Homefromtheforest

I just got mine last week and finally played "nation time" for the first time; I've actually never heard it before and to be honest it does not knock me out at all. Maybe I have to play his record more but this "free blowing" McPhee period sounds almost a bit pedestrian to me. I really like his late 70s and 80s group efforts on Hat Art but I just can't get into this or "Black Magic Man". I think the only early efforts I actually enjoy from him are "pieces of light" and "the willisau concert". But for $42 I think it's a nice set to have and maybe one year I'll have a different opinion on this material!

Keith Jarrett "the survivors suite" (ECM trio japan)

I was following that auction myself; crazy! I could not see any signatures on any of the photos provided; though I guess one could have asked the seller about that while the auction was current. I'm happy with my "regular" nm first issue with red print and red "handwritten" styled label info. I also have a few different cd issues of this...certainly a cornerstone free jazz disc for me.

According to the label the original master tapes were used....

Karl Berger "We Are You" (Calig, Germany)...love Peter Kowald on this album Moebius/Plank/Neumeier "Zero Set" (Sky, Germany)

Sad to hear...

The local record stores are dead around here in my opinion...none carry the more esoteric jazz titles and as far as used record shopping goes it's definitely dead. Ebay killed the thrill of used record stores for me...one of the great things about used record stores for me growing up was that possibility of finding some unknown gem sitting in the racks that the owner was totally unaware of as far as value...now every used record is looked up online and priced above and beyond the ebay average! So I hardly bother anymore going to used record stores anymore around here...even if they had a cool or interesting title it would most likely be priced above what I might get it on ebay for. As for CDs I buy all mine online now...it's just easier and as I already mentioned there are no local record stores anymore that stock them. We used to have a store here in Vancouver BC called "A & B Sound" that was pretty decent in carrying alot of interesting jazz cds for good prices but they are long gone. So now it's mainly Amazon for new CDs or the individual label's websites. Downloads? No thanks. I am old fashioned and still appreciate pulling out an actual LP or CD and looking at the artwork and maybe reading a few liner notes while listening. In my opinion nothing quite beats listening to a NM LP on a nice turntable....downloads are faceless and are just not the same.

Collin Walcott "Cloud Dance" (Trio/ECM Japan) Masahiko Togashi "The Story of Wind left behind" (Columbia, Japan) Tomasz Stanko "Almost Green" (Leo, Finland)

So it seems the "Roundtable" label in Australia, who put out a few excellent and high quality reissues last year of Egisto Macchi and Nuova Consonanza, have just reissued "Dream Sequence" by Cosmic Eye on 180 grm vinyl mastered from the original tapes. I just ordered my copy today and look forward to finally hearing a legitimate and proper reissue of this rare Amancio D'Silva project. The previous dodgy CD reissue was apparently a bootleg and even mastered at the wrong speed! This album always sounded a tad too "hippy dippy" for me to put down the big bucks for an original so it will be nice to have a quality reissue at a fraction of an original's price

Masahiko Sato "penetration" (express, japan) Masabumi Kikuchi/Sadao Watanabe "collaboration" (Philips, Japan) Thelonious Monk "mulligan meets monk" (riverside stereo, USA)

Terje Rypdal "s/t" (German ECM) Clint Houston "watership down" (japan trio) Albert Mangelsdorff "now jazz ramwong" (Germany L & R)

I love that Gordon Beck album - an incredible lineup...always a delight to hear Kenny Wheeler and Tony Oxley! I have a DVD from this group too which is nice...

I'll probably end up buying this even though "nation time" doesn't impress me as much as "the willisau concert" or the "po music" records from the late 70s/early 80s. I'm a sucker for lavish box sets that I usually never get the time to listen to completely ;/

Wish I could be there! I love Karin Krog's voice...

I loved his two Electric Circus lps with Edward Vesala...

Yeah I think hearing the Bad Brains in 1987 started me on explorering lesser known music. Before that I was listening to Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc. Living on west coast I got to see Nirvana, Mudhoney, etc numerous times around 1989-1991 which was a special time for me. Anyway here are some of the non-jazz albums that really rocked my world growing up: Led Zeppelin 1 Jimi Hendrix "axis bold as love" Metallica "ride the lightning" Bad Brains "roir cassette" Dinosaur Jr "you're living all over me" Sonic Youth "sister" Big Black "atomizer" Fugazi "s/t" Beat Happening "jamboree" Mudhoney "s/t" Nirvana "bleach" Galaxie 500 "on fire" Stooges "funhouse" Wire "pink flag" Squirrelbait "skag heaven" Slint "spiderland" My Bloody Valentine "loveless" And that's not including all the prog, Canterbury, krautrock, electronic, experimental, folk, avant garde stuff I was discovering along the way!

Yeah I just ordered "out to lunch" myself... Bonus tracks from this session, even if they are just alternate takes, are too much to resist.

Miles Davis "four and more" (USA Columbia 2-eye) Embryo "embryo's rache" (Germany, united artists) Stan Tracey "free an one" (UK, Columbia)

Only collector nerds care about OBIs; which is why I keep all mine...the Japanese seem to really treasure them as I've seen Japanese lps with OBIs sell for nearly double the amounts that the same lps without OBIs do. It is a bit strange.

Various "Dutch Jazz Scene" (Radio Nederland 7LP box) ...pretty cool to hear Frederic Rzewski guesting with the Instant Composers Pool circa 1969!

Kenneth Lee Wells "music for dark kites" 2LP (empty bridge) Kazutoki Umezu "bamboo village" (what next)

Around 1985 or 1986...so I was 12 or 13...borrowed 3 albums from the Iibrary... Can't remember the titles but they were 1 each by Monk, Coltrane, and Miles.

I won't list 100, but I will list these albums as being ones that really made an impression on me and influenced my future listening directions Miles Davis "kind of blue" John Coltrane "a love supreme", "ascension" Ornette Coleman "shape of jazz to come" Eric Dolphy "outward bound" Charles Mingus "presents Charles Mingus" Jackie McLean "destination out" Bobby Hutcherson "dialogue" Andrew Hill "point of departure" Grachan Moncur III "evolution" Don Cherry "complete communion" Albert Ayler "spiritual unity" Art Ensemble of Chicago" "people in sorrow" Dave Holland "conference of the birds" Sun Ra "heliocentric worlds vol.1" Anthony Braxton "five pieces 1975" Marion Brown "in sommerhausen" Jan Garbarek "Afric pepperbird" Mal Waldron "one upmanship" Wolfgang Dauner "output" Miles Davis "agharta" Terje Rypdal "Rypdal/vitous/DeJohnette" Kenny Wheeler "deer wan" Edward Vesala "nan madol" Masahiko Togashi "we now create" Albert Mangelsdorff "never let it end" Peter Brotzmann "nipples" Alexander Von Schlippenbach "the living music" Instant composers pool "fragments" Steve Lacy "morning joy" - the title that reintroduced me to Steve Lacy after hearing "stabs" as a late teen and thinking it was too dry...hearing this made me seek out nearly everything else and now he is one of my favorites I could list way more but these titles are some of the key albums in my growth as a jazz fan/listener...and I still love them all

Did not know there was a second pressing of this. The original has been on my list for years... Yeah its been the missing piece in my Mal Waldron collection as well; some Italian label just recently did it...not cheap(around $35-40) but a real quality job...I don't mind reissues when they are done well..certainly cheaper then an original pressing!! Tonight's spin: Arild Andersen "Lifelines" (germany, ECM)