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  1. Still some 2014 albums on the way (Tyshawn Sorey's Alloy, Ollie Brice and Waclaw Zimels To Tu Orchestra), so these can possibly bed added later, but for now the list is:

    (In no particular order)

    Farmers by Nature - Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)

    Tony Malaby's Tamarindo - Somos Agua (Clean Feed)

    Rodrigo Amado Trio + Peter Evans - The Freedom Principle (NoBusiness)

    Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections - The Secret Escapades of Velvet Anderson (Rogue Art)

    Eric Revis Quartet - In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)

    Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez - A Moment's Liberty (Maya)

    Jemeel Moondoc - The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch)

    Matthew Ship Trio - The Root of Things (Relative Pitch)

  2. As for myself, picked up two books to read:

    Rob Riemen - Universiteit van het leven (University of life)

    Rob Riemen is a Dutch intellectual, humanist and director of the Nexus Institute (www.nexus-instituut.nl/en/home). For this Nexus journal Riemen talked to 19 people from various fields who are all internationally acclaimed (publishers, musicians, writers, philosophers, scientists and one trade union leader (his father)), and all this talks were centered around one question: What has life taught you?

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    Andrei Tarkovski - De Verzegelde Tijd

    Very insightful book, where Tarkovski explains his visions on cinema/art and how he makes his movies staying true to this vision.

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  3. I'm maybe 20% into the second part of Herzen's My Past and Thoughts (Ends and Beginnings from Oxford Press). It's good but I think Isaiah Berlin blew it up just a bit much (putting it on the same level as War and Peace :huh: ). Herzen himself thought of his memoirs as comparable to David Copperfield. :blink: I would be enjoying it a bit more if my expectations hadn't been raised quite so high...

    My Past and Thoughts is very high on my "to read" list, but isn't it so that the importance/relevance of Herzen lays more in the fact he was such an influential Russian thinker of his time? I know many people see him as one of the most important figures in the birth of Russian socialism.

  4. Yeah, for me I like Zimpel most in his Hera and Undivided band. When his music is soaked in different cultures and religions (especially from Eastern Europe) it's when I think it becomes really special. For some reason it just all sounds so deeply from the heart, and with so much melancholy, there are just really not much other players who can touch me on such a basic and primal level.

  5. As for Niels dilemma, I'd say the Cecil Taylor and Tapscott are essentials. I know the Cecil has been banging about for a while, so can probably be picked up when a good price offers, but I'd hate to see the Tapscott go O/P, then get pricey. Those Hats can disappear fast.

    Thanks everyone for the input on my question! I think the going OOP issue regarding the Horace Tapscott release is a good one, so I think the additions to my shure shots will be the Horarce Tapscott and I think I will also order Waclaw Zimpel's Stone Fog as well. Just about everything that guy releases is essential in my book!

  6. Oke, It’s almost the end of the year so I want to order one final batch of albums this year. However, I just can’t seem to cut down my “shortlist” to an acceptable amount of albums (financial wise).

    From my shortlist I think I have three sure shots, which are:

    Olie Brice – Immune to Clockwork (2014, Multikulti)

    Waclaw Zimpel To Tu Orchestra – Nature Moves (2014, For Tune)

    Tyshawn Sorey – Alloy (2014, Pi Recordings)

    I definitely want to add one, but maybe two or three more albums to the batch (depending on the price), but I just can’t decide from the next list of albums. I wonder which album(s) people here would really advocate for as being essential or just a very good accompaniment for the aforementioned “sure shots”.

    The list:

    Waclaw Zimpel – Stone Fog (2013, For Tune)

    Steve Lehman – Mise and Abime (2014, Pi Recordings)

    Red Trio feat. Nate Wooley – Stem (2012, Clean Feed)

    Red Trio feat. Mattias Stahl – North and the Red Stream (2014, NoBusiness)

    Rodrigo Amado – Searching for Adam (2010, Not Two)

    Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti the Beautifull One has Come (if I would go for this one, I would prefer the Revenant 2XCD edition I think. That one is (for me at least) rather expensive though at around €40,-. I could buy three other albums for that price)

    Horace Tapscott – The Dark Tree 1&2 (1999, hatOLOGY)

  7. It is really hard for me to understand the whole Drabble vs. Byatt feud. What would be unbelievably droll is if they cooked it up to help stir up sales when things were slow. Maybe there will be some grand reconciliation towards the end (like Dostoevsky and Turgenev...).

    Anyway, I am wrapping up Herzen's My Past and Thoughts tonight and will be immediately launching into Turgenev's Sketches from a Hunter's Album, which I've never read. Then Fathers and Sons for the first time in 20+ years. It's been a long fall with the Russians, but quite rewarding.

    That's a coincidence, I just started Sketches from a Hunter's Album (Jagersverhalen as it is called in Dutch) a few weeks ago but decided to lay it back on the shelf for a moment to read Stone Upon Stone from Wieslaw Mysliwski (which is fantastic).

  8. Nothing to add to the original question posed but would like to make this observation:

    These were recorded within 12 months: Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, The Soothsayer

    These were recorded within 24 months: Night Dreamer, JuJu, Speak No Evil, The Soothsayer, Etcetera, The All Seeing Eye, Adam's Apple

    I mean, DAMN!

    Seconded! That is just plain sick

  9. I love Taborn, but Farmers By Nature has never really grabbed me for some reason, don't know why.

    my thoughts exactly. Still play the first two albums now and again waiting for them to connect but still waiting

    I heard more people on this board stating your opinions. At the time I found it strange, as Farmers by Nature was one of the first avant garde groups that really connected with me (and so I assumed it would easy connect to most other people also). For me the appeal of the group is the way they (at least to me) seem to search for that one fat groove and the connection/unity between each other they display doing this. Also the feel of the music has a somewhat sci-fi / ambient vibe to me, which reminds me somewhat of the music I played in my early days of DJ-ing many years ago (sci-fi techno/ambient from the likes of Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Claude Young a.o.).

