B. Clugston

Lonehill is releasing the Complete Pluto, but it doesn't include Charon.

ugh, right, blocked that one out of my head. it's two CDs, one CD of sextet collaboration, one CD with the two trio sets from FOTC. it was released against Keith Rowe's wishes, FWIW. How is it? I seem to recall there wasn't a lot of positive buzz about it.

In case it hasn't been mentioned, there's also a more recent AMM meets MEV CD.

I went with low expectations (due to the hype), but actually enjoyed it. A lot of people are making this out to be a masterpiece. I suppose it is if you thought Under Siege was high art. It's very entertaining, but nothing profound.

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky (sometimes spelled Gayvoronsky) is a great trumpeter from Russia. He plays a rotary trumpet and is best known for duos with bassist Vladimir Volkov and more recently the accordionist Evelyn Petrova. And then there's Kenny Wheeler.

I only have Spacecraft/Unfied Patchwork Theory. The former is from the early days and it hurts listening to Ivan Vandor squalling on the alto sax. The latter is from 1990 or so and includes Steve Lacy and Garrett List and is quite good. Allan Bryant has released some archival stuff, but I haven't heard it. There's a couple of BYGs: The Sound Pool and Leave the City. Alvin Curran on Leave the City (quoted in The Wire): "Oh my god, that's a false MEV. Those are some French kids who robbed the name. They were once with us, they were a bunch of hippies from Paris, they took the name and turned this thing out. It was horrible. It's a bunch of hippies playing flutes. Sorry about that.

Really? I thought Miles dug Jimi. Me too. I thought the "hillbilly" tag was more affectionate than a put down.

A great song from an underappreciated album. That was Chick's first solo with the quintet. Dave Holland also debuted. They also recorded Frelon Brun at the session.

Long-range sensors have picked up an upcoming Leo Records release in September. It consists of four compositions from last year's Ulrichsberg concerts. My guess is it's from the big ensemble concert.

I'll second that. Smoker is a fabulous player.

I don't have cable and don't miss it. More channels than ever, and even less to watch. If there's a show I like, I wait until it comes out on DVD so I can watch it in sequence without commercials, re-runs or pre-emptions for some airhead talent contest.

Not bad list. I'd certainly agree with the first three. The rest is a bit heavy on the adventurous, but usually these lists are so predictable or banal. Hot Rats is an oddity. It's not a bad album, but I could name 100 jazz records that are better. Sam Rivers' Contours wouldn't be my first pick. I wouldn't replace Sidewinder with Search For the New Land. They both should be on there. No problems seeing Zorn and Naked City. Fun album.

I think that some folks are more Motown and others are more Stax (I'm definitely the later!). Also, a few years back, I heard something on our local jazz station that sounded like On The Corner outtakes or something! Instead of calling the station, I began a hunt for this item... then, I thought that they had gotten hold of some promo for an upcoming set that I didn't know about, and so the searching went on. I've heard OTC sooooooooo many times, that it was clearly some version of one of the cuts, but I could never come up with anything. Still don't know, but maybe there's a Laswell reworking out there somewhere? If this box is anything like I heard...well, hell, I'd buy anything on Miles anyway... Laswell's Panthalassa has a version of "Black Satin," though it sounds pretty much the same. There's also a previously unreleased song from the sessions featuring John McLaughlin, but it doesn't sound like the On the Corner stuff. "Black Satin" also gets the remix treatment on Panthalassa: The Remixes. "Black Satin" reappears again on the 1972 live album. Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! recordings can sometimees sound like the real thing during the guitar solos.

I'll second that emotion. Let it be noted, though, that the Montreux box features several worthy lineups that never got "officially" recorded otherwise. Agreed. I quite enjoyed the set with Robben Ford on guitar, despite the mushy synths. But frankly I don't think I've ever played a couple of the later dics.

One of Sun Ra's Horo recordings is discussed here, including samples: http://www.destination-out.com/

While the quartets would fit nicely on a Select, there's a lot more great music that isn't in quartet format: the duos with Muhal Richard Abrams, Braxton and George Lewis with a chamber orchestra, the Creative Music Orchestra date, For Trio with Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman on one side and Henry Threadgill and Douglas Ewart on the other, the solo album, For Two Pianos with Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens, a sax quartet, etc. etc. But don't hold your breath on seeing this any time soon. BMG is run by goofballs. Best case scenario we will get "Braxton for Lovers."

This just as easily go in the political forum...but if you do not like the current regime in the U.S., you got to watch the Joe Dantes-directed "Homecoming" in the Masters of Horror anthology series. It's freaking hilarious! It's basically about soldiers from the current conflict who return from the dead with a message for the president. Lots of commentary about Iraq, counting ballots in Ohio and Florida and right-wing pundits. If you dislike the Bush crew and love B-grade horror, this is a riot.

The RVG of The Sermon was my first Jimmy Smith purchase. Liked it so much, I got House Party. I was sure pissed to find out about those dropped tracks.

It's all very strange indeed. Some of the recordings with Corea, et al. were briefly issued on a CD called Early Circle. Of the nine or so Arista recordings, only Creative Music Orchestra and 3/4s of the Berlin/Montreux concerts were ever issued on CD. Meanwhile, quartet albums with Kenny Wheeler and Dave Holland have never been reissued. These include some of Braxton's best. The reason is that BMG is run by dorks. There has been some lobbying to get at least some of this material out on a Mosaic (particularly considering the Cuscuna connection), it appears no one crack the BMG vaults. The Braxton Yahoo group finally got so frustrated some kind fans got together and put the whole shebang on CD-R. There's also some material on Moers and Ring from this era that haven't made it to CD, including a great solo concert and a double live album with the quartet that included Wheeler.

Loved this show. Haven't seen it in years. The episode that comes to mind first is "The Hunt." "An old man and a hound dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won't be coming home from the hill. They're headed for the backwoods of the Twilight Zone."

It would be nice to see these. I have one of the Sam Rivers Trio records and it's fantastic. But I thought I once read somewhere 'don't hold your breath.' Discography is here: http://www.dpo.uab.edu/~moudry/discog/horo.htm Past discussion here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=7671

I saw Warleigh perform with the Dedication Orchestra last year. I've never heard that last Soft Machine album, but it's been regarded as the group "in name only."

So I e-mail this guy and ask him why is this going for $75-$100 when I can get it brand new on Amazon for $32. This is the reply: "The Cd is in its original mint condition state. This quality is for collectors who never open the CD for use. It is not a remaster. Thank You for your interest! michaelg1053 at Bargainland-on-e-bay" Whatever.

no one has gotten the right answer yet! Tenor saxophonist?

I went on a small Soviet-era binge: Ganelin/Tarasov/Chekasin Poi Seque Ganelin/Tarasov Opus A Duo Sergei Kuryokhin Spectre of Communism