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Indeed looks great! On my list...

I fail to see the contradiction. While Dylan has kept songwriting as a "minor genre" though having a heroic tradition, his songs can also be appreciated from a literary point of view even if this exceeds sometimes the intentions of the singer/composer. Literature resides maybe more in the act of writing than in the fixed forms one recognizes (poetry, the novel, plays, etc.), and silent reading is only the most recent form of appreciating litterature, it doesn't have to and wasn't always that way. Relations of words that stick with you and work on you, that is at the core. Anyway, I will be curious to hear his allocution.

Those Webern and Boulez pieces are new to me, fantastic!

Actually borrowed from my local public library (they have great stuff!), and has been playing all week-end. Will need to get it for myself eventually.

Xavier Charles and Jacques Di Donato, different generations and Di Donato played in classical formations for a long time (a historic recording of Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps directed by the composer for instance). They were recorded together for French radio last year and can be watched and listened here: http://www.francemusique.fr/emission/l-improviste/2015-2016/duo-jacques-di-donato-et-xavier-charles-enregistre-radio-france-11-07-2015-23-00 Sylvain Kassap Rudi Mahall Joachim Badenhorst

Thursday night: Larry Ochs and Gerald Cleaver for a parisian concert, before their trip to the south of France to record an album in a prehistoric cave! (on Rogue Art)

Just saw the program for this in the latest Wire, another musical holiday for you Flurin and it should be a great one! The Globe Unity Orchestra!!!

The Rite of Spring, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux in 1945. From the Pierre Monteux complete RCA box which I just bought from local store before it disappears. Greatly enjoying this conductor in what I have heard this week, namely Berlioz, Brahms, Franck and even in Verdi's La Traviata. Great sound also!

Mozart - The 6 "Haydn" Quartets - Juilliard String Quartet, 1962. Reissued by Diapason in a budget Mozart box.

You captured some good expressions there, I especially like the Roscoe Mitchell/John Edwards and Douglas Ewart pictures. Glad to discover your blog too, it will be a good way for me to try to recover some german. ----- Will try and catch (but starts early) tomorrow: Christian Wolfarth Solo // Christiane Bopp & Jean-Luc Petit Duo at Souffle Continu record shop.

I also have a special attraction to Ferrara! I was there before the 2012 earthquake and heard that it was strongly affected. A young population there with lots of students. I will pick up Bassani, thanks for pointing him out! I would be happy to help you, Romualdo, regarding Paris. You can check out the program of Jazz à la Villette which takes place right now to see if there is anything of your liking: http://jazzalavillette.com/programme That Orchestre National de Jazz 30th anniversary concert on the day you arrive looks very interesting to me, as does the "under the radar" concert on the 4th (Basque vocalist Benat Achiary in trio + Regis Huby quartet). I would have been there had I been in town this week. As for record shops, as Flurin said Gibert Joseph has cheap second hand CD, some of them press returns so really new. It also has an excellent japanese import section. For second hand vinyl, Paris Jazz Corner and La Dame Blanche are good places though not cheap (both in the Latin Quarter): La Dame Blanche, 47 rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève http://parisjazzcorner.com/ Souffle Continu for more experimental music (no second hand), which is close by to cemetary Père Lachaise (the latter is definitely worth a visit): 20-22 rue Gerbier 75011, http://www.soufflecontinu.com/index.php?f=accueil The Musée de la Musique is great if you want to see Adolphe Sax's innovations, octobasses and other rarities: http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/museum-exhibitions The newly built Philharmonie concert hall which is in the same parc should be seen for its architecture. This is what I can think of for now, I might add some more later. Have a good trip!

