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I must confess I haven't paid attention to these sorts of self-aggrandizing industry awards productions for quite some time, so I'm guessing it isn't new, but there's really a category for "best improvised jazz solo?" As opposed to a fully composed jazz solo??

I picked up 9 of the East Winds from CD Japan for a paltry $106 (including shipping) -- I'm not sure I could buy them in the U.S. for that much. b

cd japan is also carrying them -- with a more English-friendly webpage. b

Beyond the lack of sources there seems to be some bungled history. Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but that first paragraph appears to claim that Prohibition ended in 1930 -- which is off by three years.

Interview with the participants (which helps clear up some of the mystery about this release): http://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/a-new-ornette-coleman-album-our-exclusive-q-a

My cd arrived today, complete with System Dialing Records car decal and book of matches [there's a first]. It's an interesting album, feels a bit like the Naked Lunch stuff with a healthy dollop of later Bill Dixon thrown in. Anyone know why this was in the can for five years?

I'd hold on another week. Delivery times can really stretch at this time of year. O.K. FWIW, an order shipped from Japan on the same day arrived in 7 days My order shipped from UK on December 8th & the confirmation email put the expected delivery date at January 10th, so I wouldn't cancel anything yet.

There is free software that lets you burn flacs to a cd (I use one called Burrrn), so you can still have lossless on your pc & a cd.

Try later period (70s) Serge. I don't know that you can boil that 5000 track down to one genre -- creepy-60s'ish-loungy-pop is the best I can do. How 'bout some Nick Cave? I think he has a couple of all acoustic, piano-driven album that are similar.

Not jazz -- but then, neither was that Powerman 5000 track -- but the first things that came to my mind were '80s Tom Waits or maybe some Serge Gainsbourg (particularly the Melody Nelson album).

me too ..... Francois Rabbath -- Bass Ball (1963)

Did I miss it or has no one brought up the great William Parker?

Any of the albums by Kartet. Paris-based label Dark Tree Records has only released 4 cds, but they would also fit the bill. Scott

Obscure but not forgotten over here. And a short tribute to him ('Abena') played by Matthew Bourne kicked off the big Jazz Britannia concert back in 2005 (most fitting). It was in the Thames Estuary near Southend that he drowned I think. I'm glad to hear that. Taylor deserves to be remembered, he had a very original voice -- who knows what he could have done if things had turned out differently.

Mike Taylor. Two great albums in the mid-1960s, then drowned swimming in the Thames. Scott

Christoph Erb is a new name to me. Anybody heard him? Lots of good people on his releases. Erb is Swiss, but spends a lot of time in Chicago. His Veto releases have always struck me as being of the "let's get some guys in studio for a few hours and just roll the tape" type of free improv w/o much forethought as to what they were going to do. They're sort of the modern free improv version of '50s blowing sessions albums -- not bad, but certainly no one's best work. Of the Veto releases I've heard the best one was Erb's album w/ Keefe with two bass clarinets and two cellos -- name of it completely escapes me at the moment. Scott

Jean-Marc Foltz -- To the Moon. This is one of my all-time favorite albums.

Thanks for the tip -- I enjoyed their Bay Window album.

Yes, it's primarily an analysis of each song on the album. It is great for those of us who can sit down at the piano and plunk along with the transcriptions and descriptions of Monk's moves, but I can also see where non-musicians wouldn't get much out of the volume. Scott

Gabriel Solis, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Oxford U.P. 2014). Mine just arrived, so I haven't had time to really dig into it, but looks good so far. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/thelonious-monk-quartet-with-john-coltrane-at-carnegie-hall-9780199744367?q=solis&lang=en&cc=us

Hiroshi Matumoto & Hideo Ichikawa Quartet -- Megalopolis. I'd like to see a reissue of the 2005 reissue that was available for about a day and a half & now goes for $160 used.

My favorite Intakt recordings are probably the Barry Guy LJCO and New Orchestra recordings I'll put a vote in for their Die Enttauschung records -- love that stuff.

Rolf & Joachim Kuhn, Impressions of New York Dave Brubeck, Jazz Impressions of New York

I have a CSP2+, Torii IV, Rachael (not needed, so in the closet right now and up for sale), & MG 944s. I've never bothered to listen to the Decware cd player Lon speaks of, but I've never been disappointed with anything of Steve's I've listened to. The CSP family of pre-amps are fine machines. Scott

Totally unfamiliar with this album until this thread, but picked up a copy of the WEA reissue -- tasty stuff. Thanks for the tip gents.