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Lee Konitz & Miles Davis / Teddy Charles & Jimmy Rainey - Ezz-Thetic (New Jazz) I am still not convinced that I understand why these sides are together on a single LP, but the first four tracks (the Konitz / Bauer ones with Davis as part of the arrangements) are so incredibly beautiful.

Ha ha. It is an impenetrable place. I have been advised that an AT LP120 with an upgraded stylus and a bit of soldering to bypass the inbuilt pre-amp (I have a fancy Rega) should provide a cut price alternative to a proper Technics. AT stuff comes up in a "second hand shop" (let's call it) near me quite often, and I was sizing that up as a cut price option. Am I being silly? The Rega 3 or the ProJect that MJazzG mentioned were my more expensive fall back options. Whatever it is needs to be robust enough to handle marauding toddlers.

Another interview, in The Quietus: https://thequietus.com/articles/30084-anthony-braxton-interview Less clickbaitey than the Grammys one, and worth reading.

Oliver Lake - Holding Together (Black Saint, 1976) Michael Gregory Jackson is very good indeed on this one.

Tarnation!

(Spins round the <- West End / East End -> sign, to send you to Wapping)

Thanks! The P3 is one of the ones I am sizing up. I didn't know the Linn LP12 but will check it out.

Still thinking it through. The fact is my old one was a fairly cheap starter ProJect and, sentimentality aside, it is time to level up. Probably going to go for a direct drive option. Any recommendations welcome, as I am no tech expert. Still thinking it through. The fact is my old one was a fairly cheap starter ProJect and, sentimentality aside, it is time to level up. Probably going to go for a direct drive option. Any recommendations welcome, as I am no tech expert. perhaps it is time to start getting acquainted with the Steve Hoffman crowd…

Good to know. It has been making eyes at me from a shop I visit in the West End of London for a few weeks now. I may just need to pay a visit. (Twirls moustache)

I've been enjoying Alves' work since @HutchFan mentioned them in a post a few weeks back. Currently on: Dewey Redman - The Struggle Continues (ECM, 1982) With thanks to @Д.Д. for recommending this excellent one. Very different to Redman's free-er '70s work.

Currently spinning nothing. My turntable has just given up the ghost. Oh well. All flesh is grass. Time for the wake.

Only just discovering Brignola after clocking a couple of recentish posts on the Listening To thread. What a player.

Urg. I picked the term as a less controversial alternative to "straight ahead", which always seems to get people talking about drum styles. I just meant that it is post bop / hard bop. It isn't noise rock or avant garde jazz or other music I more commonly associate with the very talented Mr. C. I should have just said post bop really. I mean, it is on High Note... Anyway, currently having fun with this one: David Murray and Milford Graves - Real Deal (DIW, 1994).

The Talented Mr Pelt by Jeremy Pelt (High Note, 2011) Gerald Cleaver is really very good on this mainstream date.

An interesting old thread. Upthread, there are a number of non-legit or informal tapes mentioned in hushed semi-religious terms (or sometimes less hushed CAPS LOCK…). Did any of them get a legitimate release in the intervening 16 years?

Well, Orpington.

Elmo Hope - Trio and Quintet (Blue Note, 1989, rec 1957) I had a pretty religious experience with this one today whilst driving to Sussex.

Welcome to the board, and nice question. As a non-musician, I’m always interested in what makes any one song more appropriate for a jazz treatment than another. The only others I would add would be Radiohead and Nirvana, who seem to get a lot of non-vocal visits from the Iverson / Mehldau / Iyer crowd.

Mariano Schiano - On The Waiting List (King Universal, 1974) Highly recommended for anyone who wants something a bit unusual. Just finished: Houzan Yamamoto - Silver World (Phillips, 1974) A jazz flute classic.

Joey Baron - Down Home (Intuition, 1997)

Ha ha. I see. A tasty word salad.

Yes, but no-one is seriously questioning whether he might be right. At least, I hope not.

What do you mean? Is Judith Butler notoriously wordy? I have never read Butler's work. Braxton is not so much wordy as idiosyncratic, I think.

This is an interesting take. I have often wondered with Braxton, for example, whether his curious terminology is a result of his having had to put everything together for himself. Some of the "scholarship" that Braxton refers to and leans upon is definitely on the outlying edges, albeit with Braxton it feeds back to an intriguing and unique humanist viewpoint, rather than something unpleasant. But Evan Parker is hardly an autodidact. I thought he studied biology at Birmingham Uni. Also, after the reference to Ezra Pound it took me a minute to puzzle out which "EP" you meant.

Grand Old Fish of his tiny pond he might be, but I can't believe there is anyone who is having their heads turned by what he is saying, particularly given that he is not even saying it directly. The Wire's article criticising him is doing more to publish those views than Parker himself is.