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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.

Not so much a new release, but an interesting thing I stumbled on: V/A: Free Jazz West (RCA Red Seal, 2008) http://www.discogs.com/Various-Free-Jazz-West/release/3627771 A compilation of West German free jazz from the 70s, part of a much larger series on avant garde German music 1950-00. Mostly FMP material, with a couple leasings from Po Torch, Birth, and others. A nice looking disc-- I wish it was easier to find, as I only managed to track it to this single source. Still considering going in for it as it's a nice way to sample some rare music. There are a few other jazz-related volumes including a companion, Free Jazz Ost and one featuring various solos & duos: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Free-Jazz-Ost/release/4313114 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Solo-Und-Duo-1970-2000/release/4313235

I think my largely jazz-averse wife would love ICP. In fact, her old office mate was none other than Sean Bergin's daughter!

You can get all of it on OJC + a couple on Fresh Sound, but most are OOP so pulling all dozen or so together would be quite pricey.

I like the earlier stuff better, too. My personal favorite albums are Please Please Me & A Hard Day's Night. But I might argue on an objective level that the White Album is their greatest work, warts and all.

A bit. With the Beatles was released as Beatlemania! With The Beatles; Please Please Me was released in jumbled order + "She Loves You" as Twist and Shout; and there was one called Long Tall Sally with a cover resembling the US Second Album but with a totally unique tracklist. Expect the box set for Christmas 2025.

Have Reed & Deeds or Gifts & Messages been released in Japan lately?

What I don't get most about this is that these albums (up to Rubber Soul) were released in two box sets in 2005-6, sounding authentic and very nice indeed (even praised on Hoffman!). But yeah, they need to keep product coming every year or two, so this is what you get. Hopefully next they'll put out some more unreleased stuff that didn't make the Anthology sets next time around.