kargatron
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Re: Bhob Rainey - I had a very odd/disturbing/amusing-in-retrospect experience presenting him and a Baltimore trio in a show in DC 13 years ago - read …
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(Quote) Yeah, I liked that one. Did you check out Rainey from my pointer, or were you already aware of him (them)? You must check out Love Me Two Times (Nmperig…
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(Quote) I've noted this before, I think, but one reason I still enjoy the emu boards is the explicit tie among all posters of a subscription and easy access to the same catalog (except for regional differences). Here, the sources are varied, and…
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(Quote) At Braxton's site, go to the bottom and 'Browse by Date', and you'll see years listed which, clicked through, yield many tasty free boots. Great stuff!
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Doofy, what do you think of the Braxton Pittsburgh show? I think it's very good. Picked up the freebie 70s quartet boots yet?
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Yes, prices are increasing for some subset (stealthily); no, no announcement (though it was noticed at the emu boards - can't find the thread).
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Scrobbling interacts with your iTunes lib, logging everything played since last scrobble. If you sync your ipod without scrobbling activated, you can later activate and manually scrobble, and (normally) it will scrobble everything in your lib since…
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Iirc, you can manually 'scrobble ipod' even without having the ipod in, assuming that your itunes library registers your ipod stuff. (I suppose you've verified that your iTunes lib does indeed register the ipod's play data?)
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Drag, Katrina. I think there are ways to look at the error logs from scrobbling, under Help->Diagnostics. See if you can find some errors then search on that.
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Greg, in in the WAYLT thread, you noted wanting more Benny Golson. He's a great player, and there's plenty to check out. But a great place to continue is this all-around-excellent 1959 release from trombonist Curtis Fuller: in Where do I go now? Comment by kargatron March 2011
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humred at emu noted: (Quote) Sounds pretty good to me.
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'eai' ostensibly stands for "electro-acoustic improvisation", but it's long since become a label rather than description. Here's a brief wikipedia article on it…
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Excellent experimental improvisor/microtonal soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey has several offerings on bandcamp. He has a moderately high profile in the 'eai' community, and several fine r…
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The last festival I went to was Victoriaville FIMAV in 2004, as a last hurrah before my firstborn arrived. Had a great time, an avant-garde jazz and improv fest, with the shows all stagge…
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(Quote) This might have a tiny something to do with the fact that they both came almost entirely from the same recording sessions.
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(Quote) Bobby Previte has a great bandcamp site where you can stream quite a few of his albums, including several from a tour of the Coalition of the Willing band with Hunter. Good s…
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(Quote) I disagree here - for someone in Greg's position, I think it's better to investigate consensus choices - there's a lot more utility to that approach in terms of learning more about the context of jazz and its development, following…
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Definitely browse the 'gimme 10 tracks' thread - besides lots of cherrypicked good tracks, it would serve as a good way to quickly browse a lot of names.
Here's a thread on favorite tenor players from in Where do I go now? Comment by kargatron February 2011 -
There are several relevant threads on the emu message boards to browse. Of course it's a huge subject - do you want a historical focus, say representative records from each era? Or do you just want a few albums that will please you, and provide po…
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Plong42, that's kinda a hard list to read. Here are links to the top albums for the last 3 months:
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in Cool lastfm badges-charts-graphs Comment by kargatron February 2011 -
MTV's speculated rationale is bizarre - the idea that increasing the voter pool makes a lesser-known (and JAZZ?) artist more likely to win? That's ass-backwards. I remain curious about the actual reasons this year's awards tended towards the unlik…
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(Quote) I disagree here - they're one of the biggest bands out there, and I think it immediately impresses everyone that they managed to spring a full album on people with no warning - that bumps up the curiosity and excitement factor at least as…
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Can we pare down the Sticky list? I'd suggest that "New Host!", "Makunouchi Bento", "Hello", and "Mixtapes" be unstuck (or more, I'm not a fan of Sticky unless it solves an ongoing problem). "Bento" will pop up as interest demands, and the others …
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Listening to Pollen Trio now, nice stuff. Jonah, do you really claim that this (in particular) has "nothing to do with jazz"? I can't imagine it sounding like this without jazz existing, and in fact has many clear antecedents from it to my ears. …
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bn, great find for the streaming Celestial Septet. People should give it a listen. That grouping is touring some east coast (US) spots in February - if you're local, look it up, quite an event.
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(Quote) I think that aspect of the typical school band program is despicable, anti-musical, and anti-educational. It creates this huge stratification between "1st chair" and "3rd chair", making people think "oh, the good, hard part or the crappy…
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Yeah, eMusic exhibits a kind of shallow incompetence across the board that continues to slightly amaze and amuse (and of course exasperate) me. They never manage to even do simple things "just right". Fortunately I've not had many problems histori…
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I like the Coffman, nice pointer (and the Hamilton, thanks BT). Digging the busy, very enthusiastic drumming (e.g. the outro of track 3). They sound like they're having fun. Coffman's got an interesting c.v., if you click through on his name.
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The well-known and excellent composer and drummer Bobby Previte has quite a few offerings on bandcamp, including a number of live records only available there. Unfortunately, none are c…
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thom: (Quote) I disagree slightly here - I think the central (theoretical) attraction of the emusic messageboards is that the users are directly tied to a single, shared source of music. Generally speaking, the music discussed is available to all…