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You're in for a treat when this arrives. Great recording. Pursglove is a bit of a hidden treasure even here in UK let alone in the wider world. Plays very well with Dunmall now and again. I'd love that Leandre set but price is too much for me at the moment and this " McPhee is playing in a manner that separates him from his peers. He takes lack of cliche to an extreme but doesn’t play with some of the extreme extended techniques that we hear from some of the younger player" is the best summation of recent McPhee I've read. he has a four day residency at Oto next year, I hope to make at least one night Check out his duo recording with Barry Guy https://www.discogs.com/Liudas-Mock%C5%ABnas-Barry-Guy-Lava/master/1154199

I don't know the game at all apart from very little picked up from films, books etc.. The intricacies will be lost on me, even though I intend to do my homework if I get a ticket. I want to experience a match almost as much as a cultural experience as a sporting one, although the sight of top ranking sports performers is a big pull too (I'll let others decide if the teams playing will give me that ) The pricing is off-putting, I'll admit. My friend and I had discussed costs beforehand and set a limit of £75 (based on Premiership football and international cricket ticket pricing) and that would leave us nowhere near where you're all helpfully suggesting. Maybe I need to sell some Mosaic boxes...

Thanks again Dan. That photo's very interesting as the equivalent seat at the most expensive cricket match would be £120 so baseball's generally more expensive it would seem. I suspect they know there's going to be huge demand from baseball-starved US ex-pats, UK aficionados, corporates and just the plain curious like me. It's actually quite difficult to work out from the plan where some of the seats are and how the diamond's going to orientate onto the football pitch. Looks like a 90 degree turn so the diamond will be across the width of the stadium rather than length. How long is the diamond at its longest point from? I saw the Rolling Stones at the stadium in the summer and some of those nosebleed tickets were way off the stage but that was at one end of the stadium.

Thanks gents. I'd not seen the seating plan and those prices are scary. They outsrip Ashes cricket prices, from cat5 upwards, which takes some doing. For cat3 upwards I'd want to be on the field of play (I could import a Mosaic box for those figures) Are they ridiculously over-inflated compared to pricing for this fixture if it was in US?

Noah Howard Group - Berlin Concert [FMP] Noah Howard - The Black Ark [Polydor/Freedom]

Can I tap the MLB knowledge of you all? MLB is staging a game in London next year and I'm intending to try and get tickets when they go on sale on Monday. I'm intrigued by the sport and think it'll be a great event. We're getting the Yankees v. Red Sox, names that mean something to me but only really from popular culture references If this were cricket or football (soccer) I'd know exactly where to try and sit but as I've never seen baseball live before I was wondering where in the stadium I should look to sit? I'm guessing the seating plan will display with regards to the diamond (correct phrase? apologies if not) Any help gratefully received

Sadly inspection was made and mysterious scratch in evidence...

Chico Hamilton - Chico Hamilton And The Players [Blue Note] Bobby Hutcherson - Components [Blue Note, Liberty]

one day I'll find an affordable copy to replace the mp3 I currently listen to meanwhile... Paul Lovens/Paul Rutherford - s/t [Po Torch]

Thanks for the tip off. I'll be very interested in obtaining this one

and now, by way of some contrast. Mine's the 'His Master's Voice' UK mono edition

Evan Parker - The Snake Decides [OtoRoku, 2018] lovely job by Oto on this reissue

What gets me is when I play an LP I haven't played for a while and there's a scratch. Absolutely no recognition of the scratch the last time it was played. So, who snuck in a scratched it in my absence? Just happened with this. Only a small scratch for a few revolutions but as annoying (and seemingly mysterious) as hell

Looks like a great evening's music, have a great time. That's a string section from heaven, maybe you could see if Tomeka Reid wants to join them as well... I know Grdina's name but can't think of from where.

Alan Braufman - Valley Of Search [Valley Of Search] my other reissue of the year, easily. They'll have to be joint winners... Walt Dickerson Trio - To My Son [Steeplechase]

Billy Bang - Changing Seasons [Bellows] Infinite Sound -Contemporary African-American Music [Aguirre 2018] my reissue of the year, easily. Fabulous music

I agree. Never been disappointed by a Pi Lehman octets, quartet or trio sit well with the Colemans Fieldwork were a great band before individual careers took off Sorey's are pretty intense listens

Last night, Jaimie Branch took the roof off Cafe Oto. First set was Fly Or Die which was very good but the second set was something else. The set seemed to be one piece most likely titled 'Prayer For America' a phrase that featured prominently in Branch's spoken word contributions taking a swipe at "wide-eyed racists' and others. It wasn't overly difficult to understand the motivations for this piece. The band, Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis were fabulous playing free and funky as hell that's a very good album. Not surprised it was good live too

This is indeed marvellous and uplifting music. Someone will enhance their lives no end by buying these albums

Looks like another fascinating work to be released in February. TUM really are doing WLS proud https://www.tumrecords.com/release/057-rosa-parks

It's on Spotify if you want to listen

Nor me (like B##xit has happened already...). I thought similarly about Amsterdam

Recent Arkestra shows in London (about 2 a year) have been about a tentet pulling from that pool and from others

Massive Van fan too. My favourite albums today are 'Astral Weeks', 'Veedon Fleece' and 'Common One'. Tomorrow it will be the same three but in a different order. The day after that 'Wavelength' or 'Hard Nose The Highway' may get a look in I have to say that I think the albums since 'Hymns To The Silence' have been patchy at best. I really started to be annoyed by the increasing number of songs he wrote generally moaning about the music business. Everyone who follows his career knows his reputation for not being the cheeriest but these songs sound like self-indulgent whining at best. However, I still listen to each new album and would make a good double album compilation of the stand out tunes from the recent albums. I'd actually prefer it if he were less prolific and exercised a little more quality control but he his who he is and just on the basis of tunes like that sublime one posted by Joe above he's earned the right to release whatever he wishes irrespective of what I think. The multi-disc 'It's Too Late To Stop Now' is ridiculously good and I'm also very fond of the outtakes compilation 'The Philosopher's Stone'. I hope they release more expanded versions of the earlier albums. Edit to add: how on earth did I forget to mention the sublime 'No Method...' Joe, thanks for posting the Terry Reid which I had never heard but shall listen to a lot now that I have. Lovely

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