colinmce

I actually like Hard Rain. The 1975 Bootleg Series is a little too much of that, whilst HR is just enough.

He's definitely carrying the Grachan Moncur III "slow trombone" torch. I'm almost having trouble thinking of anyone else who plays in a more subtle style. George Lewis, for sure ... Bill Lowe & Frank Lacy also come to mind. But I agree that Blaser is doing the most exciting work on the instrument these days.

Two I'm very excited about: Benoit Delbecq/Samuel Blaser/Gerry Hemingway - Fourth Landscape (nuscope) Kidd Jordan/Peter Kowald/Alvin Fielder - Live in New Orleans (NoBusiness)

Remains to be seen. Minutiae is Lewisohn's forte, but I trust him to craft a strong narrative. If this project comes off it will be the Path to Power (Robert Caro's LBJ series) of rock bios.

. Keep digging in her other Delmark & Rogue Art releases, lots of great stuff there. Awakening may be the best.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/11/early-days-beatles?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/beforetheywerebig A 946-page Beatles book that runs up to 1963, part 1 of a projected trilogy. Lewisohn is among the few I trust when it comes to the Beatles, so I am very excited for this. Hopefully this soon-to-be definitive account will erase that Bob Spitz disaster from all history.

I confess I wrote them off back in the late 90s when I wouldn'tve recognized the names of their collaborators. The one with Wadada looks especially nice. I'll have to check these out sometime.

Thanks all. Subterranean was the distro I alluded to above, but I misread and thought the price was e17,5 PLUS tax & shipping, not inclusive. So actually that seems to be the bargain at about $24. I'll go with that.

Very sorry to hear that.

Yep. The opening cut has a "rough & ready" sound that's not unlike Far Cry or At The Five Spot.

I've been looking all over for this CD and so far have only found two sources-- one overseas that is very expensive, and DMG. DMG asks for credit card info via e-mail and I'm just too paranoid to ever consider that, irrational as it may be. Anyone have any other tips? (Of course, on the off chance someone here is looking to unload, I'd offer the DMG price of $20.)

Seriously? That's funny. Care to elaborate? I'm not judging, I'm just saying that M-Base sounds very 1990. Won't Glasper's music just sound very 2013 some time from now? Dating is by and large unavoidable, but it's a real trap when it comes to self-styled "groundbreaking" experiments.

No, it's a mess. There's also this curious boomeranging dead-end bit of logic: "Jazz has become too closed off ... the one and only way it can be saved is by doing this one thing that I am doing"

The obvious comparison to me would be M-Base. I fail to see how he's not doing more or less the same thing 25 years later, or how this won't look like that in 25 more years.

Eric Boeren? Bear-in? Born? Boh-ren?

From the Wall Street Journal, of course: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303471004579163973063650890 I probably will regret having posted this, but well, I regret having read it. For my part, I think his argument suffers from the toxic combination of stringent rhetoric and zero sum logic. I also find the territory of his whole thought process to be muddled: mainstream, underground, young audience, older audience, so on and so on: none of it is so simple as he seems to think it is. If Wynton is the voice of reason in your debate, there's trouble: "I don't think the art form [jazz] is going to receive anything by being R&B. That's already been done"

Thanks for the clips Larry. I'll check them out. Count me in as another fan of Mostly Other People. Maybe not hyper-original or boundary-pushing, but I don't think that's the point. Just a free-swinging jazz quartet. Works for me. I also think Jon Irabagon is someone we'll still be hearing from in 30 years and who will reward the investment.

The Braxton Composition 94 disc (with Ray Anderson & James Emery) is among his very best, IMO. Well worth having.

Never seen this original incarnation before. Cool!

This one turned my head around. His playing on "Ramblin'" was like nothing I'd heard previously in jazz, and his approach on those Ornette records is still very unique and forward thinking.

Now for sale, $42.99 http://www.dustygroove.com/item/675969

I've been wondering if the Silkheart mailorder is still active. Of course, I couldn't afford it either way, but I'm still curious.

Definitely a top 10 favorite.

How much flute is there? His later reputation, plus the flute, has kept me yards away from that one in the past.

No, Corbett vs. Dempsey also did Glasses and Variations on a Blue Line/'Round Midnight a couple years back. They said they would do more (including Phillip Wilson's Esoteric) and I hope that they do. But yeah, Hat's not looking good.