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The ninth edition is now incredibly rare and goes for over $100 on Amazon. Sad. Hopefully that changes.

I'd second pretty much all of Clifford's recs. Four Lives, Black Music, As Serious, & Forces In Motion were especially huge for me. There is another one called This Is Our Music that has good info as well. Unfortunately the book on this music after the 1970s has yet to be written. So as far as the last 30 years go, just start picking recordings and unraveling the loose thread.

Thanks for the heads up. I've always been infuriated with the asking price for the Braxton Solo NYC 2002 discs. (Never less than $100. Such horseshit).

It did, took about 3 1/2 weeks. There's certainly no way they have all that stuff in one location, so I'm wondering if they have to get copies from the label first before sending an order.

Ken Vandermark's Side A has a new one on Not Two. This is the band with Havard Wilk and Chad Taylor, and it's a damn good one. In related news, Joe McPhee's music is now part of the Catalytic Sound distro (Vandermark, Brotzmann, Gustafsson, PNL)

Yours is what it should be: cogent, relevant, and historically accurate. I don't know Kruth, so maybe he goes deeper than that dumb pull lets on, but it sounds to me like he's shoehorning ideas about something he knows nothing about into something that he does. Then again, there are few things that peeve me more than the psych/noise/etc set spouting off about free jazz in their proprietary language. Like Allen said, the stuff didn't come out of nowhere.

A loss. He was fantastic.

Got an email about a Bynum/Fujiwara LP, self-released in an edition of 249. $25, so I passed. Nice duo, though. Might spring for the DL sometime. http://taylortomas.bandcamp.com/

Oops. It's Urs Leimgruber/Joëlle Léandre/Fritz Hauser - No Try No Fail

HA! I've checked Ebay, Discogs and everything in between for this album nearly every day for the last 3 years. Never once seen it, not even for absurd prices. Somehow, two copies turned up on Ebay simultaneously and here we go. Now for my next great White Whale, Joe McPhee's Songs & Dances...

One big one for me here are the Tina Brooks albums The Waiting Game and Back To The Tracks, both of which I missed out on as Conns and which are stupidly expensive now. Hopefully I'll get a chance to grab those before they're gone.

It's solid.

Right?!

Not sure, but not Delmark. Maybe Trost?

A few coming up later this year I'm really excited about: Sunrooms - From the Region (Delmark) Brotzmann/Adasiewicz Duo from Chicago 2013 Stephen Haynes w/ William Parker, Joe Morris, Warren Smith, Ben Stapp - Pomegranate: New Music For Bill Dixon (New Atlantis)

You could find worse examples, but I'll never dash an occasion to dump on the inane New Yorker/NYT/NPR nexus of deeply, deeply obnoxious music writing. They're also criminally mediocre tastemakers. (Ben Ratliff is OK)

Read about this while it was working the festivals last year. Sounds like it's worth a watch.

Their website is out of date, There is also a new one from Tarbaby + Oliver Lake & Marc Ducret called Fanon. I'll definitely be picking this up as my wife is a scholar of his work. I doubt she'll give it a listen, but I'm sure she'd at least be interested to see it!

Abysmal cover/great music. "Flight To Jordan" is one of my favorite jazz compositions. I may prefer the Blue Note version with Dizzy Reece, but the Savoy recording is very nice, too.

Jaipur appeared on the officially sanctioned compilation CD by Giles Peterson Impressed Vol 1 so I believe the tapes do exist (as with Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe) Both of which have been studiously overlooked for reissue by the license owners. I'll find it later, but there's an article on that very compilation which stated that Peterson couldn't locate the tapes and used a needledrop for that track. Here we go: http://www.jazzinternationale.com/impressed-oh-yes-we-are/

Aren't the tapes missing though?

Indeed. It's no game-changer, but if I had a CD, I'd play it pretty often. A very enjoyable record.

I think Steve mentioned seeing a set featuring recorder a few months back. I'd be interested to hear what someone can do on that instrument in an Creative context.

Agreed. I wish he turned up on more records. For my money he's of the best soloists on the scene.