John B

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This was one of my worst efforts at guessing in a few tests. I really enjoyed listening to this disc! Great selections. Disc 1 1. I'm not familiar with this era at all. Great track, I really enjoy this one and would like to hear more from this band. 2. This sounds like something Ellington would write, but I couldn’t tell you what album this track is from. Nice. Another one I’d like to hear. 3. This one is driving me crazy. I swear I’ve heard this, or something very similar, before. I’m not coming up with an identification, though. Another nice one. 4. This sounds a lot like Django, but the track seems too modern to actually be him. Very nice! 5. This sounds like a Horace Silver group to me. I like the baritone here a lot. No clue who this is, but I’m really enjoying this track. Another one to add to the “to buy” list. 6. No clue. 7. Again, no clue, but this one sounds somewhat familiar. Very nice. 8. Not an era I am very familiar with. The second(?) trumpet player’s high tone isn’t something I’d want to hear too often. Not my cup of tea. 9. Very nice track! No clue who this is. I’m not too familiar with vibists, and whoever this is doesn’t sound like anyone I have heard before. I’d like to hear the rest of this album. 10. A nice enough tune, but I’ve got nothing to go with here. 11. I’m going to kick myself when I read who this is. Great tune, and I know I have heard the trumpet before. 12. After reading about this album for years I finally bought a copy not too long ago. Not as fiery as I had expected, given the title, but this track, especially, bring the Bird home to roost. 13. No clue. 14. Someone very Monk influenced. I don’t have enough to go on to guess any names. This track is nice enough that I’d like to hear more by the band, but not so captivating that I’d go out of my way to do so. It feels a little too derivative. 15. No clue who this is, but a very, very nice track. The playing sounds more modern than the fidelity would indicate, so I’ll guess this is something from the late ‘40’s / early ‘50’s. 16. Nice tune, but the cornet(?) is played so shrill and high that I find it grating and a bit distracting. Other than that, I like the tune. No clue who it is, however. 17. Much better! And another baritone…perhaps a mini theme? I’m not able to name anyone, however. Another disc to add to the “must buy” list. 18. One of my favorite tracks so far! Great energy. This track almost sounds like something the ICP would come up with. A very Dutch sense of humor comes through, but this doesn’t sound Dutch to my ears. Great track!

Nor me. I've added it to the top of "the list."

No, I ordered it from Verge. (after curency conversion) it was $15.64 versus $22.84 plus shipping from the shop you linked.

Guus Janssen / Han Bennink - Groet (Data) Highly, highly recommended. This is a live recording of Janssen and Bennink recorded at the BIMhuis on November 29, 2004. Excellent sound quality and fantastic playing by two masters. This is some of the best Bennink I have heard in a long time. Nothing too "wacky" or outlandish. Janssen is in top form, too. This would easily be at the top of my list if I had a "best of" list for the past year.

Then you haven't heard Iskra^3 or The Grass Is Greener...... ← Correct! I have read enough abour Iskra^3 to have intentionally avoided it so far.

We saw him live in Boston five years ago, with Ruben Gonzalez, and he put on a fantastic show. He will be missed. At least he finally had a measure of recognition during his last years.

The new disc on Eremite is fantastic. The first disc starts off a bit slowly, no real fireworks, but the second disc really takes off. Fred, Hamid and William all brought the funk and proceed to tear the roof off the place. Very highly recommended.

Yes. Very, very good. I haven't heard much Bailey but I will have to start after listening to this one. There is a nice review of it over on Bagatellen. So far I've been very impressed with every disc on Psi that I have heard.

Sunny is definitely not modest, that's for sure.

Very solid. The liner notes mention that he is no longer able to "sustain the intense high energy of previous decades" but I never even noticed. His playing is nuanced, interesting, and appropriate for the musicians he is playing with. Very impressive.

Thanks for the initial post and the recommendation from the list. I've now sent two emails to Gino. After a second, closer listen, the Sunny Murray disc has risen in my estimation. I like it quite a bit. I'm not sure I would recommend it to someone who really does not care for Sabir Mateen (no names) but, for everyone else, highly recommended. I'll be buying volume 1 soon.

The Oluyemi tracks w/ Sunny are good. Not up to the level of the Alan Silva disc, but solid nonetheless. The final three tracks on the disc, recorded in studio with Sabir and a pianist who is heavily influenced by Cecil Taylor named John Blum, work better and are more immediately exciting. Before this I'd never heard of John Blum. Is anyone here familiar with him?

