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My answer as well, though I will go so far as to say it is my favorite jazz ever recorded. Luckily there is a great wealth of material available from just two years of work, I never tire of any of it.

Word has come down— one of the true originals in this music is no longer. I am heartened that he lived a long life amidst great adversity and was able to leave us with so much of himself here on earth.

Great performance by Joe McPhee, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and Stefan Gonzalez in Dallas last night. Joe was as spry and lively as ever, playing as inimitably as ever. Truly a gift to share the room with him.

I gave a cursory listen to this upcoming release today and will revisit it: https://now-ezz-thetics.bandcamp.com/album/braids?label=2106108397 @clifford_thornton I will run through the newish RogueArt with Shipp & Butcher again soon. I loved the Fataka release when it came out but this didn’t do a ton for me during the few spins I gave it. Maybe just wasn’t in the right headspace at the time.

Correct, that's how I listened. Would prefer these on CDs but oh well.

Just to update the thread a bit, Butcher has played on many albums from the last few years that I've really enjoyed-- possibly moreso than ever: -Last Dream of the Morning - two discs on Relative Pitch & Trost -Blasphemious Fragments (Rastascan) w/ Gino Robair & Phil Minton -Fictional Souvenirs (Astral Spirits) w/ Pat Thomas & Ståle Liavik Solberg -Low Yellow (Jazzwerkstatt) w/ Wilbert de Joode & Martin Blume -Frisque Concordance - Distinct Machinery (Random Acoustics) -We met- and then (Relative Pitch) w/ Barre Phillips & Ståle Liavik Solberg ‎ -But Everything Now Left Before It Arrived ‎(Meena) w/ John Russell & Dominic Lash -Sounds Of Assembly (Meena) w/ Jennifer Allum, Ute Kanngiesser, & Eddie Prévost -Discernment (Spoonhunt) w/ Dominc Lash, John Russell, & Mark Sanders And then of course the 5xLP box set on Ni Vu Ni Connu, which was uniformly excellent but unfortunately only available on LP The only one that fell a bit flat to me was the reunion with Shipp & Lehn on RogueArt.

Great clips of Altena playing solo here alongside performance artist Teo Joling

Great price on that William Parker box. A beautiful package with tremendous music throughout, really essential stuff and getting hard to find.

Not sure it's possible to go wrong, he's a tremendous musician. He does have a bit of a two-part career, working within free improvisation and then onto composed music for medium-sized ensembles, which may be the part that's better known due to the ubiquity of the hat ART discs. Those are all uniformly excellent; some are original recordings and some are reissues of Claxon LPs, and he has many more on that label. Miere is a favorite but all of them that I've heard are good. There are also some quartet LPs, of which I have only heard Pisa. As for the free improvisation years I find these to be standouts. Unfortunately much of this work has not been reissued and is not easy to get ahold of these days. I would like to see that change someday. -Handicaps & Tuning The Bass (ICP): perhaps the most idiosyncratic of the "early" free solo bass LPs. They’re not discussed as much as those by Barre Phillips, Barry Guy, or Peter Kowald, but it's just as great. Badly need reissue. -Lumps (ICP): wild album with Steve Lacy, Han Bennink, & Michael Waisvisz. Again, I truly cannot believe no one has ever reissued this. -The Weavers (Po Torch): trio with Gunter Christmann & Paul Lovens. perhaps my favorite Po Torch record -The Fairly Young Bean (Emanem): very fun 1981 miniatures with Terry Day and John Russell -High, Low And Order (Claxon, later reissued on CD by hat ART): great duet with Lacy-- really among the great sax/bass duet albums -Two Making A Triangle (FMP): duet with Peter Kowald that was reissued in part with the Barry Guy duo LP on the Bass Duets CD. He can also be heard to great advantage on several Company recordings, Nedly Elstak's The Machine (ESP-Disk), an FMP duet with Tristan Honsinger, Burton Greene's amazing Célesphere (Futura), in a few of Gunter Christmann's Vario groups and in Brueker's Kollektief (this music is a blind spot of mine, so I can't precisely vouch for it specifically). Anyways, an unsung master of his instrument. Can also add to the pile the two volume Bead LP Groups In Front of People with Christmann, Lovens, Peter Cusack, and Guus Janssen, also in need of reissue.

Silva absolutely needs his due.

Blue Serge is as good as it gets to me. Also worth checking out Fable of Mabel (with Twardzik) for some progressive bop that fits in alongside the RCA Jazz Workshop arranger-forward type stuff i.e. Billy Byers, Hal McKusick, George Russell etc. Even reminiscent in a way of early Mingus.

Adjusted some prices

All sold, thanks! SOLD Paul Chambers/Wynton Kelly - The Complete Vee Jay Paul Chambers-Wynton Kelly Sessions 1959-61 $125 SOLD The Complete Candid Recordings Of Cecil Taylor And Buell Neidlinger $100 SOLD Duke Ellington - The Reprise Studio Recordings $55 SOLD The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings Of Charlie Parker -- outer box has a tear at the spine that has been taped $50 SOLD Jackie McLean – The Complete Blue Note 1964-66 Jackie McLean Sessions $75

Still have Fragments available for $40 shipped, it is in like new condition.

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.