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  1. Julius Eastman, composer

    in Classical Discussion

    Posted · Edited by OliverM

    Thanks Flurin for the details on this Intakt release. Unjust Malaise collects a lot of his best works and has very good notes from Mary Jane Leach. I especially enjoy The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc on that one, but all tracks are quite something. That release got me seriously interested.

    If I remember correctly, this interview of him is also quite fascinating:

    https://spinningonair.org/episode-2-julius-eastman/

    There is a recording of one of his pieces Femenine on the Finnish label Frozen Reeds which is also very nicely done. And they also released this track: https://frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/album/joy-boy

  14. Michael Cosmic Reissue finally here

    in Re-issues

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    Received and enjoyed it very much while the site was down so only reporting now. Congratulations and thank you very much for allowing us to access to this music in such an informative way. Looking forward to plunging into this again, as it's very new to me, not much to compare to yet. Loving the instrumentation.

  15. Australian Jazz

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    Enjoy your concerts. Saw them 3 times in the last two years and they always performed magic. It's hard to say what's happening, and even which one of the three I prefer individually (though I am very fond of Chris Abrahams' playing), good thing we don't have to choose. I like them on record too, but don't have my own copies yet, might get the Necks box on Rer Megacorp.

  23. What live music are you going to see tonight?

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by OliverM

    15 hours ago, mjazzg said:

    That's almost too much of a good thing. Enjoy the music

    I just spotted Jacque Coursil is playing but only for 15 minutes. Is he very active these days? I would love to see him play

    I'm worried that some of these musicians would love to be more active, but as has sadly been demonstrated with Sunny Murray, they don't get offered that many dates in late. Coursil plays solo, like last year in a record shop. He would be comfortable of course with much longer playing time, but that's how today's format is. Alan Silva who was supposed to be playing today finally is not, last time he played in Paris as far as I know was two or three years ago. It's also rare to hear Bobby Few nowadays. Last time was him filling in for Arkestra pianist who couldn't come.

    As for André Jaume, I don't know. He was playing in some festivals a couple of years ago and seemed in great shape.

    Yes it will be great to see Steve Potts!

  25. Sunny Murray

    in Artists

    Posted · Edited by OliverM

    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.

     

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