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I've given up in face of the tsunami of duo recordings with Shipp! I saw them at the Vortex and they were tremendous so I suspect any of those recordings are worth trying. Clifford Thornton of this parish has recently reviewed some of them. Others I enjoy are: Sad Life - with William Parker/ Rashid Ali Living Jelly - Joe Morris, Gerald Cleaver The Gift - Shipp, Bisio The Passion According to G.H - w. string quartet I tend to scratch the occasional purchase itch based on other players/instrumental line up as much as anything else. All the Leos are on Spotify I think. Most at least

And the accompanying notes... I doubt I’m the last musician (and maybe not the first) who’ll want to create a musical piece of eight minutes and 46 seconds duration, the exact length of time it took for a man’s life to ebb away on that horrifying video we have all seen in the news. After I first saw some of that footage, I wept trying to describe it to my wife. I was extremely disturbed by what I saw. Soon after that, the protests began, and they have continued. When I finally heard on the news the astonishing amount of time that actually elapsed while that man – and many bystanders – pleaded in vain for his life, I knew I had to memorialize that number somehow. How long is eight minutes and 46 seconds? Very late last night, I dressed in black and went out to my Lab to make this video. It was done in one take. All of the flaws and struggles you hear should be considered a part of the piece. This is something I’ve never done before: a protest piece. It was not fun to make, and is probably no more fun to listen to. Nor should it be. The statement I want to make with this is not only about one man, or one police officer… or even about that one issue, large as it is. There is so much that is wrong right now, so much to cry out about. So much killing. The senseless, ongoing killings of black people. The endless parade of mass shootings in our schools, churches and workplaces. The gang violence in our cities (yesterday saw the confession of a 13-year-old involved in a murder in Central Park). The killing of our forests, our species, the rich and beautiful abundance of life on this amazing world we’ve been entrusted with. And now the coronavirus is killing us, 100,000 of us, some of my friends and colleagues among them. Meanwhile we find ourselves in this time of anguish, of multiple crises and emergencies, being presided over by a selfish, spoiled child who cannot possibly lead, unite or heal, because he fundamentally does not understand or believe that other people are actually real. We have so much to learn… but some of us aren’t even in school. I am sorry if any of this comes across as self-indulgent, melodramatic, or offensive to anyone. Please forgive me if it does. This is not about me. I simply felt compelled to make this statement. Silence is complicity. Now I will return to making music for the pure love and joy of sound. There is one more thought I would like to share. I’ve never done anything like this before, and wasn’t sure I could get through it. By the end I was shaking, and some desperation was starting to creep in. But there came a moment, when my timer showed about 1:20 remaining, that I realized I was going to make it. Sadly, that moment never came for George Floyd. Scott Robinson www.sciensonic.net

It's the only Shorty Rogers I own and I'm entirely unsure why that's the case

Armonicord - Esprits De Sel [L'Ectrobande] Thanks Clifford!

Great minds...

The Burrell is lovely. When you want to offload one of those 'It's Time'...

I'm impatient for the Jackie McLean. Some listings but no preorder option found yet. I know Honest Jon's will get it so I just need to wait Or listen to the CD....

Great, look forward to it

I don't know the Convergence Qt releases (yet) but those other two are very special, bookends to the Ensemble story so far (more likely to come, Alex?).

That's a hell of a line up. I just checked how it's configured on the individual discs - very interesting indeed. One to seriously think about for when my bust CD player's back in action post-lockdown

When I very first skim read the headline to this story I thought "great, they've resigned in protest at their colleagues behaviour, there's some police with integrity" ...NO! Un -fkn-believable but not so really, which is the sad part. Close them ranks, don't let the world in. Happens with our police here too with some historically, and less so, tragic consequences.

Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox [Ndeya, 2020] Evan Parker - Monoceros [Treader, 2020]

Brother Ah - Divine Music [Manufactured Recordings] 'Searching' LP sides G/H/I RIP

Moor Mother & Nicole Mitchell - Offering, Live At Guess Who (FLAC) Dennis Gonzalez's Ataxaria - Ts'iibil Chaaltun (FLAC/2LP) Nat Birchall - Mysticism Of Sound (FLAC/LP) preorder And I completely forgot about the Colligan with Gary Thomas which I will now get in July

I always think of 'Dialogue' as much a Hill album as Bobby H's

Just read it and now listening to 'Tes Esat' for the first time in a long while

I've been reading this thread with interest and contributed a couple of times, which I now think maybe I shouldn't have as I'm on the outside. I think the thread's been remarkably free of partisan mud-slinging politics, unlike the Covid threads, and hence has been allowed to run. Most disagreement has been respectful and there hasn't been too much denigration of others views or of the individuals themselves. I hope it can remain that way but I do wonder

Thanks for posting this. I'll be buying this

I'd never admit it if it did...

A couple of weeks ago I had an LP arrive from US to UK in about 10 days

I'm still waiting for the Scott here in the UK. I did receive a notification that postage was delayed by a week or so, about a week ago

Yes, I was thinking more of protesters

A proportionate response, I'd hope. One that doesn't use one of the world's largest armies to resolve a non-military situation. Armies against unarmed citizens is rarely s good solution. My country's history is littered with examples that illustrate this. That's a very eloquent exposition, I wish your family and community safe John.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/police-marching-with-protesters-george-floyd-reform I'm sure this may have political undertones, in which case please remove Mod, but I found this an interesting article and a moment of hope

Maybe as an outsider to this I shouldn't be commenting and whilst absolutely agreeing with the "cooler heads" plea it strikes me that there's a vast disparity between the force currently being exercised by state forces, let alone their potential firepower, and "throwing rocks/bricks/water bottles/small explosives". The scenes I'm seeing are indistinguishable from those I watched from Hong Kong recently and that's got to mean something very worrying, surely