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  1. So I subscribed to this series from whoever is running Nimbus West now, and I've only received two volumes of the series: Live at the IUCC 6/24/79 (a double CD) and 2/25/79 (which says 11/25/79 on the back). Has anyone received more? Also, I didn't notice that Volume 1 (11/26/78) is not part of the subscription series, and is sold out. Does anyone here have a line on a copy?
  2. Is Hawkins appearing anywhere else in the US? I've never seen him
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    Laufey

    Today I learned it's pronounced "LAY-vay"! And she's, inevitably,a Berklee grad.
  4. Actually my favorite recording from her was of "Deep River", on a CD that came with BBC Music Magazine a couple years back. This piece is an older one but is fun: Are you worried about the rising costs of funerals?" https://nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/errollyn-wallen-are-you-worried-about-the-rising-costs-of-funerals?variant=35762063179931
  5. I like how in the 2020 video you can actually see Carla's eyes, I don't think I had ever! They were always covered by that trademark hair (wig?).
  6. He fit in quite well, I'm not so familiar with Hutchings' work, but I thought it was a great show--except for the moment Don Moye stumbled and fell backwards into the backdrop, that was a heart stopping moment but he was okay.
  7. I was a completist for this series when it ran. Never enough Ellington for me. The music was life.
  8. I'm confused, are these all different from the previously available Live at the IUCC that's been in the catalog for years?
  9. Oh man, now if only all the Tapscott Sessions were released on CD or FLAC
  10. I was there! Roscoe Mitchell tested positive for COVID the day the AEOC was to play, and Shabaka Hutchings stepped in. It was a smaller band than the greatly expanded one that has been performing for many years, a lot of unfamiliar material this time. The rest of the festival was great, like Big Ears, but pared down to just contemporary classical and avant-jazz/improv. Threadgill did not perform, but it was great finally seeing a seminal Threadgill band I had never seen live. A very well run and manageably-sized festival, all venues were very close together bar one. I found it superior to Big Ears in every way.
  11. Someone on Discogs commented that they asked Joe Fonda in person about this and that no such recording took place.
  12. I find Gramophone valuable, but I guess I missed its glory years. I do think BBC Music is a livelier read, and the CDs have introduced me to music I would not have sough out otherwise. With regard to a jazz magazine of similar quality, Jazzwise I think is close (But no CDs).
  13. can't find a thread for Gunter "Baby" Sommer but is anyone going to his 80th birthday bash in Dresden? I'll miss it by one week...
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    Billy Harper

    Saw him at Blues Alley a few months ago with his own quintet (must have been Tankersley on the piano, then). Loved his sci-fi-ish leather (?) duster, looked like he was an extra in one of the Star Wars spin offs.
  15. ICP's music is so important to me, saw him several times with them, including at the Vortex a week after Misha Mengelberg died, he and the ICP performed a Charles Ives song in tribute, Honsinger sang lead. The song was a tribute to Ives' deceased dog, but it was both poignant and funny and so so right for those tricksters.
  16. They continued to tour together into this century, they were fun.
  17. Chris Elliott content: This thread is good again. re Jazz Times: I will only say the May issue will revolutionize your expectations of what a "jazz" magazine can be. Or a "magazine" for that matter. Or "writing".
  18. You folks really owe it to yourself to flip through a copy of the May issue at a library or Barnes & Noble and see how coocoo bananas it is. If you thought it was bad before...
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