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What are the labels? Buis is on DATArecords, Janssen is on geestgronden. DATA Records Website I really gotta start exploring the Dutch scene - my knowledge is very superficial.

Oh yes. But I would argue that bass clarinet is a different instrument.

ubu, could you elaborate a bit on this Atzmon guy you are plugging everywhere? he is not too mainstream, is he ?

Alvin Batiste Mauro Negri

Zorn turned 50 last year. the question mark referred more to "favourite player" than to the age. frankly I don't really care about age... I mean, look at the tenor thread with the same topic: Wayne Shorter sounds younger and more daring at 71 than most of the players mentioned so far. I agree. Today is today - who gives the fuck if a musiccian is 20 or 80?

Zorn turned 50 last year.

this one, correct choice? Yes. It's OOP, so don't wait for too lonmg with ordering it.

Gianni Gebbia

What are the labels?

I've been meaning to check out some of his stuff soon.

I am travelling now, so mine was delivered to my neighbour. Wonderful woman never complained about loud music, although she suffered, no doubt. Now she has a possibility for perfect revenge.

I love the Hemingway! I think you will really enjoy it. I love this album , it's right up my street. Glad I didn't cancel the order !! Have you heard his album Johnny's Corner Song? The lineup is almost the same, just switch Robin Eubanks for Ray Anderson. The music is very much in the same vein and might be my favorite of the two discs. Agree. Johnny's Corner Song is less polished and less safe - and I like it more this way. You can get it from Gerry Hemingway directly: http://gerryhemingway.com/.

David, thanks for the review - looks like it was a great concert. Who knows, having a Swiss collaborator WWL might come Swiss way, and we'll have a chance to see them live here... Agree with you regarding Donald Robinson - he is such a joy to listen to! As for the discs you mention, Ochs' "Fly Fly Fly" is beautiful, one of the best 2004 releases, IMO.

Zaabway is Paul Flaherty's label, as far as I remember. The only thing I have by Flaherty is his 2003 release with Wally Shoup in Leo, and it's an extremely noisy (and not in the best way so) fire-music affair. Here is the link: http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_369 Was quite a disappointment for me after excellent Wally Shoup trio release a month before that (Fussilades and Lamentations, Leo 2003), one of my favorite 2003 releases.

I agree. I feel that Hamid Drake has Blackwell's sense of groove, but he does not qite have Blackwell's inellectual rigour and discipline, and his imagination, IMO.

Now there is a new one (and I like it much more): My favorite music is the one I have not yet heard. John Cage

You know that there is another Cherry/Blackwell duo - El Corazon on ECM? I haven't heard it' but it is definitely on THE LIST. Agree with every word you say regarding Blackwell - what a complete musician! I also always tend to focus on his playing - there is so much imagination and beauty in the way he plays. Even his last recordings (What It Is? and What It WIll Be Like?, both on Enja MW), when he aparently could hardly walk, have the same sense of joy and search that his earlier recordings do - and his partners on these two records (Mark Helias, Carlos Ward, Graham Haynes and Don Cherry on one track) are giving their all. This reminded me that I have a CD of a 1958 performance recorded in New Orleans with Blackwell, Alvin Batiste, Ellis Marsalis and some other people. I remember enjoying it a lot - will give it a listen soon.

Good choice, Gary! But a mediocre album, as far as I remember. Haven't listened to it for a couple of years now (I listen to ROVA version pretty often, though ). Will relisten to it when I get home, and will post my thoughts here.

Oh-la-la, thee are some nice releases! I will probbly go for all, except for Eskelin (still haven't cought up with his previous hatOLOGY releases).

Wonderful music! This is the only Jeanne Lee that I own and shame on me! (Recommendations would be appreciated, although it looks like she has few titles from which to choose.) Funny thing about this album is that when Lyons and Cyrille are playing without Lee, I'd swear that this album could have been recorded yesterday, instead of 25 years ago. Once Jeanne enters, you're back in the '70s. There's just something about the style and huskiness / dryness of her voice. Very street. (Meant in a good way.) JIMMY! Man I wish there were more of the Cecil Taylorless Jimmy Lyons -- especially Lyons-led dates. Goog find, friends. Gotta get it. Not a big fan of Jeanne Lee - her duo disc with Waldron is pleasent, but her other disc on Owl (with a lot of star people) is very uneven, with many tracks being mannered, repetative and overdone. Probably will refrain from checnking her works with Ran Blake either - can't stand his style (I actively hate his playing on his duo with Braxton Memories of Vienna; Braxton is great on this one, btw). --------------------------------- Regarding Caplan, I have one of his Knitting Factory CDs (don't emember how it's called... with a yellow cover), and it left me totally uninterestd - sounded like some supeficial pastiche thing (a bit rock, a bit free, a bit oriental), well played, but nothing special... Will check it again. Tony might have heard it as well - any recollections?

No shit. Alphea is highly recommended, as well as the other four Leo Lab titles.

No that looks interesting - I will trz to find htis one. I am not sure Sound Aspects label is still around. There is a disc of Braxton with three more saxophones, though - the last (ever?) Parallactic release of the Anthony Braxton - Sonny Simons - Brandon Evnas - Andre Vida (plus Dave Price and Shamir BLumenkrants on drums and bass, repectively). It's a double CD with compositions by all involved, and I remeber it being quite a noisy affair. Will give it a listen soon, and will report here (and in Funny Rat as well ).

Now, this is curious! I'm guessing that "maren" is actually none other than Herr Brotzmann himself. Welcoe, Peter! Seriously, though. I'd love to know what disc it was. Are you willing to let us know or will we have to go back and search through each page? I suspect maren is Ms. Judy Dunaway, the balloon player.

I thought someone was a Dolphy specialist of sorts It is availabel for $10 directly from Gunter Schuller's label GM Records

I am not too familiar with Tchicai's works, but I did see him live with New York Art Quartet (Tchicai-Rudd-Graves-Workman + Amiri Baraka) four years ago, and they were simply burning. You can check out recent Tchicai on CIMP label (as well as CDs under Lou Grassi, Adam Lane). Tchicai is the musician I've been meeaning to start exploring for quite some time now... I still haven't heard this ESP New York Art Quartet disc! The live performance that I saw was ery moving - Tchicai played something quite simple, stripped off of all embelisments - and very direct. A bit like ethinic music: it might be very simple, even primitive, but it is very real (I am not sure I can explaiin it better, but this is a stong feeling I get listening to ethinc musci - it is real). Will move Tchicai to the top of THE LIST.