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This session is being issued on a 2xLP curated by John Corbett that also has some rare Brotzmann, Sun Ra, and Tommy ‘Madman’ Jones recordings: https://drownedworldrecords.com/products/want-list-2lp

Just worth noting this could fit on about 20 CDs. In the last several years alone Columbia has released these Bob Dylan sets: The 1966 Live Recordings - 36 CDs Rolling Thunder Revue (The 1975 Live Recordings) - 14 CDs The 1974 Live Recordings - 27 CDs Rolling Thunder Revue (The 1976 Live Recordings) - 39 CDs The 1966 box currently sells for about $70 brand new. Not holding my breath, I think they've made up their minds and likely for ultimately good reasons, but still. That said, I am a little surprised that they didn't take this opportunity to release a CD box set of all the Impulse! CD releases a la the Miles Columbia box. I can't imagine they wouldn't find an equally sufficient audience for that as the Miles set seemed to do well enough.

It's on my buy list!

Now is about the time of year that I need to ramp up my new listening and purchases, a lot left to hear. But so far these are some standouts: Josh Berman Trio - Everybody Else's Life, Too (Corbett vs. Dempsey) - almost certain to be album of the year for me Steve Beresford/Pierpaolo Martino/Mark Sanders - Be S-Mart (Confront) Ahmed - Plays Monk (Otoroku) Ran Blake - Voices (Tzadik) Greg Kelley/Yoona Kim - Distractions For Trumpet & Ajaeng (Relative Pitch) Amanda Irrazabal - Imprimiendo (Relative Pitch) Goal Weight - Keep Telling Yourself That (Relative Pitch) The Handover - New Old Medicine (Sublime Frequencies) Yvone Rogers - The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) Pascal Niggenkemper Ensemble Tuvalu - d'une rive à l'autre (Subran) Looking forward to/need to pick up: Rempis Outskirts & Ballister + Luke Stewart discs, upcoming Kris Davis Trio, some of the latest Fundacja discs, upcoming Melford Fire & Water on RogueArt, new Zooid, two new Random Acoustics titles, Michael Moore Universal Quartet, Stephan Crump and Brandon Seabook on Out of Your Head In terms of archival releases: Cecil Taylor New Unit - Words & Music (Fundacja Sluchaj!) Evan Parker/Paul Rogers/Louis Moholo - Tebugo (Jazz In Britain) Julius Hemphill/Marty Ehrlich - Circle The Heart (Relative Pitch) Marion Brown - Live In Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness) Pierre Favre Trio - Bird Food (Songs) Johari Salleh - Jazz Dari Angkasapuri (Audible Beauty) Just put in my order for the very exciting new Schlippenbach et al disc on CvsD and am looking forward to the upcoming Irene Schweizer solo from 1986 on Intakt. Eventually need to make an order for all the new Formalibera LPs (2 Tchicai, CJQ with Peacock & Murray, Hugh Steinmetz)

Both of these have just been reissued on CD in Japan, the MPS via Solid and the BYG via Ultra Vybe. Both are also on streaming and I’ve been listening to them along with Three Waves this week. It’s a shame this work never has had much distribution in the US, and I wonder how Kuhn might figure into the conversation about approaches to the piano trio in the 60s if they were better known. To me he seems to sort of split the difference between Bley and Evans (especially his orientation in up-tempo) and it’s an approach I find a lot more appealing than what Keith Jarrett was doing around the same time. Like Jarrett, he would go on to adapt a slightly different style starting with his (excellent) ECM discs, so these 66-69 recordings are especially valuable for catching him leading a group at that moment in his progression and in the very fluxy milieu of the music overall. I’d imagine these will get regular restocks at Dusty Groove until they’re out of print— the MPS disc is currently out of stock there but the BYG is currently available.

The Complete Louis Armstrong With Fletcher Henderson 1924-1925 (Forte) Louis Armstrong - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA) Louis Armstrong - The Big Band Sides 1930/32 (JSP) A Study In Frustration (The Fletcher Henderson Story) (Columbia) The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings Of Louis Prima And Wingy Manone (1924-1937) (Mosaic) Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang – The New York Sessions 1926-1935 (JSP) [decent budget replacement for the quite pricy Mosaic] Giants Of Jazz: Frank Teschemacher (Time Life) Gennett Jazz 1922-1930 & Paramount Jazz (JSP) Breaking Out Of New Orleans 1922-1929 (JSP) Jimmie Noone – Chicago Rhythm - Apex Blues (The Recordings Of Jimmie Noone 1923-1943) (JSP) Personally I don't know of a box set that compiles Bennie Moten's 20s recordings, but there are comprehensive volumes in the French RCA Black & White and Jazz Tribune series

He held down some very, very serious music. RIP.

The Mopomoso box is excellent.

Footage of Barre with Nero: Funny to think this post-dates his work with the likes of Shepp and Giuffre

words can only fail. an extraordinary artist.

Yes, lovely recording and nice to hear him really stretch out again.

Definitely on the shortlist of essential Tristanoite recordings

RIP. Great player all around, but also a crucial element of one of the greatest of all jazz recordings, Ne Plus Ultra.

Herman is Sold. Happy to mail out the Drummond CD to anyone who's interested.

Yes, phenomenal stuff. Only passing this on because it's a duplicate.