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Yes, sounds like he skipped Ayler and went to the source. I do remember reading about a small, very local pentecostalism that developed from some of the post Civil Wars sects and had survived in the Downs certainly into the 50s, documentation suggests. I wonder if a young Butcher came across them whilst seeking out local cisterns in which to practice. Also, just remembered Prevost's mention of the Diggers and Muggletonians and their influence on the early structural identities of improvisation in East Anglia. Possible cross-pollination? Have to say, I agree with your wife

I find Butcher's church influence increasingly apparent in his solo work. Funny how that can happen with age.

Keiji Haino & Peter Brötzmann - 'The Beginning Or The End, Which Will Be The First To Admit It's Opponent' from the Black Editions box set

If anyone's going to get more copies it's likely to be Oto, the set's producer is ex Oto staff

The Bear, series 2 'Fishes' episode aka Xmas with the Berzattos. Just great television

Thanks

RIP Casey Benjamin. It was a fine band with him, hopefully they'll find a way to continue without him

Thoughts? On my list to try and snag this evening

That's a good call I'd also add a vote for Peter Brötzmann's two sets '3 Nights In Oslo' and 'Long Story Short'

Nice one. Yes, I have it and was equally pleased when I bought mine. Haven't listened to it for a while but shall dig it out Whilst talking about Tchicai, have you got this one @Pim? Not to be missed https://www.discogs.com/release/4984604-John-Tchicai-Charlie-Kohlhase-Garrison-Fewell-Cecil-McBee-Billy-Hart-Tribal-Ghost

His most recent release https://www.discogs.com/master/3409174-John-Blum-David-Murray-Chad-Taylor-The-Recursive-Tree His Discogs shows at least 4 releases since 2020. Definitely still active

Played London last year with the quartet featured on Intakt

Lovely music

Billy Harper - Capra Black [Strata East, 1973] I really should play this more often

Terrific band

The Astral Spirits is not a subset. Different concert, from Glasgow. I bought my copy from Seymour Wright in person the other day and had a very pleasant short chat with him. He was very pleased with how both the box set and the AS double LP have come out. I haven't listened to the LP release yet.

That's less than I paid and I collected it from Café Oto!

I used to look at Burning Ambulance a fair bit before it went to Substack, not sure why not since. It covered a breadth of music, not just Jazz but predominantly so. It was always very readable. I'm hoping this will be good. CT deserves that at the very least, lots to get in.

The box set is very good indeed. I wasn't able to get to the Oto residency they did last week, bet that was blistering

Chad Taylor's always good I can't seem to get Brandon Lewis, all a bit blustery

Makes sense to make their releases available on a platform and retail outlet that is very widely used

Awen Ensemble - Cadair Idris Strong debut, fits nicely into the British pastoral Jazz lineage

Just got to 'The Bear'. Wasn't sure how it would stack up against all the hype and plaudits. A couple of episodes in and I can that it might

I bought the 5CD box set of [ahmed], two discs in and it's a blast. They're certainly developing a signature sound, possibly not for everyone, that's taking the acoustic quartet to places it rarely visits. https://ahmedquartet.bandcamp.com/album/giant-beauty

I bought the String Quartets as a leap of faith as much as anything else as I don't ordinarily listen to the format very much at all. As a big WLS fan I thought why not. They've definitely repaid my listening and give an enlightening perspective on his other writing. Without stating the obvious they sound to me very like WLS music and I'd say any fan of his would find them an interesting listen. There's variation and development across the set although as mentioned above the guests aren't providing a lot of that. How they compare to others' string quartets I'm not qualified to comment. I didn't buy 'Emerald Duets' as I already have a lot of WLS in duet but would love to hear the Bennink. As for ' Chicago Symphonies', I think I'm a bit of an outlier in finding that set a little underwhelming, maybe expectations were too high given the line up. I'm very excited about the mention of an Amina Claudine Myers collaboration. I'll buy that one.