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OK, Returning to Mr. Evan Parker. I listened to some of the stuff I have and I would also sugget going directly for 50th Birthday Concert (Leo) - great great stuff. Braxton-Parker-Rutherford "Trio (London) 1993" (Leo) turned out to be pretty spectacular as well - great interplay between all three. Not fire-breathing, but quite an introspective, thoughtful music - Nate was right with Konitz / Marsh analogy. Live at "Les Instants Chavires" (Leo) can be skipped IMO just as Mauro Orselli - Evan Parker - Antonello Salis - "True Live Walnuts" (Splasc(H)). Synergetics - Phonomanie III (Leo) - I am listening to it right now and actually enjoying it a lot. Excellent "ethno-improv" (played on ehtnic instruments), and it is interesting to hear Parker responding (quite well) to these unusual sonorities. Sainkho is a terrific Tuvan vocalist with unique singing style. George Lewis is in great form. And yeah, electronics guys seem to have just created ambient air-conditioning type of sounds on the background on the couple of tracks, but this does not bother me at all. I recommend it.

John, thanks for SHepik's recommendations. I don't have any of the albums under his name, but I heard him on Dave Douglas' "Tiny Bell" trio and on Owen Howard's "Sojourn" (very nice post-bop album thata nobody seems to have heard about) and was very impressed. I am not familiar with Hopscotch releases.

Returning to minimalism (yeah, the thread is a bit schizophrenic). I dug up Philip Glass's "Glassworks" (Sony, 2003), and it is too pretty, even cheesy. I am sure I have several more Glass works in my collection, but I of course don't remember them - when I find them, I'll report here. Regarding Knitting Factory releases, here are the ones I heard. I am using the famous Chaney rating system. Charles Gayle - Kingdom Come KFW 157 Not bad, but not essential either. I am sure there is some better Gayle out there (I am waiting for "Touchin' on Trane" to arrive from TMR). Elliott Sharp's Terraplane - Blues For Next KFW 285 More of a groovy avant-r'n'b than "jazz", but I like it. Great baritone saxophone wails and amazing guitar work by Sharp. ALthough 2-CD set is probably a bit too long. Graham Haynes - BPM KFW 270 Haynes plays cornet and flügelhorn (with a quite distinctive "fragile" sound) over electronic drum-n-bass type of beats. Uses (well) Wagner aria samples on some tracks. Not bad, but the drums programming could be a bit more creative probably (the bit get really tireing by the end). James Emery/Illiad Quartet - Turbulence KFW 106 Excellent electric jazz. With one of my favorite drummers Gerry Hemingway. Really good stuff. This is one of the first releases on Knitting, so it is more likely to be hard to find. Joe Morris Quartet - At The Old Office KFW 272 Haven't listened to it for 2 years, but remember being extremely bored by it. Odean Pope Trio - Ebioto KFW 245 Power tenor-bass-drums trio. Probably nothing ground-breaking, but Odean is such a monster on tenor. It is probably not the best Odean out there, but is still very much worth having. Odyssey The Band - Reunion KFW 220 I will have to listen to this one again to form an opinion. This is James "Blood" Ulmer in trio with violin and drums. I remember there is some amazing playing here, but also a lot of Ulmer vocals - I have to check how annoyed I will be by them this time. Listened to it right now. No, no. no. Prima Materia - Meditations KFW 180 This is Rashied Ali's quintet take on Coltrane's "Meditations". Two very good saxophonists (forgot the names), who thankfully don't sound like Coltrane. Ali's playing is beautiful here. Rashied Ali & Louis Belogenis - Rings of Saturn KFW 232 Will have to find it and check it (haven't listened to it for 2.5 years). I remember liking it - but I heard it before I heard "Interstellar Space". Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe - Duo Exchange KCR 3020 Great. Rashied Ali Le Roy Jenkins Duo - Swift Are The Winds Of Life KCR 3026 Great. Tom Cora - It's A Brand New Day KFW 271 Excellent. Tom Cora was an innovative cellist, and here he is featured in different groups - with Fred Frith, Marke Dresser, Wayne Horwitz, Don Byron, Dave Douglas and others. GOod compositions, powerful inspired soloing (Cora plays very "musular" cello) Powerful and original stuff. I would call this one essential. Hasidic New Wave - Kabalogy KFW 239 Jewish-flavored jazz-rock fusion. Excellent plying from everybody (particularly David Fiuczynski on guitar), but a bit the music has a bit of a typical fusion sterile type of feeling. Zahar - Zahar KFW 112. I can't find it on the website (it' pretty old - from 1992), but this is one of my favorite Knits. Hassan Hakmoun play sintir - an african bass guitar type of thing and sings, with drums and amazing Sharrock-type guitar by Anthony Michael Peterson (even more interesting than Sharrock - more diverse). Some guests on some tracks. Excellent fusion of African folk music (I know it sounds too generic, but I can't tell where the guy is exactly from in Africa) and creative NYC improv. Hypnotic stuff. Good luck finding it. Next I plan to pick up all the rest of Rashied Ali's stuff, more Elliott Sharp, Brad Shepik, Chris Speed and Briggan Krauss (alto. I heard him as a sideman somewhere - very impressive). And Thomas Chapin, of course (his 'Insomnia' is about to arrive from TMR). And William Hooker.

