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Legit. Jazz in Britain bandcamp you can audition the whole thing. https://jazzinbritain1.bandcamp.com/album/the-complete-spontaneous-event-live-1967-1969 "Coming Soon" to Dusty Groove for another physical CD (twofer) option...might be cheaper w. shipping.

OK, #3 is the tune Black Diamond written by Milton Sealey, which I know only in the RRK version from Rip, Rig and Panic. The BFT selection is of course another recording. Too early in the month to sleuth...I'll try to reason something out.

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The Teal (S. Africa) release which includes the Chris Schilder Quintet's Spring album

I use the free Adblock and (as mentioned above) saw zero popups.

Tonight, Indian music. Sahana Banerjee (sitar) / Aditya Phatak (tabla)

I think the Lyons might have been re-pressed in both reissue "batches". Cdjapan had a 1400 yen release in the first batch for quite a while. By the time I got around to ordering that was gone, but the album then reappeared as a 2000 yen release with the second batch and I included it in my order.

That image (from cover of album released in 1961) is of interest to geeks! It looks somewhat fractal, and the term "fractal" was not coined until 1975. 🤔

I'm also nearing satiation point, but one of these releases features Frank Wright. 🤔

[Can't edit post] I also suspect an internal ECM pecking order: some higher-profile or better-selling artists are allotted more cover/design resources than the rest.

I always fall back on "Follow the money", so I figure that the design budget went down. I just visited the ECM website and clicked through a number of new releases, Shop - ECM Records . Looks like roughly 75% of the catalog has bland cookie-cutter covers, but there are a few more attractive and eye-catching ones. For instance a Paul Bley release scheduled for July: By way of comparison, I sometimes buy contemporary classical CDs from Another Timbre in the UK, another timbre home page . Their covers have distinctive typeface and aesthetic, but are generally far more attractive than ECM's IMO. [There are exceptions, but the pale/greyish ones seem to be artistic choices that reflect the music in some way.]

Apologies for the belated notice. I just read about it tonight on discogs. Passed on November 16, 2024. I learned about Aketagawa on this forum and have accumulated more than a few recordings. I enjoy his music, and he seemed like a real character one would enjoy meeting.

I'm going to stop being particular about the CD-R trend. With the sharp decline in CD issuance, seems like one has no choice but to accept it. However, I won't pay premium (e.g. Japanese import CD) prices for CD-R.

More new arrival BYG free jazz blowouts:

The Lyons (repressing?) and a bunch of the "2nd batch" just arrived. Listening to Joachim Kühn's Sounds of Feelings, which is a very good album, I had to chuckle at the Morricone quote in the tune El Dorado. 😆

Long-awaited shipment of mostly BYGs came in.

Sorry for possible false alarm. A couple of the restocked titles have been on my want list, and Ogun's (via bandcamp) CD shipping rates are too high for me.

#3 is a tune I strongly associate with Rahsaan, though (a) it's surely not him on this selection; (b) I can't recall the name of the piece, or the recording I (possibly wrongly) have in mind. 🥴

DG is showing a significant batch of Ogun CD reissues expected May 1. They all seem to be available on bandcamp (download or CD), but CDs ship from UK (orders denominated in quid) with high rates to USA. DG seems like the way to go for Stateside CD buyers.

Based on a preliminary quick scan conducted at work, this BFT will be most enjoyable!

Thanks again! Lot to assimilate and further explore here. The 2 Japanese pieces #7 and #13 were nearly my favorites of the BFT (I'm not capable of full ranking), but Japanese IDs didn't occur to me despite familiarity with Itabashi, Nakamura, and of course Togashi. Obligatory forehead slaps upon reveal. Mara Rosenbloom a definite discovery! Also #8 incl. Franco d'Andrea (I'm a pianophile): I'd listened to a bit of his trio work recently in response to a Dusty Groove blurb (iirc). Will have to look for more Marzette Watts (#9). Indeed kicking myself re. #10...no wonder I liked the pianist! 😆Could/should have had more of a clue on the Lindberg, Wilen and Thelin, but I wasn't expecting to guess much of the BFT and had mentally turned off guess mode. Going to listen to the selections again. Will knowing the performers alter the listening assessment? Probably to some extent. 🤔

Couple of favorites.

Got to the final 3 tracks: 11: I like this quieter selection. Not sure it'd wind up in the purchase column, but I'd like to hear more from the group. Obviously vinyl sourced (some surface noise), but overall sound quality very good. 12: As one of the freer selections, this is the kind of thing I'd expect to like, but it didn't hit on all cylinders. Drummer definitely the high point. Sax-trombone dialogue occasionally got really repetitive and annoying, but then would rally and redeem itself with some nice passages, overall highly uneven. When the piano kicked in with a long passage near the end I thought "Damn, wish there'd been more piano", but then I didn't love the way he (she? though I doubt it) played. [That said, the pianist will likely turn out to be someone I'm a fan of! 😁] Would listen to some more, but not a hit of the BFT. 13: One of my favorites of the BFT! Can't hazard any guesses, though the saxist sounds vaguely familar. Not a big guitar listener, but liked the playing. Thanks for the effort, enjoyed the listening. Drumming the overall highlight for me. Slightly surprising that I overall liked the hard-boppish tunes a little more than the freer ones. OTOH I only made two passes through the BFT and would not write off the performers of any selections. Looking forward to reveals.