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Hi everyone, I just wanted to say I got a kick out of seeing this old thread resurrected. For the record, I still dig Brian Auger!

Update: I listened to both Compost albums on Spotify and found that while they’re still not really classics I enjoy them more now than 10 years ago. A few weeks later I found the CD’s in a box while looking for something else and listened to them again. I have now added them on the shelf with my other Jack De Johnette CD’s.

Man, I have no memory of having started this topic. I do remember the part of the story not included in the thread though..in about 2010 Wounded Bird reissued both Compost albums on CD and I bought them. I wasn’t too impressed to be honest. Rereading this thread inspires me to pull them out of storage and give them another try...especially to hear the second side of the first one. Or I could listen to them on Spotify (I see they have both Compost albums there...) https://www.amazon.com/Life-Round-Compost/dp/B004708KAG https://www.amazon.com/Compost/dp/B004708JZW

Fellow Music fans, I have a ticket for Glenn Hughes (ex- Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc.) show at Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis, MD. It was originally scheduled for last month, but it was postponed to August due to Glenn's knee surgery. I was very excited to see this show, but unfortunately I have just found out that I have to be in Europe at that time, to help a sick family member, and won't be able to attend. Would any of you want the ticket? If so please let me know and we can discuss the details off line. I'm not looking to make a profit here, just trying to make sure that the ticket doesn't go to waste. Best, Henry. www.ramsheadonstage.com/event/977267-glenn-hughes-annapolis

Fellow Music fans, I have a ticket for Glenn Hughes (ex- Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, etc.) show at Rams Head on Stage in Annapolis, MD. It was originally scheduled for last month, but it was postponed to August due to Glenn's knee surgery. I was very excited to see this show, but unfortunately I have just found out that I have to be in Europe at that time, to help a sick family member, and won't be able to attend. Would any of you want the ticket? If so please let me know and we can discuss the details off line. I'm not looking to make a profit here, just trying to make sure that the ticket doesn't go to waste. Best, Henry. www.ramsheadonstage.com/event/977267-glenn-hughes-annapolis

Happy (belated) Birthday as well!

I like Uriah Heep too. My favorites are "Demons & Wizards" and "The Magician's Birthday." I also have "The Ultimate Collection"(2-disc best of). I first became interested in UH when I read about them in the liner notes to a Deep Purple remaster. UH also remind me at times of early Yes.

Thanks. I love "Silence" not only because I am big fan of Pinter but also because I love the way Wyatt, Bley and Coyne are inspired to sing by Mantler's music which is a very enjoyable kind of jazz-latin-rock fusion. I guess I was hoping that Coyne as a solo artist was more like Wyatt than he was...

I'm a big fan of Robert Wyatt and on Alexander's recommendation I picked up Michael Mantler's Edward Gorey album "The Hapless Child" with Wyatt on vocals. I liked it so much I also checked out Mantler's Pinter album "Silence" with Wyatt, Carla Bley and Kevin Coyne on vocals. I liked that very much too, which inspired me to investigate Coyne. I picked up "Marjory Razorblade" and while I like it, I find the backing a bit sparse at times and wonder if anyone here has any suggestions for a Kevin Coyne album with a jazzier backing, somewhat akin to "Silence" or was that a one of a kind event for Coyne?

Thanks for all the replies.

A few weeks ago I was watching Keith Jarrett videos on YouTube and I saw a great one of him playing "Moonchild" (from the album with Gary Burton) with Charlie Hayden and Paul Motian on a European (?) tv programme in the '70's (to judge by Keith's 'fro and Paul Motian's pony tail). The footage has on it the logo "1 +" (One Plus), perhaps the name of the show. My question: did Keith often tour his American group but without Dewey Redman? Perhaps only in Germany? What was the show with "Moonchild"? Were they on other European tv programmes during that period? Based on what I could find in my own reading, it seems that during the '70's Keith generally recorded either with one of his quartets (American or European), solo or with or some mixed large group. Did he ever record his American trio during the '70's? I know they recorded in the '60's for Atlantic a few times, but the only clue I could find that they ever recorded as a trio in the '70's was a reference to a German jazz workshop recording in 1972 that was on a various artists collection, but I couldn't find any track listing. Anyone know anything about this?