Great write-up Flurin, thanks for posting your impressions here first and so quickly! (it was also really nice for us to meet you, and we hope there will be other occasions). Opening the festival was a concert at 6 pm in the city's tourism office, the French based Japanese drummer Yuko Oshima had invited the aforementioned Frantz Loriot and cellist Anil Eraslan for an improvised set on what was apparently their first meeting. The set was very focused and intense, and Yuko Oshima seemed to be playing her life here, surprising a large part of the audience who were maybe expecting a more chamber like atmosphere. That first Chapel concert (Luft and Christer Bothén) was also a personal highlight of the festival for me. As Gustafsson mentioned after the concert, the acoustics were such in the 15th century building that the slightest small inflexion on the saxophone came out very distinctly. While he started powerfully on the baritone, he then switched to a small predecessor of the saxophone -- so I was told -- on which the notes are played by a vertical sliding pitch lever (I would do better in posting a picture here). The association with Keravec's playing on the bagpipes was excellent, the instrument was less loud than what it is generally reputed to be and the two combined greatly. Mats then introduced Christer Bothén to the public in a very respectful way, showing that he is not only a great musician but also a great organizer in this field of music. Bothén who had sojourned in North Africa in the early 1970s had then connected with Don Cherry in Scandinavia. He started playing on the Guembri and then stayed on the bass clarinet before calling on the two other on stage for some trio playing. Joe McPhee was sitting on the front row for this concert. About the Pat Thomas, WP and Hamid Drake trio, you are right Steve, it really showed on their expressions that they all had been looking forward to playing together. After playing their last note, they looked at eachother to confirm that the enthusiasm had been shared. I was very happy to see Pat Thomas in this configuration. Also, before the Sonic Communion concert started, there were very strong laughs to be heard behind the curtain, which I think were mostly Douglas Ewart's, what a great spirit in his playing and his communication with Joelle Léandre was a pleasure to watch. I was on the same train back to Paris as some of the musicians -- Léandre, Zerang, Ewart and Sophie Agnel, and had a chance to thank some of them one last time. Michael Zerang was transporting Joëlle's bass, that was my last sight of Météo. I also hope to come back!

Great idea to compose these mystery lots, and hearing there are scattered Derek Bailey CDs among them... europeans are jealous!

This is very sad, condolences to his family. There is an interesting interview of him here covering different moments of his life and carrier: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/dominic-duval-follow-your-melody-dominic-duval-by-maxim-micheliov.php?pg=1

Would really enjoy hearing this one:

Any opinions on this one? Haven't heard it, but there are some great Ellington/Strayhorn covers on other Sun Ra recordings.

Just saw this trio last tuesday at the Sunside in Paris towards the end of their tour in Europe! Intimate experience in the tight concert hall for very powerful music which has stuck with me during the last couple of days. Two full sets and all in top form. It was great to see Mat Maneri so enthusiastic during one of Craig Taborn's high speed solos. I wish concerts like this happened more often!

Next week will be seing Harry Partch's opera Delusion of the Fury arranged by Heiner Goebbels. Harry Partch's instruments were all recreated according to the instructions he had left, since the original ones are not functional anymore. The stage looks impressive:

I also feel very lucky to have seen Joe McPhee a few times in different settings in the last couple of years, and to be seing him again next August with The Thing. Last february with Chris Corsano at the Instants Chavirés was a summit for me, McPhee was in a very playful mood on arrival and they gave a great hommage to Ornette Coleman!

David S. Ware Quartet -- Live in Vilnius Just purchased this recently from No Business records, though it is one of their earlier releases. Truly one of the great quartets there were and this was their last release.

I thought this was a discussion of the Gershwin song "Let's call the whole thing off"

In that case, I also think you will find it a good read! The fun part is that it recalled many concert experiences and those will be different for each reader. I will not reveal more about it for now, except that I wish Evan Parker would write on this music more, his words that are cited in the book were the most profound to me. Maybe I should look into a biography also. Brötzmann's interviews with Gérard Rouy were great, but Evan Parker from what I have seen really seems to know how to coin the right words.

I read this book in one evening. The format is really nice, the quality of the display and cover also. I enjoyed some remarks on Cecil Taylor's "wave-like" music and a few anecdotes - but there are not many. But I kept wondering who is the targeted reader for this. Initially I had bought the book as a gift in order to "initiate" a relative but I don't see how you can enjoy reading it without having experienced some of it yourself and knowing Brötzmann, Vandermark, Joe McPhee and a few others as the author talks about them. On the other hand, for those who are already gripped by the music, there might not be much new here. I was also interpelled by the listening while you fall asleep title, only to find that the thought wasn't pushed that far, not much further than what I had already experienced on my own (also starting as a teen, listening to Coltrane). The chapters are all very short and the argument cannot be pushed very far. Also, among the recommendation lists there are many out of print books and records which doesn't make it a "beginner's guide" for me. I really shoudn't be bringing the only relatively negative opinion here, since I support the initial idea and the personal project of writing such a book. Maybe it's my french contradiction side...