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Just now discovering the programme...

An interesting interview from 2000 here: http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/murray.html Also watched the Sunny's Time Now documentary last night and found interesting how such different musicians as François Tusques and Robert Wyatt had very similar understandings of the nature of Sunny Murray's drum playing: essentially the circular, space-occupying aspect of the sound and the physical dimension of it.

Also just now: https://www.spin.com/2017/12/sunny-murray-dead-at-82/ RIP

RIP

Clint Houston - Watership Down (Trio records) Joanne Brackeen, John Abercrombie, Al Foster, "Onaje" Allan Gumbs

Looking forward to this Sunday. The memory of Gérard Terrones will be celebrated simultaneously in both rooms of the Sunset/ Sunside from 5 pm onwards, with announced participation of: David Murray, Michel Portal, Kirk Lightsey, Claude Bathélémy, Sylvia Howard, Simon Goubert, Laurent de Wilde, Gérard Marais, Bobby Few, Sophia Domancich, Hasse Poulsen, Jean-Louis Chautemps, Alain Jean-Marie, Julie Saury, François Jeanneau, Michel Edelin, Steve Potts, Sylvain Kassap, Richard Bonnet, John Betsch, Joelle Léandre, Raphael Lemonnier, Irakli, Rasul Siddik, Noel McGhie, Dany Doriz, Benjamin Duboc, Christian Lété, Ricky Ford, Manu pekar, Daniel Beaussier, Xavier Bornens, Awa Timbo, Jobic Le Masson, Dominique Lemerle, Pascal Bréchet, Jef Sicard, Jac Berrocal, Arnaud Sacasse, Françoise Franca Cuomo, Caroline Faber, Claudine François, François Tusques, Paul Wacrenier, Alan Silva, Hubert Dupont, Aldridge Hansberry, Makoto Sato, Peeter Uuskyla, Alex Grillo, Alain Pinsolle... Artistic direction : François Lemonnier

I guess one can ask not to receive any CDRs, the label is still personally handled by Leo Feigin. I've never had one in the dozens ordered from them including the Braxton mentioned. Outside from lots of good Braxton, the Sun Ra in La Fenice is really nice for a rare solo piano disc, the Ganelin trio as mentioned (from the great Ancora da capo to their recent co-production with a bookstore in Shenzhen, China, which is also a nicely produced record), the Evan Parker 50th birthday concert is a high energy date and great record, some early Mat Maneri, Joelle Léandre (the recent 14 rue Paul Fort is very nicely recorded), Nabatov's A few incidences, Gebbhard Ullmann... There are many good ones to pick. I will certainly get some of the Shipp/ Perelman batch among a few others.

Pauline Oliveros - To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (Roaratorio)

Brötzmann, Parker, Drake -- Song Sentimentale

Thank you! Very much looking forward to getting a copy!

By any chance, will this be distributed in Europe?

It seems very dependent on the country one is in. Here in France, the number of added records seems very limited. Not much of a streaming person, but there are a few early albums which I would like to hear.

Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961 CD1 Intemporal music that always reveals more. Never know what to play after this. Best silence.

Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961 CD2 Thesis

Tomasz Stanko - Leosia

Thanks for the notice, will be looking out for info on the Paris date.

Thanks! It was really as you said. Very strong music that stays with you. Total engagement. A friend showed me Ken Vandermark's comments on Instagram which are great to see what is perceived from the musician's point of view: "There are highlights on a tour, and there are highlights. On a cold Monday in November, DKV played their third quartet gig with Joe McPhee, at Les Instants Chavirés in Paris. During soundcheck Joe started running, "Knox," which I recognized from his solo album "Tenor," one of my favorite albums of all time and the LP that transformed my life and led me to the music that I'm playing today. I suggested that we perform this incredible piece of blues during the concert and Joe merely said, "If it comes up." To say that I hoped it would was an understatement. What happened was even better than that- not only did we explore "Knox" on the bandstand with Kent Kessler and Hamid Drake, Joe introduced his classic composition, "Nation Time," in the first set. With it, the four of us set fire to the room. The third concert by this set of musicians brought things to ensemble territory- this was no longer Joe McPhee joining an established band as a guest, this was now a real band finding their way each night and introducing new materials to each other every set. I can't put into words the intensity I felt playing Joe's pieces with him onstage, music that I studied while in college during the mid 1980s, and that I arranged for him and eight other Chicagoans on one of my last albums for Okka Disk, "Impressions of Po Music." November 13, 2017 goes down in the books for me. Tonight DKV/McPhee performs at the Blue Tomato in Vienna, one of our favorite clubs in the world and already sold out- it will be a celebration with friends in spite of the strange and difficult times surrounding us. As Joe said in 1970, and which has more meaning now than ever before, "What Time Is It?!"

Tonight: DKV & Joe McPhee at Instants Chavirés

Waiting for an European retailer to have them. Exciting news about both.

Also looking forward to this. Sound excerpt is really nice! http://www.darktree-records.com/en/dt08-vinny-golia-wind-quartet

Another great one leaves this world.

Louis Sclavis - Clarinettes

Bon anniversaire!

Michel Portal - Splendid Yzlment

Jacques Thollot - In Extenso - Nato, 2017