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Thanks, I'll try to buy direct if paperback available. I try to avoid Amazon if economically feasible. University Press distribution is weird. I see occasional U. Press titles on the shelves at that same shop, but apparently small special orders are too expensive. Then again, the last U P title I remember actually buying there was Krin Gabbard's book on Mingus, which would have been 8 or 9 years ago, so the situation may have changed.

That was Randy's hint I followed up on. He said a current BFT participant had included a track from the same album on a BFT "from a previous decade". I randomly looked at some old Reveal threads from thread participants and lucked out on about the fifth one I checked, using "1980s" recording date as an added criterion. It was from one of yours, but I didn't write down the BFT # or date. 😉

From the ' LAJI Members Only' CD series LAJI 0011 - Howard Rumsey "Live In The Solo Spotlight" - rec. 1951 to 1954 - Producer: Ken Poston

Hello everyone, A new feature is now available: you can now view sheet music offered by different retailers directly from the song page. I also plan to add transcription books and more. -- @sgcim Yup, they're not yet perfect, I'll now focus on making them perfect. The rendering is quite a difficult part to get right, but I'll let you know when it's complete. Please let me know of any other feedback you might have!

Veen listening to a lot of Jug recently, early or late, big bands or small, doesn't even matter much to me.

I ordered this set immediately after it came back in stock, after having missed out on it the first round. I received it today and was disappointed to find that a small portion of the cover image had been peeled off, and some residue from what must have been a sticker - possibly the small white sticker they use to seal the plastic bags around the set, as it seems to match in size. Eh, not that big of a deal...I guess. After opening the set, I immediately noticed that the jewel cases were clear instead of the standard black ones that are used in the dozens of other Mosaic sets that I own! Very strange. Has anyone else ever experienced this with a Mosaic set? And, upon opening the jewel cases, Disc 5 had a large chunk of plastic missing around the disc spindle. There was not any loose plastic bits in the jewel case, so it appears that it must have been packaged that way. I've sent an email to Mosaic letting them know about the issues with the disc and the box art, and have confidence that they will get it resolved. I just hope that this isn't a sign of corners being cut in the manufacturing process...

Yep, almost certainly a distribution issue. In my experience, few readers in the US understand just how outsized a role the distributors play in regulating ("throttling" may be the more appropriate term) their access to titles from small and independent presses (including university presses). Best to buy direct or use a vendor like Bookshop or Asterism. In any event - yeah, can't wait to read this one!

A dude gives his view of the 10 best salsa orchestras – he speaks in Spanish, but the salsa is understandable in any language:

This is a good album!!!

Beethoven Piano Sonatas No.6, No.12, No.15

32 Jazz reissue

Didn't look at the credits last night but yeah, it's Klemmer. I had no idea

Enjoying this a lot!

Our improvised music series at Tubby's Kingston, "So, What Do You Think?," returns on November 11 for a night consisting of two formidable duos: Kieran Daly/Ben Bennett and Matt Sargent/Dani Dobkin. Kieran and Ben are traveling from Chicago and Philly, respectively, while Matt and Dani are New York-based (City/country). The show hits around 8 as usual, $15 in advance or at the door. Thanks to Rocket Number Nine for their continued support. Hope to see you there! Artist bios: Ben Bennett and Kieran Daly: “iterative frictional and sliding timbres from idiophones and guitar" Kieran Daly is an American composer with a concentration in experimental monophonic music. His work focuses on a primarily performance-based, first-principles approach using iterative processes, sliding timbres, and pulse salience as formal determinants. Some of his prolific output has been presented by Cafe OTO, CHIMEFest, Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theatre, Default Den Haag, Hibari Music, Infant Tree, Issue Project Room, Madacy Jazz, Museum of Modern Art, Poetry Project, Pilar Brussels, Pioneer Works, Pitchfork, Segue Foundation, Triple Canopy, and Wire Magazine. Since 2015, he has soundtracked several features and shorts by Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina. Ben Bennett is an improvising percussionist who makes timbrally and formally diverse music from simplified instruments in the membranophone and idiophone families. His latest work, Music for Idiophones, deals with dynamic stick-slip behavior of various basic materials. He has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe and performed in several international festivals as a soloist and in improvising ensembles. His recent collaborators include Pascal Battus, Axel Dörner, Bryan Eubanks, Sandy Ewen, Beat Keller, Greg Kelley, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Carina Khorkhordina, Alexander Markvart, Karen Ng, Chris Pitsiokos, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guillherme Rodrigues, Ute Wasserman, Jacob Wick, Nate Wooley, and Jack Wright. Dani Dobkin (synthesizer) and Matt Sargent (guitar and electronics) are a musical duo from New York. Beginning with a phrase from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, "Act so that there is no use in a center, " the improvising duo delights in the exploration of their contrasting sensibilities. Since 2021, they have released two albums and completed two North American tours, during which they’ve continued a musical conversation across many shows in museums, cathedrals, universities, warehouses, and bars. Their music has been described as “a strangely emotional, gossamer-like tapestry of sounds, from barely audible phrases to saturating swells of noise. It all sounds almost like an American primitive guitar record retrieved from far in the future.” (Antonio Poscic, Future Music) Writing about their newest album, Old Dutch Church, Bill Meyer of the Chicago Reader states, “Dobkin’s electronics shimmer and writhe like something growing under the light of Sargent’s carefully spaced harmonics.” Dobkin received a BFA from Bard College, both an MFA in Sound Art and a DMA in Music Composition from Columbia University. They are currently serving as an early career fellow at Columbia University and teaching electronic music at Bard College. Matt is an assistant professor of music at Bard College.

That's obscure stuff !

Top Rank 30/019 - Johnny Dankworth Orchestra " London To Newport" - rec. 1959

I like that a lot! Is it a Willie Mitchell joint? No, it's not. But that's John Klemmer!?!?!?

Ts-find, feels truly underrated.

Wounded Bird reissue

Me too. And Ed is a long time favorite, or so I thought.... Time for an Edward Wilkerson refresher binge!!!

I remember happening on a nice original copy at JRC on a trip to New York in the late 90s. Bought it without hesitation, and it's an album that has given me many hours of musical enjoyment over the years. It was probably one of the first Murray LPs as a leader that I picked up.

Might be a distribution issue with your local shop, wherein the cost to purchase is prohibitive or the distro only deals with shops that have a large minimum order baseline.

Ts-find, ... well-produced album ! I am surprised.