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Marc Levin - Social Sketches (Enja). Very curious work.

I think it's the composer's son who uploaded the recordings to YouTube. He's maintaining a pretty comprehensive website about Nosyrev: http://www.nosyrev.com/biography I would love to like his music more than I do given the tragic circumstances of Nosyrev's life, but I don't find it first-rate. There are some truly great and original elements there, but it's all quite disjointed and incohesive. Maybe not having formal education had an effect (arrested at the age of 19 when he just started his studies at Leningrad Conservatory). Maybe lack of access to good musicians (he lived in a provincial town of Voronezh after his release from Gulag).

Yes, it's a nice one. Helps understand who is producing which sound.

Gorgeous.

On (otherwise excellent) solo drums album by Beaver Harris "African Drums" (recorded in 1977) there is one track (called "African Drums" too) with David S. Ware. His playing is weak, and it's infested with late-era Coltrane-isms. "Interstellar Space" is my favorite Coltrane album, fwiw. I agree on Glenn Spearman being influenced by later-period Coltrane, what an excellent musician. Also, Louis Belogenis. Early Gerd Dudek (later Dudek is also indebted to Coltrane but rather "Crescent"-period). Actually, Evan Parker on tenor. And early Breuker (Machine Gun era). Ivo Perelman ("Hammer", "Sound Hierarchy"). Joe McPhee. Urs Leimgruber. Alfred 23 Harth. From younger generation, Jonas Kullhammar. Many people. Best of them don't sound like Coltrane (thankfully).

bandcamp best of jazz, April 2021: https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-jazz/the-best-jazz-on-bandcamp-april-2021?utm_source=notification Most of the names are new to me, and I am looking forward to exploring these releases. These bandcamp jazz & experimental lists / specials / whatever they call them are compiled by knowledgeable people, which is a pleasant surprise. I remember being impressed by the mini-feature on Joe McPhee a coupe of years ago ( https://daily.bandcamp.com/lifetime-achievement/joe-mcphee-discography-guide ) - the writer (Marc Masters) obviously knows his McPhee. I would never expect companies with much more vast resources (Spotify, Apple, amazon) even contemplating doing something like this.

It's a shame this band imploded before the scheduled end of the tour. Zappa's guitar playing was getting better and better (it was sort of hesitant at the beginning of the tour but his last '88 concert in Genoa had him playing beautifully - see "Outside Now" from "Broadway the Hard Way" or "After Dinner Smoker" from "Trance-Fusion") and the band was getting increasingly loose with improvisations. But well, as the man said, touring can make you crazy.

That's a Zappa song, right?

Karlheinz Essl "Rudiments". Great, great stuff.

Not exactly, it was to damage Knepper's position in court hearings. As per Wikipedia: Charged with assault, Mingus appeared in court in January 1963 and was given a suspended sentence. According to his [Knepper's] daughter, Robin, Mingus also later mailed heroin to Knepper's home, and made an anonymous phone call to the police. A little girl at the time, she remembers the police questioning her father after the mailman delivered the package. What a nice man, Mingus. I seem to remember reading somewhere that musicians (Buddy Collette?) who witnessed the assault refused to testify in Knepper's support, and instead stood behind Mingus.

I am ignoring all these ezz-thetics reissues. There are some some interesting new releases in the series, however - which is what the label was relaunched for, after all (I doubt Uehlinger went out of retirement to reissue Charlie Parker Dial sides). This new one looks tasty, for example: I recently got Alex Hendriksen / Fabian Gisler "The Song Is You", (ezz-thetics release from 2019) and it's an excellent tenor / bass duo playing standards, recorded in 2018. Samples here: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/art/alex-hendiksen-song-is-you/hnum/9270808

Clementi - Demidenko on Hyperion. Good stuff.

https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ahh-ahh

I read the story about that session in Max Bolleman´s book "Sounds", he was the owner of the studio where most of the Timeless records were made. It was a terrible stress on that session because of the very unruly and uncoperative behaviour of Woody Shaw, and even worse, of his then girlfriend. But the music was great which is astonishing under those terrible circumstances. Yes, good tunes and everybody plays with great energy. I am not much of a Woody Shaw fan, but I think is one of his best. This one and "In My Own Sweet Way" are the only Woody Shaw dates I return to often. And gotta get this Boleman book.

