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A few from the front page of DG: Jacques Coursil & Alan Silva - Free Jazz Art: Sessions for Bill Dixon (Rogue Art) Mats Gustafsson - Torturing the Saxophone (CvsD) Rob Mazurek - Mother Ode (CvsD) The last two are both solos.

Bah. How'd you swing that one?

Braxton's '85 chops indeed. He was working on an exalted level then.

Not a bad price, no, but I was browsing pretty casually. I'm confident I could grab it closer to $45-50 at some point. But if not, I'd be happy to pay $65.

Yeah, I saw that one. I think I could do better down the road, price wise.

Got a refund and an out of stock notice. Ho hum.

Agreed. I kind of wish people would drop that.

Roll with it, it's worth it and then some. If you were so inclined this could be all the Hawk you need, but chances are you will not be so inclined after hearing it.

Odd. All I saw was a 15e option. I added it, went to pay, which went straight to PayPal with 2e tacked on for shipping. My receipt didn't say anything about downloading, nor have I gotten a follow up email with that kind of info. We'll see how it plays out.

Following the download link on Saravah leads to links to download at several different sites. Nothing specific to the label.

Hm. All I saw was a 15 euro option. I purchased it and they tacked on 2 for shipping. I didn't get any note about downloading or a link or the like. I hope I didn't just spend money on mp3s...

Another good one for very early jazz is The Riverside History of Classic Jazz-- 3 CDs.

So I just put in an order for this from Saravah. They have it on their website for 17eur shipped ($24). The order went through seamlessly and I saw no notice about it being out of stock or anything. The website is also up to date. We'll see what happens?

Beating The Teens, Ideal Bread's cover of the entirety of Scratching The Seventies, is out in May. Amazon has a preorder.

Not unlike Mal Waldron or Ran Blake, he doesn't have to play a lot to get his point across.

Anything by Smithsonian is great and always incredibly cheap. I especially recommend their two vocal compilations Swing That Music (4 CDs of big band and swing vocalists) and American Popular Song (5xCD). Jazz Piano (4xCD) is also fantastic and the Big Band set (6xCD) is quite serviceable. Needless to say they also contain extensive and brilliant notes by the likes of Gunther Schuller and Dick Katz.

I got my clean feed package yesterday-- 20 days.

Yeah. Mosaic was planning a Single edition of this one.

I did. I try to avoid ordering from overseas because of the wait, but I have had some things come very quickly in the past as well.

Double-checking, I placed my order March 4.

FWIW I ordered with Clean Feed (Portugal) 3 weeks ago and have yet to receive my CDs.

I hope to begin making some shows in Houston in a couple years once my son gets older and I (hopefully!) get a more flexible job. Enjoy this one!

To me, the ace in the hole is Tony Williams. His inclusion was a stroke of genius that makes the date more than it would have been with any other drummer Hill had associated with thus far (though Roy Haynes & Elvin Jones both brought something special to his music, Haynes in particular). I go back & forth re: Kenny Dorham, though. On the one hand her serves the music in his own way, but in another I can't help but imagine what it would have been with Woody Shaw in his place.

I would call that more 90s than 80s. There is a difference and it's gruesome.

I was until they moved from $7.99/month to $100/year. If I could break that up over months I would do it but I don't really have $100 to blow at once. I'm sure there's a good reason they did it that way, but it's a little frustrating.