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Re Herman Mosaics, I’d straight up trade my Condon/Freeman set for that Herman Mars box.

After looking at pics of Swallow online trying to figure this out I think most likely it’s a funky looking electric bass. I don’t know enough about these instruments though so it could be some sort of hybrid, etc. not to mention the effects ECM’s studio could have worked in for that sound here. I was actually going to try and email Swallow to ask him but the only means of communication I could find was a message thru IG and he hasn’t been active there in a few years. No telling if he’d receive it much less answer though. Yeah, that’s it! I love the whole album but knew this track would throw some folks off. It’s the one track that didn’t carry any arrangement or composition credit other than it’s an old Norwegian folk tune - which I thought was cool in and of itself.

Nice! Vesala is a beast, and I’m pretty sure I discovered him thru a BFT in the last year or so. This album is killer

@mjazzg with that hint from Randy above I bet you can get the album, especially if you approach from the collaborative angle. Also, I really think you can get track 7 too. And damn if George Winston has a duet record with Meryl Streep. Granted she’s reading, but still. The liners note Swallow is playing a bass guitar, which I took to mean an acoustic 4 string guitar rather than stand up contrabass. I’m no expert so please correct me if I’m wrong there.

This is a collaborative effort I’d say…and actually, no violin present. Lol, I take it you’re not in the ECM fan club

The man has good ears. Color me impressed to.

Yeah, the Mosaic Condon/Freeman Decca/Commodore set. The Freeman material - and really just the trio stuff - is all I really enjoy there.

I need to check those out. All of the Towner albums I have are older. For the most part, yeah. Once settled in though, I find those albums riveting. His sideman work on that Katche album doesn’t necessarily fit that mold however.

LaFaro and…gulp, Williams Robert Johnson or Son House?

Manu Katche’s Neighborhood is another good one. From ‘04 with Stanko. Charles Lloyd’s Mirror is damn fine too. A 2009 recording with Jason Moran

It’s never been a focus of mine unfortunately. Thankfully there’s resources out there to remedy that.

Oh yeah, archive.org is one of the best things ever online.

Reading this Robert Johnson bio has me digging into all of this music anew. Big hole in my listening world for sure.

It’s Yazoo right?

Here’s at least one of the documentaries on Bussard mentioned in that article: and about 1.5 hours of some of his records:

Always enjoy reading about Bussard and/or listening to those tunes…and watching him along with it. The enthusiasm gets me every time.

Sucks I can’t copy/paste these album cover links via my phone so fuck it, just typing it out: NP Jorge Rossy’s ‘21 ECM album Puerta with Robert Landfermann and Jeff Ballard. Just bass, drums, vibes/marimba and some other percussion. Enjoying that interplay this AM.

Looking forward to listening to the BN trio records although my favorite Lloyd albums are from his ECM catalog.

Finally tried with this one and I couldn’t connect very well. A couple of songs were good but the “Americana” vibe is not my thing.

Damn good album. Enjoyed it from start to finish.

This is a good record

Up Jumped the Devil about Robert Johnson. If you like music, you should read this book.

If Face of the Bass was still around here, they’d probably keep this going beyond 2020…at least it would seem so. A good album from the last 2 years would include Jakob Bro’s Uma Elmo

Anyone notice any changes?

Right?! It’s a real outlier.