Д.Д.

How about Derek Bailey?

On everything actually - I think most of the CDs at indiejazz cost $12 and shipping is very reasonable. I hope they will be increasing their selection. Get Fred Van Hove's "Passing Waves" (nuscope), btw.

OK, Ghostly Thoughts... I quite liked the disc. Not masterpiece, IMO, but a good one. A pretty conventional record by all standards (and not particularly intense or noisy), and I am not sure where all the controversy comes from. Dunmall is very "jazzy" - probably too much for this setting. He has a nice sound here (raspy big tenor, mostly in the middle register - not too muich of altissimo squicking; and some baritone...), but his ideas are a bit banal here - standard early free jazz power licks (with bluesy feel - Shepp or something...). So for me Dunmall is the weakest part of the album. But the other two players are outstanding: Mark Sanders on drums is doing some amazing stuff - reminds me of Tony Williams a bit, and probably Roy Haynes even more - some airy but intense and very propulsive playing...very deverse and very attuned to other two players. Really a pleasure to listen to. Actually the disc starts with some very creative manipulations with hi-hat. Good man. I should get more of his stuff. And then there is Hans' hero John Adams on guitar, whose playing I probably enjoy the most here (or more correctly, his interplay with Sanders). Adams has a very attractive sound - "semi-acoustic", very clean and clear, with slight "stretching" (I don't know how you call this effect - when a note after being played slides a bit; it's used in blues rather often), but at the same time the sound is full - not some sort of ugly flat Metheny shit, but sound with volume. And this is good. Adams' techiques is superb (the guy can play really fast), and his imagination is impressive - he comes up with a lot of nice ideas and is pretty melodic (and even lyrical- as on the second piece) most of the time. I frankly can hardly imagine what can possibly irritate in his contribution here. Anyway, Adams and Sanders are very sympathetic to each other and create some intriguing counterpoint here. Actually, I would have probably preferred to listen to Adams/Sanders duo (and a bit of it happents at the beginnig of the last piece) - they sound more free than with Dunmall, who tends to drag them (and since both Sanders and Adams listen a lot, they follow Dunmall) into more predictable routine a bit. To sum up, if anybody knows of Sanders / Adams duo CD - let me know. And yeah, the only other Dunmall CD I have Master Musicians of Mu (Slam) - a duo with guitarist Philip Gibbs, is terific.

I'll listen to it today and will report my ghostly thoughts.

These cd reviews, plus the ones I was COMMANDED by Д.Д. to post on: Clusone Trio: Rara Avis & An Hour With.... The pressure is now on for us to deliver the goods.! He-he. I warned you Matthew about joining the Funny Rat, didn't I? - it's a serious responsibility.

Inspired by discussion about the bassist Peter Janson I dug up this disc: Janson / Kullhammar / Nilssen-Love Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler REcords) Peter Janson, b Jonas Kullhammar, t & b saxophones Paal Nilssen-Love, dr Well friends, this might become my favorite Ayler Records release. Following Gary's example of a highly responsible approach to one's Rat duties, I will post my as sober as possible review in due course. Meanwhile, enjoy a selection of reviews from the Ayler site. Oh yeah.

sorry about that , I had second thoughts & thought all the recommendations I received from this thread deserved a more sober assesment.(Which is forthcoming)Sorry. Looking forward, sober or not.

P.L.M., if you don't stop this mockery of sacred, I will start praising Odean Pope in every post. I probably will in any case. In 1993 I was listening to death metal and Stravinsky's "Firebird" mostly.

Swinger, I was listening to Oxley's "Baptised Traveller" today (it is a great album indeed, and VERY uncharacteristic Evan Parker playing), and thought that you might enjoy Sven-Ake Jhansson's "Six Little Pieces for Quintet" (hatOLOGY) (AMG review).

I'm on it, Mr. D! Looks like AMG also wets itself over Rothenberg's Power Lines. Ever hear that one? No, Crux is my first exposure to Rothenberg. But I'll be definitely getting more.

