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Wow - cool lineups!

Not sure - I should ask around - I don't even know if he's still playing. As soon as I heard him play on 'B My Dear', I wanted to track him down to try and do something! Great player. In fact - with that mention of Trevor Watts above - there were some damn good alto players around here in the 70s/80s/90s!

Warleigh plays some scorching alto on The Dedication Orchestra's 'Spirits Rejoice' album. A particularly brilliant feature on Dudu's 'B My Dear'.

5000 years from now, archaelogists will find fragments of a CD and wonder if it is from a household implement of some type. There will be a tantalizing piece of one page of a book about jazz, as the only surviving remnant of the art form. The page is badly damaged, with some pieces of it missing. Using state of the art techniques from 5000 years from now, scientists will come to the best possible reconstruction of that page. They will conclude that someone known as "anle Cr" was the leading scholar of the era, and that jazz was played by a person worshipped as a god, the "alis."

You're right - my mistake. But what's peculiar is that side 2 (starting with the drums, then into the basses, etc.) sounds more like a beginning than side 1... p.s. I don't have the UMS reissue as such - rather, I've got the emusic version of it.

Two duos, both on Black Saint: Muhal and Leroy Jenkins, and Muhal with Amina Claudine Myers.

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No - it's the 'basic' tuning I'm getting at, rather anything preparation might do to the tuning. FWIW, however (and I listened whilst doing other things, so might have missed it) I didn't notice the preparation... It's great late-60s Derek at the start of track 2!

Listen to the piano solo at the end of track 2...that poor instrument is in a bad way! Schlippenbach, Van Hove and Schweizer... p.s. edited for spelling

Just listening to European Echoes again. I think it's good. It's obviously quite similar to lots of these 'blowout' dates from the time, but I think the solos are often outstanding. Just had two great trumpet solos - I take it they're Rava and Schoof, as I'm not familiar with Hugh Steinmetz's sound. Han is his usual anarchic self, and the bass playing is wonderful (surprise surprise, given Kowald's on board..!)

Hano to Haino - the A-Z of Japanese improv!

DM's a very nice, swinging player. Very derivative, but he's good!

I've been having a look at some of the Bach-Busoni chorale preludes. Just because they make your left hand do things it shouldn't really be able to do! Have designs on some of that Ligeti, as well...

I haven't listened to European Echoes in a while, although remember enjoying it!

But for that 'i' in 'Haino', I thought this thread had just come glorious full circle!

I especially love 'Sunset and the Mockingbird' and 'Single Petal of a Rose.' I am glad that you found this one! My thoughts exactly. Beautiful pieces, both.

Sounds like an interesting guy. I'll certainly check out his work - I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of him...

Well, I think it's either vanity/posturing from youmustbe () or a good story, so either way, let's have it

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Great story - thank you!

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I think it's not uncommon to play things through a leslie - just a case of getting the connections right etc, (possible with adapters). I guess one of the most famous examples of someone doing it would be Jimi Hendrix, e.g. on 'Little Wing'. I get the impression guitarists do it relatively more than other people. Rhodes are also often put through them, though!

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