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Sam Rivers Trio - Emanation (No Business) SR (flute, tenor, soprano, piano) Cecil McBee (Bass) Norman Connors (Drums)

DKV & Joe McPhee the fire each time (Disc 1)

Just ordered.

Anthony Braxton box - four hour-long slabs dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Brown, and Merle Haggard, played by AB, Taylor Ho Bynum, Nels Cline, and Greg Saunier out 6/21 on Firehouse 12. Source: Burning Ambulance

NYC Winter Jazzfest is a great way to start off a year!

I was in the audience also.

A new JD Allen Trio release due in June on Savant w/ new trio -- Ian Kenselaar (bass) and Nic Cacioppo (drums). The title is Barracoon. source: Burning Ambulance

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

I attended a performance of Tyshawn Sorey's sextet at the Jazz Gallery in NYC this past Saturday. His band mates were all young and relatively new on the NYC scene -- probably all under 30 years of age. It was packed. Standing room only. I have been to the Jazz Gallery dozens of times and have never seen so many people attending an event there. The band played a single set lasting approximately two hours and fifteen minutes. The music was not as "experimental" as the music Sorey has presented in his latest several releases. I would describe the music as covering the spectrum from post bop to free bop. He operated in the conventional role as a drummer with this band. What struck me the most was how great a drummer Sorey is. He performed over the two hours some of the most effortlessly melodic and inventive drumming that I have heard in a long while. Nathan Reising- alto saxophone Morgan tenor- tenor saxophone, EWI Sasha Berliner- vibraphone, marimba Lex Korten- piano Nick Dunston- bass Tyshawn Sorey- drums

Wow. onkyomusic is a steal for lossless files. The set is digitally available in lossless files on bandcamp for 4 times the price of onkyomusic.