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Here's two: ECM Food Quiet Inlet Thomas Strønen: drums, live electronics Iain Ballamy: tenor and soprano saxophones Nils Petter Molvær: trumpet, electronics Christian Fennesz: guitar, electronics U.S. Release date: July 27, 2010 ECM CD: B0014463-02 UPC: 6025 273 4919 0 An album of lyrical improvisation, spacious atmospherics and dark pulses from the Food duo of Thomas Strønen and Iain Ballamy, joined by Nils Petter Molvær and Christian Fennesz - in performances captured at Oslo’s Blå club and the Molde Festival, in 2007 and 2008. A decade earlier, Molde had hosted Food’s debut when English saxophonist Ballamy was invited to join three Norwegian players – Strønen, Arve Henriksen, Mats Eilertsen – for an experimental concert. The group ‘chemistry’ felt so right, from the first notes played, that the players continued as a band. For the next eight years, a Food quartet toured the world, also recording a series of well-received albums. In 2006, the group was revamped, with the core duo of Strønen and Ballamy henceforth joined by guests for special concerts and projects. On Quiet Inlet, Food’s sixth album, and their first for ECM, Austrian guitarist and electronics player Fennesz is featured on the tracks “Tobiko”, “Mictyris”, “Fathom”, while Norwegian trumpeter Molvær appers on “Chimaera”, “Becalmed”, “Cirrina” and “Dweller” (making this NPM’s most extended appearance on ECM since his Solid Ether). In these open ended improvisations, the contexts are shaped by Food’s priorities, the emphases upon melodic playing, textural development and the creating and exploration of sound-environments. The acoustic aspects of Food’s music, with drums, bells, blocks gongs and lyrical saxophone, are enhanced by the use of live sampling as a structural element. The scope of expression runs, in Food’s words, “from minimalist to very turbulent.” Both Iain Ballamy and Thomas Strønen are well-known figures in contemporary jazz and improvisation. Ballamy, who came to international attention in the 1980s as a member of the Loose Tubes collective and Bill Bruford’s Earthworks, continues to play with Django Bates in configurations including the group Human Chain. He has also worked with an extraordinarily wide range of bands and projects – from Hermeto Pascoal, Gil Evans and Mike Gibbs to Charlie Watts, the Karnataka College of Percussion and Billy Jenkins, led his own ensembles, written music for films, and taught at London’s Royal Academy and Trinity College. Food’s first recordings – Food and Organic & GM Food - were released on Ballamy’s own label, Feral Records. Last year Food – Strønen /Ballamy plus Arve Henriksen - appeared with the London Sinfonietta, premiering a new work by Iain Ballamy, “Gold Acre.” The work was commissioned by BBC Radio 3, who had previously presented Food with the Innovation Award in the wider context of the British Jazz Awards. Nils Petter Molvær came to ECM with Arild Andersen’s band Masqualero, appearing on three albums for the label, Bande à Part, Aero, and Re-Enter. He can also be heard on recordings with Robyn Schulkowsky (Hastening Westward), Marilyn Mazur (Small Labyrinths), Sidsel Endrsen (So I Write, Exile) and Jon Balke/Oslo 13 (Nonsentration). Molvær’s Khmer and Solid Ether albums with their striking mix of electric trumpet (with echoes of both Miles and Jon Hassell) electronics and hiphop beats launched the still-influential ‘nu jazz’ movement. Quiet Inlet marks Nils Petter’s first ECM appearance since Arild Anderen’s Electra (recorded 2003/4). Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz came out of the Vienna techno scene of the 1980s to spread his layers of electric guitar and processing textures across a broad span of music. Amongst his many musical associations: work with Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian (he is prominently featured on Sylvian’s recent Manafon album), and free improvising guitarist Keith Rowe... Albums issued under Fennesz’s name include a series of critically-acclaimed recordings for the Touch label. And another: ECM Dino Saluzzi El Encuentro Dino Saluzzi: bandoneon Anja Lechner: violoncello Felix Saluzzi: saxophone The Metropole Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley U.S. Release date: July 27, 2010 ECM CD: B0014477-02 UPC: 0289 476 3834 6 Dino Saluzzi’s first live album for ECM finds the Argentinean bandoneon master at Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, presenting new orchestral compositions. Dino himself is principal soloist throughout the recording, joined by Anja Lechner and brother Felix Saluzzi at points along the way. The flowing music, with strings shadowing the movement