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Recent release pickups from Squidco that I have been listening to this week: Francois Houle & Marco Von Orelli - Make That Flight (ezz-thetics): a conscious extrapolation on the Carter/Bradford duet recordings, very well done, no easy paths taken gabby fluke-mogul - Love Songs (Relative Pitch): I've read some rather overheated assessments of their music that ignore the long history of work on stringed instruments in the history of free improvisation, but they make a valid and passionate intervention in the continuum. I'm enjoying this one more than the debut CD Cecil Taylor - Respiration (Fundacja Słuchaj!): I don't need to put the hard sell on this. A massively important release Dave Rempis/Joshua Abrams/Avreeyal Ra + Jim Baker - Scylla (Aerophonic): I have a lot of backfilling to do on the Aerophonic catalogue after having dropped out after the first few years of releases, but I figured this was a good place to start, and is very much inspiring me towards getting more. Captivating. Dan Clucas/Kyle Motl/Nathan Hubbard - Daydream & Halting (FMR) - Dan Clucas is one of the far too few improvisors on trumpet & coronet on the scene. He plays the latter on this, as well as violin and moxeno. This is very much in the sweet spot for this music and I can't recommend it enough.

Yep. He said Bobby comes in from time to time to shoot the breeze and tell stories.

I purchased this a couple weeks ago in Pasadena. The shopowner said Bobby dropped them off himself a couple days before. One spin so far and it's very excellent.

I was just there last week and made the rounds to a number of stores. For jazz vinyl, I found Atomic and Freakbeat to be the best (as I was leaving Atomic I saw someone had just dropped off a majorly heavy free jazz collection, but they yelled at me not to flip through it haha). Amoeba's jazz vinyl selection was nice too, but it's a much bigger store and was a bit diluted. Though you didn't ask, for the record in terms of jazz CDs, Amoeba was just incredible. Freakbeat had a much smaller section but the quality was high and prices were low. I found Pooh Bah and Canterbury (both in Pasadena) to be very poor for jazz in both formats. Jacknife was also not good at all imo.

Most distinctive, perhaps, but those Third Stream-ish Contemporary sides are fascinating too. IMO you just can't beat the Blackhawk sides in terms of his best. Also a big fan of The Gambit, which has some peak first wave Charlie Mariano playing.

Absolutely incredible archival release on the horizon https://us.mrbongo.com/products/the-quintet-vinyl-lp-cd

I missed out on the Bridge Sessions disc, but hopefully I can turn one up someday. The RogueArt is a slow burner.

I have all except The Cerkno Concert. Elan, Impulse and Sweet Oranges are the ones I would recommend above any others, both are very, very excellent. Only gave the new RougueArt one an initial spin when it came out, I should make sure to revisit it soon.

Excellent disc. The McPhee/Jaume/Boni CELP CD Songs & Dances has eluded me always, it scarcely seems to exist.

Very sad. Having heard broadly all that this music has to offer, and having heard a lot of certain spaces within that continuum, there is to this day simply nothing at all quite like those Blue Note albums. A resounding, eternal legacy. RIP.

yep, a few months earlier in Italy.

Fundacja Słuchaj is releasing a 42 minute solo recorded for Polish radio in 1968: https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/respiration

I see this is now available from Trost on Bandcamp & streaming sites. I saw this announced some months back but I have not seen any kind of announcements about the actual release, nor have I seen anything about stateside retailers receiving the CD. For some reason availability of Trost releases is a bit of a crapshoot here; the Oliveros/Leandre/Lewis disc they put out last year has never shown up anywhere in the US. I will be placing a direct order from the label for both of these. Anyways, good stuff here! https://peterbroetzmann.bandcamp.com/album/jazz-in-der-kammer-1974

CadNor actually has much more of the catalogue available than I realized, if you want to go that route. But still none of the Raph Malik titles (the aforementioned disc with Frank Wright, trios with Joe McPhee/Donald Robinson and Cecil McBee/Cody Moffett, and a quartet with Sabir Mateen, all of which have eluded me over the years)

Boxholder was a great label. It's a shame those are so hard to get ahold of, or even hear at all now.

I'm assuming you have heard this, but worth posting regardless: Michael Mantler: trumpet Peter Brötzmann: tenor sax Carla Bley: piano Peter Kowald: double bass Aldo Romano: drums. and to that end, this was just finally added to YouTube the other day. Put it on just now for the first time after wanting to hear it for many years.

Tim Berne has recorded in duo with Bill Frisell (1988) and Gregg Belisle-Chi (2021)

Kaoru Abe & Masayuki Takayanagi - Gradually Projection + Mass Projection, though that's rather a far cry from Desmond & Hall ...

Not sure if they were available last year but they are now (Dusty Groove has 3 of 4 and I'm sure will keep them restocked).

Speaking of your white label: https://www.ebay.com/itm/304364493205?hash=item46dd899995:g:zJ4AAOSw~jpiEUW2

It has, and the LP has gone through the roof. This one has become quite fashionable lately.

I have an original, great album. Hopefully we will see an RE of the much, much rarer Abdul Wadud LP soon. Sirone did have one of those just perfect discographies. A few performances of note that haven't been mentioned here: -Life Rays w/ Walt Dickerson & Andrew Cyrille -High Two with Dave Burrell -many excellent dates with Charles Gayle, including the interesting and very underheard Silkheart quartet with Billy Bang & a young Tyshawn Sorey -Beneath Tones Floor with Oluyemi Thomas & Michael Wimberly

Which of these have you enjoyed recently? Relative Pitch in particular puts out so much that I have a hard time parsing it and usually only grab titles that either immediately jump out to me or are recommended from trusted sources.

https://readinggroupcompany.bandcamp.com/album/moten-l-pez-cleaver

Thanks for the tip Steve, I'll be sure to check it out as well. :Putting in a word for the Fred Moten/Brandon Lopez/Gerald Cleaver LP, which is soon to see CD release on Relative Pitch. It's absolutely extraordinary .