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Thanks! I admit to not keeping up with Confront enough, it's a lot. Dog Star is new to me but looks excellent. Hammer, Roll, and Leaf is indeed great. I haven't heard Stumps from SAJ yet but Rotations is very strong, I need to pick up CDs of both sooner rather than later. And very much looking forward to hearing the new 2xCD from Cafe Oto once it hits the US, the overseas shipping is just too much for me. Plan to check out the Foster trio and Lifeline discs (as well as the new Shifa CD on Discus). The two latest McPhee discs on Klanggalerie and RougeArt are good quite good, as are the Graewe on Random Acoustics and the Perelman/Shipp on Tao Forms. Some others that I have enjoyed a fair amount so far: Das B - Love Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision Tatsuya Yoshida & Martin Escalante - The Sound of Raspberry and a lot of great archival stuff: Irene Schweizer, Marco Eneidi, Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe, Joe Maneri, Jimmy Lyons, Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley, AMM/Sachiko M, Stabbins/Tippett/Moholo, Joseph Holbrooke, Sun Ra So overall, hearing a lot of good new stuff but not a ton that is grabbing me overmuch.

I like Sloane also, and agree with your assessment, thanks.

I really like that one (I have it on an OJC CD).

What really turns me off with all of the Horace Silver live recordings I have heard are the faster tempos he chose on those gigs. I think e.g. Song For My Father is much less enchanting than the studio version.

More Beethoven. This time, it's the mighty Ninth conducted by Bruno Walter.

When Annie Ross fell ill during a stay in GB she stayed behind for health care/insurance reasons. Yolande Bavan was a short term replacement to fulfill the tour comitments and probably the only singer available on such short terms with the chops to handle the music. Pony Poindexter said in his memoirs that he thought she wasn't a jazz singer in his view and left soon after - there must have been some wild scat exchanges between LHR and him that unfortunately never were recorded. The MPS live album with Ross and Poindexter gives an idea of what they had been doing. I like Bavan, too, but she and Ross are totally different vocal worlds. Carol Sloane had subbed for Ross earlier - she would been a better choice.

What I would really like is a CD with all tracks from this session: 660202 JOHN COLTRANE SEXTET: Personnel: John Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone, flute, piccolo; Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; Ray Appleton, perc Location: 'Coast Records', San Francisco CA Date: 2/2/66 Engineer: Rudy Hill a. "Manifestation" (J. Coltrane) 11:44 CRC AU4950; Imp AS9223-2 more b. "Reverend King" (J. Coltrane) 10:45 CRC AU4950 more c. "Peace On Earth" (J. Coltrane) 9:03 Imp A9225, IA9360 more d. "Leo" (J. Coltrane) 10:08 Imp A9225 more NOTE:Sanders plays pic and ts on 660202a; Coltrane plays bcl and ts on 660202b. See Note for a discussion of this session. From http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/jcdisc66.htm

I am with Sangrey on this. And I'd completely forgotten Zev's involvement with the Palo Alto release (though I would have turned down the bass EQ -- jeez). He also bought and is hoarding the Kharma/Danola tapes, which should either be reissued or licensed to someone with the ability and interest in rereleasing that material (including some stuff that has never come out).

Once this happened to me I just kept going. Waldron is similar. Aebi is an acquired taste but a number of the songs I cannot think of without hearing her voice in my head, and that's a good thing.

There is not a whole lot of work with Bavan. I like it fine. . . it's another voice, another style than Ross, I can handle a different style injected in.

Now spinning: Norma Winstone - Somewhere Called Home (ECM, 1987) with John Taylor and Tony Coe

Yeah I’ve noticed it. It’s a lovely but huge discography to explore. I still have to skip the records where Irene Aebi is present in a very dominant way because I still have trouble enjoying her singing. I can have it in small doses though and that’s a step for me Still lots of works to discover. What a fascinating musician he was.

Ha!

What do you think of it? Bavan has never sounded "right" to me as a replacement for Annie Ross, but I've had limited exposure to the work with Bavan, and it may just be that my expectations were caught short by the differences in their styles.

Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan “Live at Basin Street East” RCA/BMG France cd

Bernie Senensky The Cookers Quintet The Path

Op.41/1 and Op.41.2

Have you listened to any Pablo Held or Portico Quartet? Portico 's Monument is a good album.

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Rich Perry - So in Love (Steeplechase)

Joe Farnsworth “In What Direction are you Heading?” Smoke Sessions cd