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This is a pretty obscure one, there's is also a Fresh Sound 2xCD of 1981 live recordings called Live At Carmelo's Jazz Club with a decidedly more all-star band including Sal Nistico and Shelley Manne. Have you heard that? If so how would you rate it against Steppin' ?

The great and rather mysterious alto player Claude Lawrence has a wonderful youtube channel that features his playing and painting. He has only a few recordings with The Last Poets, Sirone, William Hooker, and an underheard trio date on CIMP with Wilbur Morris and Denis Charles. https://www.youtube.com/@clawrencemx/videos

Finally got my copy in hand. The sound is great, less airless 80s sounding than the LP, the balance is perfect and very natural. Denis Charles' drums sound fantastic but it's especially great to have such clarity on Rafael Garrett, whose mature playing is far too sparsely documented.

Got this the other day and have been listening to it quite a bit. It's a really substantial document, clocking in over 150+ minutes. Sound is quite good. The music is very expansive in scope and dynamic for being a club date. No blowing exercises, everything seems rehearsed and worked over and the band plays as a band, not Marion plus. And 2,5 hours of Steve McCall is always going to be welcome. Above all it's great to have this much more music from Marion's early European period, I think this is when his playing was at its peak (i.e. Porto Novo, Le Temps Fou, In Sommerhausen, Gesprächsfetzen). He was always a personal player with a quiet confidence, but I think this is when that confidence was at its strongest, and when he's beginning to take in some new concepts and techniques that will eventually come to flower on Afternoons of A Georgia Faun, Sweet Earth Flying, and Geechee Recollections-- namely the amount of sheer space in this music. It really breathes. Can't recommend this enough, if you're on the fence at all, get off it.

Sounds amazing, very much looking forward to the album.

Great news, and congrats. I'm looking forward to digging into this. Shipp is a reminder that history is still happening in this music, and so it's important to keep a document.

ha, just saw, right after I already placed my Marion Brown order that shipped out! thanks for the heads up!

Excited to hear this one.

Nice stuff. It can still be had for $15 or less, I paid about 10 several years ago. Wouldn't pay more for it, but nice to have.

Change of the Century and Evidence.

Andrew Hill's Smokestack certainly fits the bill with Roy, it's an unusually interactive album for Blue Note. Ditto Destination: Out!. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is another one where Roy goes off with Miroslav Vitous on one of the most intensely focused albums there is. RE: the Elvin question, some of my favorite Art Blakey playing is on the Herbie Nichols stuff, which definitely shows a different side of his playing. The bass in that music is a little more in a timekeeping role, but Blakey is hyper-responsive. Mingus & Danny Richmond on Trio. Obviously a lot of this in Paul Bley's early music. Keith Jarrett's standards trio seems maybe too obvious an answer (when they weren't overplaying, which .... is most of the time.) I can't say it's understated by *this* definition, but one of the best examples of this in Cecil Taylor's music is Student Studies; Silva and Cyrille are on another plane. It's hard to describe what they're doing. It's not holding back, but it's not playing out either. It's just deep deep deep, a whole other thing. Another standout in the free-ish realm is the Giuseppi Logan albums on ESP with Milford Graves and Eddie Gomez/Reggie Johnson. Ditto Graves on the Lowell Davidson LP alongside Gary Peacock. The classic Joe Maneri recordings are the definition of "deceptively quiet". Randy Peterson does things nobody else has ever done. The music in front of him burns with an understated intensity but he is always playing LOUD and at the same time, I think you can call it understated in some mystical way. Plenty of examples from the world of free improvisation, but I don't think that's really what you're looking for. In terms of "understated" playing, TR!O with Mats Gustafsson, Gunter Christmann, and Paul Lovens were always remarkably keyed in.

