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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!cbnewsl!wjh
- From: wjh@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (william.j.hery)
- Subject: Penguin on Ornette Coleman discs
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:16:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.021653.14078@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- The original question was the 2 or 3 indispensible Ornette recordings in
- print now. Since the Penguin guide rates recordings on a 1 to 5 star
- scale, another view on the indispensables might come from a list of
- the highest rated in the Penguin guide. We can see if they know as much
- as they do :-)
-
- [I should add that I have already complained here about the
- adequacy/usefulness of numeric ratings, but agree or disagree with the
- ratings, they can still be fun to talk about.]
-
- Shock number 1: Penguind does not rate any Ornette's with 5 stars!!!
- [which casts even more doubt on the validity of this list :-)]
-
- The 4 star releases in print (at least in England) are:
-
- SHAPE OF JAZZ TO COME
- CHANGE OF THE CENTURY
- THIS IS OUR MUSIC
- AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, VOL I
- AT THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, VOL II
-
- Bill Hery
- AT&T Bell Labs
- 201-386-2362
- hery@att.COM
-