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Speak for yourself. Hans, seeing our total similarity of music tastes and outlook on life, I got used to making statements on behalf of you and me. This goes beyond this board -. actually, most of the conversations I start with "Hans and I think...". I willingly acknowledge my mistake, and this will never happen again. In all my written and oral presenrtation I will always make a comment along the lines of "this is my personal opinion exclusively, I am not aware of Hans' opinon, nor am I authorized to make any statements on his behalf".

Guitarrrrr fan, Hans?

He-he, Conference of the Birds I found too simplistic with quite poor soloing by both Rivers and Braxton. This is how we treat the classics here.

Not at all your fault! I got a burn of that, since. ubu what do you think of this one? I have only listened to it one and quite like it. I have never heard Rivers in a duo setting before. Will I be forgiven here, if I admit that other than Blue Note works, I am not a perticular fan of Rivers (with some exceptions, like Don Pullen's excellent Capricon Rising in Black Saint)?

Finally gave a listen to Brötzmann's DLAD quartet performance which our own ubu kindly proived me with (thanks, Flurin!). It is quite good (and excellent sound quality, btw!), and rather different from Little Birds... (my only exposire to DLAD). Very relaxed (Brötzmann in particular)! I found both Brötzmann's and Kondo's playing here less varied than on Birds. The visual imagery I had is of Brotzmann's sound being a big a little bit dumb peaceful bull and Kondo0s trumpet being some deranged blood-sucking bird (or rather two birds!) flying around and stinging him. I beieve I had more diverse zoological imagery listening to Little Birds... (shit, just writing this I realized that the title has "birds" in it... I should pay attention to titles). There are soime moments where both Brötzmann and Kondo seem to be lost a bit, and just going through their "thing" waiting for an idea to struck them. But it is all to a large degree compensated (and you new it was coming) by non-Parker bass!!! I have to admit, that the listenig experience became to a large extent a comparison of Kessler's and Parker playing, and IMO Kessler is by far more interesting - great deep sound (with long notes, not just drum-like shallow boom-boom), no groove lock-ins and quite unpredictable (unlike Parker, whose bass parts can be easily overdubbed from one disc to another these days). Talking abnout good bass, I am really looking forward to hearing the disc(s) Brötzm. did with Fred Hopkins... but before buying anything I have a lot of catching up to do with my own collection.

What's the label?

I'll get this one - Cutois, Battaglia, Godard - are you kidding me!?... As for Michel Portal, I have both of the CDs P.L.M. refers to (Chateauvallon 1972 (Universal France) and Alors! (Marge/Terrones)) but haven't listened to them yet. Time to do so. The one I did listen to though is Portal's Dejarme solo! (Dreyfus), and it'0s a phenomenal record, a milerstone in solo reed works, IMO. haven't listened to it for a long time - will do this week to refresh my memories.

P.L.M., I don't think I have any older HAT ARTs (6000 series).. probably one or two maximum (Lacy, most likely). I have nearly all hat[NOW]art's, though - goth them all very cheap at zwei. Haven't listened to most of them, though...so far my favirite is - what else?! -Soviet Avantgarde piano. I have quite a few IN SITUs (Denis Colin solo, McPhee/Lazro duo, Silva in tradition thing, some more Lazro, Didier Petit.. probably something else) - that was (is?) an excellent label...

Finished with CD arranging. Everything fit comfortably in 3 CD racks, meaning I will have some space for a bokshelf in a room (otherwise I was going to through away all these bulky paper things ). Here is CD Rack number 3 - from P (Prokofiev box at the top, Pullen Black Saints at the top left) to Z (fourth section is all Zappa).

Is Collignon doing a lot of vocal stuff? I saw him live, and he devoted a lot of time to vocal thing (with a lot of electronics invovled) -and he was good in it. He alse has quite a stage presense - looking more like an aggressive punk-rocker, very animated... An excellent trumpeter, of course. Vincent Courtois is a great cellist! I saw him live as well. Beautiful sound and phenomenal technique. I would be intrerested in eharing his own projects. ------------------------- I was listening to Dewey Redman's "The Ear of the Behearer" today, and what a great album it is! Dewey just burns on alto, tenor and screeching musette (he played musette the last time I saw him live, and well, there is a big difference between good screeching and bad screeching). The band is great - Leroy Jenkins, a very interesting trumpeter with good ideas, Sirone on bass... And the compositions are strong - some deranged blues (and Dewey's tenor is perfect for deranged blues), a slow group (well) arranged piece, a ballad (wit gorgeous tenor sound) and some fiery, ultra-fast Ornettish stuff (but more aggressive and direct). But you all have this CD anyway, I assume. I wonder if these were reissued in Japan - I would want to get the complete albums (the US Impulse! release is a compilation from two discs "The Ear fo the Behearer" and "Coincide". Listening to this, I relaizedthat even good 90s Dewey (as on "Walls-Bridges" (Black Saint), "In London" (Palmetto), "Momentum Space" (Verve) is far far far from this daring, in-your-face amd always surprising Dewey early 70s.

