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I'll second the recommendation for Verge.  They can be a bit slow sometimes but they have always come through on everything I have ordered.

$22 Canadian is about $16 U.S., at current exchange rates, fwiw.  Not a bad deal for FMPs.

Not as good as it used to be. With the price change from $19 to $22 and the U.S. dollar taking a nose dive the price has gone up close to $5 U.S.

Now in terms of the question:

All the Schlippenbach you can find is worth getting and that includes the Globe Unity Orcestra & Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra recordings.

All the Schlippenbach Trio recordings with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens are a must!

That includes:

Pakistani Pomade

Physics

Elf Bagatellen

Complete Combustion

Swinnging the Bim

Hunting the Snake-includes Peter Kowald to the trio.

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All the Schlippenbach you can find is worth getting and that includes the Globe Unity Orcestra & Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra recordings.

Careful now! The reissue on Atavistic sounds like dogshit, IMO. The music isn't very inspired either. Same goes for The Living Music, but is made up for with some fine moments by Manfred Schoof and Paul Rutherford.

If you find yourself to be a burgeoning Schlip junkie after your intro, drop me an e-mail and I'll burn you a copy of Globe Unity.

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All the Schlippenbach you can find is worth getting and that includes the Globe Unity Orcestra & Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra recordings.

Careful now! The reissue on Atavistic sounds like dogshit, IMO. The music isn't very inspired either. Same goes for The Living Music, but is made up for with some fine moments by Manfred Schoof and Paul Rutherford.

If you find yourself to be a burgeoning Schlip junkie after your intro, drop me an e-mail and I'll burn you a copy of Globe Unity.

Now I didn't say all it was a Must, just worth getting. ;)

I happen to like the two you are talking about. Of course they don't compare with others but still worth getting later on.

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Have to admit that I don't know a thing about Alexander von Schlippenbach, although I do own this one album - which I aquired because of Sam Rivers...

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Haven't listened to it in ages, but remember it being quite good.

Hell Yea!!! :tup:tup:tup:tup

Another duo recording I can recommend is Smoke with Sunny Murray.

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Does anyone know where I can track down a copy of a disc called Light Blue: Schlippenbach Plays Monk on Enja? I've checked all my usual sources and it seems like this is quite an obscure album.

thanks!

I think this has only been available in Europe. Try and have someone burn it for you. It's a biatch to find.

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Careful now! The reissue on Atavistic sounds like dogshit, IMO. The music isn't very inspired either. Same goes for The Living Music, but is made up for with some fine moments by Manfred Schoof and Paul Rutherford.

The sound isn't that bad - never had any problems myself.

I have The Living Music on an FMP LP and it sounds just fine. Wish Corbett would've paired it with the complete rehearsal tape that adds Derek Bailey to the mix!

I've been a little slow to pick up some of his recent CDs on Intakt, but they're on my Christmas list.

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I don't have much Schlippenbach, but this one is great:

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I also was lucky enough to see his Monk programme "Monk's Casino" with the band Die Enttäuschung - he jumped the bandwagon, I think, they had their Monk act and he joined in and his name is the biggest... though Axel Dörner and Rudi Mahall on trumpet and bass clarinet, respectively, were much more interesting.

I really should get some more of his albums!

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For some reason Smoke seems perennially unobtainable--it's always out of stock from distributors I've tried. I guess I'll try again. I wonder if there's some story here.....

People's thoughts on Twelve Tone Tales vols 1 + 2? Been spinning it lately. On the whole, however admirable I find the project, maybe 2 CDs is too much for me.... I think one CD would have been fine, with the tonal material (the Monk & Dolphy covers) interleaved with the rest. Still, pretty fascinating project.

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I don't have much Schlippenbach, but this one is great:

cd023.jpg

I also was lucky enough to see his Monk programme "Monk's Casino" with the band Die Enttäuschung - he jumped the bandwagon, I think, they had their Monk act and he joined in and his name is the biggest... though Axel Dörner and Rudi Mahall on trumpet and bass clarinet, respectively, were much more interesting.

I really should get some more of his albums!

I don't know who jumped whose bandwagon, but the Monk's Casino records are wonderful. (I recently saw Die Enttauschung here in Chicago, and they were just great, BTW.)

Smoke is also a killer.

Pretty much everything I've heard by Schlippenbach has been good, though.

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