Hey Gary, where did your post regarding Live at Nefertiti go? Did your wife make you delete it?

Friends, I just heard a solo saxophone CD which is probably just as good as Gebbia's Arcana Major... To be certain, I listened to it three times. It is really good. Ned Rothenberg "The Crux. Selected Solo Wind Works (1989-1992)" (Leo, 1993) To be obtained immidiately. AMG review Ned Rothenberg's website

Please give me the details for that one. Chuck, my mistake, the trio session I was referring to is Wilber Morris' "Collective Improvisation". Mid Wester Drifter is also a trio, but with bass and piano. I haven't listened to it for quite some time. As I remember, Tyler recites (well) his poems a bit, and plays alto mostly. I also remember it being very emotional - not on the sense of hysterical screaming or something like that, but in the sense of music directly conveying the emotions of the player. I will listen to it again and will report here. It's on Bleu Regard label

Much better. I consider this a triumph for Roscoe since I think the record they made with Charles Tyler is very sad for all involved. Roscoe is a stronger personality in playing situations than Charles was. Charles needed to be in complete control (or sympathy) to make the music work. Funny (rat?) enough, just a couple of days ago I listened to Charles Tyler's beautiful Midwestern Drifter CD (live trio set with Denis Charles and Wilber Morris).

Themusicresource often has good music that you would not find anywhere else. And often it does not. When it comes to free-avant-out-funnyrat stuff, form my 3-year experience with themusicresource.com, their availability database is 75% accurate. They are not very good in responding to e-mails, so I sugest you just go ahead and order.

It seems to be available at http://www.themusicresource.com

Leo Records updated the website with annotation for new releases: http://www.leorecords.com/?m=catalogue&release=2004/04 All look good.

Gokhan, I don't think Д.Д. would mind if you'd refer to him as "D.D." (Д.Д. is Cyrillic for D.D.) B) All these well-educated Dutchmen... Sure, D.D. is fine - and so is David.

You're absolutely right, Gokhan. Welcome to the board, by the way! Thank you. Hi all! Welcome gnhrtg! Nice handle - it will take me some time to memorize the letter sequence. As for Funny Rat album - all this out stuff sounds the same anyway - just plain noise. So it does not matter which one we discuss -it's all Funny Rat. As I mentioned, I am getting my copy as soon as we rich 1400 posts on this thread (mid- to late- may, I assume).

Paul Smoker is a must.

Don't bother, they suck. Clear words... thanks! What's the best way to get the Iron Man stuff? I have a Charly disc, as well as a WestWind, they do overlap a bit, but I think I got all - however, it would definitively be nice to have that music on one disc, decently remastered, complete discography, and some good liners... ubu This is Eric Dolphy, is afaik the latest incarnation of the Iron Man stuff (2003). It's a two-CD set on Varese Sarabande. The sound quality is decent. http://www.cdconnection.com/bin/nph-search...=googericdolphy

Thanks couw. Still curious to see what Dolphy they will come up with...

Don't bother, they suck.

According to CDUniverse, there are a couple of CD releases from up-and-coming progressive jazz saxophonists available starting from tomorrow: Albert Ayler - Comple Live At Slug's: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz Eric Dolphy - Complete Memorial Album Sessions: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz Now I understand that Ayler's Slug stuff was released on ESP/Get Back some time ago - was that not complete? And what's the Memorial Album - is this the Five Spot stuff? Some more nice future relases, according to jazzmtazz: Dave Burrell's Full-Blown Trio - TBD (High Two Recording) June — with William Parker and Andrew Cyrille. Cyrille -yes! New solo Paul Bley seems to be already available: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz ! ...as well as Fracois Carrier quartet: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?...ic&frm=lk_jzmtz I don't know who Carrier is, but the rythm session of Bley-Beacock-Lambert looks not bad at all.

Charles Gayle and Sonny Simmons both were street musicians for some time.