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How much was shipping (assuming you pre-ordered a CD)?

Definitely curious. Anyone here pre-order the CD?? I'm sure thinking about it... More info here: Ryan Truesdell bio

I will say their choice of font (a rather clunky one, actually) for the letters in CLIMAX -- perhaps coupled with such a long word being spelled out vertically -- is rather freakish looking. And especially because the word has an "I" in the middle of it -- which, frankly, looks like crap when a word is spelled vertically, especially with such a wide letter like "M" immediately following it. C L I M A X So, yeah, I can understand being a little bit freaked out by it -- at least from a design perspective. Any way you look at it, that "CLIMAX" label looks like shit, IMHO, like a very cheap knock-off of Blue Note (VERY cheap).

Looking at the schedule, there's a bunch of FREE stuff, some of which looks mighty interesting. Just a couple that caught my eye, probably others of interest (but names I didn't recognize)... Friday, Feb. 25th PDX Jazz Free Performance Jazz Shabbat w/Afro-Semitic Experience 6:00 pm | Location: Congregation Beth Israel | FREE | Artist Profiles: Afro-Semitic Experience Saturday, Feb. 26th PDX Jazz Free Performance Klezmocracy 9:00 pm | Location: Rogue Distillery and Public House | FREE | Artist Profiles: Klezmocracy

For when this e-bay auction expires and disappears, here's the image...

All VERY much worth seeking out.

Not sure I'm familiar with that, but I'm sure I probably should be. (I *love* "The Barbara Song". ) What Gil album(s) is it on?

Funny, I had the exact same thought.

True on both counts, Chuck and Shawn. I'd forgotten that the marketing was probably trying to target much of the same audience, even if the music wasn't quite as stylistically similar (technically) as it perhaps purported to be (advertising-wise). (Easy for me to forget, having been born a scant 6 months before Bitches Brew was recorded. ) As Shawn points out, they felt they had to call it something, when it would've been safer to "Call it Anything".

You're right of course, technically, but the people who called it "commercial" and/or "rock" were just pissed cuz it wasn't jazz like THEY thought it should be anymore. So, what easier scapegoat could there be, but to blame "commercial" motivations (he's a "sell-out"), or else blame all that "wretched music" the "kids" are (were) listening to. Happens with every generational musical shift (Punk, Grunge, Rap only being three of the most recent) -- logic on the part of those old enough to want to THINK about music, simply goes out the window. Easier to blame what you don't like, than to try and understand that which isn't (yet) familiar. And besides, IT WAS REALLY FUCKING LOUD, SO IT MUST BE BECAUSE OF THAT DEVIL ROCK N ROLL, or something like that - doncha know.

w/ Kenny Wheeler and John McLaughlin?? Would have never guessed in a million years from the cover. Damn!

I'm pretty sure read somewhere a while back that she was in Greg Osby's band for a time. That's some cred (of some sort) as far as I'm concerned, not that what I think on the subject matters much. And how about we all agree that she is at least "recently precocious" by most measures.

I used to have one or both discs by Franco Ambrosetti, called "Movies" and "Movies, Too". Interesting selection of tunes, as I'm now recalling from seeing the links above.

Just got all three of David's discs in the mail, and I wanted to recommend them highly. Really strong stuff. I'm especially taken with the "Point of Departure" band, and their development of Miles' rehearsal take of Herbie's "I Have a Dream", plus remakes of not one but TWO Charles Moore tracks from the Kenny Cox Blue Notes -- plus beautiful versions of Tony Williams' "Black Comedy" (from Miles in the Sky), and Andrew Hill's "Erato". The disc is a piano-less quartet, with guitar (which really adds nicely to the proceedings), and just burns. Highly recommend his other two discs too -- a steal to get all three shipped to your door for less than $30. Thanks David!!

Here's one on eBay (and another one, and ANOTHER one) -- and 2 or 3 more on Amazon that are a little bit more expensive.

The greater good would be to keep the link to the article -- it's a damn good one.

It's always possible that she conflated two different productions. Hell, it might even be ME, who's memory of what my mother told me 15+ years ago is rusty. In any case, I know she saw both Cunningham and Partch (either together, or perhaps more likely separately) during her collage years, at some point or another -- and they each left a pretty big impression on her.

Before anybody jumps this guy shit as just being spam, he played a track off Andrew Hill's "Andrew!!!" -- AND one off Reggie Workman's "Summit Conference" (with Sam Rivers and Andrew Hill) just two days ago. He knows the secret password, far as I'm concerned. Welcome David!!!

That kind of "everything in your face" sound drives me crazy (and not in a good way). I'm thinking of some Chesky recordings (McCoy Tyner's "New York Reunion" in particular), that suffer from such a treatment.

I used to think that.

Thanks. I hope to try and do a meet-up with folks once I get settled to the area myself in late April or May. (All our stuff is moving to DC in a week, but then I'm back here in KC for 2-3 months working on the house to get it on the market.)

My mother swore she saw a Merce Cunningham production in collaboration with Harry Partch, back in the 50's, when she was in college at the University of Illinois. I know Partch was there during that time (source), but I've never been able to verify that Cunningham and Partch ever collaborated. She could have gotten her names mixed up, but she was sure that Cunningham was there and did something with "all these homemade instruments, by somebody who was associated with the University" (which I always presumed to be Partch, since she was there during the right time-frame). Had hoped when I clicked on the link in this thread that I might have some evidence, finally, of this (supposed) collaboration.

Hard as hell to find, but well worth owning. 10 years ago I had one, loaned it to somebody and never got it back (forgot who I loaned it to, which makes it hard to follow up), and replaced it after 2 years of keeping my eyes out for another one on-line. A great document of that band. All my stuff is in boxes for my upcoming move, but my memory is that it's from July of 1969.

Saw this over on the Hoffman board, and was surprised it hadn't shown up here yet (at least not that I'd seen)... More here: New Creed Taylor compilation includes never-before-heard John Coltrane demos