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Has anyone ever watched the BeBop TV channel that is at the centre of this thing?

This one's very good.

Allen Lowe – America: The Rough Cut

Zbigniew Namysłowski Air Condition – Follow Your Kite

https://petapixel.com/2023/06/21/four-months-of-chaos-the-bewildering-story-of-bebop-and-madavor-media/ Interesting. Not a particularly neutral article. It is hard to tell what precisely is going on in the lawsuit (a transfer of assets pre completion and even pre due diligence is not that normal, but perhaps the allegation is that bad faith due diligence requests were being used as a way to obtain confidential information. If so, that doesn’t really come out) and I think the idea that BeBop is suing on this failed sale as a money making scheme due to pending debts on the acquisition is a little far-fetched. My key takeaway is the debt heavy structure of the original acquisition of jazz times along with the rest of the portfolio, combined with wider closures and run downs of all titles. Either way, the whole thing feels pretty grim, both the structure of the purchase, the consequences, and BeBop’s attempt to frame its actions.

One of my local record shops has clearly bought a job lot of Braxton. Not sure who it is who has died or moved house, but there's a ton of the stuff and almost none of it that I recognise. He just put out endless records, even in the comparatively undocumented early 80s (when most of these seem to date from).

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That's really interesting. Not something I'd have ever found on my own. At times it sounds like a Bonzo Dog spoof. Which of the Feetwarmers' and the Two Beat Stompers' records should one seek out? I think Roswell Rudd may have also got his start in Dixieland. Another one I'd be interested to hear. I may imagine it, but I do hear Dixieland elements, especially timing, in both Rudd's and Lacy's later work. I think Roswell Rudd may have also got his start in Dixieland. Another one I'd be interested to hear. I may imagine it, but I do hear Dixieland elements, especially timing, in both Rudd's and Lacy's later work. I had a root around for the Bennink and A Mangelsdorff early recordings in the idiom, but struggled to find. Which are the ones you are referring to?

Paul McCartney – Kisses On The Bottom First listen, and only out of idle interest. I assumed that this would be a particularly horrible record, in the vein of Rod Stewart's songbook records, but I am pleasantly surprised at how personal it is.

Who is it on the cover? Back when I first started, I assumed it was Randy Weston, a name I didn't really know. Obviously it is.

Currently listening for the first time to George Haslam – Argentine Adventures Part 3: Travels With My Tarogato, which I only know about from a tip off from @Д.Д.. This is the kind of playing and record I really love. I'm surprised that this is the first I have heard of Haslam, other than his playing on Lol Coxhill's Holywell concert, which I found fairly underwhelming. Any other recommendations for him or groups he played with (including any other records in this series that are as good) would be appreciated.

And here's another one: Slawterhaus – Monumental

What is this one? Would you recommend it?

Many of the obits for Peter Brotzmann mentioned his start in Dixieland. I don't think that's particularly uncommon for the stars of the European scenes who emerged in the 1960s. Do any recordings exist of him or others playing trad styles? Hoping for records with Derek Bailey playing banjo on My Old Man's A Dustman or of Manfred Schoof tootling on When The Saints Come Marching In.

Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet + 1 – 3 Nights In Oslo This kept me going through a roasting hot, air conditioning free, office bound Saturday. Starship Beer – Nut Music As Free As The Squirrels (1980)

Last night I put that in my headphones and sat outside my local pub on the curb with Guinness listening to Vagus.

Impressed to find out that Bill Clinton was a fan.

At least everyone else gets to understand your pain.

Sad news, although not unanticipated given the recent post. Lots of great memories of seeing him live, including earlier this year at OTO. One of the biggest remaining names in the music, and, along with Pharaoh Sanders, one of the few to really achieve wider renown. RIP.

Currently spinning Black Woman and It's Not Up To Us, bought today. I'm so struck by the fact that these are not only reissued in high quality editions, but are available in all good record shops. If you'd told me that twenty years ago I would not have believed it.

Great name. Is this good? Name scared me off.

Fire! Orchestra – Echoes First listen to this. An improvement over some of the more recent Fire! records. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Black Earth Another first listen, more 'nu jazz' / dark ambient music. I was surprised to find that I actually liked this one, because everything else in this very internet age genre has been pretty terrible. Essentially jazz instrumentation used to make sombre soundscapes.

Sigi Busch, Wolfgang Dauner, Ed Kröger, Charlie Mariano, Kasper Winding – Age Of Miracles (MPS)

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