Gokhan here is the website I bought the CD racks from: http://batteryguys.ca/shop/customer/produc...8&cat=74&page=1

I was dragging getting getting started with the whole AMM, but with all thhese recommendations looks like I don't have much choice now... Wasn't sleepy this night, so listened to some new (for me) music (night is the best time for listening to music -you naturally concentrate better. I am sure my neighbours share this opinion). Willem Breuker Kollektief - "Summer Music" (Marge, 2000). Recorded in Paris in 1978. My first exposure to Breuker, and well, I am hooked! Truly unique music of a ten-piece band: VERY joyful and humorous (you get marches, Polkas, foxtrots, hilarious and charming (not silly) vocals on "Let's Fall in Love") - displaying good taste at the same time; surprising, skillful and very tuneful writing (with reference to "classical music" (cinema music, in particular), various European folk musics (from Nordic to Turkey); first class energetic blowing (from everyone... not a single mediocre solo!) and some serious infectious groove! What I also enjoy about it that despite large band and a lot of things hapening (and direction is changing unpredictably every 30 seconds), music does not feel as too dense (as many Eurpean, particularly Italian large ensembles often do) - on the contrary it all sounds very light, elegant and easy. There is also one slow lyrical, hauntin short piece (without any blowing). Bravo! Essential, I would say. I got my copy relatively recently from themusicresource for $13. Liberty Ellman "Orthodoxy" (Red Giant, 1997). Also a nice and refreshing one. Very relaxed, M-Base-like (but less mechanistic and more soulful than Steve Coleman M-base that I've heard) extended jams. Non-obtrusive slow groove drumming, warm bass (both electric and acoustic at the same time), clever playing (surprisingly, for a leader Ellman plays very little, - but when he does it is all tasteful (if not too original), warm a bit Kenny Burrell-like playing). Thoughtful melodic (no screaming) saxophone work from Eric Crystal, and very clever contribution from Vijay Iyer. Beautiful rendition of "Blood Count" as the end. Recommended! I got this one from themusicresource also, for $11.

Yes, the largest one, but you won't see it - it's in the fourth dimension. But it is there.

As of today, 65 days until release.

and rack two:

Sure. Done with approximately 2/3 of CDs (up to P) - occupied two racks. If I am lucky, the rest will fit into one, but I doubt it, since S, T, W and Z are all pretty large. Here is rack 1.

"Scream for me Long Beach! SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!!!!" I was listening to Live After Death a few days ago. I saw Iron Maiden in concert 16 or 17 years ago and still have a soft spot for the 1980's albums. Have you heard their latest one? I liked Brave New World quite a bit, even if it is somewhat predctable.

Listeningto Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven - what a beautiful and fresh music! And surprisingly good sound (at least on CD 3). This Armstrong guy definitely could blow. ------------------------------------------------- According to Ken Vandermark's newsletter SONORE reed trio (Brötzmann, Gustafsson, Vandermark) will release a CD on Okka (called "No One Ever Works Alone", live from Cologne 2003) later this year. Having learnt this, I finally listened to SONORE's concert that our friend ubu kindly provided me with - what a phenomenal music (thanks, ubu!). And very lyrical sometimes (pretty often, actually) and quite solemn at moments. I assume the music is to a great degree notated... otherwise I can't imagine this level of spontaneous interplay. Looking forwar to the CD! Also, looks like SONORE will be touring North America in September, so our AMerican friends - try to catch them live if they are somewhere around.

Tony, some of the skyscrappers are gone now, so the emotional effect would be not that profound - but don't worry, when I am done, I will make a high-resolution full-color picture, for your enjoyment. Spines will be positioned in the most perfect way.

Are you sure? Absolutely .

With cursing and swearing (and minor to medium damage to various body parts and apartment walls) the first rack is assambled. Assembly is not difficult, it's just me who is clumsy. So the fisrst rack (1520 CD capacity) absorbed skyscrappers A to F, and G partially. I am leaving spaces for growth - should be enough for a couple of years. Looks like I will have to assemble all 4 racks. For statistical purposes, B was the largest category (by far) - 3 skyscrappers plus one solid brownstone. But you know that "Brötztm..." and "Braxt..." are very widespread beginnings of last names. Second largest is S (due to Shepp, Shaw, Stravinsky & Shostakovich mostly). As for the smallest ones, in addition to usual suspects (Q, U, X, Y), I, O, E turned out to be really small. I is mainly "India" , Ibrahim and Iron Maiden. O is bits and pieces.. probably Italian names dominate a bit (Oliva, Orselli, etc.) - and Oxley, of course. As for E, it might improve since I plan to start investigating this Ellington guy... Z was brought to prominence by Zappa - and if I start delving into Zorn, it might grow into quite a section.

OK, the first phase is completed. All the CDs are arranged by alphabetic order (by first letter actually, I will arrange within each letter after I have assembled the racks). Looks like I overestimated the size of the collection - this looks more like 3-4K, which is good - I might not have to assemble all 4 racks. We'll see. Now - assembling.

Don't know Prévost. So shall I start with "Touch..."?

You bet.

I also bought my disc from the same e-bay seller (although I think it was $2) - he then sent this crazy e-mail about the dwarfs packing the CDs and elfs delivering them, or something like that. This was my first hatOLOGY CD and I haven't heard it for three years or so (one of those packed in the boxes still). I don't remember the music, but I do remmeber that it left very positive impression overall.