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Tropical Hot Dog Night, baby!!!!!

Yeah, I should have dragged the guy to my car, lock him in and expose him to the music I have there (Brötzmann's "Nipples" - that's what I have in my car stereo right now) at full volume - with glasses vibrating and all.

Amazing thing just happened. A guy rang on my door, showed some ID and asked whether I have a radio or a TV. I said no (true). Then the guy asked whether I have a car - I said yes (also true). The guy (visually relieved) said - "aha, you gotta have a radio in the car!" - I said that I certainly do (I am in a very honest mood today). Elated, the guy told me that I gotta pay Sfr. 14 (price of CD, btw) per month[ of some radio tax and virtuosically fast filled in some 2-page form and left it with me. Was slightly disappoited I don't have a TV, though (I offerd a fridge, but he was not convinced). Amazing country. Amazing poeple also - the guy must have been dreaming all his childhood to become a radio tax colllector. Now, I agree with ubu - why the fuck did I decide to clean this morning!? Didn't help my apartment much, but kept me in apartment long enough to get cought by this wonderful man. I am outta here! Oh yeah, the guy left me a 50-page brochure... explianing societal rationale for the tax, I assume - will have an exciting reading tomorrow.

This will undoubtedly invite participation of more board members.

Enjoy your cleaning, Tony. I am not sure about the quality of your effort with an audio background like this, though. I am not done cleaning, but fuck it. Going for somehting equally "fun" - grocery shopping! If my mp3 player was charged, while shopping I would have been listening to:

looks frightening! I actually thought a bit and decided to go for this one. Looks much more calming, doesn't it? Good music.

I agree! The only thing, sound quality varies significantly betwen tracks and it's a bit unnoying.

Oh yes, this is a good stuff. Most definitely. Excellent sound, also. Listened this one again, and can only highly recommend it. That's the way a modenrn piano mainstream trio is supposed to sound. Johnson and Erskine are excellent (to my surprise - I had somehow disregarded them as some bland mainstream craftsmen), and Solal is simply amazing - witty, energetic, virtuosic, full of elegant and unorthodox ideas. Perfectly recorded Steinway piano, btw. This CD is OOP, so don't put off buying it for too long. I got my copy through market seller at amazon.fr for quite reasonable price. But enough of pretty music - I am off to my "favorite" Saturday activities - apartment cleaing and laundry - and there is only one band that can adequatly inspire me for this:

Just got this new Atlantic Jazz Masters reissue of Max Roach "Drums Unlimited" - only on the second track, so cannot comment on music (...actually I can - I it GOOD), but can comment on sound quality - impecable. Also got "Ornette!" and "The Avant-Garde" in the same series. All dirt-cheap from amazon.fr Hope they reissue more of those.

Pretty funny.

Oh yes, this is a good stuff. Most definitely. Excellent sound, also.

This one looks interesting - let us know about it.

Thinking about htis, there are not that many examples of free-fink, really ("Nation Time" of Joe McPhee is one of the gew exampes I can thing of; probably some of James Blood Ulmer projects; does Steve Coleman count? - probably not) - and that's a shame.

Coincidentally, I was enjoying John Carter Octet's "Dauwhe" (Black Saint) recently - fantastic disc, from all aspects. Composition are very elaborate (and refreshingly cliché-free) - but not too dry or academic. I haven't read the booklet (I am actually not sure there is one), but I understand this is a part of a suite dedicated to black people, and you do feel a sense of epic and drama in the music, but without bombast and pomp. Great soloing also, particularly from Carter himself on his ultra-fast wicked clarinet, and from James Newton on his very pretty baroque flute... Newton might be the most accomplished flutist in improv music I've heard... Burtt all musiccians are good - there is also very musical drummer (or drummers) there who contribute a lonmg and exciting percussion piece, and the baasist (Roberta Miranda) has a vey nice sound. And there is tuba! Good, good stuff.

Given that my favorite track on Maneri-Maneri-Phillips ECM disc ("Tales...") was the one where Joe recites a poem in mysterious language, I am curious. Really.

Good move!

From the Leo Records website - 4 more tittles going OOP. CD LR 122 - The Marilyn Crispell Trio: Live In Zurich is sold out CD LR 153 - Cecil Taylor: Chinampas is sold out CD LR 208/209 - The Ganelin Trio & the Rova Saxophone Quartet : Sun Francisco Holidays is sold out CD LR 305 - Parker / Guy / Lytton / Schlippenbach / Lovens : 2 x 3 = 5 is sold out I don't have any of those (all except Crispell were on THE LIST for a long time), but all look good. Gotta start the hunt again.

This one was avialable from berkshire records outlet as a cut-out for even less. Got it some years ago, and still haven't listened to it.

After some search - finally "...Nous venons de vous envoyer la commande numйro 736-7030900-8230762. Elle vous sera livrйe par avion dans un dйlai de 7 а 15 jours. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le bon de commande. Nous vous souhaitons bonne rйception et а bientфt. Cordialement, Claire Caiman Amerique Quantitй Produit ------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Triangle [CD audio] Martial Solal Trio; Peter Erskine; Marc Johnson

Listened to it yesterday - makes for good birthday morning listening... but yes, I think I too prefer the one without McPhee. ubu Listened to this one today. I was expecting something more intellectual and experimental from Gustafsson and McPhee, actually. This is esentially a classical free jazz scream-fest - 35 years too late, no? Of course it's fun to hear Gustafsson's mighty baritone wailing (very impressive from strictly lung-power point of view), but we hear it again and again the same way here. And McPhee's trumpet playing is also not particulalry original here, IMO. The best thing for me is Paal Nielson-Love's stunnig drum work - souinded like more muscular version of Rashied Ali to me, and that's good.

His relatively recent solo Passing Waves on nuscope is not too shabby either, but without ping-pong balls inside the piano. Actually, probably even better than Vogel Recordings, he-he.

Maldoror is unbelievable, one of the best releases of 2003, IMO - ubu and I have been raving about it for months now. I think I got it from CDBaby. Gonna do a little solo cello review one day also. But I have very few solo cello CDs: in addition to Maldoror, one by Peter Lewy, one by Matt Turner and one by Dave Holland.

Woo knows, FMP might release the rest of the DUOS material. DUOS II was issued just last year, after all. I actually can't remember a single track on DUOS I that I didn't like... probably the one with Japanese folk musician/singer near the end of the disc... and tracks with Andrew Cyrille (with extensive vocaliazing from both)... the rest range from solid to brilliant! Will listen to DUOS II now.

This is some great music! Listening for the third time in a row. Matthew Goodheart - "Songs From The Time of Great Questioning" (Meniscus, 1997) Solo piano - somewhere in the middle between Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, with a bit of Ravel and Schumann. Edit: add Mussorgsky and Skryabin as influences as well! Gonna get all GOodheart I will find! AMG review

I heard this band live last year. Boring pretentious bullshit. Bruno Chevillon definitely should record a solo record (actually, that's what I told him after that concert - and he said that solo bass is kinda boring for listeners, I gently argued that the shit he had been playing that night was kinda boring for listeners, but he didn't seem persuaded). Another guy who absolutely should record solo is Jean-Jacques Avenel. Dolphy criticue is coming, don't worry .