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I think I have another disc of this set - he same line up plus Anthony Braxton and Pat Metheny. Three tracks. It opens with an amazing version of Coltrane's Impressions with Braxton ripping his alto to pieces (I assume he then smashed it over the stage and set it on fire) and a rythm section playing very aggressively behind him (no Konitz and Metheny here). Then there is some standard with a pretty boring and badly recorded Konitz/Braxton interplay, and a much more lackluster rythm suppport; and then there is a long long long So What where basically everybody sucks (particularly Metheny). But for me the disc is worth the price for Impressions alone.

I didn't like this one too much either - sounded too dry to me. Some tracks were good though. Now where the fuck do I find Two Days in Chicago?

That's exactly the feeling I got. In general, I am not a big fan of Morris (I have his CD on Knitting Factory and saw him live once). Did you get the Mengelberg hat? How is it?

Friends, what's the opinion on Mathew Shipp's hatOLOGY titles? I have only his duo with Joe Morris and find it extremely boring - so I didn't buy any of his other stuff. Yesterday tried to listen to VAO "Satie" again - again unsuccessfully - got bored somewhere in the middle. I still feel the whole concept is quite unfortunate. The arangements are interesting on, let's say, analytical level, but the Satie's feeling of elegant ironical boredom is gone - instead we get a bombastic boredom. Also arrangements are very confining living no room for solos (I still have to listen to the big last piece though).

It looks like this is Nuscope's normal release pace - 2-3 CDs per year. Tony, let me know what you think of the True Muze stuff.

Nuscope released two CDs in 2003 and has two CDs listed as upcoming in the first half of 2004 - it looks like the label is still active.

Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" on 482 Records is for me in top 3 of releases of 2003. Elegant, explorative, original and intelligent music. Swinging. Beautifully recorded (I am in the process of buying a HiFi for me and this is the disc I am using for testing). From Meniscus, the only one I have is Vinny Golia's solo clarinet CD. I haven't listened to it yet. Regarding Nuscope, I think we discussed it a bit somewhere up up up. I have Gräwe/Butcher duo Light's View and it is very good, athough not outstanding. I will be definitely getting more from Nuscope - thankfully () the catalogue is not too large.

I heard it from several sources - one of them being Downtown Music Gallery, a NYC CD store, and another I forgot. Of these KFW Rashied Ali CDs I have duos with Frank Low and Leroy jenkins, and they are essential IMO. I also have this do with Belongesis, but i don't remember it. I will look through my collection, and pick up some Kintting Factory recommendations - they have a lot of great stuff.

king ubu, I don't have it. I actually have very few Itakt releases yet - Cecil's "Willisau", which is my favorite Cecil, and Bauer brothers duo trombone record, which is pretty amazing (and quite scary to listen to). I think that's it so far. As I mentioned, I will be focusing on OOP stuff in the next several months - probably on Knitting Factory releases, since the label seems to be defunct now.

Got the steam from ubu. Thanks a lot. Will listen today.

