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I picked it up too after the concert. Highly recommended.

Agreed. Bad CGI wrecked Smith's last movie, I Am Legend. Too bad, because he was really good in it.

That's sad, but a sign of the times. Last time I was there, I bought a Lucky Thompson CD and the owner (post-Bud) told me about the time Lucky came into the store.

Garth Drabinsky-era edifice where mainstream acts not posh enough for the Orpheum perform during the fest. The theatre itself is actually pretty nice, just don't drink a lot liquids beforehand because there's hardly any washrooms.

Gustafson plays here almost every year. I generally like him, but when he and Vandermark team up, they go off on this pointless 'father, son, holy ghost, been there, done that' shtick, kind of like free jazz's answer to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

I'll try to see Tim Berne, though it's tough getting out when you have an eight-month-old. Have you been to any of the concerts at the Centre? There you will witness a strange Vancouver phenomenon—someone once called it "the running ovation"—where audience members start fleeing during the pre-encore applause and even 2/3s of the way through a show.

I was at that concert. Great stuff, particularly Biber's Sonata 10. Would love to see Guy's New Orchestra again, but my small baby tends to perform around the same time.

I saw Medeski play with Electric Masada a few years back. I wish Tzadik would release something with that version of the band because they were awesome.

"JUST REMEMBER every time u listen to an ECM record, Big John Patton cries" – Chewy From The "ECM Sound" Revisited, post #15.

Well that brings my total to 11. Kooky list. Magma? A lot of artists represented by some of their more obscure titles. But a lot of enjoyable music there.

I wouldn't take New Grass to a desert island, but I would certainly leave it behind there. p.s. 6

I'm intrigued.

Hey, isn't that Avishai Cohen the bassist sitting in the passenger seat of that minivan in the distance?

Miles at Fillmore East is a good Bitches Brew follow-up. None of the sessions on the "Complete" Bitches Brew box approach the real thing. Beyond Miles, there's Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi, Crossings, and Sextant. Arni Cheatham's Thing kind of has a Bitches Brew vibe to it. Bitches Brew is unique. There's a lot of albums out there that people claim are "So-and-so's Bitches Brew" (such as Woody Shaw's Blackstone Leacy) but sound nothing like the real thing.

"Seasons in the Sun" and "Jump" are howlers. A dip into the Corey Hart songbook would also be fruitful for this thread.

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Good call. Hodgkinson is a great singer.

Thanks for posting.

Album of the Week? More like Shill of the Week.

I remember the old Rolling Stone Record Guide had a one-word review of these albums: "Flee."

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eBay is like so 2002.

My biggest complaint is that Steve Hoffman hasn't gotten a hold of the original tapes and remastered it at 45 rpm over 15 records.