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Oh, HELLYEAH! Just arrived at "Body & Soul" - wow! This is magisterial music! Do a google search for "Frank Lowe" and you'll find a nice Fireside chat by Fred Jung (on AAJ). ubu Yeah, this one is great. And this is Lowe far from his prime as far as pure chops go. ABsolutely check out The Flam on Black Saint - some mighty mighty blowing there.

I'm not too familiar with Ms. Leandre's output. The only one I heard is Leimgruber-Hauser-Leandre "No Try No Fail" (hatOLOGY) - an excellent disc, but definitely not an easy listen - pretty intense even by healthy Funny Rat standards, I would say. I have Leandre's solo bass CD (on Red Toucan) somewhere and her latest Leo release (with Mat Maneri and other good people). -------------------------------------------------------------- Thinking about it, No Try No Fail could be a good subtitle for this thread...

I was very enthused over this one upon first hearing it -- I even began a thread on it -- but after further listening, I began to consider it just average - SINOW, that is. VERY enjoyable though. Reminds me of ConSequences in that so many of the tunes are catchy... or is it that they're derivative? Can never figure that out. Didn't find it that interesting either. Derivative is the right word, IMO. Good playing, though.

Funny Rat is an equal opportunity thread. I have to admit, I have never listened to Jelly Roll. does he sound like Herr Broetzmann? As far as I know, Morton was influenceda lot by later-period Sun Ra Arkestra. ----------------------------------------- Tony, I think you are pulling the Funny Rat leg - Zen Widow is a philosophical concept of something that is mysteriously irresistably attractive but can never be attained in reality - there is no way you could actually have received it in physical format of a CD... Goodheart plays piano and Powell plays drums, as far as I know, but they could have exchanged names for this release. As for ordering these CDs (NOW), please keep in mind's Tony's experience of buying directly from Evander. Older Evander releases are avialable from http://www.indiejazz.com/, who proved to be quite reliable - so if we are persistent enough they will stock the new Evander releases as well.

New Drimala releases. From the Drimala newsletter: Let Them Pass (laissez-passer) featuring Montreal-based drummer John Heward in his first recording as leader with longtime associates Joe Giardullo (tenor, flute, bass clarinet) and Mike Bisio (bass). The music flow effortlessly from the Middle East-East European model traditions to a simple American blues form....quiet, yet powerful. As All About Jazz says, "Let Them Pass transmits a deep sense of intellectual reflection, musical interaction, and human honesty." More at: http://www.drimala.com/title/let_them_pass.html PLAY continuing Drimala Record's exploration of the art of the duet. This recording reunites pianist Michael Jefry Stevens with former Mosaic Sextet band mate Michael Rabinowitz on bassoon (bassoon!!!!). The music is open, powerful, graceful, and reflective....always with an ear towards the possible without forgetting the past. More at: http://www.drimala.com/title/play.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<oooooooooooooooooooooooo>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now you can enjoy all the Drimala catalogue through digital downloads in all your favorite formats directly from our website. Just go to http://www.drimala.com and click on the Digital Storefront.

Ware's Columbia contract was terminated a couple of years ago.

Ubu-man, I had exactly the same feeling about Ware's Flight of I - expertly played clever fake!

Let us know about your impressions! As you rememeber, there was a bit of controversy about it here.

A solo on FMP as well. also Tales Out of Time, with Joe McPhee on Hat. That's seven. One a month, not too shabby. I keep hearing rave reviews for this. If I were only going to buy one of these 2004 Brotz releases this would be it. & this one on the DMG email PETER BROTZMANN / MARCO ENEIDI / LISLE ELLIS / JACKSON KRALL - Live at Spruce Street Forum (Botticelli 1015) Brotzmann plays tenor sax & taragato, Marco plays alto sax, Lisle plays contrabass and Jackson plays drums. Word is that this is a smoking set and no doubt that we believe that fact. Marco Eneidi's recent trio disc with Paul Murphy & Kash Killion (on Cadence) was one of this year's best free/jazz gems, so... CD for $15 Heey, this sounds like a good one. Lisle Ellis is a phenomenal bassist, (check him out in a What We Live trio with one of the ROVA boys (the name escapes me now - shame on me) - there are several records on Black Saint / Soul Note. ----------------------------------- Today got a fantastic CD of Sergey Letov (baritone saxophone, flutes and more) / Yuriy Parfenov (trumpet, pocket trumpet) duo. Unfortunately, there was only one spare copy, and I had to make a difficult decision to enlighten only one of you, and I figured out that this ubu guy has to be encouraged for his constant violation of intellectual property laws, so he is getting a copy (some time in September I guess). Meanwhile, I will contact Letov directly and will make sure that he provides me with several more copies of this CD, since you just have to hear it, - and you will, but probably not before Christmas.

