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The all seeing eye....

will I stop this silly number crap? You got it! B) Now back to work. They don´t pay me for posting this crap.... Am I sure?

...stop?

...you...

...will...

When....

Yeah, growing! How childish.... unlike my posts...

Yeah, growing! How childish.... unlike my posts...

Now growing....?

just to interfere into your series...

That Shorty Rogers set must be really BAAAAAD!!!

Ditto, John. And as for

And as for long distance destinations... I´ve checked the Madrid-Belgrade highway a feeeeeew times...

Just before Dan Gould pages me ( ), I´m just waiting for the opening of the BFT#12 Discussion Thread to start the BFT#13 Sign-up Thread... About 30 copies are ready to be shipped to far-away destinations. I guess Paris is the nearest place. B)

So, you´re for "kitchen-sink" approach?

Every hour is an adequate hour to savor a good French wine! http://www.limoux-aoc.com/ (shouldn´t we start a WINE THREAD? )

HRS sessions, disc 2

18.- The black colour of the boxes fits well with my bookshelves and with the colour of the spine of most of my books. And with the design of my stereo and my TV. 19.- I have a shelf with the perfect size for them. 20.- If I didn´t collect Mosaics, I would collect cars... Mosaics are much cheaper and that´s good for my budget! 21.- I like how it sounds... M-O-S-A-I-C 22.- Whenever they come home, I love to explain to my friends what on hell are those black boxes with silver or gold writing on their spines.

Just received an e-mail from Mosaic. There are 12 sets left. Go ahead, guys! B)

Thanks, brownie. I´m still broadening my "classic" Cecil Taylor collection. I only have one post-66 release ("It is in the brewing luminous"), so I´ll wait to pick latest Taylor. Just look at how AMG describes this IIO collective in their review for their first release (the one you mentioned): "Drawing musicians from across several disparate disciplines, the group tends to travel between free jazz, Italian folk traditions, contemporary classical ideas, and general good-natured wackiness, in some sense the Southern European version of bands like Willem Breuker's Kollektief. The "kitchen sink" approach, while enjoyably dizzying at times, tends to work against cohesiveness in certain compositions and may aggravate the listener just settling into a particularly nice section" From what I´ve listened so far (not much, really), I can´t agree with the "kitchen sink" approach, whatever this may be. I find their music "organizedly disorganized" though actually very eclectic. As for the "wackiness", good-natured or not...

Just picked "European concerts 94-97" on Nel Jazz label and I´m really shocked by this orchestra! It´s a compilation of live dates, combining some very "arranged" orchestral passages with some free/avant-garde soloing. The least I can say is that it´s a very "eclectic" and "wild" ensemble. Not easy listening, for sure! From AMG I conclude their discography is rather brief. Litania Sibilante looks like the next one to pick. Any further recommendations and/or comments on this European orchestra?

I spent a few minutes on a Disc Collector´s Fair in Recoletos, Madrid. Not much of interest for jazzers, unless you´re a vynil collector. Anyway (and as expected ) I picked this three CDs, € 14.00 in total!: -Ornette on tenor -Italian Instabile Orchestra: European Concerts 1994-97 -Horace Parlan: Up and down (Spanish Time Life edition) B)

I´ll have to take a walk on Germany soon... to visit Postal Offices...