Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

thanks to DSP audio restoration tools, there is a whole world of 78 RPM recordings waiting for the treatment and expectant ears to hear for the first time without all the noise. my most recent project is the June 1931 recording of George Gershwin at the piano leading a pickup orchestra of ace players performing the recorded debut of his Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, no. 2. this original version differs radically from just about all other versions available on the marketplace today. 

@nonamesleft4me,

Please let us know when that Gershwin recording is available. I, for one, would like to hear it. 

@stuartk,

I heard the Dead play several times in places like the Fillmore Auditorium. If I remember correctly, Jefferson Airplane played with them a number of times. Also a group called Mother Earth, which I liked the best. They played country and R&B. Great band. One of my musical regrets is that I did not know that Janis Joplin was part of Big Brother. I didn't even know who she was until a few days before I left on my lengthy world trip. I wish I had seen her live. 

I'm posting an early Van Morrison song called "TB Sheets." Anybody who has a chance to listen to it, I'd be interested in how you would categorize it: rock, blues, R&B, jazz-rock?

https://www.google.com/search?q=van+morrison+listen+to+tb+sheets+youtube&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS945US945&oq=van+morrison+listen+to+tb+sheets+youtube&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRirAtIBCjIzMTIxajBqMTWoAgiwAgHxBWbC2jvhApge8QVmwto74QKYHg&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:2cdb1748,vid:YA8jFfmMbFE,st:0

Audio-B-Dog, I sent you a reply via PM.

@audio-B-Dog

I often play Sibelius, although he doesn’t have the complexity of Beethoven, but few composers do

Most days, I'd take Sibelius. To me, many Beethoven's symphonies tend to be bombastic stop-start affairs whereas Sibelius mostly spins multiple continuous strands.

I am particularly struck by the new Decca set from the then unknown Klaus Mikela and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.  Klaus seems to have spontaneously wandered down from the wilds of Finland.  During Covid, he did nothing but rehearse the Sibelius symphonies with the Oslo orchestra.  To me, the most significant thing is that he recorded the first symphony last. This symphony has often been regarded as derivative (of Tchaikovsky) but Klaus' opening is pure Sibelius magic

Most Finnish greats have recorded cycles of Sibelius symphonies at least once...Who’d have predicted that this latest, from Klaus Mäkelä at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic would be the most electrifying and often revelatory of them all?

Sibelius tried to create internally cohesive pieces of music.  He was horrified when Mahler said his own symphonies encompassed his whole life experience.  But then Sibelius had the Finnish addiction to the bottle, to his wife's dismay