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Aftertaste : masses of dark red plums and a very long finish .... mhhhm ....

People Like Us „Welcome Abroad“ (Illegal Art) 2011 ….

Catherine Wheel „Like Cat And Dogs“ (Mercury) 1996 ….

Recorded @ Rathaussaal Leipzig in January 2008 .... one of the this superb ensnsemble`s last recordings .... impeccable technique and with considerable verve ....

https://themessthetics.bandcamp.com/album/the-messthetics-and-james-brandon-lewis

That's less than I paid and I collected it from Café Oto!

I used to look at Burning Ambulance a fair bit before it went to Substack, not sure why not since. It covered a breadth of music, not just Jazz but predominantly so. It was always very readable. I'm hoping this will be good. CT deserves that at the very least, lots to get in.

👍 Yep! How about this one?

Thnx for sharing ....

Same here .... btw although having been part of many important recordings his work of body still underappreciated by some ....

Saw Laubrock with Myra Melford's Fire and Water super group (also Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid and Leslie Mok) at Big Ears. What a great performance!

Joe Newman was a solid trumpet player and I enjoyed his playing here in Viena, but soon no musician here wanted to play more gigs with him, since he was an asshole on the stand, lecturing experienced local musicains how to play as if they didn´t know how to play. Strange, other very prominent artists like Woody Shaw, Art Farmer, Benny Golson etc. never lectured the musicians on bandstand and it was everything cool, to enjoy the gig on stand..... Buster Williams is one of my very very special favourites, period. Wonderful band here.

Yep .... at that time he already implemented an original bass sound similar still clearly distinctive to Scott LaFaro ....

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My preorder arrived yesterday. I'm about halfway through it, it's mostly easy reading, but I can tell that it was assembled/ edited by a non-musician. There's a comprehension/coherency issue that is possibly going to bewilder people who have no experience with a saxophone. Detailed discussions about technique cut away to philosophical commentary without warning, and the go right back again. Still, if you do know something about a saxophone, there is some wonderful stuff in here (especially about the potential for a mystical experience with multiphonics). And the philosophy shows a consistent and expanding thread from beginning to end. A patient reader will enjoy this, I thinks. An impatient reader...Sonny Rollins is probably not for impatient people, readers or otherwise.

Terrific! Even though I’m pretty behind on actually listening to this music 🤣

Sorry to hear, but glad you got to The In Groove regardless. Hope you enjoy the rest of your time here in the "Valley".

A lot of America has been built horizontally, not vertically. Wide open spaces and all that. This is especially true in the American Southwest. Why monetize one acre when you can monetize 10?

Gosh. You weren't joking. Scottsdale hotel to The In Groove and back was a 32 mile round trip, taking two hours. Bought Colors by Raul de Souza, which was nice. Panicked a bit about time (plus in a jet lagged fug) so didn't go to Zia in the end.

What kind of "real sugar" would one expect in a root beer if not cane sugar? Am I missing out on something? Please advise. IBC is great, and has been easily available in supermarkets here for decades now. There are "craft" root beers that maybe have better flavor, but they cost a lot and availability is spotty at best. I mean, hell, it's root beer. IBC tips the top for me!!!

I agree. Too much jumping from wandering around straight into climax.

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Author is Phil Freeman, who has a substack. I'm not familiar with him, but wish him the best on the book, which could be an interesting read if well researched and written. Freeman seems to have a strong affinity for Taylor's work. https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-limitations-of-style