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Yes, there was: UCCI-9021 Archie Shepp: The Magic of Ju-Ju - released 3-4 years ago in 24-bit remastering. Might be not so easy to find now. If you are interested, I'd recommend contacting Hiroshi Tanno at hiroshi@earlyrecords.com - super-fast service and reasonable prices.

Listened. Amazing. This one will certainly become one of the most often listened-to discs of the following year. If I were a bassist I would listen to it standing on my knees.

I am pretty sure that HatHut will reissue Shepp-Roach duo in a forseable future - and knowing your Hat fetish, it is inevitable you'll hear Shepp sooner or later. But you shouldn't wait till then. Go for The Way Ahead or this one: Japanese-only reissue.

I love The Way Ahead. Beautiful Album. I finally got this one (wonderfully sounding Japanese version.. but no bonus tracks (why? why?) - a great one. Probably the best Shepp I've heard (I don't have too much, I have to admit).

I have one of his discs (I think it's called "Dorgon y Su Grupo" - and beleive me, its packaging is much less elaborate than the that of the ones you are posting). I hated it on a first listen - sounded silly, primitive and senseless (I think there were several "conceptual" compositions/improvisations in vibrophone-bass-saxophones-drums format), but something made me listen to it for the second time and I found it much more interesting and involving the second time around - the sillyness and repetitiveness of compositions started to make sense, and it all seemed nearly charming. Still I don't hink I finished listening to the CD. Means I need to find it and listen to it for the third time. Nothing reminding of Brötzmann or Ayler or Ware on this disc, btw. Jumbo releases seem to be available from themusicresource for just $9"a piece. I think this is where I got my Dorgon treasure from.

Listening to Martin Siewert / Martin Brandlmayr "Too Beautiful to Burn" (Erstwhile, 2003) and enjoying it quite a bit. Will have to listen again to be able to write in greater detail, but this is good stuff, for sure.

Anybody knows this guy: Rob Blakeslee? Looks interesting...

I am on a fence regarding this one. One one hand - GIonzalez and Grimes how I am very interested to hear (any other recordings after his comeback? - I don't know any); one hte other hand -ROy Campbell who I don't care about and Sabir Mateen who I cannot stand (and mnore and more so since I got otherwise excellent mark WHitecage CDs with annoyingly banal contributions buy Mateen). So I rely on your in-depth analysis, John.

I checked Tesh's website- he does not seem to be playing live too much, so my chances of seeing him live are quite limited. But he has a an on-line message board...

I actually don't think I've ever really heard Tesh's music. On the other hand, I lived in States for 2 years, so I guess I couldn't have avoided it completely...

Looks like Peeter Uuskyla to me. That cracked me up. I'm sure Tesh gets that comment all of the time. Was laughing like insane for five minutes imagining John Tesh being asked at every concert and receiving e-mails from all over the world about whether he is related to Peeter Uuskyla.

Form some of my recent CD Baby purchases: Two very nice muscular free-bop saxophone-bass-drums trios (click on sound samples). http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/burdon http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dagradi Edit: emm... actually the second one is not THAT good... the first track is strong, but then it goes donhill somewhat.

I am sad to hear that my review had such an effect. That was definitely not its intent. It's OK - it looks like the label (Slask) is defunkt now (the owners obvously earned millions on Birmann's record and cashed out), so this CD won't be around for too long. seriously, though...how would you compare it to the Nefertiti disc on Ayler? Equally good, but Noise is somewhat less in-your-face.

I am sad to hear that my review had such an effect. That was definitely not its intent. It's OK - it looks like the label (Slask) is defunkt now (the owners obvously earned millions on Birmann's record and cashed out), so this CD won't be around for too long.