I am not at all a Parker spacialist (I probably have no more than 15 CDs with him - mostly from '90s). I do have Alder Brook (Leo) and it is good, but calling it a Parker masterpiece would be probably a bit of overstatement. I spent 20 minutes looking for all Parker I have and managed to find 50th Birthday Concert(Leo) Braxton-Parker-Rutherford "Trio (London) 1993" (still sealed! - shame on me!) (Leo) Synergetics - Phonomanie III (Leo) After Appleby (Leo) Ghost-in-the-Machine feat. Evan Parker (Leo) Mauro Orselli - Evan Parker - Antonello Salis - "True Live Walnuts" (Splasc(H)) Live at "Les Instants Chavires" (Leo) Since I don't remember most of them (shame on me again), I will listen to them over the weekend and edit this post with my (invaluable) opinion. What I remember is that After Appleby is very very good, True Live Walnuts is a not bad but a bit overplayed (but a very nice 2-minute version of 'Naima' somewhere in the middle), and Les Instants Chavires has too much of the famous never-ending-always-the-same soprano solo (although brutally processsed electronically). Meanwhile, this search for Evan Parkers CDs through my 10+ boxes of CDs proved to be pathetic not only because I couldn't remember most of the Parker's CDs I've heard, but also because I stumbled upon DOZENS of unsealed CDs. Thus, I would like to proclaim (in front of my comrades, as they would say in the USSR which I still remember) that I am freezing all my further CD purchases until I listen to all the new CDs in my collection. This will take at least 3-4 months, according to my estimates. In this period I will buy ONLY: a. fucking hatOLOGY CDs that are about to go OOP b. any other fucking little label releases that are about to go OOP c. complete TRUE MUZE catalog, since I already decided (good logics) d. some unbelivably good once-in-a-lifetime deals (like Leo Lub stuff from Berkshire for $3) This is all a bit of cheating of course, since I am subscribed to INTAKT and FMP, so I will automatically get all new releases from them - but this is not too much.

Your wish is my command. B) Thanks TOny. You also will get a Cannibal Corpse for When You're Alone compilation.

I'll send you some Cannible Corpse music instead... you should send him those 32Jazz compilations: Cannibal Corpse: for Lovers Cannibal Corpse: for a Rainy Night Cannibal Corpse: for Meditation Other good choices would be: Cannibal Corpse: for a Lazy Day Cannibal Corpse: for Romantic Moments Cannibal Corpse: for the Peaceful Moments And my favorite: Cannibal Corpse: for When You're Alone

Eh... Tony, I think you screwed up the board a bit. Can you post the picures vertically probably? I am planning to buy THE COMPLETE (all 6 titles!!!) True Muze catalog soon.

I'll send you some Cannible Corpse music instead... Now what the hell is "cannibale corpse music"? Has this got something to do with that favorite movie of mine, "Cannibal Holocaust"? ubu Your ignorence is depressing. Cannibal Corpse

I'll send you some Cannible Corpse music instead...

Talking about Paul Dunamll, I've listened to "Ghostly Thoughts", and it's excellent. Highly recommended. If you can find it. Ho-ho.

Man, you are missing a lot. Well may be not missing, but definitely a lot. If you ever come through "our" side of the country, I'll invite you over and expose you to some SEPULTURA! GORGUTS!! PANTERA!!! DEATH!!!! Ah, music for romantic soul...

It's Friday - slow day in the office, so I can afford to do a little free jazz posting (but only free jazz). Ubu, I do listen to pop music sometimes (when free jazz police is not watching). I addition to Sade, I like Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Tom Waits (I am not sure it's pop -who gives the fuck about all these labels anyway, though), Geff Buckley, Tinderstick, Bjork and a lot of heavy metal stuff (that's where I started, after all). Posting this quick before free jazz police is awake. Geoff, these are very minimalistic photos. I like them! I'll post some of my "masterpieces".

I also have no idea how many CDs I have, but I will count as soon as I have a normal CD rack (so far everything is in the boxes). I actually really like Sade's music - particularly the early albums. There was a saxophone player in the band who would do these 15 second solos that would be always meaningful and clever - I think this is quite amazing. Regarding Terry Riley, I'll look through my collection - I remember I have some good RIley stuff, just don't remember what exactly and who perfoms it . Geoff, regarding the instant messaging - we are quite rare on-line at the same time, and the advantage of the board is that all the stuff we are talking about is saved.

When I was 19 my jazz collection consisted of one CD: "The Best of Sade".