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My copy of Nonaah arrived last week along with Air - Air Time, Roscoe Mitchell - Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes and LRG/The Maze/S II Examples. Very quick delivery, thanks Chuck. Been listening to these 4 CDs on and off all week. A lot to listen too. I think I'm liking Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin' Shoes the best so far. Maybe easier to get into then the others. All good stuff, happy me

hard to pick one but Hustlin' is my favorite

does anyone know if Grachan III Moncur's Evolution is coming out this Sep/Oct too? see links http://www.bluenote.com/ArtistDiscography....e=5099921536526 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Evolution-Grachan-...4609&sr=8-6

thanks Niko that worked for me

Happened to me yesterday (using firefox3 but not IE) seems back to normal today though strange

noticed that Tom Perchard is on Jazz Library on BBC radio 3 this Friday talking about Lee http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzlibrary/pip/32745/

thanks for your reply Paul. had a feeling there might be more then 5 albums that where in the NEED to buy category definitely want to get an album by Muhal Richard Abram and one of Henry Threadgill's. maybe i should get something by George Lewis as well

wonder how people rate Nuclear War. got this last week. very impressed. 7.oo AM at work, cup of coffee and title track through headphones puts me in a good place for the rest of the day. a song like Nuclear War and another like Smile on the same CD has to be (could only be?) a Sun Ra album. love June's voice on these tracks. a big thumbs up

just got the book from amazon today. quick look through and realised how little AACM stuff i've got. could i please have 5 recommend albums that i NEED to buy (not AEC or baxton as i have a few of them and fancy something new) too listen to whilst i make my way through this big book thanks

always wished Lee had play on Grachan Moncur III - New Africa from 1969. Lee and Roscoe Mitchell sounds good to me

reading the thread - AotW - Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' and thinking about the length of CD's compared to LPs. I'm glad to have the two extra tracks from that day's session but does the album lose or gain from the extra length? CDs can sometimes give a better/bigger picture, think Hank would have liked the CD of Friday/Saturday Night at the Blackhawk better. Also dont like alt takes in middle of Album. at the end please, think most CDs are like this now.

Hi Do people think that there is a skill/art in deciding the track order for albums? Can it make or break an album? turn a great album into a classic. Do the Musicians have much say in track order or is it mainly the record producers? or does it depend who the Musician is. Miles picked his track order? Somebody like Sonny Clark would have less say? I was thinking about this listening to Lee Morgan's Sidewinder. Sidewinder is first track. does this overshadow the rest of the album? Same with Moanin'. Would it help the other tracks and the album as a whole if title track was the 3rd or 4th in the track order, Like The Gigolo? More of a whole album instead of 2 parts, title track then rest of album that could be a bit forgotten? (most people probably don't see it this way) Any album you wished the order was different? Any albums that you think order is just perfect? Balance is right.

definitely agree with that. Ike sounds fantastic on this to me

I'm a big Hank fan but can think of plenty of other albums by him that I listen to more. don't know why. like workout much better how do people think Soul Station compares to other tenor led bluenote albums around that time. I'm thinking mainly of Dexter Gordon's Go and Ike Quebec's Blue and Sentimental ?

dont know if this has been discussed before but since i first heard Theme De Yoyo on Les Stances a Sophie from AEoC i could never figure out the lyrics. came across this interesting thread http://motorpsycho.fix.no/comeonin/forums/...92,6694,quote=1 i've always heard fork, anyone else? great album by the way

any more news about this book? it looks like it might be good. amazon uk have it down for the 29 DEC 2007 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Stronger-Its...2620&sr=8-1 Synopsis Founded in 1965 and still active today, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American institution with an international reputation. From its working-class roots on the South Side of Chicago, the AACM went on to forge an extensive legacy of cultural and social experimentation, crossing both musical and racial boundaries. The success of individual members and ensembles such as Muhal Richard Abrams, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Anthony Braxton has been matched by the enormous influence of the collective itself in inspiring a generation of musical experimentalists. George E. Lewis, who joined the collective as a teenager in 1971, establishes the full importance and vitality of the AACM with this communal history, written with a symphonic sweep that draws on a cross-generational chorus of voices and a rich collection of rare images. Faced with shrinking economic opportunities in Chicago and a segregated music industry, the original members of the AACM found inspiration in the civil rights movement's call for change through self-determination and collective action. These musicians pooled their individual strengths in a new organization powerfully committed to a forward-thinking approach to musical creation and performance. Evolving a range of experimental methods, from invented instruments and unusual musical scores to improvisation and the early use of computers, the AACM challenged the borders separating classical music and jazz. Moving from Chicago to New York to Paris, and from founding member Steve McCall's kitchen table to Carnegie Hall, "A Power Stronger Than Itself" uncovers a vibrant, multicultural universe and brings to light a major piece of the history of avant-garde music and art.

get a wii, watch the GDC 2007 Trailer (March 8, 2007). can not wait http://uk.media.wii.ign.com/media/748/748588/vids_1.html

any more news on these? can't see them on amazon and the like yet.

hi Edward. When you say Ullapool to Inverness, do you mean a straight line, or are you going via the top of Scotland (i.e. Durness & John o' Groats)? We did this a couple of years ago in our little Fiat and the roads are really not a problem. Inverness to Dunnottar Castle wouldn't take much longer than about 2 and a half hours. Dunnottar Castle is perhaps my favourite castle of all time. If you're planning your routes, a good site is www.theaa.com which will give you estimates for driving times. I'm not too sure about the distillery tours but I'll ask around for you. I've been on the tour at the Royal Lochnagar Distillery, next to Balmoral Castle which was quite good. At Assynt, north of Ullapool, you can get a boat trip up to Britains highest waterfall. I've never been, but would like to someday. http://www.assynt.info/page9.html Reg

would that be the same recording as the second half of We Remember You/Lee Morgan on Fresh Sound FSCD-1024?

hi could anyone tell me if either Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Japan 1961 or Live in Paris 1959 are available on dvd. did these only come out on laserdisc? is there any more footage of lee morgan on film apart from these and the jazz 625 from 1965 available? thanks reg

dont know if this has been posted before but there is a program on Sun Ra this friday on BBC 4 in the UK. link to BBC site

saw these two on Jazzmatazz. the east & west berlin dvd looks good. any info on them? Live at the Palominolos Angeles 1988 93 minute concert by the SUN RA ARKESTRA (featuring Sun Ra and Don Cherry) at the Palomino in North Hollywood, November 5 1988. Also includes an interview with SUN RA and DON CHERRY East & West Berlin Complete concert from West Berlin in 1983, featuring the SUN RA ALL STARS (Lester Bowie, Don Cherry, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Philly Jo Jones, and Sun Ra), plus two 1986 concerts in East Berlin and a fragment from a French TV broadcast of 1970. region 0, NTSC, 153 minutes total playing time.

anyone know anything about this release? Complete ESP-Disk Recordings - Albert Ayler Available: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 will all Ayler's ESP recordings fit on 4 discs? also $37.99 sounds quite cheap.