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    It's been documented in a few places, happy to dig that up.

    I've also seen that in several places. Not at home, else I'd check Szwed. Gotta be online too, but I'll leave it for the OP to google.

  17. British jazz reissues

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    I'm always behind, but just noticed this book+2CD from JIB:

    https://jazzinbritain.co.uk/merch/pre-order-and-did-those-feet-six-british-jazz-composers-by-duncan-heining-includes-two-cds-of-previously-unreleased-music-not-available-separately

    And Did Those Feet… examines in depth the lives and work of six British jazz composers – Michael Garrick, Mike Gibbs, Barry Guy, John Mayer, Keith Tippett and Mike Westbrook. Each of these musicians began their careers in jazz in the 1960s, years of artistic and political ferment and upheaval. Music historian Duncan Heining locates those beginnings in the context of changing times and shows how these composers’ work continued to develop whilst remaining influenced by values that continued to be informed by social and cultural concerns.

    Comments? I'm seriously interested in preorder, subject to any caveats brought up here. Thanks.

  20. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    11 hours ago, bresna said:

    Now spinning Hank Mobley - A Caddy For Daddy from the Mosaic box. I need something to lift up my spirits. I got a Covid booster yesterday, my first Moderna shot, and it's pretty much wiped me out. Next time I'll make sure to stick with the Pfizer shot, which hasn't really affected me at all over 4 shots.

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    Thanks. I've gotten all Pfizer so far w/o bad side effects and am avoiding Moderna because I know a number of people who had rough experiences. BTW, I had my first shingles shots over the past year (just turned 66), and those (it's 2 installments) really knocked me for a loop.

     

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  21. BFT235 Link & Discussion

    in Blindfold Test

    Posted

    More on #12:

    The Message from the Tribe album posted above had three releases. The first version does not contain #12: side A is three tunes from what was released as Wendell Harrison's An Evening with the Devil, and side B is three tunes shared with later releases of Message from the Tribe. The two subsequent versions of Message from the Tribe added five more tunes. The third version consisted of remixes of the second version. I don't know if the three tunes shared by the first 2 versions used the same mixes.

    Harrison's An Evening with the Devil was the first Tribe album I acquired, so I purchased "version 2" of Message from the Tribe (cover pictured upthread) to avoid duplication and get more music. I'm not compulsive enough to have picked up versions 1 or 3.

  24. What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    10 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    The Amazon blurb suggested the presence of uncommon live material. Not sure what that means, and want to. 

    I only skimmed through the Musicweb review at warp speed, but got the impression that the sole obvious candidate for said material is disc 54 (scroll way down. quoted below). But there is also material that has only been released in Japan or on obscure releases.

    The final disc in the box, CD54, is of previously unreleased recordings. The Schubert “Unfinished” from Danish Radio – recorded on 1st October 1950 during the WPO’s European tour – has been known about for many years. Furtwängler is also known to have performed this symphony on the same date in 1949 when the orchestra visited the United Kingdom – and comes from a BBC studio recording. It may be nice to know if this also exists, not least because Furtwängler had a very special way with this Schubert symphony. Although his tempi were not especially slow, the weight and nobility he brought to the “Unfinished” were of unusual power. And it is simply profound and overwhelming in this performance because the sound is so spectacular. The sheer weight given to the strings, the resonance, and the very natural surround sound makes this an epic “Unfinished”. It comes close to being the finest thing in this box, certainly sound wise.

    The play-through of the Götterdämmerung Siegfried Funeral March from January 1950 – already published on Testament – offers nothing remarkably new, although the sound is impressively wide-ranging. The Vienna/EMI takes from February 1949 would have been a more enticing prospect. The Elegia from Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C major is beautifully done, and interesting given that this is one of the very few Tchaikovsky pieces that Furtwängler played beside the last three symphonies. The WPO’s playing is remarkably beautifully and the sound is exquisite. It is not listed as stereo but it has almost all the attributes of an early stereo recording.

  25. What Classical Music Are You Listening To?

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by T.D.

    1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    How complete is this? 

    This might help:

    https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2021/Dec/Furtwangler-Warner-9029523240.htm

     

    Seems there are many DG recordings (particularly live performances) from a prior box that are not in this set.

     

    If you care about what David Hurwitz had to say (I don't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyGzuiG0bQ

     

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