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Good on Dan. Works for me

I'm pleased to read these largely positive comments about DG and vinyl as I've just bought vinyl from them for the first time. The clincher for me was their int'l postage rates which are lower compared to everyone else stateside to the extent that they charge less for LP postage than others do to post a CD. How can that be?

saw that had been released. Very fond of solo McPhee. How is it?

Elton Dean's Ninesense - Oh! For The Edge [Ogun]

Just jumped on a DG copy too. Nothing nearer to home and I'd been sitting on this for far too long. Got me a Tapscott LP to keep it company on its transatlantic journey (How do Dg manage to offer such more reasonable int'l postage than nearly all other US sellers?)

Just checked the line up. Looks intriguing. How's it sound Leeway? Good, not great. I actually like the larger line-up on Side B rather more; I find it a little more exciting. Kuhn's an interesting character, with an Art Pepper type life story, so the disc is interesting although not essential. Thanks. I like interesting. Read about his life earlier after your first post http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/dec/10/lists-abundant-life-peter-kuhn/ certainly "interesting"

Just checked the line up. Looks intriguing. How's it sound Leeway?

Karl Berger & Company - Tune In [Milestones]

Going - II Machinery [Silent Water]

must listen to it again soon

Another one lost. His last ECM was sublime. I really encountered him with Motian and have still to investigate the early work although the Phillips with Gil Evans is a stormer

Tchicai, Kohlhase, Fewell, McBee, Hart - Tribal Ghost [No Business] my first exposure to Fewell. Everything he plays on this is so right. Sad day today thinking there will be no more music from him.

and here. With reviews of two recent releases which are now read with a heavy heart http://www.freejazzblog.org/

Shocked and saddened. He wasn't very old, was he? Only came to his music relatively recently but enjoyed his albums immensely

Dennis Gonzalez & Faruq Z Bey w. Northwood Improvisors Septet - Hymn for Tomaz Stanko [Qbico]

Roy Brooks - The Free Slave [Muse]

Looking like three hot days and no thunder 9so far) in the capital. Now that is a heatwave..... Ashes summer, going to fine until we need some rain to obtain a draw

Just finished series 5 of 'Sons of Anarchy' Compulsive viewing but questionable on many levels. I'm sure my early teen Metal years are resurfacing with all the biker chic on display Two more series to go...... born to be wild

I'd love to see the Ono at MoMa. We had a small retrospective at The Serpentine a couple of summers ago and it really opened my eyes to Ono's work

just back from Godspeed You! Black Emperor Stunning concert must be 20 years since I last saw them and almost that long since I listened to an album.

Prince Lawsha - Firebirds: Live at Berkeley Jazz Festival vol 1 [Birdseye] Jerome Cooper - For The People [Hat Art] two recent purchases living up to expectations

Maybe but the US stance on gun control makes the availability of the means to express that hate so much more deadly and readily available. In the UK we're not immune to barbaric acts but they are thankfully fewer and less regular.

Ornette Coleman Double Sextet - Free Jazz [Atlantic] Mono I've been alternating the mono and stereo editions a couple of times today. The mono has an immediacy the stereo lacks to my ears. However the stereo has the quartet separation. Mono wins today, stereo will win another day Whitehouse? Never thought I'd see their name in this neighbourhood. Scared me then so I'm sure they'd still do so today

I'll send the WP quartet to London in exchange for Parker-Edwards-Sanders to NYC I'll send the WP quartet to London in exchange for Parker-Edwards-Sanders to NYC Or Foxes Fox or...... Sounds a fair exchange. I'll start working on it I'm not Niels who's the big Zimpel fan around here but 'Hera' by Zimpel is very good. Given your drummer preferences you might also like 'Seven Lines' which is Hera with Hamid guesting

I didn't buy the Wood Flute box because it didn't have enough variety. Now if it had had a couple of the large scale pieces from the new box instead of some of the quartet that would make a must-buy box for me. As it is I'm unlikely to buy either although I've always liked Parker long form so maybe the new one, one day.That orchestral piece ways heavy against though I would be the first in the queue were the quartet to play London