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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".

Geoff, these look like excellent buys. I have "Nailed" and it's one of the best Evan Parker tenor playing've I heard. I don't think it's the best Cecil out there, but Parker is... wheeew.

Crispell/Jarman duo is excellent. Lyrical and bluesy. Get it! John, I'll listen to VAO one more time and elaborate. On the first (not very attentive) listen it sounded mechanistic and over-arranged.

Meanwhile, I had some very nice "new listens" recently. Dennis Gonzalez New Southern Quintet "Old Time Revival". Excellent "classical free jazz". Original compositions. Great soliong from Gonzales on trumpet (very intereesting ideas), and others (two very strong reeds players - forgot the names, of course) and mighty Malachi Favors in inspired form (unlike on the recent AEC's "Meeting") and clever Alan FIelder on drums (I am sure I heard him somewhere else - his drumming is alos quit unique). Avaialble for $13 form Entropy Stereo Zeena Parkins, Nels Cline & Thurston Moore "Live at Easthampton Town Hall". Contemplative noise. Good stuff. Available for $10 from JMZ records Leo Cuypers' "Heavy Days Are Here Agian". With Bennink and Breuker. On Unheard Music Series. Amazing stuff. A lot of healthy Dutch humor (btw, Hans, stop hiding). Available for $13 from Atavistic Mount Everest Trio "Waves From Albert Ayler". Whooooah! One of the most exciting bass-saxophone-drums trios I've heard. Masterpiece from 70s. Mats Gustaffson wrote some rapturous liner notes. GET IT NOW! Also available for $13 Atavistic By the way, I was not paricularly impressed by the VAO's "Satie".