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A top 10 Blue Note release for me, some of the most perfect jazz music ever played.

Great album, good reminder!

very nice lineup

This is about my impression after 4 listens. I appreciate that the notes (which are uniformly excellent) don't try to overinflate the contents, emphasizing that not only is the classic Coltrane quartet only newly in place, but Coltrane's performing relationship with Dolphy, especially as it relates to this new direction, is at the beginning of its fruition. It is not hard to hear the difference between this performance and the ones from later 1961 onward-- they are definitely feeling this music out. So I appreciate it on that level.

Selling 3 Dylan Bootleg Series box sets. all essentially like new with mild storage wear to the outer boxes SOLDxxxThe Cutting Edge 6xCD $70 SOLDxxxThe Complete Basement Tapes 5xCD $60 SOLDxxxFragments 5xCD $40

The great trumpet player Oscar Brashear has passed away. Maybe best known to jazz folks for his excellent contributions to small ensemble albums by Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Joe Henderson, and others, but he was also a prolific session musician who played on hundreds of recordings, many of which I'm sure you know. A cursory skim through his Wikipedia page should give you an idea of the breadth of his contributions. RIP, and thanks for the music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Brashear

Yes, he plays with him regularly but I believe this has only resulted in one recording, which I enjoy quite a bit https://www.thelab.org/2018/2018/12/7/roscoe-mitchell

Also have pretty much all of this but this is the first of the new BN sets where that's the case that is compelling because it's such a perfect body of work.

Well, might be irreconcilable but if you haven’t heard him with Roscoe Mitchell that may help. Berman is a major favorite of course!

Have you listened much to Ambrose Akinmusire?

Have these on the way from serpent.pl $50 USD all in, not too shabby for 5 CDs from Poland.

speaking only for the new music rather than the archival/reissue titles: as I said earlier, the Rempis disc is just fantastic and will be in rotation for quite some time. the Agnel/Lanz/Vatcher disc is right up my alley, a left of center trio thing that rewards return listens. I will be listening to the hEARoes trio more to crack it open some more. I really love the Loriot/Kahn/Walfarth as well and have been compelled to listen to it again and again. I guess to keep this short, lastly I am really looking forward to acquiring Live At Plus-Etage Volume 1 on CD and will certainly be listening to that alot; I really enjoy pulling out these small box sets with different musicians on them to listen to one or all of the performances.

Some more of my favorites from the second quarter of this year: Actual Music (Tatsu Akoi/David Pavkovic) - Actual Music Now (FPE) Agnel/Lanz/Vatcher - Animals (Klanggalerie) Gonçalo Almeida - Ciclos (Cylinder Recordings) Albert Ayler - More Lost Performances Revisited (ezz-thetics) Elsa Bergman - Playon Crayon (Bergman Inspelningar) Bertrand Denzler - Low Strings (Confront) Marion Brown Quartet - Mary Ann (Live In Bremen 1969) (Mooscius) Mark Feldman/Tim Daisy/Dave Rempis - SIROCCO (Aerophonic) Milford Graves/Arthur Doyle/Hugh Glover - Children of the Forest (Black Editions Archives) Petra Haller & Meg Morley - Shoulders I Stand On (self-released) Diego Hedez & The Sounds of Freedom Project - Don't Just Call It Freedom (577) Sven-Åke Johnasson/Jeanne Lee/Gunter Hampel/Freddy Gosseye/Michael Waisvisz- Scheisse '71 (Black Truffle) Zlatko Kaučič/Boštjan Simon – Žepi/Pockets (Jazz Cerkno Records) Brandon López - vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (Tao Forms) Frantz Loriot/Jason Kahn/Christian Wolfarth – Köln (Editions) Malombo Jazz Makers - Down Lucky's Way (Tapestry Works) Pascal Niggenkemper - Bloc (Subran) Lesley Mok- The Living Collection (American Dreams) Ivo Perelman/Dave Burrell/Bobby Kapp - Trichotomy (Makahala) Vance Purvey/Whit Dickey/Spin Dunbar - 1983, Motifs 2023 (nhic) William Roper, Cassia Streb, & Tim Feeney - Avenue 64 (Infrequent Seams) Mark Sanders/Hyelim Kim/John Edwards - Senstive To Light (Shrike) Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions - brutalovechamp (Pryroclastic) Giacomo Salis/Paolo Sanna - Acoustic Studies For Sardinian Bells (Falt) Dave Scott - Song For Alice (Steeplechase) Sun Ra And His Arkestra – Saturn XIII (Presspop) Craig Taborn/Joëlle Léandre/Mat Maneri: hEARoes (RogueArt) Birgit Ulher/Carol Genetti/Eric Leonardson - horizontal shift (Amalgam) Ove Volquartz/Gianni Mimmo/Peer Schlechta/John Hughes - Cadenza Del Crepuscolo (Amirani) Various - Live At Plus-Etage Volume 1 (New Wave of Jazz) Looking forward to: -3xCD Steve Swell & friends box set + Joëlle Léandre bass duo on Not Two -the next 6 from Fundacja Słuchaj, 3 of which are out now, incl. Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band, Francois Carrier & friends 3xCD box, Swell/Tokar/Kugel trio, and a disc with our friends Alexander Hawkins & Karl Evangelista w/ Tatsu Akoi and Michael Zerang

