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I enjoyed Assif Tsahar's solo release Ayn Le-Any. Downloaded it from eMusic, so I didn't get the audacious Nirvana Nevermind thirty years later cover art. It's on Hopscotch. Other recent ratty pleasures: Dennis Gonzalez Live at Tonic: Dance of the Soothsayer's Tongue, Noah Howard - Black Ark, Cecil Taylor - Algonquin, Trio M - Big Picture, and the Braxton Iridium set. Also been getting into Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy's pop interpretations. I strongly tend toward American free jazz artists who emerged in the 60's and 70's (I started listening to them about 1975), although Evan Parker may be my favorite musician right now.

I carefully hope that this is good for me personally. My 07 Hyundai Elantra came with XM preinstalled. Sirius would have been my choice, first for World Series of Poker coverage, and also NASCAR. Hopefully we get all the programming. I called in to cancel my XM a couple days ago before it went from an introductory rate to 12.99/mo. They gave me three more free months, and I've decided to pay full price for one more month after that as my wife and I are taking a long driving trip together, and she enjoys XM. If the programming comes through, I might add a second radio instead of cancelling.

My personal favorites: Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue Sam Rivers - Purple Violets Larry Young - Into Somethin' I need to spend more time with the Blue Notes, and think I'll pull the Moran back out, liked it but didn't play it a lot.

What's worse, I thought of Monty Waters (70's loft jazz scene altoist) and not Muddy.

Loophole is the wrong word for it. The EU just made the honorable decision not to buckle under to the pressure of special interests. I wish our own government had been so honorable.

Did that mean not great or not good, J?

Only heard the first two tracks so far of my eMusic burn and it's sounding good. The presence of Taborn led to my quick download, and I'm an O'Neals Porch fan anyway. More later, but who else has heard this one?

Dug out Touchin' on 'Trane for a re-listen, it's one of two highly regarded FMPs that had yet to register with me (Peter Kowald - Was Da Ist being the other). I felt the music was randomized and out of Gayle's control on previous listens. Well it seems to be growing on me some, I started hearing ideas and interplay and a bit more of the Trane connection. I still somewhat prefer James Finn, (not to mention late Trane) but I'm beginning to appreciate the guy. Rashied Ali and William Parker are smokin', which helps a lot. In general I backed way off the jazz Avant Garde for several years, and have gradually been re-loosening my ears.

Philadelphia jazz scholar Harrison Ridley Jr. said that Floyd Smith was the first to record jazz on electric guitar. Can't remember the band it was done with.

That reminds me of a piano disc on Naxos that MikeWeil recommended to me here, that I got from emusic. A piano collection from a composer with a spanish sounding name ... Jordi Maso ... searching eMusic ... aaah, Severac. I was thinking more orchestral, but that disc certainly fits the question as asked. Emusic has Chandos now, so I'll hunt up the Alwyn. No accident that there is no Debussy Symphony No. 1 - the formal structures are at least somewhat at odds with the coloristic and rhapsodic nature of the music. But he did leave us three wonderful sonatas, so perhaps there is hope for a synmphony that gets and builds upon his essence.

Yes, Delius a good choice, one that has already grabbed me. I liked On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring immediately.

I'm interested in hearing the names of composers who came after Debussy and who might be said to be more similar to him than they are to any other composer that preceded them. I know Koechlin finished a ballet, and probably belongs on this list, but I haven't heard any of his own compositions. Any thoughts to share?

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.