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Thanks. I posted this recently on an existing Grex thread, but it sank without a trace. 😅

Off-topic for this thread - sorry, didn't know where to post - but I just saw this upcoming date: GREX (Margaret Rei Scampavia/Karl A.D. Evangelista Duo); Allen Lowe/Lewis Porter Duo Tubby's, Kingston, NY, August 2 Surprised nobody posted it anywhere.

Because it's such a low-priced item, they (DG) are crediting my account rather than sending a replacement. So I plan to throw a copy (if still in stock) in my next order. The scratch is at the end of the last track, so I can listen to around 95% of the disc straight through. In the meantime, I ordered this from elsewhere

Excellent. I knew little about Melling, but have been enjoying the Skidmore box and impressed by his playing!

Got the disc. Sounded very good on a first listening. Unfortunately, the CD arrived scratched and has to go back.😢 Hope to say more if / once a replacement copy is received.

This (Kikuchi / Togashi / Peacock) is really good.

Kikuchi / Togashi / Peacock, Poesy

His early instrumental In Salah became a standard of sorts and was a favorite of George Wallington.

[Italics added] I hope so. But if you pass by a month from now and find the free library box is gone...🙄

I was really impressed by the outstanding Invisible Man, read some other fiction that didn't measure up, and Ellison dropped off my radar screen. He certainly deserves fame based on that one work. In Florida?...I hope the young woman doesn't get arrested. I'd also consider the possibility that she took the book in order to burn it, or to report its presence to local "authorities". 🤔

Interesting question, hard to say. I took a look at the Luaka Bop page, and they claim to have been working personally with Sanders on this release (when he passed). So as far as India Navigation goes, I'm inclined to think it's a one-off. But that's mere speculation. https://www.luakabop.com/products/pharoah-sanders-pharoah-deluxe-2-lp-box-set-harvest-time-live-1977

Got this solo piano recording recently, with very high expectations. First listen didn't impress, so I set it aside for a couple of weeks. Listening again and enjoying it much more.

Not a news story, but I think it's funny.

I've never had any interest in the Hoffman board - no disrespect intended, I already waste enough time on Internet forums and am not looking to increase - but a recommendation including "by far the sanest place over there" doesn't exactly come across as glowing. 🤣

Sure, if I can remember...😄 Not sure I recall that thread, but the disc was also recommended in a thread on the Vampi Soul label. I recently picked up another Vampi Soul disc from DG for $5.99 https://www.discogs.com/master/430576-Ruben-Lopez-Furst-Jazz-Argentino-En-La-Universidad and liked it so much that I resolved to buy Fetén in the next order, same vendor / price.

Poesy, Kikuchi / Peacock / Togashi Song of Soil - Session in Paris vol. 1, Cherry / Haden / Togashi plus

Dusty Groove is showing a CD box set "with bonus tracks", ETA 9/15. I thought the original release was pretty light on playing time, so the bonus tracks must be significant? After reading the link posted by the OP, looks like one short (40 min) CD of the original album plus one CD (unknown duration) of the 2 live "Harvest Time" bonus tracks (the studio track was about 21 min). Definitely some semantic games being played. 🧐 In the label's defense, their only title I own is the outstanding Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane.

Very much agreed. I used to read a lot of critics for jazz and "new music" / "modern classical", and those ideals were seldom achieved. Nowadays I rely more on discussion forums like this, and on certain blogs I've come to trust. I listen to relatively little rock / pop / whatever, and most of those critics tend to bewilder me. They often seem self-parodic, and I'm left with a nagging feeling of having fallen for a hoax. Here's an example from Perfect Sound Forever (which sometimes does have reasonable content, however): https://www.furious.com/perfect/supremedicks.html And (of course), congratulations to Allen on the unexpected review. Surely a bonus.

Yes, on a second listen Breath is very good indeed. Agreed on dream team, Togashi actually gets more space in the trio w/o bass player.

Obscure Horace Silver tune from an old Lou Donaldson album. Always enjoyed it, spun it this week for the first time in a long while.

This one is really good. It's more post-bop style, not really free. But the playing is outstanding. I need more time to evaluate this one. It's a bassless trio, as opposed to Silver World (or Ginkai), the quartet with Gary Peacock, which I very much enjoy. I will need some more listens to get used to the absence of bass. In the meantime, I can recommend this one from the batch. First I've heard of Kako. Takagi's playing is freer and noisier than his previous recordings I'd heard (the 4-CD solo Nadja box). The whole of Breath is on Youtube. I could only find Youtube clips of one tune from each of the other 2 albums, so rolled the dice on those. The Takagi/Kako disc IMO is better than the one tune on Youtube indicates (I prefer the other tracks).

The only Ike Quebec Mosaic released was the 45 sessions. They could do the LP albums. Not completely absurd in light of the Henderson and Clark precedents. But I don't know if it'd sell. I already own all the individual CDs, as probably do many IQ fans.