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So they did. Like I said, no chance I could've made it, but damn. One of these days... (years?)

Thanks for the heads up. Finally! Now PLEASE do The Baptised Traveller!!

Geez. What if it was a $13 CD? Same rigamarole?

Putting a plug in for the Dave Douglas box set: 3 albums with his Dresser or Gress/Friedlander/Feldman/Sarin group, including the incomparable Convergence; ROVA's "Ascension"; a Tim Berne-produced Mark Dresser date; and a John Lindberg date w/ Ed Thigpen, Douglas, & Larry Ochs. Which is to say the set is split equally between state-of-the-art 1990's NYC Downtown music and some of what was happening on the West Coast at the same time. Great variety on here and this is when Douglas was on fire. The writing on the leader dates is superb and the improvisations on the sideman dates are incisive. A joy from top to bottom, and one of the essential sets in this series IMO.

I doubt they're coming near here, and I wouldn't be able to make it anyways, but I wonder how you heard about these dates, Jeff?

Dave Rempis has a couple new ones on the way: a quartet with Nate Wooley, Pascal Niggenkemper, and Chris Corsano & a new Ballister.

Oof. $30? I don't think so, despite my love of all things Adasiewicz.

Bump For the record, Convergence is one of my favorite records ever. It's amazing. But I just got the Soul Note box set so it's a duplicate. Anyone who doesn't own it, should. Time Travel is good, but not something I feel like holding on to.

(Paging Mr. Kart...) For my part I can understand these reactions to the music and I think there's merit in that line of critical reasoning. But I still love it.

Title says it all. PayPal preferred. International at cost.

In chronological order, roughly spanning ages 10-23 (I actually came to jazz at that point feeling like rock, etc. had shown me everything it had to offer. I still feel this way): Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted The Byrds - Greatest Hits The Modern Lovers - s/t Television - Marquee Moon The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground The Band - Music From Big Pink Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Fugazi - End Hits Grand Ulena - Gateway To Dignity Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Loudin Wainwright III - Album II Joni Mitchell - Blue Nick Cave - The Boatman's Call A very particular distinction being made here. I would say that these are the albums that opened my ears up to new avenues of or new limits to personal expression.

http://www.subdist.com The one I've been waiting for.

The Shaggy 2 Dope & Ab Baars duo is tight.

I've personally only managed to find Dutch releases at Subterranean lately.

One of the things the classic Gayle trio music reminds me of in a roundabout way is another group led by an outsider (or hidden insider?) who also exploded "onto" the scene in 1993: Joe Maneri. Though technically their music has very little in common, I almost consider Gayle-- especially in that context-- as kind of his own thing divorced from the Fire Music/Energy Music lineage, just as Joe Maneri and his 1993(+) quartet fall outside the boundaries of any truly established style or lineage. I hear the same singularity and certainly the same insularity. Michael Wimberly and Vattel Cherry don't get around a whole lot, and neither do Randy Peterson or John Lockwood. But in those groups they play on a rarified plane. They own the worlds that Gayle and Maneri create and when you hear William Parker or Rashied Ali, or Cecil McBee in their place the music is very, very different for it.

I lucked into copies of two FMPs recently-- Berlin Movement For Future Years and Abiding Variations. Listening to the former my first though was "what's the point, really? Is there a point to this?" but as the CD went on I began to hear something in it, it began to hold together. So I think immersion in his longer, fiery improvisations is required to get the gist. I have no doubt there's something technical happening there, but perhaps his music is the greatest embodiment of Ayler's ideas about this music being more about sound and shape than notes and harmony (I can't track down the quote-- and I think it may have been Donald, actually, who said this). Also, Michael Wimberly and Vattel Cherry are kind of weird, insular players. A very unique group when you listen hard.

I totally agree with Allen re: the slickness & precision of the later straight ahead big bands. Big problem. One record I really remember liking, though, is the Roy Hargrove large ensemble LP Emergence. I wonder if I would feel the same about it now some years later, but in my memory it was really good.

Everything is true. There's something magical about the Coventry 1985 set, but there's no denying that band was on another plane altogether by 1993. They were on another plain, period. There's really nothing like it.

Definitely not legit. Hence the always altered covers on their stuff. The Vocalion CD mentioned above, however, looks somewhat promising ... (no info, but a listing!) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Joe-Harriott-Amancio-DSilva-Quartet/dp/B00P7XAZ0A/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1415334542&sr=1-3&keywords=hum+dono

What's the music like? It's hard not to imagine it as some baroque-jazz thing, thought I'm sure it's not.

Nice. I scored many Mosaics from there in the past.

Shipping is always a flat $6. I've bought as much as 5 LPs and 7-8 CDs at once at it was still $6

Best option. The Magnificent Thad Jones is available as an RVG and may be his best work. The self-titled album on Debut is also exceptional.

Mat Maneri/Randy Peterson - Light Trigger

Let us know. My assumption, however, would be that they're just straight copies of the OJC CDs and thus would have the bonus tracks.