Guy Berger

Started wending my way through the CamJazz BS/SN box. Capricon Rising is growing on me!

Contrary to the original post I think the best stuff on these sessions are the lengthy opening tracks. (Obviously just my own preference not a blanket statement!)

Damn. I’m in

I’m guessing that they didn’t actually ship on January 31st

Has anyone gotten this yet?

Paul Motian’s Garden of Eden has 3 guitarists

The playlists I assumed were human-created (though maybe not anymore). but the “random play” thing you describe would not be human-created, it’d be algorithmic

what a monster!!!

Would love recommendations for recordings from this venerable label. I have 2 of the live Soft Machines, albums by a few prog rock bands (Boud Deun, Thinking Plague, Djam Karet, Univers Zero, Heldon - a relic of listening to a lot of prog rock 25 years ago…), and just ordered the 3 Brotherhood of Breath live albums. I’m more interesting in the jazz side of things than RIO-type stuff.

Finally picked this up. It’s really, really good. Are their other recordings as impressive as this one?

IMHO the jazz-influenced instrumental portions of the 2nd album are "like" a lot of what shows up on the 3rd and 4th album, and unlike anything on the 1st album. I'm planning to! I just have a giant listen-to pile.

I need to pick up more of their stuff. I have the first 5 albums plus 2 of the Cuneiform reissues (Noisette, Virtually).

This is great news. THANK YOU!

Any news here?

That’s a great mosaic select!

Watkins is good! On lots of great hard bop sessions.

Fwiw, I figure it will go out eventually but also assume the completion of the series will take much longer than initially planned. (And also a non-zero chance that it is never completed.)

Haven’t listened to it yet but this quartet’s first album was terrific. In general albums under Formanek’s name tend to be great.

Maybe a mistake but the adjective I mentally attach to post-1970 Ron Carter is “boring”

Yeah. There are a few recordings of the band from 1971 - Berlin, Ossiach, and Vienna. The band’s sound was already quite different by the time Live in Tokyo was recorded in early 1972.

Just listened to this for the first time. It’s really, really good.

I really haven’t been into many of their recent releases

Seems like just two tracks?

The Steve Coleman solo album, Invisible Paths, is excellent, one of my favorites of his. Also, the album It’s In the Twilight by Paul Shapiro is patchy but the opening track (“Light Rolls Away the Darkness”) is a classic.

This is an enjoyable one. I picked it up because of Getz!