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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 .

"Living Space" is in the Coltrane Impulse! Quartet box. It's post - "Love Supreme", but before "Meditations". I don't have the Village Vanguard box, so my only exposure to these perfomances is from the "Impressions" album ("India" and "Impressions") and I thought Coltrane's playing was pretty limited on those. Given this experience and my ambiguos attitude towards Dolphy at the moment, I'm not too interreested in exploring any further right now.

Inspired by all this Kowald talk around here, was listening to solo bass records for last couple of days. Anthony Cox - "That & This" (Sketch, 2002). The most simple and direct one of the bunch. Short (1-3 minutes each) bouncy bluesy tunes, good wooden sound. Sound like bass solos culled hard bop combo performances. Well played, though. The main merit, IMO is prestine recording quality - you hear every nuance pefectly. Enjoyable, but not essential (EBNE, how about this Tony?). MP3 from SKETCH website Miroslav Vitous - "Emergence" (ECM, 1986). Now we are getting serious. Great stuff! Dark, melodic, lyrical. Fantastic variations on Aranjues Concerto by Rodrigo. ECM sound adds to the overall haunting atmosphere. Sublime. Can be easily played with girlfriends / wives / uninitiated friends in presense. Highly recommended. Barre Phillips - "Camouflage" (Victo, 1990). Well, the things are not only getting serious, but pretty insane as well. Here you get all extended techniques thinkable. Some sounds I could never think were possible to produce on bass. Phillips' technique is stinning, and sound (sounds!) is just ...hmmm....comprehensive. The tracks are diverse - from quite tuneful to extreme atonal stuff. This one is defînitely a more challenging listen than the above two records, but a really captivating one. At this moment this is my favorite solo bass record, and is strongly recommended for anyone interested in possibilites of contrabass and human mind. Ken Filiano - "Subvenire" (9 Winds, 2002). Didn't like this one too much. Filiano is an good musician, with a lot of interesting ideas, but the music sounded not too coherent and pretty monotone. Also, the sound is quite bland (I don't know whether this is Filiano's bass or studio). Will give it a try some other day. Lynn Seaton - "Solo Flights" (OmniTone, 2000). Not bad at all. As far as I understand from liners, Seaton is a hard-bop guy, who played with Woody Herman and Count Basy, but he is pretty creative here. Nice (very traditional - Milt Hinton, Rax Brown) heavy wooden sound, excellent pizzicato (that he displays on particularly on original and respectful reading of standards - "Body and Soul", "How High is the Moon" with "Ornithology" incorporated, "Yesterdays") and strong full-sounding bowing. Seaton stretches a bit on his own compositions. All clever, to the point and sincere without showing off too much. Listening to it now for the second time and hear that some tracks actually don't work out that well: like overdone repetitive rock-and-roll type of thing and some slow boring bowing feature, but still a good stuff overall. A bit too locked in tradition, probably. Jonathan Zorn - "ContraBass" (1998) and "PHYS 111 Book III" (2003) - both on Newsonic. This is some insane bowing stuff with a lot of silences in between... I need to listen more to to form an opinion. Some other discs I've listened to - both left very positive impressions on first listen (and both are vry different from each other), but I need to listen acouple more times to each of them - Joelle Leandre's "No Comment" (Red Toucan) and Mark Dresser's "Invocation" (Kintting Factory). Gotta buy more solo bass! Dave Holland, Gary Peacock, Eberhard Weber, more Barre Phillips and Micjael Formanek are on THE LIST.

Listening to Coltrane's quartet version of Meditations (from the Impulse! Quartet box) - what an unbelievable stuff! Writing this I realized, I don't have much of interest for pre-Mediations Coltrane at this moment - in fact, the only Coltrane I've been listening to in last coupe of years is Meditations (both quartet and sextet versions), Olatunji concert, Love Supreme live version and Interstellar Space, which is my favorite, probably.

5:20-long "Think It Over" (another name for "Grand Wazoo") is most likely an edit... Looks like a teaser indeed... And so was the Halloween DVD-A... and so was "Joe's Corsage"... evev FZPFZ was a teaser, I would say. Only FZ:OZ, and EIHN were done the right way, IMO. Why the fuck would we need a teaser?! But still, having 3 new FZ releases in 4 months is not too bad, and I just ordered them all (gott buy the DVD-A player now...).

Also don't have this one (I do have Bye-Ya on Freelance by this trio, and it's excellent). Will get it.

I have one volume of Duos. I believe it is the Europe volume. I haven't listened to it in a very long time. Today is rainy enough that I can avoid yardwork and get some music listening in, so I'll give it a spin. Both CDs (Vol. I and II) cover Europe-America-Japan. In case you have LPs (I think there were 3 of those), they were devided into territories. DUOS I: http://free-music-production.de/fmpcds/efmpcd021.htm DUOS II: http://free-music-production.de/fmpcds/duo...d_e_fmp_124.htm

And in case anybody's interested: one more Zappa CD release - looks like this is Gran Wazoo out-takes or concert performances. Should be good. Joe's Domage