I got the regular two-disc version at Borders when it came out on Tuesday. Have been listening to it on and off ever since.

This wasn't exactly last night, but I saw Iron Maiden in Maryland on June 18. This was part of their Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour '08 in Columbia, Maryland, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion. Setlist: 01. Intro - Churchill's Speech 02. Aces High 03. 2 Minutes to Midnight 04. Revelations 05. The Trooper 06. Wasted Years 07. The Number of the Beast 08. Run to the Hills 09. Rime of the Ancient Mariner 10. Powerslave 11. Heaven Can Wait 12. Can I Play With Madness? 13. Fear of the Dark 14. Iron Maiden ----------------------------- 15. Moonchild 16. The Clairvoyant 17. Hallowed Be Thy Name Quote on tour on the web: "IRON MAIDEN's Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour '08 trek revisits the band's incredible history by focusing almost entirely on the '80s in both choice of songs played and the stage set, which is based around the legendary Egyptian production of the 1984-85 Powerslave tour. This is arguably be the most elaborate and spectacular show the band have ever presented, and includes some key elements of their Somewhere In Time tour of 1986/7, such as the Cyborg Eddie."" My comments: the concert was great fun. Amidst the ornate sets singer Bruce Dickinson changed costumes a few times and for "Powerslave" even wore a mask like he wore on the '80's tours, somewhat akin to the ones Peter Gabriel used to wear in Genesis. The show is a kind of revival presentation they're doing until their new album comes out and they start touring that, Bruce said. They played material from their classic albums from 1983-1992 mainly, with a few earlier songs. I was very happy to hear them play some of my favorites, especially "Revelations": "Our earthly leaders faulter/Our people drift and die…"

I picked this up when it came out in February. Liked it a lot then, still enjoying it. My favorites tunes are "Distant Places of the Heart" and "She's Not the One." The drummer on "Seven Moons", Gary Husband, also plays with John McLaughlin (I saw them play together at a show at George Washington University). (I also enjoy "BLT" and "Truce," the two '80's Jack and Robin albums...) I would love to see Jack and Bruce tour "Seven Moons." Doesn't look like it will happen though. Robin Trower came to Alexandria, VA around the time "Seven Moons" was released, but Jack wasn't with him so nothing from the new album was played. Jack will be coming to Virginia this summer as part of a package tour, but Robin won't be with him and so the band will probably stick to blues tunes or old Cream favorites, I suppose. I'm still going anyway though, I've never seen Jack live.

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Here! Borders actually had these? Color me surprised! Thanks, Big Al. I must have missed that thread. I also notice I didn't see the Kenny Burrell. I was surprised to see them in Borders too, by the way. It was the one in Friendship Heights (Chevy Chase), next to the DC/MD border. I moved in January and this is now the one closest to me.

Perhaps this was brought up elsewhere, but I hadn't read about it here first. I saw a new set of Verve reissues in Borders on Sunday. From what I could see the titles were the following (note much of this is approximate): 1) A Jimmy Smith live trio album (unclear what year, perhaps 1963-64), apparently previously unreleased 2) Bill Evans "The VIPs" 3) Paul Desmond "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (with Herbie Hancock) 4) Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan and Oscar Peterson 1958 5) Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie 6) A George Benson A&M title (I forget which)

