colinmce

I've heard most of these and find his 90s ensemble music to be some of his very best. I'd grab a few if I had the coin to spare.

Agreed-- has to be somewhere in the middle. I don't think Braxton is a lightweight in that area, but David is right that whoever wrote that pulled it right out of their ass. Huge music writing pet peeve of mine.

Rightly so. Steve, I'll let it go. Thanks for the reply.

Curious as to where you're coming from here.

Thoughts?

Ran Blake, Roscoe Mitchell, Billy Bang and Andrew Hill should be no-brainers. A Lindberg or Bergman would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. Ubu could've also added Steve Lacy Groups (Trickles, Troubles, The Condor, Vespers, Revenue, The Cry 1+2)

I'd sure hate to hear your opinion on Tim Berne's fashion sense!

Me too, the last two days.

That's heartbreaking.

Every time I see someone post this, I think: "I'm goddamned insane for not buying this right this second". I promptly go to Amazon and then fail to pull the trigger. NOT TODAY.

When I bought the box I didn't realize I owned everything in it but Jazz Immortal. But I'm glad to have it all the same.

Apologies if you've answered this one before, but what about the complete Ne Plus Ultra sessions, specifically the 14 Sept date which yielded only one issued take? A huge drawback for this potential release is that the album has been issued twice on CD, but with extra music and restored art at your standard...

And David Izenon! And Olu Dara!

John Carter Octet - Dauwhe (Black Saint) Joe Albany - At Home (Spotlite)

I do.

I agree re: yourself. Cecil Taylor, not so much. And FWIW I find your plight not at all hard to believe. In politics the same: sometimes the freest minds are the most rigidly closed.

Congrats on the high praise... the article got cooking after the highly questionable definition of "outsider jazz artist"

Now you know how I feel when I see a 'plus flutes!' concept album from the fifties.

Coming back down to earth, you also can't go wrong with any early jazz comps done by RCA/Bluebird or Columbia in the 80s. There are tons and they're all very cheap.

Wow, great. I was enthralled by what I heard. Great cover to boot.

For me, these two are the two. The Evans in particular is among my favorites of the era.

I'll reiterate my suggestion for Lacy & Waldron - Journey Without End on Japanese Victor, 1971. I'll try to think of more.

A bit obscure maybe, but sealed copies of Franz Koglmann's Schlaf Schlemmer, Schlaf Magritte on hatART are popping up at all the usual places for less than $10. A good price on a good album that was seemingly OOP.

I figured I'd ask here since I know a lot of you all use Amazon regularly. When I tried to make a purchase on Amazon this weekend, it declined my payment saying that some of my information could have been entered wrong. I've deleted my payment info and re-entered it several times, but still no dice. And it's not like I've updated it anytime recently-- It's all the same as when I first put it in after getting a new card months ago. I see they now accept bank accounts, so I entered that and placed and order, so we'll see what happens. If I'm not mistaken, the payment process seems different than before. Did something change on Amazon's end that could be causing this? Who knows. But I'd be interested to see if anyone else had this issue lately.

You will be in a good place.