I'm hoping, for the sake of my wallet, that it is the worst album you have heard in a loooooooong time. Otherwise, I will have to purchase it and I am already adding far too many discs to my next mental order. That's exactly what it is. This is one of the most appalling CDs I've heard in many years. Even calling it music is being too generous, and just goes to show what an open-minded listener I am. With an indescribable disgust I will write a couple of words regarding this release. The disc consists of 67 minutes of pure (well, pure is not the word to be used describing what you hear on this CD – filthy would be the right one) noise. The leader of the band (shall I use the word “gang” instead) is Peter Bursman who pretends to play saxophone, Benny Goodman’s favorite instrument – taragoto, and clarinet. Again, “playing” is a dramatic exaggeration. In his hands these instruments sound the same – like a mad elephant snarling into a water hose. There is no way a decent person can physically create this typhoon of terrifying noise so it is obvious that Mr. Bormann is stimulated by alcohol, drugs and no doubt is possessed by dark forces (the latter is implied in titles like “Not a Soul” – not a human soul, I got you right Mr. Brosman?). Mr. Brotzmen’s partners in this orgy of filth are two “musicians” (drummer and electric bass player… electric bass – do I need to write any further?) whose unpronounceable names (borrowed from Satanist texts, no doubt) I won’t even mention. Imagine ten dyslexic kids banging the same drum with one stick, fighting at the same time for possession of this very stick – and you imagine the drumming. Imagine the roar of a tank stuck in the mud – and you imagine the bass (electric). There is not even a slightest hint on melody (it is possible that "musicians" are trying to play some, but being evidently totally incapable of playing their music instruments, you cannot really say with certainty) or swing. Pristine studio sound quality only emphasizes the terrifying brutality of the soulless force. Listening to this CD (for the second time now, while I am writing this notes – and I am afraid I will listen to it third time right after that - just to appreciate fully the level of moral bankruptcy of the whole concept of this “music”) you can’t but ask yourself: what are the intentions or musical goals of the men who created this “music”? And looking at the pictures from the recording session, which adorn the CD booklet, I easily found the purpose. Looking at the photos of these highly unattractive wild men, faces distorted by grimaces of fanatic anger, squeezing their horns and banging their drums, – I realized I know them. I see them on street corners – uncombed hair…beard… dirty clothes… bottle of vodka in a pocket – whose only objective in life is to shout obscenities to passersby. Mr. Bumsan & Co. seem to be interested doing just the same. The only purpose of this “music” is to bring up the most violent and brutal features of the human nature, and destroy, destroy and destroy. And destroy. It is utterly unfair that Mr. Birzuman’s “music” is spit out of every teenager’s boom box all over the world, while real musicians are struggling to attain even minimal level of visibility. I implore you to ignore this CD (which is not too easy since it is heavily advertised by all brick-and-mortar and on-line CD stores… you can’t turn watch a TV for five mnutes without seeing evil face of Mr. Berzuman), or better destroy all the copies you can get your hands on. The few sane music lovers will say thank you.

Just started listening to Brötzmann-Uuskula-Friis Nielsen (the "Nefertiti" band) opus "Noise of Wings" (Slask, 1999), and... well guess.

brownie, do you have any Brötzmann, and if yes, how do you like what you have? With this information it would be easier to recommend you something...

ubu, I received the CD-Rs - thanks a lot! I had a chance to listen to only two tracks for the Brötzman-Gustafsson-Vandermark thing, and it is excellent. It was nice to hear such an introspective playing on the first track, and Gustaffson just burns on baritone on the second. Looking forward to listening to all of the CDs. I'll report here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Regarding Lowe's "The Flam" - come on guys, this is a classic, and if you don't have it, put it immidiately on the very top of THE LIST, particularly given Black Saint's troubled distribution sitiation.

TIme to revisit Sunny Murray - Arthur Doyle duo CD on FRactal. As I remember, it was quite good, if a bit primitive.

Is this the guy who rips the bass to pieces on Frank Lowe's "The Flam" (a masterpiece, by the way)? Then I should get some more of his stuff. OK, I checked, that's him. I am getting this CD.

In case anybody's interested, there is a new Zappa release on ZFT called Joe's Corsage: http://zappa.com/spifnificent.html Mostly pre-'66 Mothers demos and concert recordings. I doubt there is anything particularly revelatory there, but it's a new Zappa release, so I'll go for it of course.

Just received the information from Hiroshi Tanno in Japan that Pharoah Sanders - "Live at the East" (Impulse!) is no longer available. Apparently, this is one of Sanders' best, so it would probably make sense to try to find it asap. AMG review

I don't believe I have ever heard her. What does she play / contribute? Cello, violin and (the main reason for my dislike of the CD) voice. Aebi has absolutely unbearable vocals, IMO, but here she is not singing that much, and the rest of the music is brilliant (George Lewis' solos alone are worht a lot).

This one looks good. I'll check it out.