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He looked just fine on Friday night. I was really impressed with his playing.

I've seen photos of the Sergio Merce microtonal saxophone. I didn't realize he recorded an album.

I just heard Victor play with Steve Turre a few nights ago. Killer show too, tribute to JJ Johnson. New AAJ interview - Victor Lewis: The Drummer's Spirit

Interesting, I thought they had a shade of Soft Machine! There's a bit of Canterbury in there, for sure.

Still no release date on that box! New interview.

Seriously? I've never gotten that impression over the decades, either from print or conversations. I think his Blue Notes, Mwandishi are influential...people haven't quite forgotten Rockit yet.

Up 5th street on the left, long after the Fillmore was gone, Downtown Music Gallery had a store for years.

sk, It's my attitude that I will scarf up any 4-CD pre-retirement Miles box of previously unreleased live material if it is reasonably priced. Sometimes it's not in my budget, but that's another matter! Same here.

CPR interview: Colorado pianist champions minimalist classical music one chord at a time.

Rondo was a music retailer for years here in NJ until they closed up shop and moved off to NH. They were only about a half hour from my apt.

I am a cloth-earned nitwit.

I wasn't necessarily posting the link extra special for you, it's just a list.

Classical.net - Basic Repertoire, Baroque Period (1600 - 1750)

I love it, at the time I was more interested in SAWII. But I kept checking his music out as it came out and got stranger and stranger. Now, I really dig how he makes use of all the flutering, echo and reverb...those little production details.

Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, World Financial Center, Sept. 1989

oh yes, I love it!

Ah, well maybe it is not impressive but it serves the purpose I have in mind as a jazz singer songwriter. Besides that, it was a gift from my brother. It's a quiet instrument, I like that. Mine has a real wide fingerboard, which makes it a bit hard to play. But I keep it simple, not the instrument I'd be playing scales on anyway. I'm not a classically trained, the jazz chord/melody thing works well on it. I have a Godin La Patrie Concert, got it a few years ago for $400. I don't play it too often, but I just tuned it up and I think it will get some play this weekend. I haven't been playing too much gtr, rediscovering piano (synth) since the holidays.

Each gtr should serve a different purpose, then it makes sense!

always good to have a classical guitar around.

No gtr music released at this point, hopefully this year - not on Erstwhile. There's a microtonal string qt and a sinetone piece on two OgreOgress CDs and a microtonal synthesizer piece on an AFMM album.

In new interviews, Conny Plank’s collaborators – including Brian Eno and Holger Czukay – remember the radical music producer.

ditto.

Oblique Strategies: Brian Eno’s Prompts for Overcoming Creative Block, Inspired by John Cage

I heard he's retiring, off to live on an inheritance.

It isn't church without a pipe organ.