Great! Always love to hear your thoughts, keep it coming. The Lopez Trio is becoming an extremely strong unit, working uniquely at the intersection of texture and sound. I was cool on the first release but as they build this body of work I see the vision more & more. And they have a vision for the music, which is rare enough. Very much looking forward to grabbing Brandon's new solo disc on Tao Forms. I liked the gfm/Dunkelman duo OK but really enjoyed the string duo w/ Joanna Mattrey from a few months previous. Still haven't spent enough time with the Pride of Lions disc, I will pull it out this week and revisit. The Judson Trio 2xCD is a masterpiece, it's been on regular rotation here since it came out. I will be grabbing the new Taborn/Maneri/Leandre trio disc soon.

a favorite that I haven't seen mentioned yet is Milt Hinton's East Coast Jazz/5. No. 8 in that series by Hal McKusick is also a classic. Despite all the fine modern and mainstream jazz the label did I still think it's probably safe to say the Chris Connor and Mel Torme albums are the catalogue's crown jewels. I never really did get along very well with the 3 Mingus albums. They're fine but I always find them curiously muted in comparison to his other work in the 50s.

Here are a few from the first few months of the year that I've enjoyed: Beeferman/Evans/Foster/Hirsch - GLOW (Tripticks) Jaap Blonk/Damon Smith/Ra Kalam Bob Moses - Rune Kitchen (Balance Point Acoustics) Santiago Bogacz & Emiliano Aires - Retrato Años Después (Relative Pitch) Mário Costa/Cuong Vu/Benoît Delbecq/Bruno Chevillon - Chromosome (cleanfeed) Andrew Cyrille - Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt) Frank Denyer - Melodies (Another Timbre) Dry Thrust - The Less You Sleep (Trost) Seppe Gebruers - Playing With Standards (El Negocito) Takumi Ikeda - Improvisations (2022) (Ftarri) Joëlle Léandre - Zurich Concert (Intakt) Dave Liebman - Live At Small's (Cellar Music) Lo Escucho, Lo Pinto (All Night Flight) Lopez Trio - Matanzas (Relative Pitch) Szilárd Mezei/Zoltán Csányi/Vasco Trilla – Look In To My Eyes, I'm Watching You (Fundacja Słuchaj!) Nichunimu - Un Cacho de Metal, Un Resto de Vaiven (577) Eva Novoa - Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Vol. 1 (577) Tim Perkis & Tom Djill - KINDA (Artifact Recordings) Olaf Rupp/Ulrike Brand - Myotis Myotis (Creative Sources) folks who liked the Knuffke/McPhee disc should be sure to check this out as well, it was released to little fanfare, but it's very strong https://mahakalamusic.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes-the-air-is

I just sold my original LP, which I bought sealed/unplayed, in favor of the new CD. It sounds perfectly fine to me.

I personally think they're crazy not to redo the Tolliver Selects in a big box with The Ringer, Paper Man, and Live At The Loosdrecht Jazz Festival. The second of those was barely even in print. Tolliver's music overall has suffered availability issues that are still unaddressed.

I noticed that but it's more than twice as expensive as DG and says it won't arrive until June?

I guess I will just order direct from the label via bandcamp. It didn't last 30 minutes at Dusty Groove & who knows when they'll restock it.

I'm pretty sure the only part of the Mosaic that's exclusive is the previously unreleased X-75 pt. 2 session. Otherwise all of the albums on it are cheap and easily obtainable secondhand, especially the 90s Columbia CDs (which are my favorites of the bunch).

Ah you’re right, it was harder to read on bandcamp. Again completing a widely available date in favor of cutting a rare one. More pointless decisions.

Well that's concerning. Hopefully only temporary? I hope there is a plan to manage the large existing inventory of CDs. There is so, so much great music there that can only be ordered direct.

Still have a lot of qualms about this whole enterprise, but it's nice to see him moving back towards Fontana and BYG (and to a far lesser extent, ESP). There is also a disc that combines both Noah Howard ESP albums and one that appears to combine Ketchoua and Scorpio both forthcoming. The NYAQ and Howard also don't have any tracks missing, which is good. If he could get Other Afternoons on CD for the first time (maybe paired with the Cyrille solo BYG?) then we'd be getting *somewhere*. But to keep the negativity flowing, the (admittedly "official") Ayler disc combining Spiritual Unity and a paltry 2 tracks from My Name Is Albert Ayler is ridiculous.

Will definitely check this one out. Wouldn’tve expected to see Brö on this label.

This was repped by the official Marion Brown IG account (run by his son), so however it came about it does have the family’s blessing. https://www.instagram.com/p/CrHkd95OysD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Much joy lies ahead for you! This is a great record, and I'm glad it's on streaming. I wish I'd gone in on the LP when it was ~$90 a few years ago. Rate is about $300 minimum these days for some reason.