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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.

Haven't heard that one, but his new LP with Rempis is full-tilt.

I do, plus the Random Acoustics. I have a tough time choosing a favorite, but it might actually be Perfect World. Special Detail is up there, too, but really the best one always seems to be the one I'm listening to at the moment.

Gerry Hemingway Quartet - Down To The Wire $9.34 with free shipping http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gerry-Hemingway-Down-to-the-Wire-CD-1994-/181371151885?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item2a3a90260d I've sung the praises of this band and these records enough. This deal can't be beat! And you shant regret it!

Two brand new (rec. January 2014!) ones coming May 1 from the Audio One group: Adasiewicz, Berman, Bishop, Daisy, Nicks Macri & Mazzarella, Jen Paulson, Rempis, and Mars Williams. The albums are called International Report (original compositions) and The Midwest School (Braxton, Mitchell, Hemphill, Threadgill). Looking forward to that.

On my end, I would say that I chose the 90s because that's when I came up (I'll be just 30 this summer). I didn't start listening to jazz until later, so I can't say I had a relationship to that music at the time. But as a young rock fan, the decade cannot be beat IMO (except for the 60s, obviously). The common wisdom seems to be that American underground music blossomed in the 80s, and while I have a great fondness for the music of REM, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Minutemen et al, I would argue that in fact American rock and roll hit its post-60s apex in the 90s. The music made by bands like Pavement, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney, Low and others during the 1990s is some of the richest, most brilliant and rewarding music in all of rock. Hip-Hop was also in creative overdrive. The mainstream was, again, never better: Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Beck, Radiohead, Blur...these were all major-league, chart-topping bands making exciting, smart, forward-thinking, brilliant music. I think it's clear that everyone sees this in the time that they came of age, so I don't necessarily expect others to see it. But I look back on the 90s very fondly as a golden musical age. It may be decades more before we see music in the place it was then. I think the 2000s was, from what I could tell, something of a disappointing retrenchment in rock-based music that I don't see resolving itself any time soon. On the jazz side of things, which, like I said, I've come to in the last 7-8 years, I find a lot to admire. The music released by Hat Hut at this time by Gerry Hemingway, Franz Koglmann, Clusone 3, Ellery Eskelin, Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser, Anthony Braxton, and others is truly exceptional. The NYC downtown scene exemplified by the likes of Tim Berne, Myra Melford, Dave Douglas, Thomas Chapin, and others was in great bloom. The music from this time by older players like Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, and Evan Parker is some of their best. In the mainstream, people like Geri Allen, Paul Motian, Don Byron, and David Murray were doing strong stuff. I think it's an underrated chapter in the music that I hope is examined more in the future. The 60s I needn't explain. I know there are many people who feel strongly about the music of the 70s, but I've never fully cottoned onto a lot of it.

I figured I'd see if anyone here had a home for this one as I've never come around to playing it. It appears to be a first pressing. It's in a Liberty sleeve with a classic Blue Note label and VAN GELDER in the deadwax. The vinyl is very clean and may have never been played. The jacket leaves something to be desired, however. There are two price stickers, one larger original one and one tiny later one. There is a bit of tearing on the bottom left of the back and a small spot of water damage that is visible in the gatefold. $12 shipped to a US address, PayPal preferred.