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thank you! Yeah, I feel like it is pretty unique and I was so glad to get to know Herbert a bit.

That made a big splash at the time

Tim Berne - alto & baritone saxophones Guillermo E. Brown - drums Roy Campbell - trumpet Daniel Carter - flute, alto, & tenor saxophones Ed Coxon - violins Mat Maneri - acoustic & electric viola Evan Parker - soprano saxophone William Parker - double bass Matthew Shipp - piano George Trebar - acoustic & electric double bass John Coxon & Ashley Wales - all other instruments

I still buy new books. . . though a good amount of the time I have been buying them from Daedalus Books which are cut-outs etc. at reduced prices. They often have books I am interested in reading. Also I've been buying some books from favorites Rex Stout and A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner), which are newly re-published titles that have been out of print for fifty years or more that Hard Case Crime et al have been printing.

Now spinning this LP: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Mehta, LAPO (London, 1975) A terrific performance enhanced by typically exquisite Decca AQ. For this listener, Scheherazade is one of those works that never fails to cast its magic spell. Absolutely.

Today I bought a copy of Mark Murphy's "Rah" from a charity shop. This an album I bought on CD in around 1995, which I'd never heard on vinyl until today. I could probably sing every note of that CD, so often did I listen to it all those years ago. As such, I was most surprised to hear that "My Favourite Things" on vinyl contains several choruses not present on the CD - new choruses referencing Miles, Coltrane, Anita O'Day, Basie, Cannonball etc. I wonder why these were cut from the OJC CD?

A beautiful album.

Ha! I wondered at that too.

Op.59/3 and Op.95

Read your interview with him again when playing the album, thank you so much for that, it's a very useful resource on an aspect of the Dutch Jazz scene that hasn't been covered that much elsewhere

Pretty silly & inconsequential article that doesn't really say anything much at all. I've tried to listen to her playing as widely as I can. Sometimes it really clicks, other times it doesn't. Bahkti is a strong recording, and I've particularly enjoyed some sets from YouTube with gabby fluke-mogul as a foil. I saw her play a truly stunning duet with Joe McPhee a few months ago that proved she has an advanced ability to listen. It just doesn't seem like she puts herself in the position to do that very much right now. I will just say that what I heard of the Beings album did not do a thing for me and leave it at that.

Stanley Turrentine 'Mr Natural' (BN Tone Poet)

Zoh Amba- Bhakti Has its moments but possibly not "the greatest free jazz album of 21st century" as per the introduction to her sets at Café Oto last night

❤️❤️❤️ ....

good one! RIP Herbert Noord...

"Steve Gunn texted me" = way to name drop. Zoh's music is kind of a simulacrum of something greater, and I don't really get the hype. But she's on the scene and doing what she does and I wish her luck. I like Gunn and White a lot, not really here for Shazad or Zoh, but will probably check the album out at least.

It is your chance to see what a But Beautiful chapter on Albert Ayler would have looked like.

NP: Art Farmer - Yesterday's Thoughts (East Wind/Test of Time, 1976) with the "Magic Triangle" rhythm section: Cedar Walton, Sam Jones & Billy Higgins

Works well, even if the air pressure increases 😎 ....

🙄OMG. I could not finish But Beautiful and am not sure I want to click on the link.

I had a history/ancient Civ teacher in high school, real hard-ass that kids joked about but he really brought the material to life and I enjoyed his classes. Wish I could think of his name ... He had one go-to line I can never forget. Whenever some ancient ruler executed an enemy or slaughtered a captured army, it was " and that's one way to ... get a head."

Thanks for forwarding! Geoff Dyer, though... I somehow managed to get to the end of But Beautiful, and this is giving me flashbacks.

After running across an old obituary for one of my Tulane history professors, I recalled a joke he shared in class. Years earlier, he had a young co-ed, Miss Minor, in a class, where he shared a joke about Paul Revere's famous ride. Dr. Esthus said, "You are aware of Paul Revere's famous ride. He rode up to the first house and shouted the alarm. A light appeared as a woman came to the window. 'Is your husband at home?' 'Yes!' 'Tell him the British are coming.' He went to the next home and a woman appeared and he asked, 'Is your husband at home?' 'Yes!' 'Tell him the British are coming.' He rode to the next home and a woman appeared and he asked, 'Is your husband at home?' 'No.' 'Whoa!'" At that point, the co-ed, Miss Minor, wanted to share her knowledge that Revere was arrested by the British before completing his ride and she shouted out, "Dr. Esthus, do you know that he didn't go all the way?" It always got a roar, even if some of his other jokes were lame and one of his monotone lectures actually put a good friend to sleep for a few minutes next to me in the front row. I still remember the 1950s sportcoats and narrow short ties he wore, like he could have been a walk on in a 1950s sitcom.

or you can get 5LPs (57-61) on 3 CDs via Fresh Sounds (all of the above minus the Atlantic with an Argo LP "Dorothy Ashby" added) https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/dorothy-ashby-albums/5708-the-jazz-harpist-5-lps-on-3-cds.html?search_query=dorothy+ashby&results=1