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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.

Phenomenal, you mean It is highly recomemnded and should be avalabel for some negligeble amount of $ at amazon.de. As for Mangelsdorff and multiphonics, I remeer I was really looking forward to listenig to his solo record called Purity (on Mood records), only to discover that it was all multiphonics stuff - and really dull. Funny enough, multiphonics is porbably used to enrich the expressive means of trombone but instead it just limits them. On the other hand, Mangesdorff's duo with Wolfgang Dauner (also on Mood, I think it is called Two is a Company) is very nice as I remember - very warm, gentle and full of beautiful interplay. Time to listen to it again. How's Dauner's reissue on MPS, btw?

It is still in print! - http://free-music-production.de/fmpcds/efmpcd034-035.htm

Sounds nice. Hope it will get reissued by Atavistic one day. Talking about Mangelsdorff, I recently listened to his duo with Lee Konitz (on Enja) - surprisingly boring stuff. Mangelsdorff is mostly playing his multiphonic thing as accompanyment, and it is fun for first 30 seconds, butthen becomes a bit annoying since the expressive pallette is pretty limited. Konitz also does not seem to be too inspired by this, and produces some of his most dry playing I've heard. Are there any other duos of Konitz with trombone, btw? - this could be a beautiful combination.

I can't accept statements like this, couw!

I share your feeling about MOONDOC. A competent player, sort of free bopper, but with no particular skills and lot of "clichés" in his play. I think his greatest talent is to surround himself with very good to great musicians. I own two or three (must check how much) records of his but never really listen to it. I can't accept statements like this as informed ones unless one heard Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys Well, David, no one told you to accept anything. Is expressing an opinion or a feeling (like I did) a no no in this thread nowadays?? You' d better accept it Hans, since as you wisely noted expressing a disagreeing opinion is an absolute no no here. The best form for displaying your disagreement (of you dare to) is to start "David, you are of course absolutely correct, but I had an opinion [better use word "fallacy"] - before you were so kind to open my eyes, that...".

I share your feeling about MOONDOC. A competent player, sort of free bopper, but with no particular skills and lot of "clichés" in his play. I think his greatest talent is to surround himself with very good to great musicians. I own two or three (must check how much) records of his but never really listen to it. I can't accept statements like this as informed ones unless one heard Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys

Gentlemen, I'll be in Russia next week, and I was thinking of picking up some Sergey Letov's CDs. There are some MP3s samples of his here (half of the links are not working, though): http://www.letov.ru/MP3.html Anybody's interested in getting a copy?

Looks good. I know Texier only through his recording in Sclavis-Romano-Texier trio, which I enjoy but wish it would have more edge - it is all just too pretty. Looks like this one is a bit funnier and rattier, so I'll probabl give it a try.

I have never heard them. http://www.j51.com/~borbeto/ Looks interesting... Have you heard them?

I saw Perry Robinson live (with Art Barron on trombone and Ed Schuller on bass) -one of the best concert I've ever seen - but npot because of the RObinson, but because of all three - this is the best example I ever witnessed of supreme level of interaction where whole by far exceeds the sum of the parts... this was something absoliutely unbelievable. And musicians obviously thought so as well, because after the music was over they kept staring at each other for a minute or so silently, with stunned expression on their faces. Barron then said something along the lines of "we didn't even need to use drugs, eh?". There were 4 people (including myself) in the audience.

ubu, I would like to note that I take all your CD-R shipments very seriously, and intend to give them all a very serious listen (or two or three) and post my tedious but invaluable comments here. In other words, you can safely keep the flow of the CD-Rs coming - they all will get a necessery level of attention I am going to Russia tomorrow, and this time I firmly intend to bring a new batch of Russian music. If I find something worthwile, all usual suspects will eventually get a copy as well. ---------------------------------- John, don't underestimate So Funky! - it does sound pretty lightweight on th first listen, but the more you listen the more intricacies you will discover - it is an impressively clever record. And Negri's technique on it is simply stunning.

So what are you waiting for - make CD-Rs and send it out! - you know the address. I actually really would appreciate a copy, if it's not too much trouble, ubu.

So Funky was also part of the order from jazzos, so I'll be listening to that one later on today. This might be the only example of funky clarinet you will find. And there is some mighty Enrico Rava there as well!

My package from jazzos finally arrived, so I will now have a chance to judge your proclamation for myself. So far I am really enjoying this disc... yeah, this is a fantastic album! thank you for recommending this one! Glad you liked it. Now start checking the rest of the Negri discography (and so will I - I have just a 3 discs of his, and it's time to expand!).

Hahn's dis on Enja is very strong. YOu can get it directly from Enja's website: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9007

Heeey, this sounds like a nice one- Hopkins and Blackwell.... and Moondoc! Can't be too bad. BTW, anyone knows if there were an Black Saint / Sould Note releases this year? ------------------------------------------------ Hans, have you heard Monndoc's "Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys". That's a mighty mighty record, and Moondoc just sahines on it (and so does Khan Jamal).

I saw Brötzmann's tentet with Drake and Zerang, and they are both very animated drummers and a pleasure to watch (and listen to, as well).