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I'm sure this is excellent and it is a must-buy, but the squeaky cog in me wonders why Feldman doesn't try to secure unheard music from Lacy's vast (and afaik, unplaced) tape archive for proper release.

Heard from some mutual friends/collaborators that the Minneapolis-based guitarist, improviser, songwriter, and left-field artist Michael Yonkers has died. I don't have a birthdate handy but he was born in 1947, making him 78-79. He performed and recorded with Michael & The Mumbles and the Michael Yonkers Band (garage rock, psych-rock), as a solo singer-songwriter/performer with 'experimental leanings,' and improvised music with Milo Fine/Blue Freedom's New Art Transformation. Many of his records and CDs were self-released starting in the early 1970s. I believe that his health kept him from public performance in recent years. Fascinating character; glad to have seen him perform solo a few times, though that was many years ago. RIP.

I love that they are releasing these. More more more!!!

Awful. RIP. I think he was mostly active before I became a member here. His profile shows he did check in this month.

Damn, that's terrible news. He had not posted here in ages, and I am not on Facebook so was unaware of his health issues. Great guy, that's for sure. RIP!

Yeah, he did, but it might not be in the book. exactly.

Agree about almost all of that.

The Britten, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Boris Chaikovsky discs therein.

To buy or not is not for me to say, but that is definitely worth hearing (to these of one's ability) a few times or more.

Yes, a nice guy indeed. He had ties to the Kansas City area.

Oh no...what a great guy! RIP

I got that set a few years ago and concur. This additional box must be outstanding, though I haven't purchased it because I own some of the individual discs (Gesualdo and De Wert, which are great and I definitely recommend). Of course there are many excellent alternatives for Gesualdo. I very much like the Kassiopeia Quintet on Globe.

Fwiw, a decade later, glad I sprung for the Venexiana box (though these days I mostly listen to the music on Spotify). Highly recommended! I need to check out some of this ensemble’s other work.

I see on his Facebook page that formerly active member Free For All aka Paul McKee, trombonist and teacher, has died. If you were friends with him on FB you followed his fight with cancer over many months/years, always in the company of his adorable cat, Norman, and supported by wife Angie. I feared this day was coming sooner than later after he announced that he was going into hospice care. RIP.

There is some great playing in there but when the sax is playing the piano and drums are nearly inaudible. The recording level is probably too high and the sax distorts. There is some sort of clipping or distortion on the cymbals even when the sax is absent. The bass is pretty much nonexistent throughout. It's interesting but not really pleasant listening. Streaming it is fine for me - I can't see buying it because I would rather listen to other, well recorded performances of the same tunes from around the same time.

I have no problem with the sound of the recording. If the recording appears on CD, I will buy it.

Photo caption: Summer 1962. L to R: Robin Shaw, Peter Nelson, Mitch Mitchell, Tony Hall, and Vic Briggs. Photo from Jimi Hendrix: Inside the Experience book (by Mitch Mitchell) www.whiteplainschronicles.com/2018/06/pete-nelson.html

Amen to that. Maybe my favorite rock drummer — or certainly in my top-3.

Sadao Watanabe – Morning Island

I read the Parker biography Universal Tonality (by Cisco Bradley) a few years ago and don't recall many (if any) mentions of Parker playing with white "Downtown" artists. But I read it through interlibrary loan, my recollections can't be trusted, and I don't have it on hand to check. Just requested the book again, so by next week I'll be able to research that issue.