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Cecil Taylor Conversations With Tony Oxley (Jazzwerkstatt) Sun Ra God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be (Cosmic Myth Records)

Agreed. Only Brexit is already having nasty consequences for musicians, such as relocating classical orchestras and the trouble the Womad Festival's musicians are having acquiring visas to enter the UK. The situation will only get worse from next March on.

Didn't EU officials say a two-year extension is only acceptable if an agreement is feasible? No sense in prolonging the current farcical situation otherwise. A soft Brexit respecting the EU's four freedoms is not going to happen under the Tories. Clearly we are accelerating towards a hard no-deal Brexit. And the Article 50 withdrawal notification is not unilaterally revocable, whatever the British may think to the contrary. Time for the remaining member states and the European Parliament to ratify any agreement or accept a revocation of the UK's withdrawal is running out.

Then I wish him forbearance at EU border crossings from next March on.

I saw him playing solo at North Sea Jazz in The Hague once and was bored to tears. I always felt this might be because I am not a pianist/musician and he was simply over my head. Or maybe not?

Not a fan, Paul?

Get well soon, Mr Tyner.

Gerald Horne The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean

How much tenor did Wayne play? I'm hoping Emanon won't be predominantly soprano.

Status of SHM-CD at CD Japan: Release Cancelled. http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/UCCQ-9380

Hank Mobley Another Workout (CDP 7844312)

Season 3.

I don't know if technically Dear Lord can be considered a ballad, but it's worth more to me than the whole Ballads album, for example. Also much more beautiful, and certainly no ballad, is Consequences from Meditations, where around 5:44 the horns fall silent and McCoy Tyner gets some solo space supported by an uplifting bass figure by Jimmy Garrison. Especially on the latest Japanese remaster where the bass is no longer distorted, this is an incredibly beautiful moment after all that came before. But, there is nothing wrong with preferring Ballads, of course. ;-)

The later Impulse! albums are much more beautiful IMO.

Ballads never did anything for me. I don't get the affection for that album.

Joe Henderson Big Band (Verve)

Also, those Music Matters LPs are even more expensive than $38 for an SHM-SACD, so that goes against your original post. You could find justification for a $55 to $75 audiophile Out to Lunch LP a couple of years earlier? Unless you buy into the vinyl is inherently superior to digital idea, I know what I would choose.

Steve Lehman Octet Mise en Abîme

You don't have an inferior digital version. UCCU-5669 is identical to the 75th anniversary SHM-CD, TOCJ-81013. It does have a bit of compression added, which sometimes bothers me. A description, I believe, Lon gave on the Hoffman board also outlined other gains over the SHM-CD. Since I have no intention of going back to vinyl ever again, the SHM-SACD is of interest to me. It's a shame the bonus tracks are absent on these SHM-SACDs.

Idris Muhammad's other CTI/Kudu albums are not to my liking, but this one is excellent.

Idris Muhammad Power of Soul (Kudu, King, KICJ 2345, Blu-spec CD)