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Just saw that the Bad Plus is doing a farewell tour where they are exploring the music of Keith Jarrett. They have one Toronto date in early March up in North York. I don't think there any other Canadian dates, though there is a Montreal gig with their current line-up (not the special guests). I'm not sure I would have gone but then I heard they were adding Chris Potter and Craig Taborn to the mix, and I thought that would be worth checking out. This super group is playing Oakland, Los Angeles and a lot of European dates, but not as many US dates as I would have expected.

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Nice, next Tetragon and another Waldron-Lacy on Elemental.

I saw Lyle Talbot on stage in New Orleans, starring in There's a Girl in My Soup.

Wanted to hear some Joel Ross. So “The Parable of the Poet” Blue Note cd A new Joel Ross release is due next Friday. 1000×1000 398 KB

Last summer, I asked AI "how do I get my students to stop using you?" Unfortunately or not, there were some pretty good answers.

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Mine arrived today from Belgium.

I was involved in 2% of them.

What a weird reply to such an honest customer. Like getting punishment for good behavior. I’d keep it and sell it to somebody in the States

Thanks for this! Quick count, I believe I own 46 of them plus burns of the Lasha and Colbert, which I would buy legit CD's/downloads of in a heartbeat. Lots of room to debate the selections, of course, but there are some wonderful recordings on there.