Good news for fans of Glenn Hughes and Deep Purple Marks III and IV: Rock Candy Records in the UK has put out an excellent new reissue of singer/bassist Glenn Hughes' second post-Purple project "Hughes/Thrall" from 1982, featuring Glenn and Pat Thrall, ex-Pat Travers guitarist. The new remastered version not only has improved sound and excellent liner notes (recounting for the first time some of what Glenn did in between his first album "Play Me Out" and "Hughes/Thrall"), but it also includes two new bonus tracks, outtakes from a second, planned but never finished Hughes/Thrall album: "Love Don't Come Easy" and "Still the Night." http://www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk/catalogue/219

Anybody here dig Brian Auger? Was there ever a thread about him here? I discovered him recently thanks to a Canadian friend in Australia who turned me on to his amazing album "Streetnoise" from 1968, featuring singer Julie Driscoll (later Julie Tippetts, she married Jazz/Rock keyboard player Keith Tippet(s), who played with King Crimson in the early '70's on tracks like "Cat Food, and lead his own groups after that) and Brian Auger and the Trinity. (Prior to that Auger and Driscoll were both part of a jazz/rock/r'n'b revue called Steam Packet that also included Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry. Auger also played with John McLaughlin in their early days on the British jazz/r'n'b scene). "Streetnoise" is a fascinating combination of vocal numbers by Julie (who is a strange mix of Dusty Springfield, Laura Nyro and Grace Slick, with a heavy jazz and r'n'b influence) and instrumentals by Auger and the Trinity. Amazing stuff. They also did an earlier album together ("Open") and a bunch of singles (including an influential take on Bob Dylan and the Band's "This Wheel's on Fire") and some albums without Julie, which I haven't heard. After the group split up, Julie went on to many fascinating progressive adventures with Keith (somewhat akin to what Robert Wyatt was doing at the time) and Brian formed a fusion group called Oblivion Express, sort of a cross betwen Mahavishnu Orchestra and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Recently Fuel in Europe reissued a bunch of Auger and Oblivion Express albums. Maybe not very recently. At any rate, they turned up at my local music store recently and I got the debut self titled album from 1970 which includes a brief cover of McLaughlin's "Dragon Song" and some interesting originals such as "Total Eclipse." Some of the tracks have vocals and they are less interesting to my ears. so far. Also recently Brian and Julie's reunion album "Encore" from 1978 has been reissued (by Wounded Bird Records, a company from near my hometown Albany, NY, no less!) Also quite good, with some great originals and intersting covers such as the Jack Bruce/Pete Brown composition "Rope Ladder to the Moon"

Reggie Workman/Hal Galper/Rashied Ali Trio I saw this trio at Twins Jazz on U Street in Washington, DC, on Saturday night (first set). They also played Friday night at the same place. Set List: Waiting for Chet (dedicated to Chet Baker, Hal's first big time boss) Soliloquy (dedicated to Michael Brecker; the Brecker Brothers were in one of Hal's groups) Catch Me If You Can (title approximate) Milestones (probably not the tune by Miles Davis) Valse Cool (variation on Valse Hot played by Max Roach and Sonny Rollins) Saturn (John Coltrane) Reggie told the audience that the trio would be releasing an album in February or March. (This was the second time I saw Reggie, who brought a big band group to DC about 1998;, the first time I saw either Galper or Ali.)

Yes! That's it! I found pictures of the rabbit too. I'm actually more interested in the rabbit than Domu-Kun, by the way... Thanks very much!

For fans of Japanese cartoons and culture, I have a request for help. Last month I went to Japan on vacation. While in Nagoya, I went into what I believe is called a Character Shop. This was a shop that sold products (stuffed toys, key chains, posters, action figures, etc) related to popular Japanse characters, such as the characters of Studio Ghibli (movies by Miyazaki and his team such as "My Neighbor Totoro," "Spirited Away," and so forth). Also in the store I found some products related to a character I think I had seen before in an article on the web in the US. The article talked about how the character (he was brown, somewhat like Mr. Gumby or one of the Ugly Doll characters, only brown and with a big mouth) had developed a sort of grass roots appeal online in the US and then wondered if this would help launch the character in the mainstream. I don't remember if it said if the character had his own TV show or comic books or what. One of the posters I saw of this character in the store in Japan showed the character hanging out with a friend who was a rabbit with horned rimmed glasses. Does anyone know what this character's name is and how I can find out more about him? Thanks.