Sorry to hear that, been having similar issues that have thankfully resolved for the time being. It's the worst. Hopefully I will be able to track down some video of these sets.

Amazing. Jealous! btw, maybe I missed it but I would love to hear your thoughts on anything you saw at Vision.

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Orange Fish Tears is coming in September, vinyl & CD.

I'll take it.

i’m at a loss as to how to encompass the breath of his music— so many recordings over so many years of such immense quality. it will just have to be here forever, because we will never see another like him again.

Unsure of his health, but I don’t think he’s played for several years now. The last recording I know of is from Café Oto in 2017.

There are not. After this (with the exception of Rising Tones Cross) the next most recent Gayle recording I know of is the 1987 duo with William Parker on the Centering box. Then in 1988 he begins his recording career. I once read a news article about him that I think was from the 1970s, but I'm not able to turn it up right now. It had a lot of background about his involvement in music and education in the Buffalo area in the 60s and 70s, giving you a sense of what he was up to and who he was playing with (I think he even had a semi-steady group for a time), but it seems most of that is lost to the ether. This is just a layman's theory that I have never put to the test (and honestly I don't know that I'm capable of doing it), but I've come to feel that Gayle may be the only saxophonist in this idiom that does not have a basis in either late Coltrane or Ayler-- I am trying to think of another that I can't at least tangentially link to those streams and I'm coming up short (Arthur Doyle's approach is obviously quite sui generis but I do hear a lot of 1966/67 Coltrane there).

No, the Arkestra has still played consistently since his passing as a community organization of sorts, so he's certainly not there but in spirit.

No, it's a bit confusing, you have to click through on each track to see when it's from-- the other tracks on the set are from 1971, 1981, 1995, 2009, and 2019. The label is The Village, same one that did the Tapscott/Session LP and recent PAPA 12"

Very intriguing recording on this new Pan Afrikan People's Akrestra retrospective LP. A ca. 1961 recording of a Tapscott small group with this lineup. On a cursory listen it certainly does sound like it could be Jimmy Woods, but I'd wonder if anyone here could make a more positive ID: Arthur Blythe - Sax Jimmy Woods or Guido Sinclair - Sax Lester Robertson - Trombone Horace Tapscott - Piano David Bryant - Bass Bill Madison - Drums *This configuration is a likely band based on existing information https://panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.bandcamp.com/track/the-golden-pearl

That's an awesome disc, just about as close as we can get to imagining the not-to-be ESP album. He seems to be a controversial player but I don't find him boring in the least. At his best he's among the most riveting musicians I've ever heard. Just my opinion though.