Guy Berger

They were indeed great. They played a Hemphill tune and Berne told a funny story - he’d seen Hemphill playing this tune with Lester Bowie and Don Moye in a venue with 3 people in the audience - Berne, Marty Ehrlich and one other person. This was the first time Berne and Ehrlich met.

Tim Berne, Greg Belisle-Chi, and Tom Rainey trio

Mine arrived. I’m a little confused about the numbering but I think so far we have 1, 2, 6, 8, and 11?

I first got into jazz and had the same experience. I mostly “knew of him” because my dad (who wasn’t a big jazz fan) liked him.

Good take.

Not interested in this book, but definitely interested in more Unicorse content

Imho the best seasons are: 4 (this is the Producers season) 6 (the Seinfeld reunion one) 7 (the one that partly takes place in NYC) i haven’t watched the newest season, and found the last few to be disappointing (though certainly they have their moments)

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.