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Irene Schweizer, Maggie Nicols, Joelle Leandre at Kings Place three consummate improvisors presenting an hour of fascinating music. Unusual to see humour used so effectively

I was at one of the evenings from which the two releases are taken. It was a great evening of music and particularly interesting to hear Brotzmann respond to that trademark Parker/Drake groove. There's a track on the CD where Drake plays frame drum and Parker guembri and shenai which was a complete knockout on the night

Scorch Trio - Luggumt, {Rune Grammofon]. Second disc of XXX

Circle - 1 Live In Germany Concert [CBS Sony Japan] nice cover amongst other things

Pilz, Niebergall, Schmidt - Celeste [Trion]

eight tunes I don't think I've snowball's chance in hell of identifying but I'm having fun listening to them nonetheless

Keshavan Maslak, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg - Humanplexity [Leo] my belated intro to Maslak. This is good

Oh no, hope this isn't so Can the week get any worse?

looks like the " the effervescent hypnotic Evan Parker " has started his new career http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/2016/10/31/get-your-vortex-jazz-club-t-shirt/

I didn't think this week could get any worse....but now it just has. In troubled times the poetry and beauty of Cohen's music was doubly reassuring and inspiring. A true great whose wit, compassion and apparent humility lifted him above the many of his, more celebrated, peers.

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks [Warner Bros/Seven Arts, UK 1st press] got it at last

That's good to hear as I've just bought a copy of each

Circle - Paris Concert [ECM] I was interested to discover elsewhere on the board today that there are two other live Circle albums about which I knew nothing

It astounds me every time I listen to it. I've not owned it for long but I'm sure it's not just novelty. It sounds so fresh and vital. It's one of those few albums I have where I always find it difficult to choose what to play next - often silence is the answer for a while I have this board to thank for discovering Togashi. Initially a post by Jeffcrom of "Spiritual Nature" then subsequent posts by your good self and Homefromtheforest have kept the fire stoked

Open Sky - s/t [PM Music] David Liebman - Sweet Hands [Horizon A&M] the former has dated less than the latter and now... Masahiko Togashi Quartet - We Now Create, Music For Strings, Winds And Percussion [JVC] which sounds bang up to date

Another interested party here. I can't seem to find a personnel listing, who's in the band?

Open Sky - s/t [PM Music]

You may...thank you

Beautiful album

Funny that because until this LP I too hadn't really been grabbed by anything of Liebman's. I came to the Open Sky LPs through Bob Moses. Have you found anything subsequently that has consolidated the cool and original Liebman view? I'm thinking I might explore a bit more

I need to catch up with that band - there's so much good Brotzmann about at the moment. In the same batch there's an intriguing release by The Motion trio with Rodrigo Amado and Gabriel Ferrandini with a cellist, Miguel Mora who I don't think I've come across before

Open Sky - Spirit In The Sky [PM Music] this trio - Liebman, Tusa, Moses - is a recent discovery. Some good playing from all three on this.

1982 at university, summer's afternoon, listening to music in a friends room and we just finished listening to some of Nick Drake's Fruit Tree boxset when someone put on Liberation Music Orchestra's Ballad Of The Fallen. The sheer emotional heft of the music, its rootedness (Charlie's bass I realise now) and the tunes were like nothing I'd heard before ( Haden's writing/Carla's arrangements) - all that marvellous brass. Upon reading the sleeve and recognising the political content - we were very aware of the situation in El Salvador and Nicaragua at the time - it all fell into place. Songs from the Spanish Civil war resonated with recent readings of Orwell and Laurie Lee .Until then Jazz had meant little to me, a few Ben Webster and Art Tatum records of a friend's father. Ballad Of the Fallen opened up so many new avenues down which I continue to roam inquisitively