Guy Berger

Henry Threadgill, The Other One (Pi)

Adobe and Apparitions are both excellent.

Just listened to Nine to Get Ready for the first time. ECMish, but not in a bad way. I like it!!!

I guess I'm on the opposite side. Not a completist, but his presence on a recording (especially a more recent one) makes me more likely to check it out. I like his sound and his playing, and am glad he's still making music.

I was listening to PLUMB, Murray’s new collab w/Questlove and Ray Angry - it’s excellent.

lol

Ah. I'm not a fan. His MD bio is not without value, but the value is low overall and at times negative

Milestones (quintet + Adderley) has alternate takes. There are also the reels from the Round About Midnight sessions.

Here? He’s a forums member?

Finally started exploring Mal’s Enja albums. Hard Talk - damn, that’s an intense performance.

Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa, Dual Identity 4/5 - good one. Liberty Ellman on guitar! Recommended for anyone who likes these folks’ work on Pi. Igor Lumpert, Eleven - 4/5 very enjoyable, with Greg Ward and Chris Tordini. I’d never heard of Lumpert before but it’s a fine album.

Dang. That’s amazing and exciting

I finally got around to listen to a few of his albums on Clean Feed. Excellent.

Cool. Aside from Solomon's Daughter and Spirits of Our Ancestors (as well as some live performances I attended), I'm embarrassingly blank on post-1973 Pharoah.

Is this a good album?

WHAT?!?!?! 50 hours of remedial listening to Blues & Roots, post-haste [your Antibes comment suggests you are talking about the Atlantic years more broadly, not just the 1970s Atlantics]

Listening to the first disc right now. Really good music, in the same tier and stylistic universe as live releases by John Handy and Charles Lloyd from the same period.

Have they shipped anything from the subscription series yet?

No disagreement with the assessments here. A useful calibration is to take your personal rating of The Giant Is Awakened, dock it 0.5-1.0 stars, and you’ll have a good idea of how much you’ll enjoy this reissue. Imho TGIA is a 5 star album, one of my favorites by Tapscott, and so I’m really loving this one too.

Enjoying this. I don’t think this is the BEST Tapscott I’ve heard but it’s very good. (Also I have a blind spot in that I am not a huge fan of Dwight Trible’s contributions here… I know that is a minority opinion.) ”Ballad of Deadwood Dick” is terrific, and “Breakfast at Bongo’s” is a Horace Silver type composition in a hard bop style that I don’t typically associate with Tapscott. Among the 3 Dark Tree HT releases, I’d rank this below the Covina Sessions but above Why Won’t You Listen.

Last night I saw Steve Lehman, Damion Reid and Matt Brewer at SFJazz. A mix of Lehman’s originals and some Anthony Braxton compositions. It was great. Brewer and Reid are an amazing combo. Apparently this trio plus Mark Turner will be recording a tribute to Braxton. (On Pi, I assume…)

Yea it’s a classic

I caught a reconstituted lineup of Miles from India at SFJazz over the weekend. I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially the first set - they just sounded great playing the late 1960s Miles stuff. The Indian music was not super well integrated but it didn’t really matter. The band did have a weird vibe though - the soloists didn’t really seem to be enjoying the music, and the saxophonist (Javon Jackson) left partway through the second set to catch a flight.

Love it! What a story

Mine arrived!