Music

There seem to be a lot of jazz fans here, and a number of SF Bay Area folks as well. If you get a chance to make it out to Oaktown, the Oakland Museum of California has an exhibit, "Birth of the Cool," highlighting jazz, design and art from midcentury California. For a jazz newbie like me, it was very educational. Even if you are an expert, there are a lot of audio/video works to enjoy, and a nice collection of photographs of many jazz greats taken by William Claxton. Here's a link: Birth of the Cool California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury

Following up from Reks' cool trombone-music thread, I thought I would throw out a request for more jazz titles led by or featuring baritone sax. I came across a random but cool website, http://www.jazzbarisax.com/ that has some great leads and such, but this crowd has some good musical taste and knowledge. Here are a couple of my own favorites to start off: Serge Chaloff: Gerry Mulligan: James Carter featured with the Ginger Baker DJQ2O (Denver Jazz Quintet to Octet): That last disc is a favorite in general and James Carter wails on the first track, Cyril Davis, and three other cuts as well. So, whadya got?

Anyone in LA going to the Stripmall Architecture even this Saturday? Apparently they're going to be selling an exclusive CD at the event which I would very much want. If someone wants to pick an extra one up for me, I would gladly pay for it + shipping/handling + a little extra for your efforts for me.

Just to give me a purpose in life, I'll update this thread with the week's new CD releases. 3 June Tuesday Ashanti The Declaration Common The Greatest Story Ever Told Disturbed Indestructible Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes From Bubblegum To Sky A Soft Kill The Futureheads This Is Not The World Jewel Perfectly Clear Journey Revelation Walmart exclusive 3-disc CD/DVD Ladytron Velocifero Aimee Mann @#%&! Smilers Bret Michaels Rock My World Midnight Juggernauts Dystopia Robert Pollard Robert Pollard is Off to Business Radiohead Radiohead: The Best Of Best-of EMI albums Gavin Rossdale Wanderlust Shearwater Rook Spiritualized Songs in A & …

There's a new exclusive video on the Portishead website. You have make an account with your email address, but in my experience, the P do not spam. The new track is "Machine Gun" and it's pretty clear how they came up with the name. It's pretty abrasive stuff. Those expecting Dummy-era sedate trip hop will be in for a surprise.

Sgt Pepper’s Lovely Hot Cross Bun Plain Or Pan?

It appears the record companies have once again decided to fuck up a catalog. All of the current Sinatra Reprise catalog will be OOP in order to make way for.......you guessed....horrible sounding remasters. If you heard Nothing But The Mess....er...I mean, Nothing But The Worst....no - Nothing But The Best and the horrible, LOUD sound quality then be prepared as we are getting more of that crap!!!! STAY FAR AWAY FROM THE NEW STUFF PEOPLE! Buy the old ones while you can or regret it later.

Interesting short Salon review... In search of the holy grand.

For me, I would love to see Tom Waits, Neil Young (not sure if these guys even tour anymore - with advanced notice, I would even consider flying to see the concert). Maybe Radiohead, Flaming Lips if they ever come to HK.

I have decided that David Bowie is the next artist that I'm going to dive into after my past two dive-ins which were the far less famous Beggars Opera and Renaissance. Both of which were a while ago. Articulate for me, if you would be so willing, those of you who like a bit of Bowie, which of his CDs I shoudl begin my dive with. For an artist of his level of fame and influance I am basically, utterly blank listening slate, all I really know is Space Oddity and Starman. Thank you in advance.

With the Umbrella Song

Any one else catching Tom Waits on his southern USA tour this year? It started last week. Anyone seen him already? I will be there at the Fox Theatre in ATL. on July 5th!!

Just wondering if there are any others here who have his music. Seems a lot of people don't know his music.

Alright, I'm thinking suites of songs that are shorter than an album side. Some that I particularly enjoy are: Robert Palmer, Sneakin Sally through the Alley, beginning of side 1 -- "Sailing Shoes"/"Hey Julia"/"Sneakin' Sally through the Alley" Rupert Hine, The Wildest Wish to Fly (US version), end of side 1 -- "I Hang on to My Vertigo"/"Firefly in the Night"/"A Golden Age" Planet P Project, Pink World, end of side 3 -- "Behind the Barrier (Pt. 2)"/"March of the Artemites"/"This Perfect Place (Pt. 2)" -- all of side three is dang near perfect, but it comes to such a wonderful crescendo with the March of the Artemites suite. This all came about because I saw a song…

I'd like everyone to give me their impressions of my remaster of a great 80's song. I'll post the original and the remaster, but not say which is which. Please compare the two and tell me which one is better. Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem! Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!

He would've been 80 today. If only those silly German doctors knew he was diabetic... --- Recommended Dolphania: Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch Eric Dolphy - Other Aspects Eric Dolphy - Live at the Five Spot John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Charles Mingus - The Great Concert Of Charles Mingus Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz Chico Hamilton - Gongs East! Andrew Hill - Point Of Departure The man was a fucking genius.

Just curious which version do you prefer. I've put in the download two versions of the title track 'Aqualung' by Jethro Tull, both files in lossless format. Please vote for which one you think sounds better after you've heard them. I'll reveal which version is which after enough people have listened Here is the download: Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!

there can be only one. criteria intentionally vague.

I'm going through the process of ripping my music collection in ALAC and I'm having a hard time finding a right way to tag classical files. I'm quite anal about tagging my music and keeping it clean, but with classical music, it seems like there's no proper way. How do you manage your collection?

Anyone here try any of the Mosaic jazz collections instead of getting all the discs from Amazon? I'm wondering if these are better masters than the standard discs, or just a prettier face. Most of them I've looked at are remastered from the original master tapes, often at 20 bit. http://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=197-A-MD-CD I usually just buy all the albums of an artist, so I dont know what to make of these yet.

Do you guys still find bargains on used music? After spending a while in NYC and Boston it seems most places priced the good stuff at Ebay or higher prices. And the local stores in my area now basically stock crap that has a nice fine line of dust on it. I think I'm going to all the wrong places

Astor Piazzolla - Tango: Zero Hour Rarely does music move me to tears, but "Concierto Para Quinteto" may be the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Astor Piazzolla was the most important composer of the style of music referred to as tango nuevo, literally "new tango." His specific brand of tango nuevo could be described as tango in form, but heavily influenced by classical and jazz in its use of harmony and counterpoint. I don't know anything about the tango, but now I want to learn more. If anyone here at HC is well-versed in tango & tango nuevo, I'd appreciate any recommendations. For the rest of you, if Astor Piazzolla's music doesn't affect you, you're beyond…

What do you guys think of this New Yorker/Schaap-Brody-Remnick list?

Does anyone else find all of the flaming lips albums mix just awful? I dig the music itself, but the levels are super high and don't seem to vary much for a lot of the songs. I love Yoshimi, but the bass/keyboard effect on some of the songs sounds like it is clipping (but I don't think it is actually clipping, it is just the sound intentionally). I can't understand why they do this to the music? Sound like teh suck on even cheap ibuds. Bleh. Are the 5.1 surround sound versions of the cd's any better?

http://www.ubu.com/sound/komar.html i must have horrible taste, because the worst song ever is great. way better than the kenny g shit on the 'most wanted song'. Yom Kippur! Yom Kippur! Do all your shopping... AT WAL-MART! 20 minute epic with lots of tuba funk and opera rap.