What's On Your Wish List?

[colinmce]

I bought the contents of the JMac Mosaic in one fell swoop, and same with the 4 or so early titles I was missing. I think I just need Demon Dance, Bout Soul and SSS now. Jackie will do that to you.

[Steve Reynolds]

I had the mosaic 64-66 box many years ago

[Steve Reynolds]

I like Jackie's blue notes as much as any BN artist. Even more than Joe Henderson or Wayne Shorter.

Maybe I like Sonny Clark's discs more

[JETman]

the other must for me will be the new Paul Motian re-issue via a box set of the early ECM recordings.

Watch out - Frisell's on the 6th disc in the set!

[jeffcrom]

Still enjoy the job, especially the teaching part. But, like everywhere else, data, targets and accountability - blind faith that only the measurable is significant - has made things harder. Gove's 'vision' basically rips up everything my career has been about.

Wow - I can really relate to this. I still have dreams about teaching, which tells me that I wasn't ready for my involuntary retirement. But as the US (and the UK, too, apparently) moves further and further away from what education should be, I'm more and more grateful that I'm out of the game.

It took me a full year to adjust to retirement. But I love it now. I hope you enjoy it as well.

Now back to our regularly scheduled wish lists....

[A Lark Ascending]

Still enjoy the job, especially the teaching part. But, like everywhere else, data, targets and accountability - blind faith that only the measurable is significant - has made things harder. Gove's 'vision' basically rips up everything my career has been about.

Wow - I can really relate to this. I still have dreams about teaching, which tells me that I wasn't ready for my involuntary retirement. But as the US (and the UK, too, apparently) moves further and further away from what education should be, I'm more and more grateful that I'm out of the game.

It took me a full year to adjust to retirement. But I love it now. I hope you enjoy it as well.

Now back to our regularly scheduled wish lists....

Thanks, Jeff.

As you say, back to the regular programme.

I'm probably going to go for the forthcoming big Boulez box. I have 5 of the discs as downloads that I've been exploring over the last year or so. I can't say I 'love' him or that he's changed my life or that I'm even close to understanding what he's about but I've found his sound world fascinating and know there are lots of rewards going to come from repeated listening (still thinks he's talked a fair amount of ******** over the years; as with most musicians it's best to focus on what they are for rather than what they are against).

One of my mp3 discs suffers from that 'gap' problem that leaves tiny spaces between tracks. No amount of editing has produced clean joins. This seems to be something that has largely vanished with newer releases but there are still a lot of early mp3s out there with the problem.

I'm not a megalopobox fan in general but this one suits me. Should be a good retirement project.

Edited April 4, 2013 by A Lark Ascending