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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.

Oh, for the love of... got that one, too. 🙄

There is an AACM connection with #4 (I only found out from opening frames of the youtube video), which maybe accounts for my "that sounds vaguely familiar" reaction.

A couple of years ago I asked my (semi-)local bookshop to order a jazz book (Sun Ra, I forget the title) for me. They told me they couldn't do it because it was published by a university press (although they sometimes stock university press releases 🤔). The shop is generally accommodating on special orders. Either the shop let me down or there's something strange about university press operations.

New season of Loot - needed something "light".