colinmce

The Sunny Murray-Mark O'Leary album is great.

My situation precisely. But selling the Roost set?! I hope you were in a fugue state!

Yep. (FWIW, though, I HATE the title track)

Ches is low in the mix, but it works for the music. He plays a lot of percussion, very few beats or rhythms. The clarity is great, so hearing his gongs and marimba etc always shifting and roiling under the music creates tremendous texture. Matt Mitchell is the star of the record, IMO. His playing is front and center and drives a lot of the momentum, both rhythmically & melodically. There are times when his left & right hands are playing completely independent lines, the effect of which is dazzling. I wish Oscar Noriega played a bigger role, but all in all I love the record. It's dark, knotty, very noisy stuff.

I once read Cuscuna mention re: OTL that he was amazed how well the musicians played such complex material in one session, but when he heard the tapes he realized it took a lot of fucking up to get there (his words, iirc).

I've never bought Japanese CDs and generally don't rebuy music, but I can't resist the Dolphy alternates.

Latest from clean feed: Announcing the new releases to be out october 25th: CF 283 - Pascal Niggenkemper's Vision 7 - Lucky Prime CF 284 - Angles - In Our Midst LP CF 285 - Anna Kaluza/Artur Majewski/Rafal Mazur/Kuba Suchar - Tone Hunting CF 286 - Kaja Draksler - The Lives of many Others CF 287 - Angelica Sanchez/Wadada Leo Smith - Twine Forest CF 288 - Elliott Sharp Aggregat - Quintet

Out to Lunch alternates?!?

Very sad.

For the most part I agree with you. I do like 'Infidels', 'Time Out of Mind' and the two albums of traditional songs quite a bit. It's my contention that there's at least a little something worth hearing on every Dylan album, even Shot of Love and Real Live. I like Infidels too, and Time out of Mind is one of my favorite Dylans; everything since has been varying degrees of strong.

I'll send you a self-addressed, stamped Nuclear Waste disposal bin

I know it came up once before, but mjazzg's post in the vinyl thread reminded me that Spring of Two Blue J's would be a fine candidate.

K, thanks. It'd definitely just be cheaper for me to get the 10 or so 80s/90s discs I never got around to. I always told myself I would! Never too late!

I'm being lazy: is that every album, studio & live, from the s/t to the present?

Good luck. Secondhanders have a habit of pricing the 6000 edition in the hundreds for some strange reason.

I'd love to get ahold of this one at some point, as a proud native.

I understand re: Lacy. He's one of my favorites, too, but there was no flashpoint.

Herbie also plays way free on Moncur's Some Other Stuff.

Yes, this seems more like it. I daresay I've never related to the notion of "albums that changed your life!" I wouldn't describe any of my very favorite albums that way. That said, one of the first jazz albums I listened to in a committed way was Out To Lunch! and it completely rearranged my thinking about music and sound and the way it's organized. It totally flossed my brain and opened it up for all the listening that's come since. I can listen to that album a hundred different ways, for a hundred different things. See also: Anthony Williams - Life Time and Dolphy's "God Bless the Child" from In Europe Vol. 1 A few other ones I'd say had that special effect on me: Anthony Braxton - Solo (London) 1988 & Quartet (Coventry) 1985 Joe McPhee - Topology, Old Eyes & Mysteries, Oleo, Linear B Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come, Change of the Century, At the Golden Circle Vol. 2 Ran Blake - Realization of a Dream Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures Duke Ellington Orchestra - The Complete Standard Transcriptions Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners Sonny Rollins - A Night at the Village Vanguard Tim Berne - The Shell Game Andrew Hill - Smokestack Mal Waldron w/ Eric Dolphy & Booker Ervin - The Quest Miles Davis - In Europe & Nefertiti Jimmy Giuffre - Free Fall Gil Melle - The Complete Blue Note Fifties Sessions John Surman - :rarum Clusone 3 - I Am an Indian Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker WCC 2xCD Peter Brotzmann & Han Bennink - Schwarzwaldfahrt Joe Maneri - Dahazenbapple Surely more, these are just off the top of my head.

Some truly wonderful Charlie Haden on these sides.

Lots of reminiscence on here today! One of the first jazz albums I heard was the Mulligan/Baker 2xCD thing from the BN West Coast Series and it blew me away... it's still some of my favorite music. I followed the trail in the usual directions, but ultimately don't have loads of West Coast style music in my collection. I'm most partial to the Mosaic Selects-- Curtis Amy, Carmell Jones, Shank/Cooper, PJ Piano Trios, Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan. I also really like the Jack Sheldon WCC CD.

I kid ... I actually like Keith Jarrett ('s music) and would give this album an honest shake. I just couldn't resist!

Good timing on the bump of this thread as I've been running through these albums the last couple weeks (though I don't own the last 4, the electric ones. No bias, just haven't gotten around to them). If you had asked me 3 weeks ago I'dve said Speak No Evil or Etc but now I think I'd say The Soothsayer. Honestly I've never really warmed to Adam's Apple or The All-Seeing Eye. I find the latter too cluttered and the former a little dry-- I really don't like "502 Blues" or "El Gaucho" and much prefer "Footprints" on Miles Smiles ... I dunno, the record feels slight to me. Obviously many others disagree.

When I was pretty young, my mom had a few jazz albums around. She preferred Kenny G, David Sanborn, John Klemmer, et al at the time, but I stole away a few others: Blossom Dearie on Verve and a Miles Best Of with material from BOTC and Blue Note. My grandparents came of age in the swing era and loved Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, so I heard a good deal of that as a kid, too (and liked it). Later on I picked up a few things here and there that I mentioned in another thread: some Coltrane, Ornette, Mingus, Ayler, Don Cherry. At that point I felt like rock-based music was getting to be a dead-end, that I'd heard all I wanted to hear. I spent several months only listening to instrumental music before committing to jazz. That was 7 years ago and it's consumed every day since!

Before I "listened to jazz" I owned a few LPs: A Love Supreme, Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Ornette!, Where is Brooklyn?, New Grass, Mingus^5, This is Our Music, etc. When I made a concerted decision to really listen to jazz, I bought Brilliant Corners and then these all at once: Out To Lunch!, Unit Structures, Ascension. Jumped off the deep end, I suppose.