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I'll post more later (and boy there is a lot to recommend when it comes to Italian jazz), but here is a great one I've been enjoying for nearly 20 years: Riccardo Lay Quartetto "Frammenti" (il manifesto, 2001). Joyful stuff (with that South African via Mingus feel) with fantastic Gavino Murgia on saxophones. And if you never heard Sardinian polyphonic singing, you're in for a surprise. Not available on streaming, but can (should!) be bought for €4 at Italian amazon. https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B0057GYN96/ Well, since somebody's mentioned Gavino Murgia, here is another great one by him: Gavino Murgia Blast 4tet - "blast" (abeat, 2018)

I like this one quite a bit: https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/aequalis-brody-davidovsky-gideon-steiger-ung

Recorded in 1980: Fred Anderson Quartet - The Milwaukee Tapes Vol.1 (Atavistic) The John Carter Quintet - Night Fire (Black Saint) Cecil Taylor - Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! (MPS) Fred Anderson; Steve McCall - Vintage Duets: Chicago 1-11-80 (Okka Disk) Archie Shepp; Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - Looking At Bird (SteepleChase) Julius Hemphill Quartet - Flat-Out Jump Suite (Black Saint) Bill Dixon - In Italy - Volume One (Black Saint) Idris Muhammad - Kabsha (Theresa) Stéphane Grappelli; Martial Solal - Happy Reunion (Owl) Bernd Konrad - Hans Koller Unit with Didier Lockwood - Traumtänzer (Hat Hut). Reissued on CD together with 1994 Konrad / Koller sessions as "Phonolith" on hatOLOGY / Hat Hut. Tom Van Der Geld - Out Patients (JAPO / ECM) Contact Trio - Musik (JAPO / ECM) Arild Andersen - Lifeline (ECM) Old and New Dreams - Playing (ECM) And that's just one year.

I also thought this EP soprano solo was quite good as far as these things go (all his circular breathing soprano solos of the last 30 years or so sound the same to me), and the interview snippets are unnecessary, although their content (if you reign your imagination so that you do not "hear" what actually is not there) I find quite innocent. I have not bought any EP music for a long time, and don't have much interest in it (well, I like his tenor playing) - regardless of his views. At the least, I am grateful to him for the Psi imprint - I remember him mentioning that his motivation for starting the label was that he really wanted to put Gerd Dudek's (excellent) "Smatter" album out when nobody else was interested.

This one should satisfy all your secret tuba desires: https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-metal-light-industry

On DIW I like Misha Mengelberg's Trio "no Idea" quite a bit. There are also a number of wallpaint-stripping Kaoru Abe and Masayuki Takayanagi releases on DIW that are great, as far as I am concerned. This ONJQ one is good too: On JMT, the Berne's stuff is good, no surprise here. And Joey Baron's album with Eskelin and Swell is fun

Is he anti-immigration, really? I find it hard to believe. His Brexit support is of "EU democratic deficit" and "anti-neoliberal" line of thinking. I very much doubt it is of a xenophobic bent. Let's not paint all Brexiters with the same brush. And they are not specifically about COVID either, Mullis died in 2019.

Both of the Bruise(d) albums: https://tonybevan.bandcamp.com/album/bruised https://tonybevan.bandcamp.com/album/bruise-with-derek-bailey are phenomenal really. I am listening to them all the time since I got them a couple of months ago.

It's great album and it does not sound like "Guerilla Mosaics" at all - much more gravitas to it. "Guerilla Mosaics" is not the best Butcher out there, that's for sure. "Tangle" is available for streaming at full at Bandcamp: https://f-a-t-a-k-a.bandcamp.com/album/tangle

Very sad news. A wonderful musician. His trio with Durrant and Butcher, as well as News from the Shed quintet (http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4121.html) recorded some of my favorite music. John Russell on EMANEM: http://www.emanemdisc.com/cd-russell.html

Oh, even multiple-CD jewel cases, nice. Thanks, Pim.

Can anybody recommend where to buy quality standard jewel cases - preferably in Europe, Japan or Asia? I got the best-reviewed ones from the German amazon (https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00006J4EP/) and they are flimsy crap.

These are standard privacy terms on most of the websites. In the EU all the websites have to provide a clear disclaimer of this type - and give you an option to opt out (however cumbersome it might be in reality) - as per GDPR. In the US they did not have to do it, as far as I understand. Maybe they do now. Just because you don't have such a pop-up whenever you login on any other website, it does not mean their privacy terms are any better. If you are curious, look for Privacy Policy on any website you visit - a lot of fun stuff there.

Nice documentary on Breuker (with English subtitles).

Enhance? Been reading too many spam emails?

Works fine for me, but I think it might be more active in Europe (unscientifically judging by my Wishlist - the stuff I want is predominantly offered by the European sellers). It is easy to list items for sale and set up shipping rates. You might want to factor the PayPal fees (nearly everybody would pay by PayPal - to my chagrin, since there are more economical ways to transfer money these days) and local taxes, if any (e.g. EU sellers have to pay local VAT on top of 8% Discogs fee) in your price.

Sonny himself endorsed this release. Was he made aware of the edits? If yes, was he informed about why the edits were made? Is anybody from Resonance going to inform Sonny about the wrong speed issue?

Yes, great stuff.

More interesting series (or sublabel, whatever) of Hat Hut is hatART: https://www.discogs.com/label/138774-hat-ART . A lot of great 90's jazz there, this one for example: The series was discontinued in 1997 and hatOLOGY and hat[now]ART imprints were started. Quite a few of the hatART releases were later reissued as a part of these new series, but not all. Most of the stuff is available on streaming now.

Great stuff indeed.

Yes, absolutely.

From my yesterday's bandcamp haul: Bruised by Tony Bevan, Orphy Robinson, John Edwards, Ashley Wales and Mark Sanders - fantastic. I remember eyeing it way back when, 15 years ago in the Funny Rat times, but Foghorn CDs were quite expensive then. Now at GBP 6 per download (and GBP 4 per CD!) there is absolutely no excuse not to get it. https://tonybevan.bandcamp.com/album/bruised

Older thread:

This new one could be interesting: Oliver Schwerdt / Barry Guy / Baby Sommer Gone For My Baby And One More For The Road (EUPH 077) http://www.euphorium.de/rubriken/records/oneformybaby.htm

https://www.enricomerlin.org/miles-davis-1959 https://issuu.com/lineagraficabertelli/docs/estratto?fbclid=IwAR3uaM9fkCoh9XT-4g0VsgIBZ5q9QCWxSukmKjbAcTqSaOg-RW11dTeGyxY