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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".

Your Russian friend got a little ka-ka - it is the third time I am buying a hatOLOGY CD that I already have. This time it's Eskelin's "Kulak..". I somehow thought that it was "One Great Day" that I am looking for... So, if anybody's interested, I'll be happy to trade it (for "One Great Day", for example). As I mentioned before, I also have a spare copy of Bley's "Annette" and "Eleven Ghosts" by Bennink & Mylford. Geoff, all this "might" thing sounds not to persuasive to me either. Have a good shopping tomorrow, ho-ho. The stuff you bought today looks great - I don't think (although I am not sure) I have any of those. BTW, Geoff, if this store carries the following hatOLOGY items: Ellery Eskelin Trio "One Great Day" Clusone 3 "Rara Avis", could you please get them for me so that we could trade for something (I have a couple of rare Wynton Marsalis CDs for trade).

Another nice little Dutch label: X-OR

I don't have anything from Rhune Grammofone - I'll check it out. As for Cryptogramophone stuff, in addition to Dresser I quite liked Don Preston's Trio "Transformation" - clever, inventive and quite muscular (not new-agey) piano trio. Zappa's and Carla Bley's compositions (Don Preston worked with both - king ubu, that's Preston's piano solo in the middle of "Little House I Used to Live In" from "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" and a monster moog solo on "Waka/Jawaka"), among others. Strong bass and drums. Good stuff - not Earth-shattering, but good. Geoff, I also really like the Berman's performance of Cage piano pieces.

Geoff, Kenny Wheeler's Gnu High is outstanding. DeJohnette's drumming is fascinating, Keith Jarret is ver inventive and Dave Holland is Dave Holland. And one of the best Kenny Wheeler I've heard on record (and Wheeler is one of my favorite flügelhorn players) - melodic, lyrical, powerful - and his sound alone is mesmerizing. This is the CD I return to very often.

Thanks for the info on ECM, ubu. couw, great job. I like the one with three small images.

Tell me about it. Just today I received the news that the company has made mistake in the internal tax provision that is deducted from my salary (they were deducting way too little), so my bank account will be relieved of excessive CD budget in 2004. Tony, I don't know whether you got any of the Cryptogramophone stuff. I listened to Alex Cline's "Sparks Fly Upwards" and it sounds new-agingly boring to me. I also listened to Jeff Gauthier's "The Mask" and it also, while very pretty, seems bland to me. But the Dresser stuff is a killer.

I can make you a CD-R.

Ubu, I have Ortega's "Scattered Clouds" on hatOLOGY, and as far as I remember (I haven't listened to it for a couple of years) it is very nice, with just a few meandering moments. Truly original stuff. I know there is another Ortega hatOLOGY release, and from what I've heard, it's even better.

This is proibably my favorite CT.

DISCPLUS confirmed my order for hatOLOGY VAO and "Annette", as well as for Dunmall's "Ghostly Thoughts". Thanks, king ubu. Looking for Mengelberg now. Chaney, I haven't received "Pigs...", nor have I received any response to my e-mails. I guess I have to file a complaint with somebody... BTW, I got a spare copy of "Annette" here in Berlin, so I'll be eager to trade it.

Meanwhile I keep listening to Mark Dresser Trio's Aquifer on Cryptogramophone. I listened to it already four times in a row - and I hardly ever listen to any CD even twice in a row... Amazing, amazing music.

If you're interested - available from SQUIDCO for $26.45 + $4.00 shipping. You even checked the international shipping! You are such an internationally-minded guy, Chaney. Thanks a lot. Ordering immidiately.

Hey Geoff, nice to see you here! When I was living in Italy I saw this Waldron/Lacy duo around in stores but decided to skip it in favor of the hatOLOGY set (which I still have to buy, before 3000 anonimous maniacs snap all copies). John B, I don't have Brötzmann's WELS - it is in my volumnous to get list. Chaney, thanks for heads up on Cadence - I might have to try it - I never bought from them because of the non-subscriber fee and the inconvenient website. But now since themusicresource.com stopped procuring new Cadence, CIMP and other "advanced" stuff, this might be my only choice. king ubu, I of course also would like to get my copy of the Swiss steam.

king ubu, are you in Zürich this Sunday, btw? I'll be passing through in the evening - we could catch up. Yeah, I forgot - you can skip the Noah Howard one on Ayler - it's a bit predictable and repetative. Howard is an excelletn musician heard better on other CDs (the one on Eremite for example, and the one on Boxholder with Kenny Clarke - shit, I can never remember the CD titles).

king ubu, the one I would recommend first and foremost would be Brötzmann's Live at Nefertiti - this is probably my favorite Brötzmann CD. Excellent drumming and bass guitar, and Brötzmann is in top form creating a lot of beauty with references to the whole history of tenor saxophone. I keep repeating it, but I find it truly amazing how he developed into such a diverse musician in just 30 years. I second ...and William danced - very happy music. Another very good one is 2-CD set called FLowers for Johnny - this is trio of the same guy who plays on "...and William danced" with Johnny Dyani on bass. Dyani's bass parts are really worth the price of this CD alone.