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I might be wrong, but I recall most of the footage being contemporaneous to the film, which is to say mid-70s. If there was archival, I'd guess it was from no earlier than 1966-67. But Jackie comes across just as loud and clear as ever. Indeed a powerful document.

I'm going to bump this one nearly a decade later since there's always much to discuss with KV and the off-shoot discussion in the Listening thread instantly pulled together opinions on 4 different projects. I'm, of course, a big fan of what he does. I think he's a perfectly strong player, but a truly great bandleader, organizer, and composer. His work in the last several years with Polish players has been one of the more exciting developments in the music of late. I keep up with what he's doing and try to grab a little bit of each thing when I can. Like I said, I've currently been digging the Made to Break group with Devin Hoff (electric bass), Tim Daisy (drums), and Christof Kurzmann (electronics). They have a CD and LP on clean feed and a new one coming on Trost which I suspect will be their strongest work to date. Really looking forward to picking up the new Resonance Ensemble 2xCD soon, as their last one (What Country Is This?) is among the finest albums I've heard in many years. He also recently released a great duo with Agusti Fernandez on the digital label Discordian that's worth checking out.

. Great introduction to Ran's world. Also one of his fiestiest sessions.

Evans is a hell of a lot of fun with Mary Halvorson & Weasel Walter.

Surprised to hear people hate it so much. I think it's an enjoyable piece. Is what it is.

Well, Wednesday I spied a SME disc at a nice price. Checked yesterday and it was gone! The same seller has Moholo/Bailey - Village Life at a nice price...considering that one if it sticks around. (Anyone have an opinion on it?)

I also agree totally. On a good day, In Europe is my favorite Miles album. The introduction of the band >>> "Autumn Leaves" is one of the most thrilling things I have ever heard. And not to go too far in the other direction, but I'm not terribly enthusiastic about the Philharmonic albums, either. Very strong, of course, but I'm least likely to pick one of those up when I want to hear that band.

Irabagon/Helias/Altschul - It Takes All Kinds (Jazzwerkstatt)

This looks cool.

Anybody know anything about James Brandon Lewis? http://www.dustygroove.com/item/685545 I would normally dismiss it given the label, cover, etc. but the presence of William Parker & Gerald Cleaver has me intrigued.

The Mulligan/Baker is the only one that looks that way, on all copies. Never understood why, but it was in the very first release batch with the Monk & Ammons/Lewis in 1983 so maybe they hadn't yet finalized the look, as it were.

Never ordered from them myself, but fwiw I've found that similar operations like MovieMars and Grooves Inc have a tendency to list items they certainly don't have in stock. I get the feeling they program their listings from some sort of shared preset database or something.

Some new stuff from Emanem coming up, including a 2xCD reissue combining the Carter-Bradford duets, some Isrka 1903 & Lacy's Avignon & After 2 with all unreleased material. Martin Davidson is also now selling Emanem & psi titles through Amazon.

Haven't heard that one, but he plays pretty well on Tim Berne's Mostly Hemphill.

He's an odd duck. He wrote the notes to Jimmy Lyons' Give It Up on Soul Note (1985, in the eye of the Wynton hurricane) and praised him as the great post-Bird altoist. When he's not praising Lyons via Bird, he's talking a blanket of shit on free jazz and ignores the other musicians completely.

Synergy! I just ordered this today after it popped into my mind last night. $5.50.

I have never been able to get over how tedious it is to load albums onto one of these things. Best I managed was a small $30 type of thing that held about 50 albums. It took me hours to load it up and I never bothered with it again. That said, I do use my phone to stream music on Spotify very occasionally.

I'd like to solicit some recommendations for what you all consider to be the best non-label affiliated Charlie Parker discs. That is to say the 5-10 best Charlie Parker CDs or LPs that are not included on the Savoy (studio or live), Dial, Verve, or Mosaic box sets. While I would love to think (and once did) that I would eventually accumulate every available note of Parker there is, now's the time (no pun intended) to get real and admit I won't. (Just as a disclaimer-- not to make this more difficult than need be-- I do own the Washington Concerts, Cafe Society, and live Debut/Prestige/OJC material)

Huh. Good album for sure. Count me as a Gene Clark fan. Never seen this thread but I'll mention that the Byrds have been a favorite band of mine since age 10. Absolutely monumental music to me.

In my limited experience with Max Johnson I've found him to be a very engaging bassist. Very muscular & out front. I'll check this out.

Thanks. I'm sure this is the book I was thinking of.

Yep, that was the one. Oh to hear that group!

I passed on a $30 copy of this once. Stupid stupid.

Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Warsaw) 2012 on ForTune (Poland) http://for-tune.pl/en/plyty/anthony-braxton-quartet-warsaw/ FWIW, these CDs are a shade less than $13 per from the label with very reasonable int'l shipping.

Two runs through the awesome 37-minute Vandermark composition "All Things Being Equal" on Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - Images. I really like KV's long-form compositions. Lots of variation and movement a la Tim Berne, but more measured and episodic. Also a particularly fine edition of this band with Mars Williams & Hamid Drake on board.