John B

Interesting. I've never heard of MIchael Marcus. How would you describe his playing? Ayler has a great track record going with the past year or so of releases.

Hmm... I don't remember it being that wonderful... Will listen to it today. I have to join in the dissent. Tenderly has never done anything for me. I gave it another spin after reading your post and, while there are a few nice moments, the disc as a whole just doesn't "click" for me.

Gebbia and Parker duo. Can you imagine how THIS could sound like? I can't. has this been released? I'd love to hear this...no idea if it would be succesful at all...

and the most disturbing thing is that most of it is informative! these guys are not in it for the post count, that's fer sure! you're just saying that to boost your post count.

I heard Evan Parker's Monoceros for the first time today. What a fantastic disc! Four tracks, all solo soprano. The first track, which is about 25 minutes long, is mesmerizing. I think it was Nate Dorward who said that this disc might be oop, so grab a copy if you see one. I think I'll grab The Snake Decides and Lines Burnt in Light next. Between this disc and Arcana Major it's been a great week for amazing solo sax discs!

I have, on a few occasions, noticed BMG stocking a newer version of an item they previously had. For instance, Dexter Gordon's 'Go'. I purchased the old McMaster version of this when they had it in their Clearance section. A few months later, they received the RVG edition. Another example would be Art Blakey's 'Night at Birdland' (I forget which of the two volumes it was...). For a while, they actually had both the McMaster version and the RVG at the same time...for the same price, no less! I don't know if this is still the case but, a while back, they were charging more for the original two disc set of Bitches Brew than for the Complete four disc set. I never understood that one.

over the past day or two: Evan Parker - Monoceros Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay Coltrane - Live Trane disc 1 Last Exit - Koln Charlie Patton - Complete disc 2 The Congos - Heart of the Congos Culture - Two Sevens Clash Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions... Joe Maneri - Tenderly Jimmy Smith - Root Down Nirvana - Nevermind

Matthew - If you want to explore more "accessible Brotzmann my suggestions would be all of the Die Like a Dog discs (three on FMP, one on Eremite) the WELS concert and the Dried Rat Dog, both on Okkadisk. The rest of you should be ashamed for not owning Never Too Late. You must listen to 100 Kenny G tracks in penance.

Goodspeak - thanks for the Mosaic set! The Larry Young set will make a perfect addition to my collection. Congratulations on losing the "newbie" tag!

likewise. I'm really loking forward to hearing this set. I've never heard Seven Steps to Heaven, either, but that's not exciting me as much, for some reason.

Mine did. I bought mine fairly soon after it was released and it does not have a metal spine.

Axel Dorner & Kevin Drumm Thomas Lehn & Marcus Schmickler - Bart Gianni Gebbia - Arcana Major / Sonic Tarots Session Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic Masaoka / Nunn / Robair - Crepuscular Music

Having never heard any of Hemphill's discs it looks like the 2cd Blue Boye set reissued on crewgum might be a good place to start. I'll likely also pick up a used copy of Coon Bidness and keep my fingers crossed that Dogon A.D. will make it to disc one of these days. Either that or find a cheap vinyl copy to tide me over.

How many covers does this disc have??? This cover art doesn't really seem to do justice to Komeda's music:

seriously, it is way beyond what I expected for a solo sax album. It is also far greater than Outland, at least upon first listen.... oh, okay.....here you go: ARCANA MAJOR IS THE SHIZNIT!

Is it DA SHIT or what?!?!?!?! if enjoying Arcana Major is wrong, I don't want to be right.

There is no "best," but I voted for Ju Ju as a sentimental favorite. It was the first album of his as a leader that I ever heard and it blew me away.

Ok, you were right. Arcana Major is a fantastic disc.

Yes, you nailed it there. Show a little emotion Jurek, why doncha? I wonder now how Mr. Ware feels about that Grammy acceptance speech he prepared. Poor lug. I picture Ware chasing Jurek down the street bashing him repeatedly over the head with the most recent printed version of the AMG.

Arcana Major / Sonic Tarots Session arrived yesterday. I've got it on now and am looking forward to finally hearing the source of all the rave reviews a while back.

Jimmy Smith - Six Views of the Blues Larry Young - Into Something Freddie Hubbard - Hub Cap Pharoah Sanders - Karma Pharoah Sanders - Thembi Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Autechre - Tri Repetae +

There is a new copy for sale on ebay now for $9.99 (same seller I bought mine from last year) and Jazz Loft has this in stock for $16.99.

great choice! I'll pull this one out and give it a listen at work tommorow.

Are you suggesting that Jurek's reviled because he's moonlighting at Dusty Groove? I thought I recognized a similarity! You have to respect, however, that he contained himself — there's no utterance, in the above review, of "Cool Beans!" I knew you were kidding, I just felt like being a wise-ass. B) I just wish he wouldn't be so afraid to get excited by a record once in a while. His reviews are all so understated.

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