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No, no, no, it's Doc At The Radar Station which is the best of the three comeback albums! Ah, get them all, they are all good.

There is an excelent Captain Beefheart music project called Fast'N'Bulbous led by Philip Johnston (Webpage) - excellent saxophonist and very skillfull arranger and composer, and featuring master guitarist Gary Lucas (from Captain Beefheart's last band). Thankfully no vocals, but very interesting re-interpretations of Beefheart's compositions with a lot of soloing (I remmeber being blopwn absolutely blown awayby the trombone player). Great and very tight band, they tour a lot - try to catch them live: exilirating experience guaranteed. I checked - their next poerformance is on Frankfurt Jazz Festival in late October: LINK.

Don't have it. I own no Captain Beefheart. (Shiny Beast I borrowed from the library.) (I've never even heard Trout Mask Replica!) As the Rhino is a limited edition, maybe I shouldn't delay? Sometime in the future, I may pick up his pre and post-Mercury recordings. (The Mercs I'll bypass.) Grow Fins looks interesting but from what I've read, meant more for the completist. Oh-la-la, no Captain Beefheart!!!! "I'm Going to Do..." is already OOP, but I have a spare copy. it is pretty essential, I would say. The repertoir mirrors Bat Chain Puller - but you also get the energy of a concert perfromance (and even listener can feel audience's supportive energy). You can probably find 10,000 more eloquant reviewes of it on-line, so I will not go too much into describing the music here - I would just note Beefheart's short soprano solo in "Veteran's Day Puppy". Every reviewer who writes about Beefheart likes to note that he could not really play soprano saxophone, and his "solos" were just copmbination of pretty random notes. I don't care. Beefheart's solo here (not even the whole solo, but the first opening notes) sends chills down my spine every time I listen to it, and transposes the emotion - and I tend to hear a a cry of eternal loneliness here, better than the most virtuosic reed solo of better techicinas. IMO, every sound is exactly where it is supposed to be and sounds the way it is supposed to sound. Probably not for nothing Anthony Braxton refered to him as "master composer and musician". Also, let me note that Bat Chain Puller is porbably the least good of Beefhearts comebacl albums - both Doc At The Radar Station and Ice Cream for Crow are stronger. For me Beefhjeart's masterpiece is Lick My Decalls Off, Baby, but it is extremely difficult to find now. Grow Fins is the only one I don't have yet, and I intend to get it. It is really pricy, but from what I know a large share of proceeds go to the Magic Band musiccins, and they definitely deserve it.

Tropical Hot Dog Night, baby!!!!! Tony, I assume you have Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - "I’m Going To Do What I Wanna Do: Live at My Father’s Place 1978" on Rhino Handmade. This is a concert from Bat Chain Puller era, and it smokes.

Never heard of those. Will check out. John, if you are still interested in "heavy metal", I would highly recommend Flotsam & Jetsam's "Cuatro". A bit close to Metallica stylisticaly (somewhere between "...And Justice for All" and "Black Album"), but with more interesting melodies (with less relience of catchy riffs), more inventive drumming and absolutely incredible vocal - great range and expressive pallette (but all with good taste, without pink tights bombast of "power" metal). For me "Cuatro" is up there with the classics like "Master of Puppets" or "South of Heaven" - I am surprised it never got as big. Unfortunately, Cuatro is now OOP, but you should be able to get it used very cheap in the US.

INDEED! (You're not surfing the 'net while driving, are you? MENACE!) Today is the first day I can drive legally (my license was returned in a pretty grey envelope yesterday with a message imploring me to ride according to the rules; now can you imagine riding accoridng to Swiss rules with NIPPLES blasting out of the windows - absurd!).

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