B. Clugston

This article tells of Jimmy Page's exploits in appropiating other peoples' songs. The theft of "Dazed and Confused" is quite shocking. http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/jimmypage.html

Wadada Leo Smith has played electric trumpet in recent years, mostly with Yo Miles, but also on Lake Biwa. Toshinori Kondo is another trumpeter who is often plugged in. Lol Coxhill used to play his sax through a Gibson Maestro fuzzbox.

Speaking of stolen horns, this from Leo Records: "A double CD recorded at the Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Art four days after the series of performances at Phonomanie VIII in Ulrichsberg, Austria (Leo Records CD LR 468/471). On the inside photo one can see Anthony Braxton playing bass saxophone. However, very unusually, Anthony only payed alto saxophone in Glasgow. His rare f-alto was stolen from the luggage on the trip from USA to Austria, and his baggage with his sopranino and soprano was lost on the way from Austria to Glasgow. It was delivered only after the performance. Such events could devastate any musician, but not Braxton. The members of his trio are Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, flugelhorn and trumpbone, and Tom Crean on guitar."

The New York Times is a dinosaur. Some good things sometimes, but too many stories written in a pompous neo-baroque style so the writers (and select readers) can feel self-important.

Uri Caine's recent Mozart album is superb. Also a big fan of the live 2-CD Mahler, Toys and the surprisingly unbombastic Wagner.

Those Mosaic, CD Universe and Downtown Music Gallery orders have never felt so good.

The other two discs are great! Sonny Dallas does just fine. Konitz' work may even be more interesting than on the released disc.

Many of them aren't. HatHut has gone through many design schticks over the years. The Ra gets a new look every times it's reissued. Dark Tree was never on LP, IIRC.

Another factor is that so many CDs aren’t worth owning from a packaging perspective. A younger colleague of mine bought a Dave Matthews Band CD a year or so back and upon finding the packaging to be skimpy, wondered why he didn’t download. So much pop and rock CD booklets are filled with nothing more than vapid lyrics and artists thanking their creator. Tool is an example of group with got-to-have-it packaging (provided you like them).

Bound to be a backlash by the generation after the next. 78s will be in again.

Which Lacy got "less music"? Are you thinking of NY Capers & Quirks? Those two LPs do indeed have more music to offer. So far, no prior compact disc reissue to my knowledge has been trimmed down for re-reissue on hatOLOGY. That and Cliches (nee Prospectus) were shorn of several tracks on their CD editions, the latter due to tape storage issues. The oddity is that in this day and age of CDs being reissued with bonus tracks, here's a case of the opposite. A minor grumble, however, as Werner has documented some important musical milestones over the years.

The Braxton is excellent. The Lake is good, but I don't spin it too much. Nice to see more of the back catalogue back in print, though the Kennel stuff is getting the 'new issue, less music' treatment that a couple of Steve Lacy reissues and one Sun Ra date got from HatHut.

So some fat hick kid kills a rare beast.

I bought it a few months after it came out at a Boxing Day blowout sale. I was only interested in the first 2 CDs, but Discs 3 to 10 with Sco are pretty good, even though there’s not much difference between the respective afternoon and evening sets. Discs 11 and 12 are interesting for the presence of Robben Ford’s bluesy guitar, but the minute the second keyboardist joined, the music got bludgeoned by cheesy synths. I’ve never bothered listening to some of the later discs.

"Complete" Bitches Brew Document: New Music From Russia on Leo

Those Diz-Sam Rivers Quintet dates on WCKR were great. I like a lot of Dizzy's small groups of the '80s. One off-the-beaten-path Dizzy date I like is the Village Vanguard jam with Chick Corea, Pepper Adams, Ray Nance, Elvin Jones, etc.

No shit!

I have a CD of half of this and the most prominent photo is of Don Cherry playing two flutes, taken at least 10 years after the concert. Boots of Miles concerts from the 1960s are notorious for running photos of Miles from his 80s wig days. That always bugs me for some reason. As if the "producers" had this conversation: "Say, here's a recording from the 50's." "Cool! There's probably a lot of people who don't have the vinyl. We stand to make some dough on this." "I know. Should we find a period photo of the Hillcrest Club to use for artwork?" "What? Why? Just get any old picture of Arnett Cobb that you can find." "Actually, it's Ornette Coleman, not Arnett Cobb. And, actually, it was Paul Bley's gig." "Who's Paul Bley? Hey, didn't Arnett Cobb just win a Nobel prize or something?" "Um, Arnett Cobb is deceased. Ornette Coleman recently won a Pulitzer." "Arnett Cobb wrote books, too? Look, just get any photo. It doesn't matter. As long as it's Arnett Cobb."

Injuries, loss of free agents and inconsistent goaltending.

Fantastic! Waldron was such a great duo partner.

The Third Man is my favourite film of all time.

Old news. But still exciting news. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...p;mode=threaded

One of my co-workers was once explaining to another about how I listen to "weird" music, such as Anthony Braxton, and wondered what weird stuff I was playing at the moment. I turned up the volume for them to hear a nice sax-guitar quartet playing a standard. They liked it, but were shocked to learn it was...Anthony Braxton off of 23 Standards.

Side 4 of Montreux/Berlin is Braxton and George Lewis with a chamber orchestra and its excellent. One of Braxton's best albums. It’s a great one, particularly the two creative orchestra discs. It’s not centred on Ghost Trance Music (though there are GTM moments) and it’s nice to hear old favourites such as 96 and 134.

Burton did play the flute.