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The Quartet record with Swell, Whitecage & Sorey is well done, too. He's off to an impressive start.

The best source is the artist himself.

.... .... Nope.

Leeway, I highly recommend you grab the new Mats CD Torturing the Saxophone if you haven't already. It collates 3 one-sided LPs (99 copies each!) of MG doing Duke, Ayler, and "Danny's Dream". The bonus is an aggrieved letter to Mats from R. Crumb detailing his extreme negative reaction to this music. Hence the title...

I'll add to the chorus: some of the very best Monk.

Wow, nice grab. I enjoy the CD of that one.

They have a package of all 3 new CDs--these, plus the Yoshihide Sextet-- for £20. I put an order in.

Escreet/Hébert/Sorey/Evan Parker on Sunnyside out next week: http://www.johnescreet.com/html/about.php?psi=46

Oh yeah. I'll buy anything JA plays on.

Should be nice. I saw photos of a Sinton/Gray/Eisenstadt/Maneri group that looked to die for. Hope to hear that one someday down the line. Josh Sinton doesn't record nearly enough, especially on bass clarinet. His solos on the first Nate Wooley Quintet record on that horn are something else for real.

I always have my eyes out for the CD of this one. Pretty tough going, though ... I've often wondered what this sounds like - any clues/comparisons gratefully accepted Gave it another listen to fix its character better. The obvious analogue would be to the David Murray Octet, but this ensemble (septet) has a much looser vibe that DM's, even though a couple of the personnel are held in common. Billy Bang doesn't dominate his group. There is much more of an ensemble feel. Songs are mostly taken at a medium tempo, with different members taking solo turns. The music is a bit more melodic than one might expect. The last song "Music for the Love of It" (seems applicable here) reminded me, and sounds a bit like, Art Ensemble of Chicago doing ""Odwalla" at the end of their shows. That should give you a sense of the ensemble sound. The recording acoustic is a bit flat. Loeb Student Center, at NYU, where I spent a good bit of time as an undergrad, is probably not ideal, although a fair number of performances of avant music were recorded there. This is a live performance but one is only occasionally aware of that. It's a very good album, don't think one would get tired of repeated listens. Thank you for such an in depth reply. Leeway. That's just what I needed to know and will definitely now stay on my 'want list' to appear in this thread at some point in the future with my name attached. It's a good record but I don't return to it a ton - actually more impressed by The Group of a few years later. I didn't realize Sweet Space was on CD. It came out about 10 years ago on a double with Untitled Gift. Went OOP and is pretty tough to track down, at least at a reasonable price. Might almost be cheaper & easier to grab the LPs. Old discussion:

Can't imagine how bad the Graz sounds if it's worse than Copenhagen. I've never put that one on a second time, though I guess I should.

Waclaw Zimpel Quartet - Stone Fog (ForTune) 95 cents: http://www.amazon.com/Stone-Fog-Waclaw-Zimpel-Quartet/dp/B00DX5WFP2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399324804&sr=8-1&keywords=waclaw+zimpel

Thanks for the link. I don't think anyone mentioned Backer's passing on here. I read about it on Ran Blake's newsletter. Very sad news....

I never knew this was in "original album" format. Very nice looking! I always have my eyes out for the CD of this one. Pretty tough going, though ...

I'd be in for sure. Would this be a 2xCD coupling the two Art of Improvising LPs? For my 2 cents, Hum Dono is a great album-- not quite on the level of Dogon AD, Intents & Purposes, or The Giant Is Awakened, but very nice indeed. It's a handsome looking record to boot, and I know if I had a CD I'd play it a lot. My hunch is that it might be a challenge to acquire the rights. Maybe this is why it's never been reissued while many more obscure Vocalions have. I know those in charge aren't so dense as to not see the demand.

Pearson + Albam are on hold. Voices in Modern and Five Trumpets. Yours for $8 if you want (shipping is likely half the cost).

During the 2010 slaughter a couple sets disappeared right out of my cart.

I'll throw in a Manny Albam Gershwin Piano Quartet LP on Coral with Hank Jones, Eddie Costa, and Dick Marx. $10 shipped for both. I am ruthless! Don't make me throw them in the trash with the Wynton & Four Freshman LPs I culled!

Sold.

All prices include shipping in US. Bobby Bradford/John Carter & Horace Tapscott - West Coast Hot $12 Errol Parker Tentet - A Night in Tunisia $10 Julian Priester - In Deep End Dance $6 Wes Montgomery & Milt Jackson - Bags Meets Wes (Keepnews Ed.) $5 John Dennis - New Piano Expressions (sawcut) $6 Greg Osby - Banned In New York $7 Clifford Brown Memoral Album (RVG) $5 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 30th Anniversary Box Set $15 Take all the Jazz CDs for $36

I like Richard Cook so much, but his Blue Note book was a huge dud IMO. Literally nothing that couldn't be gleaned from reading Blumenthal's RVG essays and the like. It really read like he wrote it from memory. Seems to be Kahn's M.O. too ...

This is the one that will always come to mind. When I was first starting to listen to jazz, it never occurred to me that there could be a group playing jazz without drums. I picked the Jamal OKeh/Epic CD up more or less on a whim-- one of the first 20 or so jazz albums I bought-- and ... I can't really describe how much the music moved me from the first seconds of "Surrey With The Fringe on Top". Really, really opened my eyes. I can count on one hand the albums that have made such an instant impression on me.

I would assume he means the CD booklets which have full discographical information.