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I am very curious abut this one. Chadbourne is a fantastic musician (and a very entertainig writer, and good music critic), but he has occasional lapses of taste meking some of his work pretty unlistenable.

I guess you mean Yaremchuk. He is on quite a few recordings, but they are not particularly well distributed (even in Russia and his native Ukraine). Vapirov is not on Closed Mountains. Despite that, he is a very talented guy. His records are much mroe easy to locate since he has his own little label and website: http://www.vsjf.com/index-ava.htm I would enocurage you to check out the sound samples.

I have an absolutely different impression - I found this disc to be an example of excellent interplay, and the sound quality while not outstanding, is more than adequate for me.

Well, two of the guys are French, so it is not entirely Russian. Did you listen to Vapirov disc (# 4) from the Golden Years Vol 1. set?

Could be available at themusicresource.com. Sorry.

Hey, why don't you get Globe Unity and Don Cherry also? I didn't order them for some reason, so I am curious what I missed. In case you've never heeard GLobe Unity Orchestra, here is the band: Manfred Schoof (tp), Kenny Wheeler (tp), Günter Christmann (tb), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Paul Rutherford (tb), Peter Brötzmann (as, ts, bcl), Gerd Dudek (ss, ts, fl), Evan Parker (ss, ts), Michel Pilz (bcl), Alexander von Schlippenbach (p), Derek Bailey (g), Tristan Honsinger (cello), Peter Kowald (b, tuba), Buschi Niebergall (bass), Paul Lovens (ds) Btw, ask Hiroshi for SAL shipping - it's cheaper and still pretty fast.

I'll buy a copy of the new Dennis Gonzalez cd with Henry Grimes for the first person to post a video clip of this. If you find a copy without Sabir Mateen, I will send you a professionally filmed video with an autograph.

Iron Man has so MEAN clarinet playing by Braxton. Woody is the man, of course.

Brooks' "Free Slave" is essential. Joyful and funky masterpiece. You can just see the musicians smiling, and on the last track there is at the moment when Woody Shaw eneters (after Coleman's solo) - and I imagine him jumping on stage in impatience: "Now I am gonna show you something!". When I was studying I used to put this one on while getting ready to go out in night (because it has THE GROOVE) - and I would invariably be 30 minutes late, because I just HAD to finish listening the disc till the end. I also used to do my ritual morning dance to the last track, but I'll spare you of details. Play your thing, Roy!

How tall is Ornette? I always thought he was 1m90 at least - but it does not look so...

John, I lived in NYC. NYC is expensive, but definitely not because of the music. Concert at Tonic normally costs $10-20. CBGB marathon jam sessions (I remember one during which I saw - and I came when it all already long started and left well before the end - Daniel Carter trio, John Abercrombie quartet, Dom Minisi trio, Roy Campvell/Dave Douglas band) $10.

Tony, read this DMG excerpt on Visions festival. Now thinking how I can move to NYC.

Friends, got some info on upcoming Braxton " 23 Standards" 4-CD set on Leo: Braxton - reeds Kevin O'Neal - guitar Kevin Norton - percussion Andy Eulau - bass Recorded live in 2003. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Yes, that was him. ------------------------------------------- John, I didn't know you have THAT much Brötzmann. So you say März Combo is nice? I am intrigued because it has two guitarists (including Caspar Brötzmann - very talented guy). I think there is also a DLAD disc with Roy Campbell instead of Kondo, but IMO Campbell is much less interesting than Kondo, so I am not in a hurry to get thiis one. -------------------------------------------- Tony, our delightfully unpredictable themusicresource should have many FMP releases relatively cheap.

An M.V.P., I'd say. Mentor in Violence Prevention? Hmmm....

Bring them on, Gary!

Well, Tony, you expected it when you started the thread, didn't you?

Music-wise this is a great great disc, but some of the spoken words sections are extremely annoying IMO.

Just sound, you know. Just any sound in itself in the right time, even without any specific context can be beautiful. At least that's the way I am interested in seeing it now.

Riding the eai wave, listened to nperign / Günter Müller release "More Gloom, More Light" (on Rossbin Records). Good stuff. nperign is Greg kelley on trumpet and Bhob Riney on saxophones; Müller handles percussion and electronics. nperign guys mostly create breathing/clicking sounds of various level of unglyness, and Müller mostly plays with drone sounds. Might sound like something not particularly exciting, but you do get drawn in since it all has amazing focus -everything is where itis supposed to be when it is supposed to be, and in the light of my recent interest in pure sound, I find the whole listening very rewarding.

ubu is sending me a copy. Looking forward!

I don't, but it seems some think her intonation sucks. NOT ME THOUGH! Don't you mistake me for "some"! Or you will be immediately de-capitated by my royal troops! ubu I am deifinitely this very some. Sheila Jordan ruins this Rudd disc for me (and I am not a vocal-hater in general, as other some here). I will listen to it again (I bumped upon this CD recently, so why not listen to it - who knows when I find it next time?).

I don't. Since the box is early '90s remastering, I thought I would get individual albums in better-sounding versions. The only Atalantic Ornette disc I have is This is Our Music (reissued on Sepiatone a couple of years ago; very nice sound... where is Sepiatone btw - they started off strong reissuing Ornette and Alice Coltrane Warner sides two years ago, but don't seem to have done anythng since then) and shitty-sounding Swiss reissue of Free Jazz.

It's OK, we can easily replace it - I haven't lost any enthusiasm for Italian jazz. As I said, we can always ask Marco, and he will come back with five pages of essential Italian improv recordings for beginners. I rememebr he insistently recommended Giorgio Pacorig "My Mind Is on the Table". I haven't heard it, but I trust Marco's judgement. Tony, you also have We Did It set, as far as I remember? What's your opinion? I feel it has some weak moments (the "rock" medley, and I think TOnoni's drums are a bit too prominent (well, he is a leader), but there are a lot of moments of total brilliance.

Well, the thread Tony is referring to was severely circumsized after the AAJ board crash, so Marco's recommendations were lost. But it's OK, you can send him an e-mail (Marco runs the jazzos.com website) and he will give you all the recommendations you need and more.