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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 😄

if I had spent half as much on hi fi as I have done on music I would probably be able to understand all the specs being discussed or posted here

Yes, of course! I remember that vaguely. I was at school and I'm not sure whether anyone actually bought the album or whether we just talked about it a lot.

No strange odour on mine. That might be the first time I've deliberately, or accidentally, sniffed a CD cover

I'm not jlhoots but that is the one that had the recent CD reissue. I have the LP, a very good album indeed, up there with the best of Beaver's in my book. Great steel drums! It is. I don't know why I'd slept on him. I'd been knocked out by the CD comp from '97 (wow!) and haven't listened to it for probably 10 years. This weekend he came into my head and I listened to Chapters 1 & 4 on Spotify and decided I needed the LPs for all Chapters. Interestingly, just looking at the CD comp booklet for the date I've read that a number of the tracks are unreleased as they are the full versions of tracks shortened for the LPs. Now I have to listen to the CDs too...

All of the Beaver Harris leader dates are really good. A good number have steel drums. Meanwhile, I decided it was time to plug some Gato sized holes in the collection. Today's arrival Gato Barbieri - Chapter One: Latin America [Impulse] I knew some of this from a CD compilation. It's good to have it in its entirety. Chapter Two's in the post. So until that arrives it's this Oliver Nelson - Swiss Suite [Flying Dutchman], featuring Gato Barbieri & Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson

I wondered about that one but didn't buy it in the end. Bought the Harry Beckett instead.

Chad Taylor Trio - The Daily Biological [Cuneiform]

Julius Eastman - Femenine. Apartment House, livestream from Wigmore Hall

That sounds very interesting. Just checked Discogs I'm also surprised they don't pop up on UK Jazz recordings more. I think Orphy Robinson may have played them in the past

I live happily with the 1977 UA edition not that I play it very often not because of the pressing just don't need to hear it much

Yeah, that would be a great listen