Still plan to pick up a copy of the book, but here's a list of the recordings therein. More surprises than I might have thought, especially near the end-- love seeing the Schweizer/Carl/Moholo, Gunter Christmann and LaDonna Smith/Davey Williams records on there, and Nuba is an inspired choice. A couple titles I wasn't familiar with either, like the Gaslini and Percussive Unity albums. Only occasionally would I say their fetishism gets the best of them-- Akisakila is great, but at least in my book it's hard to argue that it compares in stature to records like Salty Swift, Brewing Luminous, and the Fondation Maeght or New World recordings (much less the Blue Notes, but I dig that those are well-trodden). Similarly like the Marion Brown LP but find albums like Porto Novo, Gesprächsfetzen, and In Sommerhausen to be superior, and the Ware LP on Palm, while nice, is not a patch on the Hat Hut album from the period. And there are a lot more Lacy recordings that seem to fit the mold of this project better than the ESP, but ultimately these are all personal quibbles. I look forward to reading this. It would be a blessing if this book spurred on some reissues of titles like Origination, The Third World, Alabama Feeling, The Sun is Coming Up, and Orangatang! and I hope that it inspires some newer listeners to look beyond the currently dominant "Spiritual" canon. I have 68 of the 109 recordings mentioned filed, and several more that I sold off over the years. I was hoping that number would be higher, so I've got some work to do! Mary Lou Williams Signs of the Zodiac Vol. I Mary Lou Williams Signs of the Zodiac Vol. II Stan Kenton City of Glass Charles Mingus & Spaulding Givens Strings & Keys Lennie Tristano Classics In Jazz: The Capitol Session Le Sun-Ra and His Arkistra "Saturn"/"Call For All Demons" Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity Eric Dolphy & Ron Carter Esoteric Sound Studios Acetate Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Free Jazz Jimmy Giufffre Free Fall Giorgio Gaslini Oltre Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons/Clifford Jordan/Don Cherry It Is Revealed Tom Prehn Qvartet Axiom Sonny Rollins Our Man In Jazz New York Contemporary Five Recorded 'Live' At Jazzhus Montmartre Vol. 1 New York Contemporary Five Recorded 'Live' At Jazzhus Montmartre Vol. 2 Bengt Nordstrom Natural Music Paul Bley Quintet Barrage The Contemporary Jazz Quintet Action Sunny Murray Sonny's Time Now New York Art Quartet New York Art Quartet François Tusques Free Jazz John Coltrane Meditations Sun Ra and His Myth Arkestra When Angels Speak of Love Roscoe Mitchell Sound Don Pullen & Milford Graves In Concert At Yale University Hugh Steinmetz Nu! Patty Waters College Tour Barney Wilen Zodiac Don Cherry Where Is Brooklyn? Gato Barbieri In Search of the Mystery Steve Lacy The Forest and the Zoo Alexander Von Schlippenbach Globe Unity Charles Tyler Eastern Man Alone Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble Freedom & Unity Han Bennink & Willem Breuker New Acoustic Swing Duo Lester Bowie Numbers 1 & 2 Peter Brötzmann Octet Machine Gun The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Han Bennink/Misha Mengelberg/John Tchicai Instant Composer's Pool Spontaneous Music Ensemble Karyobin Marzette Watts The Marzette Watts Ensemble Black Unity Trio Al-Fatihah Marion Brown Le Temps Fou Dave Burrell Echo Togashi Masahiko Quartet We Now Create: Music For Strings, Winds, and Percussions Joe McPhee Quartet Underground Railroad Michel Portal Our Meanings and Our Feelings Sonny Sharrock Black Woman Archie Shepp Blasé Alan Shorter Orgasm Horace Tapscott Quintet The Giant Is Awakened John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica Afrodisiaca Yosuke Yamashita Trio Dancing GL Unit Orangatang! Jimmy Lyons Other Afternoons Friendship Next of Kin Facets of the Universe Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble Heliopolis Ric Colbeck Quartet The Sun Is Coming Up Full Moon Ensemble Crowded With Loneliness Jan Garbarek Quartet Afric Pepperbird Masayuki Takayanagi/Kaoru Abe 解体的交感 Kaitai Teki Kōkan Tony Oxley 4 Compositions For Sextet Evan Parker/Derek Bailey/Han Bennink Topography of the Lungs Mario Schiano Trio If Not Ecstatic We Refund Edward Vesala Trio Nana Abdul Hannan The Third World Art Ensemble of Chicago Phase One Anthony Braxton For Alto Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communications Orchestra Seasons Masahiko Togashi & Mototeru Takagi Isolation Masahiko Sato Trio In Berlin - Penetration London Jazz Composer's Orchestra Ode Julius Hemphill Dogon A.D. Noah Howard The Black Ark The J.R. Mitchell/Byard Lancaster Experience Live At Manchester College Evan Parker & Paul Lytton Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) Peter Kowald Quintet Peter Kowald Quintet Kaoru Abe 1972 Winter Frank Wright Quartet Church Number Nine Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe Duo Exchange Black Artists Group In Paris, Aries 1973 Rudiger Carl King Alcohol (New Version) Emergency Homage To Peace Dewey Redman The Ear of the Behearer Ray Russell Secret Asylum Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio Pakistani Pomade Cecil Taylor Unit Akisakila The Phil Musra Group Creator Spaces Howard Riley Synopsis Jeanne Lee Conspiracy Mount Everest Trio Waves For Albert Ayler Toshiyuki Tsuchitori & Mototeru Takagi Origination Schweizer/Carl/Moholo Messer Milford Graves Babi Ensemble Muntu First Feeding Percussive Unity Only Change Is Unchanging - Percussive Unity Live Arthur Doyle Plus 4 Alabama Feeling Louis Moholo Octet Spirits Rejoice! David S. Ware From Silence To Music Polly Bradfield Solo Violin Improvisations Andrew Cyrille/Jeanne Lee/Jimmy Lyons Nuba Feminist Improvising Group Feminist Improvising Group Borbetomagus Borbetomagus Lokomotiv Konkret Lokomotiv Konkret LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams Direct Waves Vario II Vario II John Zorn Pool

“We Dig Dixieland Jazz” Savoy/Denon cd, re-issuing an lp compiling an Eddie Condon session and a Sidney Bechet session.

Help the poor people and save the children.

The Iron Horse Cafe, Northampton, MA. Last night. Anna Webber Nonet: Anna Webber (tenor sax, flute), Yuma Uesaka (clarinets), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor and soprano sax), Ryan Easter (trumpet), DoYeon Kim (gayageum), Mary Halvorson (guitar), David Virelles (piano), Chris Tordini (bass), Ches Smith (drums). World premiere of new music composed by Anna.

Just ordered, together wit the Bob Crosby set. All considered, I prefere a purchase directly from Mosaic, than the Europe's dealers, a bit too expensive.