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Just got this John Butcher / Gino Robair / dieb13 CD, and it' excellent. http://theopensecret.bandcamp.com/album/a-geography-for-plays

Oh, "Both Directions at Once" sold 250,000 copies - advertising does work, after all. There was a lot of better music released last year, I guess it should have been just advertised more aggressively. I am quite curious about this upcoming release. "Blue World" track sounds good. Won't buy the CD, but will definitely listen to it on Spotify.

Sound intriguing, will give him a listen

Why do you assume this was of much importance to Kuhn at all? Was working for Trane as a pianist in 1960 supposed to be a dream job and career-defining experience for everybody?

I listened to it twice, I thought it was pretty boring and the compositions sounded like something a conservatory student would write for a grade. I doggedly attend concerts of young composers here in Vienna. 90% of the time the music would be labored crap, which sounds very much like this. But 10% of the time there would be something excellent, sounding MUCH better than this.

The Ayler disc mentioned that it is released by permission of the Ayler estate. I wonder what sources were used for the remastering.

I'll be perfectly content to have this one on Spotify.

Bravo ECM for making these long OOP albums available for streaming. That's the way to do it. Some interesting stuff here.

Good stuff.

Another nice one is Mike Nock's Trio "Not We But One" on Naxos: https://www.discogs.com/Mike-Nock-Trio-Not-We-But-One/release/4153597 . Cox is very prominent here. I think the drummer Tony Reedus is needlessly hyperactive here, but it's a nice record nonetheless. I have Cox's solo on Sketch. Haven't listened to it in ages, but I do remember finding it good but not great. The sound is excellent, but does not have the range of ideas of the best solo bass records (like the ones from Barre Phillips or Joelle Leandre or Mark Dresser or Paul Rogers), IMHO.

Listening to this one. Very nice. And this organ has such a focused sound.

Another winner from another timbre label:

ZYX: https://www.discogs.com/Art-Pepper-The-Complete-Galaxy-Recordings/release/10052370 I remember getting this box around 2002-03, it was very cheap indeed.