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I'm posting this album in the African Music thread because sonically it's most at home here. Famoudou Don Moye, Baba Sissoko and Maurizio Capone in tribute to Malachi Favors, Marcello Melis, Johnny Dyani and Djeli Baba Sissoko - really a joyous beautiful album with great percussion and grooves throughout. Highly recommended and available for $10 from Dusty Groove.

Enjoy. Ari is one of my favorites and Earma is a gem as well.

Working on reading this (per a recommendation from seeline): Fascinating stuff so far, although this book is going to end up costing me a fortune with all the music I need to buy to understand what they're talking about!

Got my CDs yesterday - thanks!

I saw the composition performed live at the Chicago Cultural Center last year and have been eagerly awaiting the recorded release ever since. Some of her most interesting work to date to my ears.

Am I correct in understanding the Center for Cultural Exchange is long gone Allen? Is Paul Lichter still doing any presenting these days?

I love Skip James - I mean that voice. I never thought about that latter issue although I'll listen for it now.

Offer closed. Rooster_Ties and Bill, I'll send out your box sets tomorrow.

In honor of Von being very much alive and still killin' as of my last live experience within the last month, I'll send a brand new sealed copy of Von's recent box set on Premonition Records to the first two people to post here and PM me with their address. Spread the Vonski gospel

Very sorry I missed the Chicago gig - just terribly bad timing for me yesterday evening.

Confirmed. Von is alive and well and you should let them know to stop spreading rumors otherwise.

The Painted Bride is in Philadelphia. The only Chicagoan on that list is Hamid Drake.

Do I see multiple Procul Harum memorabilia items in there?

Right, which is why I prefer lower wattage amps so you can get the power tubes really cooking. Also, let's make a distinction between overdrive, which is what you're getting when you get the tubes hot and push them, with a distortion which can really just be signal processing.

After thoroughly digging Acabou Chorare (can't recommend it highly enough) by Novos Baianos I just purchased another one by them today - Vamos Pro Mundo. I'll report back if it's up to the level of Acabou Chorare. Also bought Nara Leao's Nara '67 and Alaide Costa - Afinal. I'll report back about these as well once I've had a chance to listen.

Hey, at least you'd only be a few hours from Chicago - and a couple from Indianapolis if my geography is correct.

Went to the Velvet Lounge last night and caught the first set of the Ed Wilkerson, Tatsu Aoki, Michael Zerang trio. They used to play together pretty regularly, oftentimes at Michael Zerang's old space the Candlestick Maker (now reopened under a new moniker, Brown Rice, by other musicians). A great set - three long improvisations that featured Ed on clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor. A great musical dialog and some very interesting rhythmic ebbs and flows from Zerang and Aoki. Highly enjoyable.

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The Awakening was great last night. Packed house, probably 400-500 people there. Ari Brown lit the stage up on multiple occasions - if playing saxophone was akin to heavyweight boxing, I'd put my money on Ari against almost anyone. He had the house clapping and shouting during one particularly raucous blues, I thought he was going to cause a riot. Corey Wilkes was on all night and fit right in to their sound, and Ernie Adams was on fire on the drums. He's a drummer a lot of folks sleep on even in the local scene, just an incredible musician who fits in almost any context and does his thing. Some great new compositions from Ari Brown, TS Galloway and Ken Chaney, in addition to Spring Thing and Bronzeville Blues, two old tunes. They said they're going to record a new album with the new material sometime soon.

I'd be interested to see the study itself. Statistics like this can be extremely misleading - if your chance of developing brain cancer was %.042 before using a cell phone, then if that chance doubled it would be a whopping %.084 - definitely a double in risk, but maybe not a huge health scare for the world.

Thanks Johnny, it would be great to know. Nothing wrong with your opener though, just not my bag.

I'm planning on stopping by Chuck. I looked at the Velvet schedule and it appears that there's an opener before Reptet or Reptet is opening? I'd like to find what order they're playing as the other group on the bill doesn't do much for me...

Yes indeed. I will report back. I know that it's almost all new music - just a couple of the old tunes are going to be played.

A nice short video promo for The Mande Variations. Great footage of Toumani and also of some Kora makers which is fascinating to watch.

The Awakening reunion - Ken Chaney, Ari Brown, T.S. Galloway (aka Steve), Corey Wilkes, Josh Ramos, Ernie Adams.