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  1. So I have purchased a new saxophone and to offset the cost I am parting with some of my collection prices include shipping in the US

    Vinyl

    Mal Waldron - Tokyo Bound $40

    Lalo Schifrin - En Buenos Aires $75

     

    Box set

     

    Don Pullen - Black Saint/Soul Note box (7cd) $30

    Die Like A Dog - 3 cd Box set (slight edge wear to box) $35

    William Parker - Centering box $55

     

    More titles to come soon

     

    XXX=pending sale

  2. Christian Scott released a new album, which appears to be a self release available on bandcamp. I recently got the cd, I hold his music in high regard and he got me started with my journey into jazz with his Anthem album. As most do with jazz, I have moved past his Anthem album but have always felt he was growing as a player and more as a songwriter. Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is still, and will probably always be one of my favorite albums. I've listened to about half of Stretch Music. Although it does groove, I'm not in the head space to absorb it right now, it was sounding unfinished to me. I was trying to listen to it after Malcolm Goldstein "Live at Fire Valley" and the new Nate Wooley "(Dance To) The Early Music", so it could just be me.

     

    Anyone else had had a chance to hear it and have any thoughts?

  3. To me the Chicago scene is hit or miss. Some stuff is fantastic, while others leave me underwhelmed. Case it point, I got Frank Roslay's Cicada Music recently and have no intentions of playing it again anytime soon. Same this with the Klang and Chicago Luzern Exchange CDs I got. On a side note I did just order Fred Anderson's book Exercises for the Creative Musician. Pretty stoked to check it out. 

  4. 3 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    hit or miss on Irabagon myself. I've seen/heard him play some stuff I really liked and some stuff that was just all technique - breathtaking, sure, but will I remember it in a few years, much less 30? 

    McPhee, on the other hand, has broken my heart and put it back together again in the span of a few minutes. He IS music.

    This. I only wish so many of his excellent titles were on the, to me, poorly sonically presented CIMP releases. 

  5.  

    If you like "King Oliver in Savannah," you might be interested to know that a much better version of it is coming out in a few months. I'm putting out a 7" vinyl EP and download of that tune and another which has never had a good recording. It's just me on multiple saxes and clarinets. I like it. Maybe in 25 more years it will make me cringe, but I don't think so.

    Definitely interested in the 7"

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    Jeff Crompton - Uncommon Goals

    Picked up this gem today while on lunch break. $6.50 well spent. That name seems awful familiar..... 

    OMG!

    I remember that guy.

    All I can say at this point, many years later, is that I meant well, musically. There are a few tracks that don't make make me cringe. I still like "Ivory Burn."

    And I guess it's notable that I still have the only cover version of Tristano's "Turkish Mambo," as far as I know.

    But, yeah, I'm cringing, at least a little bit. But I'm glad you like it.

     

    haha, I think it's an enjoyable a respectable release. A few tracks sound dated (Geomusic 4006) but for the time I understand it. King Oliver in Savannah and  Falling got multiple listens. Your chops are sting thoughout. I actually bought it on a whim thinking it might be your album but really wasn't sure. Definitely money well spent. 

  7. Me wants reports on Brotz et al and Osby

    post haste!!

    Osby was fantastic! First time the group had played as a collective but you would have never known had Osby not announced it. Greg on alto of course, Joshua White on piano (he's a monster and honestly stole the show with each and every solo), Eric Revis on bass and the formidable Jonathan Pinson on drums. White solo'd on almost every song. Pinson had an epic solo at the end of the second set and Revis was given plenty of space to stretch out. Osby was in top form but he really let the others show out. It was a fantastic show. They did have Natalie Gooday (?) sing one song each set, which I think the crowd, myself included could have lived without, but White did solos in both standards that made them memorable.  

  8. Went to Amoeba yesterday and picked up

     

    Fred Anderson - Black Horn Long Gone

    Myron Walden - Higher Ground

    Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps A Record

    Frode Gjerstad - Through The Woods

    Salim Washington - Love In Exile 

    and passed on the Joe Henderson Milestone Years box because it was a littler beat up only to come home and find a copy on Ebay for $25.

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