Make sure that your neighbours' sing-and-clap along is audible on the recording - I love these live atmosphere artefacts.

A solo on FMP as well.

I am here too. Not too much music in my life now. I'm in RUssia at my paretns' place so listen to my old tapes of heavy metal: Anthrax "Sound of White Noise" and Flotsam & Jetsam "Cuatro". Haven't listened to any of them for many years now, and happy to find that I still enjoy them a lot, particualrly Flotsam & Jetsam - a clever, skillfull and pretty original band. When I get back home, I'll get these both on CD. Funny that I hear much more now intricacies in this music now than I used to when I was a teenager. I probably didn't care too much for intricacies back then... Will be listening to some Fear Factory, The Beatles, Pantera and Gentle Giant over the next 3 days.

I checked with Eremite about the Bennink/Brötzmann and it is an LP-only release, unfortunately. I think all releases on Bro are lp only at this point. I still want to hear the Brotz/Walter Perkins release on Bro that was released last year. Me too! I asked Eremite whether there is a plan to reissue brö releases on CD, and they said they are not considering it at the moment. What's the fucking point in LP-only releases? If I see Brötzmann live, I will complain to him.

I checked with Eremite about the Bennink/Brötzmann and it is an LP-only release, unfortunately.

He's amazing. Also check out Hindustani Slide gtr by Debashish Bhattacharia, the best stuff is on India Archive Music. Thanks for Indian recommendations, gentlemen. Good timing - I was just recently thinking about delving more into different "folk" musics. Anybody's into African musics? One of my favorite discs (in my entire collection) is the one by Jali Musa Jawara called Yasimika (released on Ryko subsidiary Hannibal Records, now very much OOP). Jawara plays kora (a string lute-like sounding instrument) and sings; there are also two guitars, balafon (a percussive marimba-like thing) and otherworldly (is there a word in English?) female back up singers. Everything on this disc is perfect, IMO: melodies (very rich), voice, background vocals (absolutely "non-Western" and just chanelling warmth and wisdom... I've never heard anything like this), musicanship (the guys - particularly Jawara on kora and the balafon guy are total virtuosos, as far as I can judge), improvisations (pretty unpredictable ones). A lot of emotion. I used to listen to this disc for days, and probably know it by heart now. There is something very deep and real about this music (and this is a common thing about "folk" music - you just feel that it is real). AGM link: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&t...10:7027gj4r86iw Started looking a bit, and found a relatively new release by Jawara (spelled Diawara): So yeah, this improvisations on "Yasimika" are not for nothing. I'l be gettingthis one of course (although I normally don't have too much trust in modern bands that have "jazz" in their name).

I heard/saw Remember Shakti live only a few months ago, and it was a great show! I can understand that some people could think of it as some self-indulgent virtuoso-playing without too much depth, but then I think McLaughlin really has learned a lot about classical indian music, and you ought to consider that when listening to his newer music, as he's as much (or even more) into that as into jazz. I actually like "classical" Indian music (or musics - there are several different schools, as far as I understand). I have probably 20 CDs, collected absolutely randomly, and I plan to expand. The guy who played vioin with McLaughlin in Shakti - Shankar is phenomenal musician, and I have his discs where he's playing Indian ragas on his double-necked violin (it's on ECM), and they are unbelivable (I also have a couple of Frank Zappa bootleges with Shankar - now this is a genial violin-guitar interplay!). However the stuff I heard of him with McLaughlin I thought was only marginally better then Mahavishnu stuff (and I found it actually surprisingly similar to it, frankly, just packaged a bit differently), and is truly simplistic compared to Indian music. I am not familiar with anything McLaughlin did after 1980 though, so obviously my knowledge is far from comprehensive. I guess I will pick up the Remeber Shakti if it is cheap.