    That being said, I received their debut album this week and after listening to it once I definitely like it, but I don't think it's on par with the second or last album of theirs. It feels like there is more searching and less "getting there", if that makes any sense :D

    Despite that fact, I'm very happy I finally have this album in my collection now and will certainly revisit it now and again.

  10. I hear this more often, but fact is the US is second on the list of nobel laureates by country, so this is not a correct statement. I think the list of nobel prize winners can certainly be debated ( I mean writers like Tolstoy, Proust, Borges, Kafka and Nabokov never won), but on average I think it is a pretty strong and correct list. As for the writers who still have a chance at winning, I would go for Milan Kundera (now that's someone who should have won it allready in my book), Wieslaw Mysliwski, Alessandro Baricco ( little bit of an outsider, but a personal favorite) or Haruki Murakami (I personally think his books are a little to "light" to win, but I can't think of a serious writer who managed to receive such a rockstar like status).

  11. So the AAJ forums are officially gone?

    That's unfortunate, but the trend of message boards going extinct has been moving along at a rapid pace the last few years.

    This one seems to have lasting power, but it's certainly part of the exception and not the rule.

    I wonder why this is, because I think message boards have some very big advantages over the more popular social media.

    The depth of discussion on boards like this, is not something I come across very often on Facebook for example, and furthermore the wealth of information you can find in the archives of message boards is something unknown to social media.

  12. Niels - I really am very glad that someone here (and I'm glad it's you) stepped up and ordered that 2 CD DKV Live in Wels and Chicago recording.

    Very interested to hear your thoughts after a couple of times through.

    Disc 2 demands to be played very loud

    Spinned it like 6 times now, and what can I say. This music just screams all kinds of YES (as does their album with Fred Anderson)! One of the best releases I bought this year for sure, and definitely the best setting I heard Ken Vandermark play in. Only problem; now I realize I really need more Vandermark in my collection.

  13. Got an email from AUM Fidelity that they almost ran out of the "Wood Flute Songs" boxes, so that was the last incentive I needed to finally pull the trigger on this one. I just know I will regret it if I don't buy it now and it comes OOP (and prices rising up).

    But even more greater news for me was that AUM got a few copies back from the now long OOP debut album of Farmers by Nature. That album was top 10 wishlist stuff for me, so I'm very happy right now to say the least!

  14. I'm very interested in that Olie Brice album, mainly because of Waclaw Zimpel who's Hera and Undivided projects I really love. Have to pick that album up sometime soon together with Waclaw Zimpel's ToTu Orchestra release.

    On another note, just saw Clean Feed put up the album covers on FB for their November batch. For me, the Tony Malaby's Tubacello album looks like the one to go for.

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  15. I have two records of him, Portrait in Seven Shades and Chakra. Both quality stuff but not something I listen to very often I must admit. The Creep is an album of him I still want to have, heard some very good stories about that one.

    wishlist hell.

    Damn that place!

  16. Just placed my order for my upcoming special day:

    DKV Trio - the new 5 CD box on not two - Sound in Motion in Sound

    Horace Tapscott: The Giant is Awakened

    Bill Dixon: Intents and Purposes

    Hal Russell NRG Ensemble plus Charles Tyler: Generation

    Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad Quartet: Silver Cornet

    The Whammies play the music of Steve Lacy: Volume 3 Live

    My October batch:

    DKV Trio with Fred Anderson [1996, Okka Disk]

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    DKV Trio - Live in Wels & Chicago [1998, Okka Disk]

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    Circle - Paris Concert [1971, ECM]

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    Chick Corea, Barry Altschul, Dave Holland - A.R.C. [1971, ECM]

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    Andrew Hill - Dusk [1999, Palmetto]

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    Niels - I really am very glad that someone here (and I'm glad it's you) stepped up and ordered that 2 CD DKV Live in Wels and Chicago recording.

    Very interested to hear your thoughts after a couple of times through.

    Disc 2 demands to be played very loud

    Well, regarding the Wels and Chicago recording it was kind funny. I wanted to buy a DKV trio recording for some time now, and on the same day I listened to Don Cherry's Complete Communion since quite a while (and loving it) I noticed the DKV trio used that theme for disk one. Than on that same day I also read in the "Best track you heard all week" topic your comment regarding track 2 and 3 of disk two, so it was an easy decision after that.

  17. Finally finished War & Peace this morning. Hard to say anything in short about such a monumental novel, but I enjoyed every minute of it. In the end I think I do rate Anna Karenina even a bit higher though, as I think his prose was even better there, and with Levin he created (for me at least) maybe the most memorable character in literature.

    Because sometimes I felt I needed a little break from War & Peace I also stared reading a book with two short novels of Toergenjev (I think in English it translates as Turgenev), First Love and Spring Torrents. Both very light love stories, both no masterpieces but definitely with a nice enough prose to really enjoy them.

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  18. Yes, welcome to the forum!

    I don't know what the deal is with the AAJ forums, but it's really sad.

    For me, that was the first forum I discovered while getting into jazz (I was more a reader than an active poster though), but in recent times I visited it less and less. The way they made the forum almost impossible to find from the main page of the AAJ website, and the way they just seem to refuse to communicate to the members when the forum is down (again), really leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I find it a disdain for you're audience, and it does make me feel that the forum users are not really welcome over there. It would be nice if some more members would cross over to this board, because there where some users who always had some nice recommendations on new releases (like Alphyus, Robmid, DDS Chicago, etc.).

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