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Details on new Brötzmann FMP release: http://www.fmp-online.de/fmpcds/14_LOVE_PO...n_e_fmp_125.htm

Good stuff. I am pretty sure I have this saxophone guy somewhere. Did an AMG search on Manfred Herring and found the following album. Now how can you possibly ignore an album titled like this?

What label is it on?

I did a quick search and couldn't find any recordings by him after 1969. It is a shame that he didn't record more. The Frank Wright quartet (unpretenciously called Center of the Wolrd) I was talking about recorded in 1972: AMG link. A really nice band. brownie or P.L.M. could have probably seen them live since they were pretty active in Europe in early '70s.

LOVE IT! Me to! Mohammed Ali is Rashied's brother, and I think he was equally impresive (he later played with Frank Wright's band (Wright, Ali, Bobby Few, Alan Silva) - some really scary fire music stuff, btw). What happened to him later?

Thanks John! Good stuff! Did you upload that from an LP? Is there... ahem... a side B? ...With every one of these LPs I find, there are new names added to the long list of GDR jazz musicians. These people never cease to amaze me. In spite of all the restrictions, this must have been a lively scene. Good stuff. couw, don't overestimate the restictions communist regimes imposed on music. They were not that severe, really. Musicians playing the music that didn't work well with the party line were ignored, but not persecuted. Most of those horror stories about ruthless communist machine crashing heroic rebel free jazz musisians with all its nuclear and ideological power are just legends.

Talking about Russian improv. music, check out the MP3 from Sergey Letov's website: http://www.letov.ru/MP3.html. Letov is a monster baritonist, and he has a a four-reed band (Sax Mafia) which included Yuri Yaremtchuk.

Got this one. On a first (unattentive and incomplete) listen sounds like a gooy typical bluesy early '70s fire music blow out. It is only 35 minutes indeed. Sound quality is pretty decent. I will listen again fo course and will repor in greater detail. Also, got new Andrew Cyrille / Anthony Braxton duo CD on Intakt. Vol. I only so far. Good stuff. Braxton is very relaxed (he again plays all possible reed instruments here) and Cyrille does some wonders with drum set. Very nice interview with Cyrile in the liners (Vol. II has Braxton's interview). Looking forward to VOl II. And I finally got a bit of Rat. This one: and it is fantastic indeed. And excellent sound quality!

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?