On Friday Night I saw John McLaughlin and the Fourth Dimension at Lisner Auditorium on the George Washington University Campus, Washington DC. This is the tour written up on Saturday in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/29/arts/music/29mcla.html Contrary to Ratliff though, I thought the show was great. I liked that it was frequently unsubtle and "Fast, [...] Furious and [...] Very Virtuosic." At times McLaughlin's playing reminded me of the sound he got on "Bitches Brew." The group included: Gary Husband (keyboards and extra drums/percussion), Hadrien Feraud (bass, from France) and Mark Mondesir (drums). None of the compositions were named, but presumably many of them came from McLaughlin's 2006 album "Industrial Zen." On Saturday I saw Wallace Roney's group at Blues Alley. I didn't catch all the band members names, but the tenor/soprano player was Antoine Roney and much of the set drew from Wallace's "Jazz" album. I believe they also played a Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter composition from 1967 as well, although I'm not sure which one. The electric keyboard player was quite impressive, as was the drummer (Eric Allen, I think). I liked the unision passages that the two horns played together but was more impressed by Wallace as a soloist. There was also an extra percussionist sitting, named Yusef, I think.

Dave Garrett wrote: I believe IL GRIDO is (or was) also available on DVD Sorry, Dave. My mistake. I was misremembering the English title of "Il Grido" as "The Struggle." The English title is in fact "The Outrcy." (I may also have been confusing "Il Grido" in my mind with Fellini's "Il Bidone" which is "The Swindle" or "The Swindlers" in English.) Brownie wrote about Antonioni's sequence in 'I Tre Volti': Some sequences with Princess Soraya appear in a documentary on Antonioni that is included in the Criterion edition of "L'avventurra." For some time after I saw that I wondered what the footage was from (it isn't explained in the documentary as far as I can tell, it just says it is from his latest film) and then I read about "I Tre Volti." King Ubua wrote about how it's better to see them in a theater: I agree with you, but alas it's not always possible. In the '90's when I was moving around a lot, I lived at various times in places like Ithaca, Boston, Paris, London and Montreal (cities with good film archives, cinematheques, revival houses, etc) and yet I think the only Antonioni movies I ever got to see on a big screen were "L'avventura" and "Blow Up." If I hadn't rented the VHS tapes initially and bought the DVDs later I just never would have seen them at all. And while I agree that a lot is lost in the transfer, it's better than not having seen them at all in my book. Moreover, in the years since then, the only one that I've had a chance to see in a theater is "The Passenger" which was in general rerelease prior to the DVD coming out.

This is sad news, for sure. I am a great fan of his early '60's trilogy, as well as his later color films. There are now excellent Criterion DVD editions of two thirds of the trilogy (plus a standard edition of the missing title) and "The Passenger" from the '70's has also come out on DVD recently (not in Criterion though, alas). Hopefully in the next few years we will see the rerelease on DVD of "Red Desert" (which may be boring to some but which I am very fond of and is currently out of print in the USA, as far as I know) as well as other lesser well known works like "The Mystery of Oberwald" from the '80's. As far as his two English language movies go, "Blow Up" is great too and readily available on DVD. "Zabriskie Point," as far as I know, is a bit harder to find. I think the only time I ever saw it was on an old VHS tape with a terrible transfer. I liked it. My feeling is that while it is not by any means his best film, it has great music, some interesting scenes and is hardly the unmitigated disaster many people say it is. I think it would very much benefit from a better transfer and a more attractive presentation. I also note for those interested that one can also find, if one looks, DVDs of Antonioni's early work ("Story of a Love Affair," "The Girlfriends" and "The Struggle") which are all quite interesting, especially to fans of his later work.