John B

Please do!

Knowing your tastes I would avoid Right After and We are Everyone. Time Travel is a very nice disc, but What a Wonderful World is the one that connects with me the most. The track near the end where the musicians fade in the French female vocalist is beautiful.

out of the discs I have heard I would highly recommend these: Requiem for Jack Kirby - Gregg Bendian's INTERZONE Continental Jazz Express - Bobby Few Trinity - Joe McPhee, Harold Smith, Mike Kull Sparks Fly Upward - Alex Cline Ensemble Music of Eric von Essen, Vol II - various musicians from the Cryptogramophone factory Not as highly recommended, but a good deal at $5: White Boy Blues - Tom Bruno solo Very highly recommended, but not for all tastes, four discs on Erstwhile: We Are Everyone In the Room - Stilluppsteypo and TV POW Right After - Guiseppe Lelasi and Domenico Sciajno What A Wonderful World - Jerome Noetinger and ErikM Time Travel - Gunter Muller and Otomo Yoshihide The first Erst is almost oop. The second two are more accessible than the first two.

A lot of good stuff here. I would highly recommend (insist, basically) Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" (mp3s and reviews here) -it's on page 3 of the bargains list. Thanks for posting this! They have some fantastic discs on sale. Too bad I already own a lot of the ones I would want to pick up. Has enyone here heard Kent Kessler's solo disc and have a recommendation pro or con?

I'll try listening later on tonight between 7 and 10.

Naked City is a very interesting project, and well worth hearing, but not at all something I listen to very regularly. I would recommend giving their first album a listen before grabbing this box.

My disc arrived. I'll give it a first listen later on today. I'm looking forward to hearing your selections!

I was there on Black Friday and heard several calls just like you describe. I was cracking up, because they were cursing up a storm, but always ended up helping out the caller anyway.

Cheaper than other CD shops in town. but, as you point out, they are not averse to charging ebay prices for rare items. The prices on FMP and Hat for example were not bad at all.

Not unless we make two versions: one for adults and one for all ages.

Luckily Thirsty Ear discs are pretty easy to track down. Is your radio show webcast? I'd be interested in checking it out.

Ah! The old place was more like a hallway. I'll be there tonight.

Smaller??? It's 3 or 4 times bigger than the old place on E5th! That was tiny! This was my first ever visit to DMG and Other Music.

No, but I saw the thread on it elsewhere and it looks very interesting. I'll have to give it a listen one of these days. Chaney - The inside of DMG is difficult to describe. The storefront is shaped like Zorn's face, and you enter through his mouth. Once inside you climb up a cliff face to a lifesize recreation of the jewish fort at Masada. Once inside, there is an altar upon which you must sacrifice a Kenny G disc. As it burns and turns to ash, a door opens and, after a series of tests and challenges I have been sworn to never reveal, Bruce and / or Manny (Manny, in my case) determine if you are worthy to purchase obscure avant-garde jazz and european free improv. If not, you are covered in Tzadik stickers and sent out of town with Naked City blasting into your eardrums. Seriously, it is a lot smaller than I had imagined, but they have a very nice selection of new and used discs.

I just returned to my in-laws house from a nice visit to Brooklyn, followed by a pilgrimage to Downtown Music Gallery. It was amazing to be able browse a store that stocks Hat Hut, FMP and all of those other labels that I am never able to see "in the flesh.". I picked up some nice discs, which I'll comment on when I have a chance in the next few days. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I wouldn't even call it a comparison. I was more just trying to give people a point of reference, if that makes sense.

I know nothing about either of their work post-Cream, with the exception of this album: Not one of Fela's best, this is still a very enjoyable disc. Some great grooves from Fela, Ginger and company, with a live drum duo between Ginger and Tony Allen. Buy it for Ginger, if you want, but you'll keep it for Fela.

I saw this dvd this past weekend and was very impressed. It has the same rough quality of Kirk's Montreux session, and, somewhat distractingly at first, Walrath closely resembles Gabe Kaplan in Welcome Back Kotter, but the music is top-notch and I was thrilled to be able to see this group live, something I never would have been able to do in person. Given how inexpensive this dvd is I highly recommend grabbing a copy.

no, I've had this disc for a few years. I don't remember where I first read about it. I saw your recent comments on it over at JC and agree 100% with what you posted.

That is one of the single most beautiful moments I have heard on an eai disc, imo. I would second the recommendation for The World Turned Upside Down. For someone who wasn't sure about eai, I would recommedn checking out Dark Rags, his duo disc with Evan Parker. It might be an easier point of entry for someone coming from jazz.

I'm guessing most people here have never heard of Vernard Johnson, which is a shame. Imagine if a more melodic Albert Ayler had recorded gospel, but still had a a huge r&b influence. Johnson plays some fiery alto, full of grease, fire, brimstone and energy. He testifies. I'm not a huge fan of gospel music but this album is fantastic! There are a lot of cheap used copies floating around out there so, if you have any interest in what I described above, do yourself a favor and grab a copy. This is the real deal and, if you are religious or an atheist, this disc will make you believe.

I don't know why everybody has to throw a fit everytime someone "new" posts cds for sale in the "Offering and Looking for" forum. If someone spams every forum on the board then sure, delete the messages. If b3-er wants to institute a requirement that you must have 100 posts before you can sell a cd then he can do so. If b3-er wants to decide that you can't post cds for sale until the board "regulars" decide you are ok, then he can do so. Until he decides to do that people should chill out and not harass every person that starts out on the board by selling cds. I've bought cds from Glenn and I know a few other people who have done so, all with excellent service and friendly emails back. He is a good guy and doesn't deserve this crap.

not going to happen, as Water records just reissued this and the other Eddie Gale BN. You should grab those, I really think you'd enjoy them.

the sound clips on the Erst site don't do a whole lot for me, as most of these pieces really benefit from being heard in their entirety, as they slowly develop and "expand." I really love the Rowe / Beins disc. Judging by the smiley you used, I'm going to guess it's not your cup of tea. For someone who was interested in dipping their toe into the water, so to speak, with Erst, it is not a bad place to start at all. The disc is relatively short, Rowe and Beins are both in fine form and, relatively speaking, the music is extremely accesible. The quotes from other songs that Rowe drops into the mix via his radio are very well done, and quite amusing. I disagree with DMG that there is anything spooky or frightening about this disc. The quartet disc is a lot more abstract and I would hesitate to recommend it to someone like you describe.

I asked the same question not too long ago and the answers I got are all excellent: Pathe Sessions (Les Stances de Sophie / People in Sorrow) Fanfare for the Warriors Bap-Tizum Reese and the Smooth Ones start with those. Here is the thread I started, which has quite a few recommendations.