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Lovely series of recordings. enjoy!

Thanks for resolving the mystery, Bol. I can rest easy knowing I'm not missing any inserts I think this is one of the most interesting and stimulating releases of the last few years. Sorey's use of space and contrasting dynamics in both his composition and his playing is a real signature - to not be afraid of silence or lack of rhythmic 'forward momentum' intrigues. I bought the Blaser and Grimal on the back of Koan and appreciate them both with a slight preference for the Grimal but Koan is where it's at for me

any grunts?

Fine album. I'm intrigued by the mention of inserts. I bought my copy direct from 482 and there's nothing other than the cardboard outer sleeve - just checked. Are we talking LP version if there was such a thing?

Good UK price for this at sainsburys. com of all places. I paid £15. first listen underway....

I'd not heard of that one but a quick search suggests it should be stellar with this line up. * Tomasz Stanko - trumpet * Tomasz Szukalski - tenor sax * Palle Danielsson - bass * Edward Vesala - drums goes for big money now, I think. start saving....

Steve, a thread here for you, provided specifically to continue "beating it to death" and others can continue to discuss the very tempting Stanko release

Art Ensemble of Chicago - People in sorrow Miles - He loved him madly Bill Dixon - Open quiet/The orange bell

Never heard of it or them but with such a strong reco I'll give it a spin Listen here at Soundcloud http://soundcloud.com/shoutproductionsjapan/sets/the-london-experimental-jazz

I should hope not at that price!

Just discovered that Clean Feed are having a sale again. Back catalogue titles at very tempting 6.50 euro

Thanks Ubu, some very interesting line ups. Could make a nice companion to the Oslo set from a while back

I'm always interested in anything that Rob Mazurek releases as i've found him consistently interesting and challenging for many years now. Very interested in this Octet release that combines his sao paolo and chicago confreres http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandsHTML/robmazurekoctet.html a must buy in this household

Agree and the two tracks I've listened to bear out your opinion

None taken; I knew that was the reason. We prefer our sports odd and complicated. Now that cricket thing has some possibilities; I can't figure it out for shit. I don't really get the scoring, but a sport where a guy can score 100 runs in one at-bat is intriguing. The ball they use is hollow, which I found out by chance while walking by a cricket game and picking up an errant ball to toss back to the players. Cricket is pretty big in Brooklyn because we have a large number of folks from the Caribbean who all played it in their home countries. No cricket ball I ever got hit by whilst batting inadequately was ever anything but solid and very hard. Not sure where the hollow Brooklyn-ball comes from. Always happy to derail a thread with cricket talk and I can't believe I missed the opportunity here earlier and now back to what I suspect will be an excrutiating and cringe-making performance by LA - how can it be anything but?

Braxton concert available for a week on BBC. I'm not sure about international listeners but hopefully some interested parties can listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ppwxk

The point is made that this suits neither record companies (who want somewhere on the high street to sell their wares) or other businesses who are likely to lose other business if dad is reluctant to make the trip to town. I spent nearly every Saturday between the mid-70s and early noughties record/book shopping, spending money elsewhere on coffee, food, other trinkets, not to mention parking fees. I think I deliberately visited Nottingham and Sheffield once each in 2012. The other city visits were because I was there for other reasons. Magnify that... And I think most of us will agree with this: ******************* Good history lesson here too from an industry insider. http://www.bbc.co.uk...t-arts-21028803 Quite interesting hearing the reactions today all over the media - it's almost like the death of a major celebrity. No HMV by the time I left Reading in 1979 nor in Southampton when I left in 1984 I don't think. Certainly two HMVs in Reading by the 90s. . I was never a great fan of the chain, except the Jazz dept in Oxford Circus branch mid-80s where I went on my early Jazz discovery trips before I braved Mole and Rays. In the last ten years I've generally avoided them because of their higher pricing policy - they stll, even this month, want £15 for a new ECM release which a local indie will sell for £12.49 - no contest I wonder whether the "celebrity obits" are being written by folk that spent lots of time in the stores.

Karl Berger - the Peace Church concerts everyone plays well but Dave Holland's contributions are particularly powerful

Clifford, Happy Birthday! I hope the vinyl's rare and spinning.....

how is that Clifford? Interesting line up indeed but hefty price tag to europe I didn't take to the 'year of the boar' release much and was underwhelmed by that line-up live but anything with Adasiewicsz is worth my attention I find

MIne's pre-ordered. I think the new Convergence Quartet's due on No Business - maybe that's what you were thinking of? Both feature AH after all and I think he may have posted the info somewhere - or my imagination's playing fast and wild again.....

Nice to see quality control at Blue Note's design centre hasn't dipped for the cover art... Hope (and expect) the music'll be better.

Thanks for posting. Ordered the Gustafsson/Guy duo LP 'Sinners not saints'. Been searchimg for a long time and difficult to find as 'out of stock. the discount made it just about justifiable