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Apparently Good-bye Moscow (1968). Seems rather obscure. https://trakt.tv/movies/good-bye-moscow-1968 I'd never heard of it until a Youtube algorithm suggested the above clip, and even then had to search. There's a soundtrack album: https://www.discogs.com/release/3394257-Various-さらばモスクワ愚連隊-Good-bye-Moscow-Original-Soundtrack

New revised edition of Steven Isoardi's The Dark Tree is out. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-dark-tree I have the original edition, not sure whether to go for this revision.

Is Masahiko Togashi (pre-accident) the drummer in this film clip from 1968 release? See 1:37f, 3:32ff. I think so but am not sure.

Mick Touraitta - You don't buy beer, you only rent it

For US residents: The 3-cd Splinters Inclusivity surfaced at Dusty Groove for $22.99, so I finally purchased it! I also ordered this new Stan Sulzmann release after listening to (and enjoying) it on the JIB site:

The latter the Cool Jojo +4 edition with bonus tracks.

Good question. I have many recordings with Sulzmann, but none with him as leader. Noticed this at Jazz in Britain but didn't purchase. Will listen online today(? or at least soon).

Sadao Watanabe and Charlie Mariano, We Got a New Bag

He plays very well on this!

Scott (Michael) offered on this forum (iirc it sold?) a big "Complete Works" box, but I didn't have the guts to buy it. I considered purchasing all of his recordings on which Lester Bowie appeared, which isn't very many, but that's one more thing I haven't gotten around to. 😢

Funny, but it doesn't make for the best acronym (ROTS?) except perhaps in an ironic sense. 😄

Ted Daniel Sextet (Ujamaa)

I thought about Wolfgang Dauner...there's an album by Dauner and Masahiko Satoh that features piano, electric piano and electric harpsichord. https://www.discogs.com/master/738733-Masahiko-Sato-And-Wolfgang-Dauner-Pianology There's a Youtube video link on the discogs page. What I listened to was pretty cool, but I have got the impression it's mostly if not all (piano + electric instrument) rather than (electric piano + electric harpsichord). Satoh's another possibility, but I can't think of anything offhand... Side B of this might work, but good luck finding it.

Since the "shred" version of this (which might actually be preferable) was recently posted on the forum, I have to be a smartass and throw in: 🤮

For a moment I hallucinated Keiko Matsui and did a double take.😄 Ambivalent about the ezz-thetics reissues (especially incomplete ones), but they're easier to obtain than the original recordings

Thanks. I already placed a cdjapan order and decided to roll the dice anyway. "OK" isn't so bad...if the recording turns out to be a lemon I might offer it on discogs.

Oh yeah, it's an excellent series. I'd be happy to own any volume. But having missed out on the original releases, only the (extremely good) Volume 1 is easy to acquire on CD (it periodically shows up in DG's sale bin for some reason). Download seems to be the way to go for the others.

Thanks, I'll probably get this one, but in CD format. Experience says to "carpe diem", as these don't stay in print long. Strangely, I own only the first disc in the series. Though tunes from various recordings I own have been included in later installments. The "private" aspect of this one means that everything will be new.

Thanks. The track on bandcamp is cool indeed. I kinda shy away from having recordings like this around the house, as they encourage (further) doubts about my sanity. 🤣 I've been listening to some early Takayanagi as mostly a straight-ahead player, even Tristanoite. He sure evolved over the years.