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RIP. I saw their first UK concert, promoting the first album too. Rainbow Theatre, north London. Blew me away.

Whilst we're on the subject of solo saxophone, this hit the spot https://smallscalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/le-territoire-de-lanche

Thank you for reposting that. I found it very informative and really rather moving. I've had the Iosardi book unopened for years, I need to remedy that. I've now got the Leimert Park film lined up on Vimeo too. I knew nothing about that.

Well that makes me feel a whole lot better... Yeah, I forgot the Red Trio (great trio) collaborations. I have 'Empire'.

Warren Smith and the Composers Workshop Ensemble - Cricket Song-Poem [Miff Music Company]

Yes, I think i can hear how the layers will reveal themselves over time. There's lots going on. Thanks for the recommendations, I have 'Facts Of Their Own Lives' and my enjoyment of that helped prompt the purchase of the 3LP set. I can safely say I've never seen a Golia CD in a shop in the UK, except maybe the Clean Feeds.

Now I like SY as much as the next person and more than many and I thought this might be an interesting experience to see how Thurston interacted with such high calibre improvisors. Well, he decided to just play very loudly over them for the entire gig. No concept of listening whatsoever. A shame and a missed opportunity.

Thanks. I'll investigate those two. I hear all that but what I never get beyond is the technique. I find him a very cold player but that's just how I hear it, I appreciate that.

RIP indeed. It was the middle of a heatwave I remember that much and they kept the doors open, thankfully. My non-Jazz fan friends never seem to say 'Yes' when I suggest a similar outing...see what they miss!

Jamil Shabaka & Alex Cline - Duo Infinity [Aten] anyone shed any light on Jamil Shabaka? He appear to have moved into Reggae according to his Discogs listing

That was a very nice run of albums but on JMT rather than Winter&Winter, no? Five years since her last release too. Too long. Edit to add: reissues of JMT titles were on Winter&Winter, apologies. Stefan Winter ran both labels I think

Compositions For Large Ensemble. Purchase prompted by this thread and I have to say that first acquaintance is very positive. Some great playing over the three LPs. The compositions are strong too, not just vehicles for blowing. I think it will repay closer attention over repeated listens.

I've been following tis discussion with interest and now decide to add my ha'porth. I've seen Shipp a few times too and enjoyed every occasion to varying degrees. The one that I enjoyed the least was his contributions to the David S. Ware Quartet, Susie Ibarra was the star of that evening. I was transfixed by a solo performance in a steaming hot Red Rose Club. Duo with Perelman was excellent and better than the couple of recordings I've heard. But the best was either with Dunmall/Edwards/Sanders at Oto where they took the roof off - I do recognise Steve's description of Dunmall not getting as much space as elsewhere but that didn't dampen my enthusiasm - or the other cracking performance was with Evan Parker and Spring Hell Jack where Shipp played organ and they just grooved like the grooviest thing. I used to listen to his recordings a lot but found there became too many to keep up with (and tihs was before the Perelman duos) and too similar so I stopped bothering. I get the overly dramatic embellishment observation too. Sometimes I quite liked that, not always. He's a musician who I suddenly remember and revisit on occasion, no longer someone that I follow for every new release. Now, John Butcher. He presents me with a conundrum in that everything about my listening tastes suggest I should lap up his recordings but somehow I've never found one that truly grips me. I do keep trying and only last month bought the duet with McPhee and the one with Akio Suzuki, both of which i've enjoyed for the first couple of listens, the Suzuki the more so. I have duets with Hemingway and Paal Nilsson-Love and North By Northwest all of which have sat undisturbed on my shelves for a long time. My favourite has been a Clean Feed called 'A Brush With Dignity'. I need to revisit. Interestingly, given what you've both said about his solo work I don't have any recordings. Also, I've only ever seen him perform twice, once with sanders which was very good and partially released on Emanem. The other is a best forgotten mismatch with Sanders, Edwards and Thurston Moore the latter of whom just musically embarrassed himself to my ears. So in conclusion, I need to investigate solo Butcher more. Suggestions?

Jacques Coursil - Hostipitality Suite [Savvy] lots of care gone into this. A timely and thoughtful piece of work. Thanks to Clifford T for the tip off

Fataka was/is a very good label. Not come across a dud on it yet.

So that's who I blame for my early teenage listening then. Been looking for the culprit for a while now Unacceptable under any circumstances?

And still this morning...not succumbed yet

Chickens visiting home

Yusef Lateef - Psychicemotus {Impulse/ABC] Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat and C [Impulse] Mono followed by Stereo Yusef Lateef - The Golden Flute [His Master's Voice] Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings, E&F Sides [International Anthem]

I didn't know this album. Listening now and it's very good. Thanks for posting about it. 👍🏼👍🏼Love that one. I think I may have bought after reading about it here a few years ago

Today... The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble - Facts Of Their Own Lives [Nine Winds] limbering up for the imminent arrival of the 3LP set Beaver Harris 360 Degree Experience - A Well Kept Secret [Shemp] Barefield/Holland/Tabbal Trio - Transdimensional Space Window [Trans African Records] It's a lot better than the cover suggests. Anteloper - Tour Beats, volume 1 [International Anthem] Joshua Abrams - Magnetoception [Eremite] not noticed previously that this isn't credited to The Natural Information Society, only the latter ones in the series are. but what a series and band/concept.

...they couldn't find them, perhaps whatever the reason it doesn't augur well

Talking of players he plays with, I discovered trombonist John Rapson who has a couple of very nice albums on Nine Winds

There are other members who know more about him than I do. Jcam44? But I own about eight albums, split evenly between early Nine Winds vinyl and more recent CDs. I can honestly say I have never been disappointed by any purchase of his leader dates. I could just list them all here Two recommendations would be 'In The Right Order' by his trio from 1979 and by way of contrast a great solo disc 'Music for like instruments: the flutes' from 2004. But as I type this I have to add the 'Haunting The Spirits Inside Them' with Ken Filiano and Joelle Leander which is simply stunning. He's someone that if I come across something by in the racks I just buy. His facility on such a range of instruments is lightly worn it seems to me and he always chooses interesting contexts in which to display it. It certainly appears that the distribution of Nine Winds in the UK and possibly Europe as well has been patchy at best. Having said that I haven't recently scoped the NW bandcamp situation. This thread will be my prompt and prove undoubtedly costly if there's much available. There's an early Large Ensembles set I would love to get my hands on. Update to add: just found and purchased the Large Ensemble set. UK seller with other Golia vinyl, could prove a costly thread 😄