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One more excellent French bass player: Christian Brazier. There is a very nice lyrical disc of his with Sunny Murray (at his most gentle), Rasul Siddik (excellent trumpeter whom I haven't heard eleswhere), and Sophie Agnel (very talented and original pianist) on Bleu Regard label called Pérégrinations.

ON THE EDIT: Just answered my own question: it does. Thanks, Chaney! Don´t you think the new Brötzmann disc is a bit hard for the virginal creature I am? B) EKE BBB, if you interested in checking out some Broetzmann, go for "Live at Nefertiti" (Ayler) and "Litle Birds Have Fast Hearts" (FMP). If you do a search here, you will find some information on both.

... And his solos on MORNING JOY, smokes! I re-listened to Mornig Joy and can only agree with ubu's and P.L.M. - Potts' solos are really smoking! I will look for his solo disc.

This one didn't really grab me - sounded more like some sort of a "concept" record... but quite a..hmmm...underdeveloped and disrupted one. Solos seemed rather abrasive also.

Biggi Vinkeloe actually has two records on LJ Records (one with Peter Kowald, and one with Barre Phillips on bass). I have her trio with Barre Phillips and Peeter Uuskyla on drums (this is the guy who plays on Brötzmann's "Live at Nefertiti") called One Way Out (Slask Records, 1998) and it's a very strong one (with some amazing playing by Phillips and Uuskyla). Vinkeloe is also a fine flutist. And Vinkeloye has a good taste for bassist - Phillips, Kowald, now Ellis. These three are actually some of my favorite bassists. LJ releases seem to be available from themusicresource.com for $10.

This Swedish label looks very interesting: LJ Records. Anybody has anything from its catalog?

Friends, I am listening to Rashied Ali / Frank Lowe "Duo Exchange" (Knit Classics, 1999), and it is stunning. Frank Lowe is creating so much furious beauty here, and Rashied Ali is pushing and pushing and pushing up-up-up. Exilirating music (too short, unfortunately - just 29 minutes). If anybody for some reason still does not have this (OOP) CD, he (or she, he-he) should correct this ASAP.

OK, I listened four hatOLOGY Lacy's I have (three of them for the first time): Clinkers - a solo performance from 1977. Excellent. It's amazing how many ideas the man comes up with. Clichés - septet recording from 1982 (with additional percussionsts on one track), with Steve Potts, George Lewis, Bobby Few. Jean-Jacques Avenel and Irene Aebi. Beautiful. Very interesting compositions (with full use of the band's abilities), and great solosing. Aebi is singing a bit here and there, but not too annoyingly (and not too much). Morning Joy - concert quartet recording with Potts, Avenel and Oliver Johnson from 1986. Joy indeed! Makes you smile and say YEAH! Beautiful contrast between more pensive Lacy and exuberant Potts. N.Y.Capers & Quirks - trion with Dennis CHarles and Ronnie Boykins, live from 1979. This is my least favorite of the four. Not bad, but not outstanding (as the discs mentioned above) either. As our friend ubu noted, Charles' playing is often too rigid, and I feel it's exactly that here - and it limits Lacy to an extent. Boykins is pretty timid (and severely undermiked). Hope hatOLOGY will be reissuing more of the Lacy stuff soon.

Btw, John, did you get Particles and Smears (a duo disc of Kevin Drumm & Martin Tétreault on Erstwhile)? What do you think of it? I find it absolutely fascinating. Thanks for Aphex Twin recommendations.

Any Aphex Twin recommendations? - I've been meaning to check him out for some time now...

I listened to Steve Lacy's "Clinkers" (hatOLOGY) instead, a solo concert performance from 1977, and it'a a beautiful one. Next to Clichés, a large band recording, also on hatOLOGY.

In my case it didn't go to sleep, I went to Seattle. Sleeping is not healthy anyway, is it? I see it's 3:21 am here and me and D.D. still here Well, that's normal thing for weekend, isn't it? Will be listening to Lacy these days (starting with phenomenal Morning Joy on hatOLOGY).

Nice way to enter the forum! Welcome, Monkeyman. I will be getting this Finn CD very soon.

Wertmüller is a terrific drummer (and John still has to hear him on Brötzmann's Nothung), and I am VERY VERY interested in hearing him together with a guy whjo is all over guitar (hopefully electric with a lot of distortion and feedback). Meanwhile, I ordered some more CDs from Erstwhile (including Too Beautiful to Burn and some random For 4 Ears releases). Looking forward to opportunity to add some more "profound" cotroversy to the eai discussion.

Gokhan, continuing our PM discsussion here, since it might be interested to others. Check out Scott Rosenberg's own Barely Auditable label. I have two discs with Kyle Bruckmann (Entymology - a solo oboe recoding!, and Six Synaptics with Rosenberg and Zerang), and they are both positively insane (I will try to add more when I re-listen to them).

Don't want to instigate a discussion on the "importance" issue (who other than critics care about "importance", anyway? ), but I would just like to note that I am somewhat surprised about the whole Kirk hype - I cannot stand his playing (and I have probably about 10 his CDs, so this is more or less an educated statement): I find it very superficial and a total show-off fake. I love Rollins, btw.

I listened to discs 2 and 3 again and you know what - I hate to admit it - KV and MG don't bother me at all here. It's a great set (listened to disc 1 a few times a couple of weeks ago) and one of the cornerstones of avant / free / whatever in my opinion; it should actually be listened to in one sitting to fully get the musical picture. It's a shame it's OOP. Well, I am relieved

Listening to the disc 2 of the Jimmy Lyons box. Now we are talking! Amazing playing, simply amazing. On edit: DAMN! On edit 2 (disc 3, solo set): Oh yes.

Inspired by Tony's "rejected" thread, I relistened to Collective 4tet "Live at Crescent", and found it truly fascinating. Relaxed and resourceful free playing and really outstanding interplay. AMG review.

Absolutely get the Denis Charles - Wilber Morris - Charles Tyler trio (there are several CDs (2 or 3) on Bleu Regard label).

I have not heard that one. As a matter of fact, I have not heard a new Burton Greene album in a long time. Which one would you recommend? I'll have to dig up his Columbia LP. A very nice album I have not played recently. I haven't heard any Burton Greene stuff in fact. But I am curious.

There's also a great interview of Burton Greene in the May 2004 section of the Paris Transatlantic Magazine in that link! brownie, have you heard his latest solo record on Drimala? I am curious about it.

I am more and more interested in Jack Wright's music - the man has a truly unique approach. There is an interesting article on Wright in paristransatlantic magazine: http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine...apr_text.html#1 He also has his own lable Spring Garden Music.

Also, a bit jewish, isn't it? Great disc.

Gokhan, do you have Brötzmann's The März Combo: Live At Wuppertal (on FMP)? This is also a Brötzmann tentet, but a totally different one: Toshinori Kondo: trumpet Werner Lüdi: reeds Larry Stabbins: reeds Peter Brötzmann: reeds Paul Rutherford: trombone Johannes Bauer: trombone Nicky Skopelitis: guitar Caspar Brötzmann: guitar William Parker: double bass Anton Fier: drums Casper, Peter's son, is a very talented and original guitarist, btw.