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I tried a disc of the Peter Maxwell Davies quartets on (and commissioned by) Naxos. Nothing connected on first listen and too much music syndrome has delayed the second listen. Nice idea though, Naxos is a good company with their heart in the right place.

Sounds good. Vibes instead of piano in the rhythm section opens the sound up. Straight ahead and kickin'. Anybody else heard it yet?

I'm rather fond of the Vortex, mainly for that Sonny Sharrock track. Wish someone would reissue the Presenting Burton Greene on Columbia (!) that Byard plays very well on. My LP has a skip and some noise.

Hadley Caliman - Gratitude Don Grolnick - The London Concert Allen Toussaint - Connected All good stuff.

Shellac is proof that outdated technologies do indeed die as the medium for transmission of new content. It's a question of time.

Nice thread, just cost me twenty bucks. I decided I wanted to hear that Montmartre session again, and not my old scratchy LPs.

There's one Stan Getz track that will always be my favorite, and it has almost nothing to do with his main body of work. As a progressive rock fan in the seventies just beginning to explore jazz, I heard the title track to Another World on Columbia. In a blindfold test I did, many people mistook it for John Klemmer, because it was solo saxophone with a digital delay creating unusual effects. (JSngry nailed it). Getz tried it out as a lark and enough people recognized its beauty that it did get released. It's astonishing, other-worldly. It carries the competent plus "smooth" acoustic jazz with tiny synthesizer enhancements along for the ride. I like the album, but the title track is the killer. Second choice would be the Live at Montmartre album he did with Joanne Brackeen around that time. It was initially on Inner City in the US, CD issued later by Steeplechase. If it's a tenor, and I think it's an alto, it's often Stan Getz. If it's an alto, and I think it's a tenor, it's often Jackie McLean.

Yeah, thanks Ron. Went straight to CD3, Live at Lighthouse with Woody Shaw. Well worth the purchase.

It is indeed on eMusic and a bargain at 4 downloads. Sounds good the first time through, the drummer grooves more than getting out there. I believe he was on a previous trio album, Medicina also on eMusic. <ATROCIOUS_PUN> No one will ever accuse him of robbing Peeter to pay Paal. </ATROCIOUS_PUN>

I just put in the order, had eMusic burns of most of it, but the props for Black Narcissus pushed me over the edge.

I was fooled on first listen by the similarity of first few bars of Estate to Maiden Voyage, but Maiden Voyage isn't on here, and I don't know if Fern has written lyrics to that. My second favorite track so far is Re'i first recorded by an Israeli band including adherents of both Judaism and Islam. This is despite the fact that it's sung in a language I don't know. Don Thompson is delightful on the tracks he plays on, very tuned in to what Fern is doing. And yes, the opener starts out with solo guitar that sets the tone wonderfully. I was prepared to dislike TR7 after reading the liner notes, but I never quite got there. They acutally pull it off, a serialist blues. It's one of the three instrumental tracks on the album.

Fern Lindzon is a friend I've known from Scrabble tournaments for many years. She mentioned being a jazz singer, but I never had a chance to hear her over the years. Former World Scrabble Champion Joel Wapnick is a music professor at McGill University in Toronto (well, actually Montreal as pointed out below), and has been a teacher and mentor in both the music and Scrabble worlds. She just posted the news a week or two ago on our Scrabble mailing list that her debut CD was coming out, and I now have a copy. Her voice is quite beautiful, and her selection of material quite excellent. She's written her own lyrics to Infant Eyes, Stolen Moments and Maiden Voyage, accompanying herself on piano, with one other musician on each track. Don Thompson on vibes is the best known, but the guitarist and bassist are also quite excellent. The opener, I Thought About You, is delightful and probably my favorite so far. It's the most playful and swinging track here, but the more serious tunes have their own rewards. Time is short for the moment, so I'll post more later, and may invite Fern to join us here. If I do, please don't treat her as a spammer, it's my idea.

Yeah I've listened to the first few tracks from Phil Grenadier - Sweet Transients a couple of times. Nice Blue-Noteish vibe. More recently: Elliott Carter - String Quartets 1 and 5 - Pacifica Quartet The Woodstock Jazz Festival set mentioned in another thread, with Corea, Braxton, Konitz and Metheny. Niels Lan Doky - Live at the Montmartre (with Bob Berg) and two David Murrays on Justin Time that I haven't listened to yet. The Larry Ochs and Melford - Ehrlich from last batch are still getting a lot of play.

Illinois Jacquet did How High the Moon on bassoon for Prestige, always a favorite. Ken McIntyre also does a nice job on some of his own compositions on bassoon.

I played the MP3 CD of disks 9-16 on a long drive and found it quite enjoyable. Some "sweetening" here and there, but mostly the band just swings. I got the same reaction as a couple decades ago, that it was cool to hear the lyrics to tracks I had heard much more often in small group instrumental settings. Good songs, played and sung well.

That explains the absence of guitar on the first two tracks. I listened while showering and was wondering what TENOR was on Impressions, never would have guessed Brax but I like to believe I would have at least figured out it was alto. The mini review of the Impressions sax solo that I was putting together in my mind went like this: Doesn't really inhabit the dark corners of Trane's soul, but digs the shit out of what he could do with a horn. The rest of the band sounds great, too. On the basis of the first two tracks, highly recommended.

New on eMusic is The Song is You, a two disc set with seven long standards. Impressions, No Greater Love, All Blues, Waltz, Isfahan, Stella by Starlight, Round Midnight. Label listed as Douglas Music/United for Opportunity. AMG seems to know nothing. Curiosity compels me to download.

Do you know if Palmetto has stopped putting new releases on eMusic, or are they just slow in coming? I'm looking forward to hearing Air.

Glad this ain't the Wild West, Larry!

Bashing in general I have no use for. Not Jarrett bashing, not Wynton bashing, not audience bashing. Hmm, guess that puts me in an interesting position re Jarrett. Guess I'll just have to listen to the music and leave it at that.

Dmitry Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues , performed by Keith Jarrett on ECM New Series.

The first couple tracks of the Drake/Gahnold/Parker sounded good, toward the inside side of freebop. Gahnold is melodic with a brawny tone and Parker and Drake are fine. Two Jane Ira Blooms have appeared as one track albums. Like Silver, Like Song is the one I've listened to and was well worth it. There's one track that prominently features Jamie Saft's electronics and it's quite good. It is the first time that I noticed that Jane Ira Bloom's Arabesques have disappeared from eMu, the rest of the label is still there. Haven't listened to Mental Weather yet. Allmusic is blisfully unaware, but Google reports a quartet with Dawn Clement on piano and Rhodes, Mark Helias and Matt Wilson.

Larry Ochs and Drumming Core - Up From Under Myra Melford and Marty Ehrlich - Spark Porcupine Tree - Signify and The Sky Moves Sideways Kalevi Aho Symphony #9 Noah Howard - The Black Ark Drake - Gahnold - Parker - Last Dances I havent listened to the last two yet. It's good to see more Ayler releases.

I got the Tokyo albums on eBay and transferred them to CDR for Blindfold test 6. There's a small skip on Round About Midnight. I considered this Max's greatest band although the subsequent Odean Pope quartet stayed together longer. Saw them live twice, really felt like they coaxed Cecil Bridgewater into far deeper playing than he had done anywhere else, and became a lifelong fan of Billy Harper.

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds for Lee, Lighthouse and Last Session seem more germane, but I am sneaking into the 70's, aren't I.