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Give me a day or two, a copy arrived in the post today

Nu Creative Methods - Nu Creative Dances [Souffle Continu]

Cool, and I missed Limpe Fuchs playing with Eva Parker at Oto earlier this year. Love Anima's 'Monte Alto' which is the only one I've heard

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town [CBS] sitting on the top deck of the bus home anticipating the first play. Forty years ago...

It is. So many memories with these songs

inspired by reading the autobiography. I just realised that these two albums bookended my Bruce purchasing

Really enjoying the early chapters of this and hoping it stays such a good read. Inevitably revisiting the early albums that meant so much to me so long ago now and enjoying them again for the first time in a long time

"Parker's Sonic Imagination" anyone?

Makaya McCraven - Where We Come From [International Anthem/Total Refreshment] the sound of young London and Chicago in perfect harmony...

My understanding, maybe incorrect, is that most of the Clean Feed releases are the musician's recordings and are not recorded for or by the label. The label agrees to provide artwork, distribution under its name etc. This would account for quality control variance and also the sheer number of releases (often live) they manage to release. Others on the board may know more or differently. Sadly my memory fails me as to the source of this info

this again. Followed by, to continue remembering and appreciating Perry Robinson Theo Jorgensmann - In Time [AKM Records] Henry Grimes - The Call [ESP-Disk] a great recording with some special Robinson contributions

I suspect it'll prompt me to do the same

That makes me feel a little better, thanks CT Great recording. Deserves a reissue (on tougher vinyl)

Gunter Hampel and his Galaxie Dreamband - Out From Under [Birth] heavily featuring Perry Robinson RIP

Sorry to hear this. Very fond of the tremendous IAI LP (name escapes me at the moment) and his contributions to many Hampel recordings. 'Funk Dumpling' has evaded me at a reasonable cost (the BYG version tends to be pressed off-centre on the evidence of three copies I've come into contact with). I'm intrigued by the Triple Point release (will have to start saving now if it's at their usual price point)

Craig Harris and Tailgaters Tales - Shelter [JMT]

found this about him http://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/08/introducing-catalan-reeds-player-albert.html

Always thought that is Brotzmann's most Jazz recording. Love it I don't know Cirera, have you heard him elsewhere? If he has two thirds of the Red Trio playing with him and Fernandez then he must be worth a listen.

Eric Dolphy - Musical Prophet [Resonance Records] LP 1, side 2. Duets with Richard Davis, just stunning

certainly don't do any such thing in this English-speaking corner of the world. We queue (no 'up') and as Brits we tend to make a national sport of it too. I'll be in an online queue on Monday morning for the MLB tickets...

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]