He-he, McLaughlin I cannot stand at all. All these fast up-and-down runs, too many notes and boring sound. I normally go to restromm during McLaughlin's solos on electric Miles discs. McLaughlin is one ofthe main reasons I don't listen to "Bitches Brew" too much. I still have to hear his early disc with John Surman, which is supposed to be good, but other than that there is not much hope I'll become a McLaughlin fan.

I haven't. These look really interesting. Hopefully they will get reissued by HatHut.

I've been not able to warm to Doran so far. I've heard a couple of his works on Leo and Enja (the Enja one is with Robert Dick -a stunning flute player as far as (very extended) technique goes, but also not very interesting to me)... a competent player, for sure, and a lot of ideas, but something does not click. Talking about ECM guitarrists, anybody's here into Steve Tibbets? I find him an extremelly talented musician, but a bit confused (I haven't heard his last one, though): too many things crowding on each other in his mucis. I am looking forward to him distilling all his ideas and coming up with a masterpiece (he is still a relatively young guy).

Some time in winter, I made an inquiry to Rastascan for foreign shipping rates. Still waiting for an answer.

Д.Д., any more comments on 14 Love Poems? Won't be able to add any more comments before I get home and re-listen to it which will happen in mid-August only. But trust me, this is good stuff. Probaly Gary could help a bit with reviewing this one before then.

Picked up two CDs of solo Sergei Kuriokhin performances - Liverpool and Dovecot (both on Solyd Records). Both are OK, but less interesting than Ways of Freedom (on Leo). Too much kitch, and you do get a bit tired of Kuriokhin's improvisational style, which is to take a theme or a motive (ususally something very cheesy ans silly) and drive it to total absurd by repetitions with varioations on breakneck speed (which is still pretty unbelievable to me - I can't understand how a human can physically bang ANY notes with this spead). You also undertand that Kureiokhin can not really maintain a continuity for 40+ minutes (this is what the concert is like - a continuous performance) - he just worked on something, then drops it all together when ou don't expect it and goes to something very different without too much of a logical connection to what's has been played before. I feel that the format of Ways of Freedom with relatively short composed pieces is mre suitable for Kuriokhin. At the same time, there are quite a few moments of brilliance, so I'll be coming to those back from time to time. And I will get Some Combination of Fingers and Passion as soon as Leo reissues it. I'll also probably pick up this one: Anatoly Vapirov "Forgotten Ritual" with Sergei Kuriokhin (also on Solyd) Vapirov is a fantastic saxophonist, and I am curious to hear mre of his collaboration with Kuriokhin who has pretty different style (there are a couple of short tracks on Leo Golden Years of Soviet Jazz Vol. 1 set, but I want MORE).

One more Globe Unity concert to be reissued on Atavistic: Globe Unity Orchestra: Hamburg '74

I think I mentioned that I got the disc in the mean-time (well, a CDr, only), and it's friggin' great stuff! D.D. you ought to check this out! From the Grob blurb: "he [Wittwer] has absorbed the lessons from Hardcore and Trash Metal and transferred them elegantly and without compromise into his own idiom". You know, I still have sentimental nostalgic Trash/Death Metal attachments, so there is no way I will want to miss this one.

David S. Ware is not a Coltrane clone anymore. I am not too familiar with his ouevre, but of what I have the one I like the most is Corridors and Parallels (AUM Fidelity). Very strong work IMO, with excellent writing, and very original synth playing by Matthew Shipp. Ware burns on it. --------------------------------------------- As for African Drums, I agre with your assessment - excellent work. Thinking about it, I also don't have too many solo drums records: a stunning one by Milford Graves on Tzadik (but, as I mentioned, in additon to stunning drumming, there is nearly constant ... hmmm...vocalizing... also stunning, in a way) and one by Han Bennink that I don't remember. And yeah, one by Fritz Hauser - "Solodrumming" (hat[now]ART) - also a good one, if very different from the ones mentioned above. That's about it. It's a shame Elvin never did a complete solo recording.