David Ayers

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I'm afraid they do for me pretty much what Clouseau does for Dreyfus.

I'm very glad to see some or all of the Art Ensemble box come out as individual issues. The box was a great thing in its time but also made it harder for the curious to dabble. I certainly don't love everything played on these sessions, and to my mind less is more and first editing thoughts were best. It might also be thought that some of this music is less accomplished than later AEoC offerings, but I don't really agree. To my mind these are ur-texts of musical surrealism, and for that reason more interesting than much of what followed. I felt the box perhaps obscured what was valid in the set by including items such as warm-ups that only had a documentary value. Recasting the set as individual CDs might make clearer to listeners what was first selected for LP release - something that the box set leaflet did not make clear.

Some intense playing on this album. Long and skippable drum solo on Night in Tunisia. Cautious thumbs-up... pretty good in fact.

Can't argue with the cover of Scagly. Liquid Love on the other hand makes me feel slightly queasy.

Spooky. There aren't many of us left alive. So all the other board members who failed the test must be ...{gulp} ...dead...? IT'S LIKE 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good news! Like you I've got a fair few of these euromosaics - I find the non-Mosaic number on the spine jarring, since it is all I can see of these sets most of the time!

Well it sure as heck isn't this one then...

WAYNE SHORTER ODYSSEY OF ISKRA - WITH DAVE FRIEDMAN/ CECIL MCBEE 1970 Out of Print BLUE NOTE £10.00 SH CDP7843630 JULIUS WATKINS FRANK FOSTER/ HANK MOBLEY/ OSCAR PETTIFORD/ DUKE JORDAN 1954-5 BLUE NOTE CONNOISSEUR £8.00 724349574922 Seller is http://www.jazzhouserecords.co.uk/ - items not yet on website

Are you talking about this one?

Hey DON'T be - most of us including me never had a chance on most of these, and lots of folks now only buy CDs...

Yeah great list - thanks for typing it. I got about one of all those...

I like Threadgill, and I like the *idea* of Threadgill, and I've enjoyed hearing him live, but for whatever reason many of his recordings now leave me cold. There will always be a place in my heart for Just the Facts, and of the trios (most or all of which I own in one or other format) I generally reach for the Nessa. Though I was excited to hear the double tuba group in concert I never felt the recordings worked that well. I never warmed to the Columbias at all. It's the kind of thing I might come back to and feel differently again, but that's how it stands for me with the recordings at this moment. I'd go to a Threadgill concert any day of the week though and be thrilled to be there.

You know, I found this thread because I searched for a K2 list on google. This page was the first link! That confirms this site as a top source of jazz information on the internet (and it's not the first time that happened). But now I have the list (uhh, without Monk/Evans sets which I own already though that isn't supposed to stop you 'upgrading' them) I've just gone back to my usual sense of queasiness in the face of oceans of reissues of these same damn titles...

Maybe you can post the write-up here too? I hope other board members will be encouraged to check out this book.

Well... yeah. Has anyone yet had the 'long since corrected' disk? Since the digital downloads were and still are affected by this (as can be discerned fromn the reported track durations on itunes) I'm not sure the PMCD explanation covers it. For those of us who want the fixed disk (and didn't buy the dud) how do we know what we are buying...? Still, at least we can begin to hope!

Yeah - picked this one up and been reading it. It's in bookstores at the moment so there's a good opportunity to check it out. A lot of information, but a lot you don't already know. Probably most interesting for discussion of 1890s-1920s, lots of background you might not know, and for sections on Johnson. It's well researched and rich in detail, and right now I'd set it alongside the DeVeaux book as one of the recent jazz books I've learned (or am learning) the most from.

Thanks guys! I'm at a conference in Boston so it was a (pleasant) working day for me yesterday. Today I'm taking it easy...

Well YESTERDAY I was happily listening to Spotify on my netbook here in Boston, quite surprised that I could... then TODAY I tried to open Spotify and McAFEE treated it as a virus and without asking me stripped out ALL the software. Go figure...

Thanks! I'll investigate...

Quick query - any jazz in Boston this Saturday? (saw the other thread - different weeks...)

Hey! Happy Birthday! (Can't beat that last post...)

Since people keep mentioning Grass Roots, I'll throw in my 0.02 and say that I love this album. It is always surrounded with apologetics, even in the original liner notes. I don't really understand why. Grass Roots and Lift Every Voice get lumped together as both iffy. Personally I'd put Grass Roots pretty high on the scale of Hill albums. Sure it is more inside than much of his work, but there are some subtle solos from Hill and some great work from the front line on both the sessions included on the CD. The recorded quality is clear and attractive. I'd hate to think anyone was put off hearing this by loose talk!

Well, yeah, but the music is well known, so the rating is really for the set as such. Maybe. A similar booboo was reported on the Hampton wasn't it? Was that one ever fixed?