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Hit me with music! Brutalize me with music now! I'm on a roll man. Fred Anderson and Robert Barry today on the way to a friend's house. We're building a porch onto the back of his house. That first track is so nice. Some really amazing moments there. I'm thinking I should start posting in the recommendations forum!

He seems to have an encyclopoedic knowledge of jazz drumming. I had the opportunity to speak to he and William Parker for a few minutes after a performance in Boston last year. Alvin Fielder's roots run deep. He was great. We discussed a few rudiments books as well. He is an inspiring figure for sure. Is he under-recorded, or am I just missing the boat?

Thanks guys. Man, everytime I see Alvin Fielder's name in a lineup I get excited. That man can play!

So low you can't get under it...

Yes it do. Hits me where I visit too.

It had been one of those days. I needed some healing, bad. Up in a hotel room getting hit over the head by Bean Bags. Good gawd help me! This is what I needed, bad. Sometimes hearing music for the first time at just the right moment just can’t be beat. Claude have mercy. Bells wouldn’t have done it, but it did yesterday. Not like this though. I was hoping Ayler would wash over me, which was wrong. There was some doubt in my mind, otherwise hope wouldn’t have come into play. Ayler demands everything, and I was giving some to hope. That don’t work. That just don’t work. And I knew it before I hit play. I wasn’t ready for Ayler, but I wanted to be. I wanted that cleansing. Bean Bags has become an instant personal favorite. Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, and Kenny Burrell with Tommy Flannagan, Eddie Jones, and Connie Kay playing in a very open and bluesy feel. It knocked me out before the first chorus of the first tune was over. The pure ‘jazz’ of it all takes that weight off my shoulders, that yoke off my back, and gently helps my head lift out of the cloud. I hope everyone has had an experience like this recently, or does again soon. There ain’t nothin’ like music.

I'm really looking forward to this show David. I've been finding out over the past year that Teddy Charles was a great part of a scene that I did not even know existed. A lot of this music is really connecting with me. Thanks for the heads up!

A friend of mine gave me Lines Burnt in Light a few years back. This was my first exposure to Evan Parker. I was blown away. I still cannot imagine owning more than one solo disc. There is so much to absorb! I love the phrase 'sonic illusion.' Very fitting, especially for Lines Burnt in Light. Great stuff when I'm in the mood. Maybe someday I will check out more Evan Parker based on this thread.

Out in the Afternoon was my introduction to Rahsaan, immediately, immediately, as in got in the car, went back to the store for more, followed by Rip Rig and Panic/Please Don't You Cry Now Beautiful Edith. I still think that these two are the most essential recordings in his legacy. I have a decent line of RRK discs on my shelf, but these are the two that I usually go to. Rip Rig and Panic was an album that I then dubbed onto cassette to listen to in the car. For years it was one of three cassettes that I had in that car, and I never got tired of that music. Jaki Byard Richard Davis Elvin Jones and Rahsaan. Wow. I wish there was more. I'm still hoping for a decent price on the box. I remember dave9199 getting a pretty good price a year or so ago. I'd love to have that thing!

Man, I picked this up last weekend and it is TOO DAMN HOT! Thanks for the recommendation! I've been looking for a copy since this thread first started. Great disc.

I haven't been able to get into Guillermo E. Brown much at all. Lack of subtleties. I can hear certain criticisms with LaRoca as well, but the playing I've heard has a certain tuffness that feels real and unforced.

The compact disc logo always ruins the composition. I'll be listening to this disc again very soon! I haven't participated in an AOTW in a while. It's about time I listen to this one again. Thanks! re: liner notes My copy doesn't have any. Instead, there's a crossword puzzle that is extremely difficult and, in my opinion, overly obscure. I haven't gotten a single clue!

Better late, and incomplete, than never! I loved this disc and can't wait to read the answers. 01 Whoa! What an intro. I really like how it settled into forceful ensemble free blowing. Swarming! It almost sounds like an orchestra tuning before a concert, but all moving in the same direction. This piece ended up sounding like something entirely different than I had expected. Great trombone solo. I can't guess who this band is, but it sounds top notch. 02 This has a festival sound. I like these bright march-style tunes. A nice rhythm. I count 6/8. The band sounds large and fiery. There is a lot of lateral movement beneath the trumpet solo. This is a nice theme. Straight forward call and response interspersed with the flute solo. I liked it. 03 Sort of reminds me of the Evan Parker solo recording that I have heard, Lines Burnt in Light, but not as impressive. This might be Evan Parker at an earlier stage. I don't know. I'm thinking not. 04 Great duet. Nice clarinet playing and the drummer is no slouch. I really don't know anyone so far. 05 Wow. This guy's really got it. What an amazing intro. Gorgeous. My guess is this is not an American band. This is fantastic. Brilliant traps solo with marimba vamp! I'm into this. I'm way into this. 06 Another wow. I like the phasing arrangement behind such a powerful voice. This is really beautiful music. Damn she has a range! 07 I'm batting zero and loving the hell out of it. Great music John. One bad ass drummer. Are you f'ing kidding me? That was an intro?! I'm out. I'm just going to read the answers at this point. Great disc all the way through!!!

Nice photos! I can't wait to hear the recording! Looking forward to the disc as well!

That is great! Congratulations!

This is a different documentary.

This is the key, folks. I have over a dozen PC's at work and two at home. Once I turn them on, they are never turned off except for cleaning (another key) and vacations. Turning a PC on and off produces much more stress on the machine than just leaving it on. You do have to reboot now and then to set things straight. ← This makes sense to me, and I do my best not to turn the PC's off, but what about laptops?

John, I just moved about 900 miles with my wife. It is amazing how much we've accumulated in such little time. Boxes and boxes of music. The movers were a total nightmare, but we're here now and everything is going well. That is all behind us now. It is always fun moving into a new home. Best of luck!

PM re: Jack Wilson, Lonnie Liston Smith, Valdo Williams.

Hey hey! Happy Birthday!

Please, everyone check in from London if you are reading. We are all hoping you're alright over here. I've been watching the news reports all morning. It is frustrating to try and understand why people go through with these things.

Well, I hate music, period. Pink Floyd is pretty cool though. I play my keyboard with mallets. Since AMM wasn't really making music, I guess its ok that I do check their stuff out. akanalog, maybe you should check out erstwhile. That label has a handful of guitarists that I'm sure you wouldn't realize were even playing guitar. One of them was a founding member of AMM. Glad to see people talking about Atom Heart Mother!

Well, they were thinking about it... ← Right! Maybe next time.

I swear that is what I was going to say! And what about ANYTHING from THE PROCRASTINATOR?

Here in Wilmington, NPR used to be the station that played the music you wouldn't ever hear unless you were playing it from your own collection. I just moved back after 6 years and NPR seems to be moving in the direction this thread describes. The good news is there is a new station, local commercials and all, sweepstakes, ticket giveaways, everything you'd expect from a pop station or what have you. They mainly focus on roots music and alt-country style stuff (this is North Carolina after all), but every once in a while they'll play a Charles Mingus tune! It is so funny. I haven't heard any other jazz on this station in the four weeks I've been back exept Charles Mingus tunes! And they are programmed in with everything else. WUIN The Penguin "A Different Kind of Bird" "We've Got the Music Down Cold." .:. I would certainly expect more from a college station though. I will definitely email KNTU re: Ornette. The college radio that I am used to is basically a free for all the majority of the time. The last person I would expect to find at the PD desk of a college station is a book burner.