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can you hear me clapping? It was a "Lordy Lordy" sort of evening. Glad the recording gets that across. I often feel reluctant about buying recordings of concerts that I've really enjoyed so I've not yet bought it A copy of the Branch is on its way to me. Can't wait. I've been keeping an eye out for her since she recorded with Tim daisy ages ago You'd've had a bidding war It's the only Threadgill I've yet to get

Bev's Ok and seems to be making the most of his well earned free time

Chico Hamilton Trio {Pacific Jazz] w. George Duvivier, Jim Hall/Howard Roberts sublime

Parker/Edwards/Russell - Walthamstow Moon ('61 Revisited) [Byrd Out]

On Spotify in the UK

I suspect everyone's enjoyed the rest day after the hairy day on the slopes yesterday. A real shame for both Porte and Thomas and Porte's crash looked particularly nasty. Aru's move on Froome was intriguing as was the lack of response from the other GC contenders who all chose to respect the yellow jersey. When will Aru make his next move? On UK TV today Froome's talking about riding defensively and using the TT at the end to attack but then he isn't going to broadcast his real intentions to anyone. He could well try and put some distance between him and the others on one of the upcoming mountain stages

Pat Thomas - The Elephant Clock Of Al Jazari [OtoRoku] excellent new solo recording by one of the UK's unsung, and under-recorded, improv heroes

Yusef Lateef - Gong! [Savoy]. LP 1

My first listen and the lack of drums doesn't seem a radical departure at all, hardly missing them. As said upthread, Coleman's music has such a strong rhythmic centre anyway. For me it's the use of piano that's interesting and, as Xybert says, the bass is right on the nose (Bruce Chudzik is a new name to me, I think). It's reminds me a little of Zooid in it's detailed but light-footed groove but obviously doesn't sound like them at all. Just sounds like an excellent Coleman album. And that's just the first listen...

I have tickets for that band in October. Glad to hear there's a recording too

Sagan is usually one of the Tour's characters. I'm not too sure what Cav thinks of Sagan's swagger at the moment The film I saw did made it look a lot more of an offensive rather than defensive/balancing movement. Froome now back in yellow. His Sky protection team will now move into place

Karl Berger - With Silence [Enja] following on from John Surman - Where Fortune Smiles [Dawn]

Now I wish I'd paid a lot more attention in French classes...

Many things are happening in the UK that don't seem possible or baffling at the moment.... People who are buying LPs are buying them for the object and the experience. They're probably less inclined by SQ issues and some haven't lived with vinyl long enough to realise the inherent idiosyncrasies that made the CD so attractive. Chances are many are also streaming other music or even streaming the LP's music - different formats, different platforms, different playback situations. They will likely get the download bundled with the LP Others will go to their grave claiming the SQ is better, warmer, whatever on vinyl (I'm really not interested in getting into that hoary old debate yet again - it's been done to death on this board over many years) and are returning to the format after a CD hiatus. Any which way, it's just folks listening to music which is a good thing....oh, and record companies finding another way to exploit their product!

Great for Williams to get the yellow. Froome's advantage over his main rivals is an interesting start to the Tour. Sky won't be giving that up easily

Jason Roebke http://www.pointofdeparture.org/PoD56/PoD56JumpinIn.html Each piece was written on a single page. There was no conductor. Certain things were discussed in advance. For that first gig, and a second (at the Hungry Brain) shortly after, it was an 11-piece group – with guitarist Matthew Schneider and saxophonists Dave Rempis and Mars Williams. Roebke spoke at length about the project’s challenges – especially of stitching the written and the improvised together. “Everybody could improvise and everybody could play the written music, but they could not put those next to each other. So there would be a lot of bass solos – and sort of looking around and staring at me, like, ‘When are you going to count in the next section?’ ‘I don’t know!’ Literally, don’t look at me five seconds after you just finished playing: the song’s got to be longer than a minute! We really played some of the most embarrassing music of my entire life.

Mike Nock - Ondas [ECM] one of the best that Manfred's never seen fit to reissue on CD (also goes to show, no hard feelings on the rugby front )

Thanks Sidewinder. It's on the "to buy" list now which given the length of the list could mean anytime between now and Kingdom Come

thanks

Such a hearty recommendation piques my interest and worries my wallet. Who are the Bird Curtis Quintet? Listening to some online samples I like what I hear

Having now spent some time with disc.1 of this release I can only say that it's a triumph. It's interesting to hear the Ensemble eight years on from the first release on FMR. There's undoubtedly a very strong thread running between them and despite the personnel changes the characteristics of the music and the playing are immediately identifiable. There's still that marvellously wonky gait that propels the more uptempo numbers.The Ensemble sounds more cohered and much of the disc is characterised by ensemble rather than solo playing. No one player shines but all play an equally integral part in the success of the whole emerging at different times to make individual statements. The key to all of this has to be the compositions all of which achieve a fine balance between complexity with accessibility. To start with a Jerome Cooper tune is a real statement of intent and one that fair leaps out of the speakers. I'd recommend this to anyone with open ears who wants to hear some fine contemporary (and British, for what that's worth) players playing memorable compositions in a non-straight ahead manner. I remember posting about the first Ensemble disc and mentioning Threadgill - it's still that type of beguiling and complex music, driven by great tunes and some definite groove. And to think I once gave the guitarist my spare copy of a Paul Motian LP - I can hear some Motian in this music too! And now I've got to try the large Ensemble disc..

Listening now. Very strong playing all round, good tunes too. Great listen so far. Now I'm really pissed off I missed the gig! Any more London dates planned?

I'll definitely sample with a view to purchasing. Sorry that I had to miss the Vortex gig, hope it went well

Walt Dickerson - Shades Of Love [Steeplechase]

that's superfast, thanks Alex