of the bandoneon, extends the spirit of Dino’s “storytelling” solo works such as “Andina” (to which the piece “Plegaria Andina” makes reference). Dino says, “a lot can be told using few elements. The music should not be too rational. It has to brim with innocence.” “On El Encuentro writes Javier Magistris in the liner notes, “the collaboration with cellist Anja Lechner and saxophonist Felix Saluzzi adds a new chapter of beauty in a wider and more complex structure. The soliloquies of the three main characters intertwine prodigiously, like a naturally-flowing current, each voice attaining its greatest expressive splendour by interacting with the harmonic structures.” The project was set in motion by Amsterdam-based writer/producer Gustavo Pazos, who had visited Saluzzi in Buenos Aires in 2004 to prepare a radio portrait of the bandoneonist-composer, and got to hear some of Dino’s works-in-progress. Holland’s Metropole Orchestra subsequently expressed interest, and with the support of NPS Radio it was possible to present the music in Amsterdam. Pazos points out that the Metropole Orchestra has “fulfilled a major cultural role in the Netherlands” with its long history of encouraging musicians outside the classical mainstream. El Encuentro marked a first-time encounter for composer and orchestra (and both the Metropole Orchestra and conductor Jules Buckley make ECM debuts here) but the cast of soloists draws on some long-standing playing associations, in the case of Dino and Felix more than 60 years of collaborations. They started making music together as children, and today Felix frequently works with his brother in Dino’s “family band” projects, as heard on albums including Mojotoro and Juan Condori. Felix also plays in a new group with Dino and cellist Anja Lechner, a trio whose formation was a direct result of the shared experience of playing together on El Encuentro. Anja Lechner has worked closely with Dino since the mid-1990s, beginning with the Kultrum alliance between Saluzzi and the Rosamunde Quartet, a collaboration which in several respects prefigured El Encuentro. She has also toured widely in duo with the bandoneonist, and recorded with him on Ojos Negros in 2006. El Encuentro (The Encounter) was released in Europe in time for Dino’s 75th birthday on May 20th, 2010. In July 2010, Dino is the subject of a special ECM focus at the Atina jazz Festival in Italy. There, he will be joined on stage by Felix Saluzzi, Anja Lechner, John Surman, Palle Mikkelborg, Rosario Bonaccorso and UT Gandhi. One of the most important figures in contemporary South American music, Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born in Campo Santo in North Argentina and led his first group at the age of 14. He began to play professionally while studying in Buenos Aires, where he also met and befriended Astor Piazzolla, then in the process of developing the Tango Nuevo idiom. In 1956, Saluzzi returned to the district of Salta to concentrate on his compositions, now consciously incorporating folk music elements. In the early 1970s he was associated with Gato Barbieri, helping the saxophonist toward a rediscovery of his own roots on such influential albums as Chapter One: Latin America. Saluzzi's ECM discography was launched in 1982 with a solo album titled Kultrum, a spontaneous example of the bandoneonist's art as "storyteller"; this marked the first of many "imaginary returns" to the little towns and villages of his childhood. From the beginning of the 1980s Saluzzi made numerous collaborations with European and American jazz musicians – amongst those initiated by ECM were meetings with Charlie Haden, Palle Mikkelborg and Pierre Favre (Once Upon A Time - Far Away In The South), with Enrico Rava (Volver), with Marc Johnson (Cité de la Musique), with Tomasz Stanko and John Surman (on Stanko's From The Green Hill ) and with Palle Danielsson (Responsorium). Of the 1996 recording collaboration with the Rosamunde Quartet Kultrum, Gramophone wrote “This particular recording is perhaps the best example I’ve yet heard of a music that rises naturally from its mixture of influences – here the South American tango and folk traditions and the European string quartet.” The orchestral El Encuentro takes the story to the next stage of development. Conductor Jules Buckley has specialized in music between the idioms, and worked with musicians from Airto Moreira to Brian Eno to the Arctic Monkeys. Guest conductor with the Metropole Orchestra, he first came to wider attention in 2004 as the founder/director of the Heritage Orchestra. CD package includes 28 page Spanish/English booklet with liner notes by Javier Magistris and Gustavo Pazos, plus artist photos