Enjoying Sand Storm by Kaze (Christian Pruvost, Natsuki Tamura - trumpet, Satoko Fujii - piano, Peter Orins - drums) with Ikue Mori a lot. bandcamp: https://satokofujii.bandcamp.com/album/sand-storm-2 or https://kaze2.bandcamp.com/album/sand-storm - or even cheaper, from the label directly: https://www.circum-disc.com/kaze-ikue-mori-sand-storm/ . Or streaming at Apple Music. Whichever way, excellent stuff. A side note: is Apple Music the crappiest streaming app there is or what? They have more good stuff than Amazon and Spotify, but man their interface and functionality suck.

Selling the following Ran Blake CDs. All in excellent condition. Breakthru (Improvising Artists, 1992): https://www.discogs.com/Ran-Blake-Breakthru/release/2981222 - € 11.50 Wende (Owl / Universal France, 2002): https://www.discogs.com/Ran-Blake-Wende/release/9339568 - € 8.50 A Memory Of Vienna (duos with Anthony Braxton) (hatOLOGY, 1997): https://www.discogs.com/Ran-Blake-Anthony-Braxton-A-Memory-Of-Vienna/release/2946855 - € 7.50 Something to Live For (hatOLOGY, 1999): https://www.discogs.com/Ran-Blake-Something-To-Live-For/release/1116863 - € 6.50 Horace Is Blue: A Silver Noir (hatOLOGY, 2000): https://www.discogs.com/Ran-Blake-Horace-Is-Blue-A-Silver-Noir/release/1194904 - € 9.50 Price for all five: € 40 ($48, £35). Flat shipping fee regardless of the quantity: € 5.90 in Europe, € 10.90 elsewhere. Direct bank transfer (preferred) or PayPal ("Family & Friends", otherwise fees covered by the buyer). Send me a PM or email to djmdavid@yahoo.com

I ordered that IST set some time ago - looking forward to it. I got this new release on bandcamp - https://michaelmooreramboy.bandcamp.com/album/amulet - sweet clarinet / bass duos by Michael Moore and Paul Berner.

Victo releases (at least some of them) are available for streaming at Apple Music. This 1996 concert surely looks interesting. It was recorded at the same time as Parker / Namtchylak duo "Mars Song" (https://www.discogs.com/Evan-Parker-Sainkho-Namtchylak-Mars-Song/release/2319139). And that stuff is scary.

How "major" was Bach during his lifetime? He was definitely not obscure, has managed to get quite a few of his works published (with one Mr. Handel of London pre-odering a copy of I forgot which work exactly) but was he as well known and regarded as his contemporaries Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi?

We should start a thread about lesser-known baroque composers...

Ghost dance . Wasn't it ghost trance? Trans-dance, ghost-chance, whatever. I remember the only GTM release of Braxton (of what I have heard, I have not heard everything, Lord have mercy) I found semi-decent was Four Compositions (GTM) 2000 on Delmark. But even Braxton's more interesting '70s stuff is compositionally quite weak (IMHO). There are dozens of jazz musicians who write more interesting tunes. Just off the top of my head, because I was listening to him today - Guus Janssen. But Braxton gives numbers to his compositions and dedicates them to Stockhausen, Partch and like and wears a turtle-neck sweater (not to forget pipe-smoking), so he is a big composer.

Yes, major albums both - I like the one sans Bailey slightly more. It's on Spotify, will give it a go. Breathing life into Braxton's stodgy lifeless compositions is no easy feat, so I am curious how Thomas & Co. fare. Moreover, the music is recorded at the excellent local Austrian festival (about one hour drive from Vienna, right on the border with Hungary) that I used to attend (not in 2006 when this performance took place, later). Remember live music?

Been perusing Damon Smith downloads, and this one - Jeff Platz, Stephen Haynes, Matt Crane, Damon Smith "Theory of Colors" - is very nice: https://umlandrecords.bandcamp.com/album/theory-of-colors Beautifully recorded too.

Both Wiley / Angola Project albums are available for streaming at Apple Music.

Still intend to go through all 1982 stuff I have, but wanted to highlight this one separately - Tony Coe "Tournée Du Chat" (nato), recorded 1981-82. Fantastic stuff.