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Post by sarahv on Dec 31, 2014 23:48:23 GMT -5
I'll be at that one, too, Vrresto. Although I am trying to preserve my health and sanity by not going to every set this time like I did last time, so I only got tickets to 10 of them. Didn't buy for Medeski or the Sunday matinee. As it is I may take a vacation day from work that week just to get some sleep...
Zorn is doing two different concerts in NYC on the 12th, Medeski at the Vanguard and a classical thing elsewhere with Tyshawn Sorey, Talea Ensemble, etc.
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Post by sarahv on Dec 15, 2014 11:40:37 GMT -5
I guess it is a sure sign of this board's impending death that no one replied to that and no one has posted anything about the new week at the Vanguard that's coming up...
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Post by sarahv on Nov 17, 2014 11:43:49 GMT -5
Erik Friedlander posted another concert listing... at Nublu on Dec 4. Assume it will be Masada but... who knows?
URI GURVICH QUARTET - 8PM ERIK FRIEDLANDER - 9PM SOFIA REI - 10PM FORRO IN THE DARK - 11PM ABRAXAS MIDNIGHT
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Post by sarahv on Nov 16, 2014 23:48:26 GMT -5
OK, I don't have to be jealous of Mike anymore... at the Stone on Dec 7:
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Post by sarahv on Nov 2, 2014 16:56:45 GMT -5
Yes, I am slightly annoyed that Zorn waited until I moved away before he put together an awesome concert 2 miles from where I lived for 15 years... but the joke's on him since I live in NYC now and I can see him 25 times a year. ;-)
Hopefully Mike will give us a review of the NEC concert.
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Post by sarahv on Oct 7, 2014 8:10:16 GMT -5
I suspect it is a similar question/answer as why a comic writer/illustrator I like won't do e-books. If he allows/encourages digital then a certain percentage of sales go that way and he sells fewer physical books. And he is already at the edge of printing enough books to make it economically worthwhile to print them at all (the more you print, the cheaper they are per piece, so you really need to print a minimum number to make them cheap enough that people will buy them). I imagine CDs are the same way... it might make sense to print and sell 5,000, but if you allow digital to cannibalize 40% of the sales then you are looking at a 3,000 piece print job and you might start to lose money on CD sales.
It makes less sense in this case if they are allowing them on iTunes/Amazon, though...
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Post by sarahv on Aug 14, 2014 14:08:36 GMT -5
I'll get the smelling salts!
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Post by sarahv on Aug 13, 2014 18:26:26 GMT -5
Three more announced, actually! Don't tempt him, he might be tired... Aside from Zion80, I seem to have picked the ones you didn't like - I have Psychomagia (which I liked), Hermetic Organ (ditto), and Eyvind Kang, which was a mixed bag for me. It was growing on me after a couple of listens but I haven't gone back to it yet. The rest I haven't heard... hopefully in a couple of months my life will have calmed down a bit and I'll be buying more new music (and it will help to be in the same city as DMG...)
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Post by sarahv on Aug 13, 2014 9:23:07 GMT -5
I'm still missing quite a few of the releases from this year, but I did pre-order Adramelech from the band and I agree with you 100%. I love it, and it's been getting a lot of ear time.
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Post by sarahv on Aug 2, 2014 14:54:11 GMT -5
A lot of the regulars here ended up hooking up on Facebook, the bane of all web forums... there's quite a bit of Zorning going on over there. My move is going to be kind of gradual, but Sept 1 is my official "I no longer have a residence anywhere outside NYC" day. Awfully nice of them to throw a week-long Book of Angels party just to welcome me to my new home! Hopefully he'll head back to Europe before too long. It seems like there's been quite a bit of post-Zorn@60 concert events. Maybe the success of all that will translate into more shows in more places.
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Post by sarahv on Aug 2, 2014 10:11:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the review! Maybe this board isn't dead after all ;-)
I really wanted to go to this of course, only 90 minutes away from me, but not having a car makes it a challenge to make it into a day trip and also my boss was out of town this week and I couldn't really miss work. Oh well. To make up for it I'm seeing all twelve Book of Angels sets at the Vanguard next month!
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Post by sarahv on May 8, 2014 22:25:17 GMT -5
Weds. hanging with my family but there are a few cool things - Brian Marsella's band is playing somewhere, there's the round robin thing at Town Hall with a bunch of cool people, and I think I'm forgetting a third one... (Edit: I remembered the third, Trevor Dunn and Brandon Seabrook and some other folks are playing at the Grand Victory.) Damn, I keep remembering more shows I want to go to on the one night I can't see any shows... Ches Smith Quartet is at Cornelia St. Cafe. Would love to see them...
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Post by sarahv on May 7, 2014 16:36:02 GMT -5
absolutely brutal set on Sunday. Lombardo's playing is top notch. he's really grown since those initial shows way back when. anyway - for those starved L.A. folks, there's a Zorn show announced....unfortunately not until May 2015! Zorn at UCLAAbraxas, Secret Chiefs 3 and Bladerunner. Plus an all-day thing at the museum and a pipe organ performance. That's going to be a pretty major event. I am already trying to convince myself I don't need to go...
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Post by sarahv on May 6, 2014 19:12:35 GMT -5
I'm going to be in NYC next week also...
Tuesday I'm seeing Marc Ribot's early set at Anthology Film Archives, and Jolie Holland's late set at Union Pool Weds. hanging with my family but there are a few cool things - Brian Marsella's band is playing somewhere, there's the round robin thing at Town Hall with a bunch of cool people, and I think I'm forgetting a third one... (Edit: I remembered the third, Trevor Dunn and Brandon Seabrook and some other folks are playing at the Grand Victory.) Thursday I think I'm going to see Chris Cutler & co. at Spectrum. Steve Reich is doing a thing at the Miller Theater, that might also be interesting. And John Medeski is performing with the M&Ms somewhere.
I've been hearing amazing stuff about Bladerunner but I've been so damn busy I haven't had time to look for any youtube vids or recordings that might have cropped up...
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Post by sarahv on Mar 22, 2014 10:46:49 GMT -5
It's a bit hard to say much about the character of the compositions when each was played by a different band and the bands were all over the map in terms of style/genre. But the pieces that were played by bands I was very familiar with seemed pretty Book-of-Angel-y.
He said every piece in the book will be played by a different ensemble, so I think cohesiveness is not going to be a big selling point!
P.S.-slash-edit: Here's the second half of the review. Wherein I managed to sneak a little video...
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