Blue Winter is fantastic, on first listen. The first disc is very good, taking things slowly and never getting too heated. The second disc is where things really take off. The first track on disc two is 38 minutes long and, if you enjoy Hamid bringing the funk, is nirvana. Hamid, William and Fred bring the funk and get a massive groove going. My opinion is probably colored by having been in attendance at the show, but I would still highly recommend this album. I wouldn't rate it as highly as Live at the Velvet Lounge, with Kowald and Drake, but this one is really very good. I haven't listened to the Sunny Murray disc yet, but noticed that Oluyemi Thomas appears on almost 50 minutes. Four tracks, all recorded live in a trio w/ Thomas, Murray and Sabir Mateen.

they are here.

They have changed. This procedure is very similar to dialysis. The blood is filtered to remove the stem cells an is then reintroduced.

If I had to guess it's probably nothing more than his finally retiring / semi-retiring from whatever job paid the bills and funded all of these albums and deciding to get out a bit more in his spare time.

Also, I agree with Kevin. It would be a good idea to edit your initail post and remove everyone's email addresses so they don't get spammed.

Having spent all day Monday in the hospital with a relative who was having stem cells harvested from bone marrow I can attest that this is correct. The procedure was almost completely painless and was very, very easy for the donor. My thoughts go out to Michael and his family. I hope a match is found soon.

Jandek will be going the avant-jazz route in NYC. The (rumored) backing band will be Chris Corsano on drums and Matt Heyner (Test, No Neck Blues Band) on bass. Funny Rat meets Jandek!

Six and Six is my choice for today's Jandekian whimsy. I've read a good deal of commentary questioning if Jandek is releasing his albums chronologically, as they are recorded, or if many of them were recorded around the same time and are being released at later dates. Listening to Six and Six, which was released three years after Ready for the House, puts me firmly into the first camp. This disc is similar to RFTH, but is also deeper, darker, and more confident than the first album. It is also not as interesting, as the album does come across as somewhat formulaic. Jandek has found a "formula" and doesn't stray too far afield. However, anyone who labels Six and Six as "more of the same" from Ready for the House, is only listening at the most superficial level and is not making any attempt to hear these albums for what they are, rather than focusing on their "quirkiness" or "mythology." Just like Ready for the House, this is a disc you really should pick up if you are interested in listening to Jandek. Perhaps not as much fun as some other discs, I'd call this one formative and an essential stepping stone in Jandek's development. It also has the benefit of the quintessential Jandek album cover.

Allegro Music is having a 25% off sale on AUM Fidelity titles through 8/2. http://www.allegro-music.com/label_search.asp?label=AUM The new Vision Festival live cd/dvd is only $16.46. At that price, I am tempted.

Available now on Eremite: "recorded 12 december, 2004, dibden center for the arts, johnson, vt blue winter is a milestone achievement in the great career of one of the stalwarts of the tenor saxophone, fred anderson. an exponent of the illustrious chicago heavyweight tenor tradition that includes his contemporaries gene ammons, johnny griffin, john gilmore & von freeman, anderson spent decades as a family man & bar owner before starting to seriously tour & record in the nineties. born 1929 in monroe, louisiana, anderson migrated to chicago in 1940, where he devoted many years of study to the music of lester young, coleman hawkins, & charlie parker. in 1964 anderson co-founded the seminal chicago musicians' organization the association for the advancement of creative musicians (AACM). the strength & individuality of his playing in early AACM ensembles with muhal richard abrams, joseph jarman, & henry threadgill earned anderson the nickname "the lone prophet of the prairie." on blue winter, anderson is joined by one of the premier rhythm sections in any music genre, william parker & hamid drake. the two-cd set features an impeccably recorded complete concert performance from the trio's 2004 northeast tour."

John (and other nice people), you aware of this little sucker: Oluyemi Thomas / Gino Robair "Unity in Multiplicity" (Rastascan). I haven't listened to it yet, but judging form a couple of tracks of this duo on Gino Robair's Buddy Systems (Meniscus), this can be something mindblowing. ← No, never heard of that one. I'll have to get it. Oluyemi with no vocalist is close to becoming a "must order" for me.

Correct. Blue Winter is the complete concert I attended in December. I loved the show and am looking forward to hearing how it translates to cd. I'll be ordering this one today. I'm also going to order PERLES NOIRES volume II, if only to hear Oluyemi Thomas' contributions. I'll decide if I need volume I after hearing volume II.