JAW, I see the disc is now listed as sold. Were you able to strike up a deal?

Someone (not me, nor do I know him) has one listed at audiogon for $20. Here is the link: http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?softjazs&1283616023&/Wayne-Shorter-Odyssey-Of-Iska- Good luck. Actually upon reinspection the listing says USA only for shipping. But I'm pretty sure this item was listed previously and didn't sell in the 30 days, so I'm pretty sure that this is a relisting. Perhaps you can persuade him to ship abroad...

The Dolphy record does sound interesting. Here is a link VAO Dolphy and this is the info: Powerful Ways - Nine Immortal Non Evergreens for Eric Dolphy Hat was/is supposed to reissue the Minimalism of Erik Satie....hopefully soon

PM sent on Benny Goodman Small Group set.

Just heard about this. Does anyone here have it? If so, does it include the original 2 disc release among the 7 CDs? Also, would anyone venture to opine as to whether the original 2 CD set is sufficient? I've always wanted but never got around to getting People Time. Is this the way to go? The set can be picked up for around $50 online based on a quick google. Thanks in advance for your insights.

I've got the Marantz 5 CD changer and I'm disappointed with it. It is a little over three years old and it goes on the fritz from time to time. The tray will spend endlessly and then it gives and "error" reading. I sent it out for warranty service and when they received it they indicated that they couldn't find anything wrong with it. So when this happens I bounce the crap out of it like it is being shipped to Connecticut via UPS and it tends to work again the next day. Who needs that. Ironically my 15 year old Philips carousel continues to work like a charm for the friend I handed it down to. So much for my upgrade.....

I just nabbed the Threadgill and Rava sets from the CAM jazz website for $84 US dollars shipped. A much better deal than the jazzloft. We'll see how the whole shipping thing from Italy works out.

Jazzloft is advertising these as available threadgill Any thoughts on these Threadgill titles? Thanks!

Duh....I see now. Maybe it is a format change, I seem to recall that the BIN notation was elsewhere. All three is definitely a nice score. Thanks for the heads up.

I noticed this too. I was confused by it because don't auctions that end with "Buy It Now" usually say so? So I was puzzled how this auction played out. This reminds me of the daydream I have every spring about finding a garage sale where some nice old lady is selling her dearly departed husband's Mosiac Sets. She laments those big old black boxes and can't imagine that anyone would really be interested in them. She then proceeds to give me a bargain basement price where I get multiple sets and change from my $20 bill. And then I always wake up......

Looks like based on a run of sales they've bumped the price up to $49.99....still a bargain.

This may have been covered previously here or elsewhere. I've been wanting this one and at this price now was my time...... Dolphy Box

I see it now, on the back outside cover. I didn't think to look there. All is well....just a little curveball. Change comes hard to us older dudes.

The invoice notes it as a promo and typically the booklets have the spot that identifies what the number is and in its place is written "promo." This booklet is blank on the inside cover with no spot at all for the set number to be written. Does your set have the usual hand written number?

I just received mine and there is no spot inside the booklet for the number (it is a promo and usually marked as such). With this run being 20,000 are these sets individually numbered? Thanks!

bump.....auction ends tomorrow. Included is the DVD of The Miles Davis Quintet in Europe '67, not the CD as I originally stated. Can't believe I missed that....... Thanks for looking!

Rather a unique item..... Auction Thanks for looking!

They are great sets.....These are duplicates. I was in the habit of ordering sets for a friend on a fixed income with no credit card. Unfortunately his fondness for weed surpassed his inclination to pay for these sets so here they sit. I wasn't to mad, I figured that ultimately I wouldn't end up losing anything. After these three strikes though, he is on his own for finding a way to get Mosaics. I'm done.

I have the following brand new OOP sets, still in the Mosaic shipping box. -Johnny Hodges (MD6-200) -Farmer/Golson Jazztet -JJ Johnson Complete Columbia Is anyone interested in trading a mint or new Beatles Stereo Box for one of the above sets? Please PM if interested. Thanks. James

I hate to be that guy.....I just called Collectors Choice and they said the Lou set is currently out of stock.....

Do obscene Buy-It-Now auctions qualify? If so, here's an interesting one: http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Complete-Capitol-R...f#ht_500wt_1182 Only $1,700 for a new Nat King Cole Mosaic. Get it while it's hot! (I'll expect a 10% referral fee.) Yeah, but shipping is a bargain at $3.

Ebay ultimately gets you (the seller) either way. What they miss on a final value fee they tap into with paypal........

I'm late to this discussion, but someone from Stamford, CT. selling mint/low-numbered Mosaic's- the Woods is #8 and the Basie is #28. Is this seller someone formerly or presently associated with Mosaic.....is it Mosaic by chance getting some petty cash? Just curious......Thanks!

SOLD!!! Thanks.