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But oh god do read Dan Morgenstern on Collier.

Fujiwara runs hot & cold for me, sometimes too polished and polite, but when everything clicks he's got a touch that's unmatched. His playing on Mississippi Moonchile is simply transcendent.

Also the convo about 70s Tyner reminded me I have yet to investigate this period so I started with the Mosaic Select, found at an impressively affordable price. Can't believe almost all of these are OOP now.

Maneri binge at DG: Trio Concerts Blessed Trinity Lift & Poise Tenderly Transylvanian Concert Joe Morris Quartet - Underthru

The Steins are worth your while. Three Less... is probably the stronger if you're getting just one.

I used to have this one. I thought the conceit of doing Monk with a trad-like lineup was smart and the record was not bad.

I saw some clips of that group. Kind of laced up, not really too interesting. She's much more impressive in freer contexts.

no clue - the Die Like a Dog set is actually on Jazzwerkstatt - but that kora disc looks absolutely sick. Yeah, that link is wonky. If you search FMP > CDs > Coming Soon you'll see the 10 in question.

FWIW I think Dusty Groove has an inside line with WXU. Their early Hat Hut announcements have always come through.

Yep. I've often been curious about the Liebman/Eskelin/Marino/Black group. Any one particularly better than the others?

I do. It seems the only hatOLOGY titles I'm still after are now all OOP.

Frode Gjerstad Trio + Steve Swell - At Constellation is out a mere 2.5 months after recording (a new land speed record?) Also some nice lookers from Relative Pitch: Joe Morris Solo "Title TBD" Birgit Ulher/Leonel Kaplan "Stereo Trumpet" (Release Date February 17th) Nate Wooley "Battle Pieces" Susan Alcorn "Soledad" (Release Date April 7th) Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble "The Gospel According To Matthew & Michael" (Release Date April 7th) Mette Rasmussen and Chris Corsano Duo "Title TBD" Matana Roberts Solo "always." (Release Date May 18th) Most excited about the Rasmussen/Corsano duo. Mette is the shit:

In a confusing turn of events, it appears the last 10 CD titles issued by FMP will be (re?)released in the US on February 24. Dusty Groove also lists some of these as Coming Soon. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_date_2?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A5174%2Ck%3Afmp%2Cp_n_date%3A1249114011&keywords=fmp&ie=UTF8&qid=1423609975&rnid=1249111011 Anyone know what's up here?

Squidco is having a Hat sale: buy 3 titles and get 50% off. I still need the two Aylers but am not turning up a third option.... As per DG, looks like the next releases are Cecil Taylor - Garden Pt. 1, Ellery Eskelin - Solo Live at Snugs, and ..... Braxton's Santa Cruz. They do not denote 'Vol. 1' on the latter so I"m assuming this will be the full 2CD set. They also list Steve Lacy - Shots for April.

Damn, sounds nice!!

I really like this record. Me too. Probably haven't spun this or Baklava in almost 10 years.

I love John Surman in all his varied incarnations (and there are many) I'd recommend grabbing the tremendous :rarum compilation from ECM and unfurling the albums from there. I mentioned in another recent thread how much I like his solo work from the 80s, though it may come across as dated to some.

We have a link!!

Also, Matos is a great guitarist. I would be interested to hear him in that setting, having only ever heard him with Sara Serpa. Should be a good one.

Matchbox looks like a kicker. I thought Nate McBride had hung it up, but apparently not. Good to see.

Still working on getting one up but should be there tomorrow. Sorry for the delay, this is much harder than it was last time I did it ...

Great!! Can't wait to finally hear it and stop scoping out DIW CDs.

Right.

Hm. Crap. Let me start over then.

Just to be clear I was referring to the Hat Hut release. Not yet heard the Ring set.