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Grachan Moncur III - New Africa [Actuel]

For those interested, the album can in be streamed in full on WBGO.org for a restricted time. http://www.wbgo.org/radar/eric-revis-in-memory-of-things-yet-seen

Well I know which live music I won't be seeing tonight (terribly sad I can't make it) Eric Revis' Quartet @ the Bimhuis (Amsterdam) with Bill McHenry, Chad Taylor and Darius Jones

Re-reading all my Dostoevsky's. Currently busy with "The Idiot"

For me "pulling the trigger" took less time than I expected, and I ordered the album a few days ago. Really looking forward to receiving and listening to it!

Girlfriend is out working, I'm at home with a lot of household tasks at hand so this is the musical accompaniment that I chose for this morning: Antony Williams - Life Time (Blue Note, Dutch pressing) John Tchicai - Tribal Ghost (NoBusiness) Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds (ECM)

PM send on the Mario Pavone album

Do you also ship oversees / Europe?

Interesting, as I really like "All Our Reasons"! The one track on the ECM player from the new album didn't blew me over though. I would really like to hear some more from the album, but in the end I think I will just pull the trigger and buy the album. For some reason Mark Turner really grew on me over the last few years, and now I really appreciate his creative but relaxt playing.

Well, it sure will take some time for my next audio "upgrade" purchase (my girlfriend and I are in the process of buying our first house, so naturally that takes up all the funds), but the next two things are highest on my wishlist: 01. upgrading my turntable arm (standard technics sl1200 MKII arm) to a Origin Live Silver arm. The reviews of this arm are spectacular, and I hear many Technics SL1200 MKII owners rave about this arm upgrade. It is suppose to be THE best "bang for your buck" upgrade you can make for your Technics turntable. Second on the wishlist, is upgrading my Metrum Accoustics NOS Mini DAC Quad to a NOS Mini DAC Octave MKII. I think buying the Mini DAC Quads was one of my best purchases ever, and upgrading to the Octave MKII version seems like a logical step eventually. Review: http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/metrum/1.html

On Discogs there are two for sale for cheap: http://www.discogs.com/marketplace?artist_id=197665&format=CD And if you could settle for vinyl, there are even more: http://www.discogs.com/marketplace?artist_id=197665

Yes, I'm interested to know. Off course what sounds best if dependable on many variations and personal preferences, but it's always nice to experiment with those things. It costs nothing, and I notice a lot of difference in sound when playing with the speaker placement (even toeing in the speakers just a little bit, or placing the speakers just a few centimeters more from the back wall can make much difference).

Nice one! Those Dyn's look a lot like my Dynaudio Focus 110's (although I have the black wood finish). I don't know if you played with the speaker placement yet, but in my room I noticed that I get the best sound if I have the speakers just a little bit toed in.

Nice, picked up these two: Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra - Ascan Rantings Tony Malaby - Tamarindo

Okay, I liked it

John Tchicai - Tribal Ghost [2013, No Business]

Shostakovich - Symphony No10 / Bernard Haitink (Decca)

Yeah I know, I used a sniper program myself also. But nevertheless, it's always irritating when this happens

the Ornette Coleman Quartet - This is Our Music [1961, Atlantic]

Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song (vinyl, Blue Note King pressing) Someone outbid me with just €0,50 on Ebay today, ouch

Yep, agree! Got the record last week and listened to it a few times now. I think this maybe is my favorite album of Drew Gress with this band yet.

I have the Dynaudio Focus 110's (combined with a old Accuphase E-206 amp) and I'm really in love with them. I don't know how much they cost in the U.S. though (I bought them second hand here for EUR900,- two/three years ago). These are my first "serious" speakers, but I never had the feeling or urge to upgrade them. From start they gave me nothing but pure listening joy.

It still takes some time for this album to come out (march 25th), but I can't wait for it to arrive. This album really has a stellar line up I think! Eric Revis must be one of my biggest discoveries last year. I played both his Parallax and City of Asylum albums to death, and I also love his more "straight foreward" work with the likes of Orrin Evans and others. "Bassist Eric Revis is looking back to a time when jazz musicians looked forward with his new CD, In Memory of Things Yet Seen, to be released March 25 on Clean Feed Records. Following on the heels of last year's City of Asylum with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Andrew Cyrille (which made Nate Chinen's top 10 list for theNew York Times), Revis drew inspiration from such visionaries as Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra in putting together his new band. For those artists, such album titles as The Shape of Jazz to Come and Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow were nearly a call to action. Four decades later, Revis evokes not only those past masters rallying album names but their concern for pushing the music forward. “The way the band is shaping up, there's much reverence for tradition and the tradition of taking things forward,” Revis says. “I really like the fact that they are all such well-rounded players. Right now, there are very few bands that are really doing the 'back to the future' thing.” Revis has the credentials to talk tradition. He came up with the Betty Carter Quartet in the '90s and has been Branford Marsalis's man on bass since 1997. More recently he's been heard alongside heavy hitting horn players like Peter Brötzmann and Ken Vandermark. The two saxophonists Revis brought in for his new quartet, Darius Jones andBill McHenry, follow in that open-throttle tradition. And adding to the sax complement, Marsalis himself shows up on two of the tracks. “Branford was like, 'Man, I'm coming into town, am I playing on your record?” “Of course you are” Revis recalled with a laugh. “He was coming back from Japan and he stayed over a couple days and we just did it.” Having Marsalis on-board only added to the sound for which Revis was looking. Propelled by Chad Taylor's vibes and drums, a group has a voice reminiscent of Coleman's pianoless quartets (especially the Dewey Redman / Jimmy Garrison / Elvin Jones band of the late '60s) and bassist Dave Holland's early '70s Conference of the Birds band, with Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers and Barry Altschul, a band which also forewent the pianist. “All of my projects have featured piano,” he says. “I've always wanted to do something with an amalgam of four voices. And a lot of it is composed. There's just two, “Hits” and “FreeB” that are improv.” The album includes a nod to that past master of futurism with a spirited take on Sun Ra's “Shadow World.” But it's Revis's compositions that sell the band. His “The Tulpa Chronicles” - spread across the album in three parts – is a beautifully metered suite for each of the instrumental voices. “Somethin's Cookin” could be seen as a love letter to Coleman's New York is Now. The intriguingly titled “Unknown” opens as an upbeat hard bop and progresses by pushing at its own edges. “3 Voices” is a ballad wonderfully crafted out of unison and sparsity. And whatever image the title “Hold My Snowcone” conjures, it probably wouldn't match the slow burn of the track. The group will be touring France, Spain, Austria and Belgium in March, and Revis is looking forward to continuing on with the lineup long after that. “We've all played together in different contexts,” Revis says. “I have full intentions of going back and forth between this and the trio.” In Memory of Things Yet Seen is, he promises, is “an initial foray into what will be a unique band sound.”

Today I received my Andrew Hill - Grass Roots copy and I like what I hear! I will definitely order some more of these in the near future. Much more affordable than hunting after early Liberty vinyl pressings (Blue Note OG/DG pressings aren't in my budget so I don't even try to go after them). And what great service from CDjapan, it only took a week to arrive here for very little shipping costs.