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Btw, there is a live streaming of the Georg Gräwe large band concert right now: https://www.porgy.at/events/live I saw them a couple of times last year - outstanding.

Oh yes. https://open.spotify.com/album/0pzbtxim3lVmSj4Y1L2KoQ

Well Sir, you got all the Butcher duds, as far as I am concerned. That Butcher / Hemingway duo is probably the worst thing I heard by Butcher (and I do like Hemingway in (many) other contexts). The duo with Nilssen-Love is only marginally better. My copy of the Suzuki duo is on its way to Australia, hope the guy who bought it from me on Discogs will find something to enjoy there - I failed. The one with McPhee might have been interesting to witness but does not seem to work as an album. I don't like van der Schyff's cymbal sound, so I could not make it through the Northwest thing. There are not that many Butcher duds left, you are close to completing the collection. I am curious about A Brush with Dignity, never even heard of it. Fabrizio Spera is a very good drummer - saw him in trio with Butcher and L.S. Ellis at TTM in Berlin. A disaster of a concert, I shared my impressions right after the concert in the Funny Rat - but Spera was excellent. For solo Butcher, I am in complete agreement with Rabshakeh - 13 Friendly numbers and Fixations are the first that came to my mind. Also Invisible Ear, which is quite different from those two, utilizing amplification, feedback and other electronic chicanery (to a great effect) - here it is https://johnbutcher1.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-ear. I don't like the celebrated Resonant Spaces because this one actually does fall into "technique exploration" category for me. I just downloaded his latest solo STUCK (here: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/john-butcher-stuck/ ) and it's a good one too. Butcher cold? Well, Ben Webster he is not. I think the best word that describes his playing is "elegant". His technique is incredible, but his solos never sound like technical practice pieces to me. There is a great flow, there is an abundance of ideas, there is no empty mindless chatter (hello, Evan Parker). It's all very precise progressing perfectly logically - like a mathematical theorem. I can listen these back to back with the best classical pieces for solo saxophone (Berio, Scelsi, etc.) and Butcher's music is right up there. There are very few solo improvisors who can construct a complete piece of music on the spot like this. You might want to consider this one, I enjoy it a lot:

I saw Shipp only once, I think. It was a David S. Ware quartet (with Guillermo Brown on drums) - it was probably one of the most boring jazz concerts I have seen. And they were plying right after the fantastic Happy Apple (where are they now?) concert and the contrast was stark. One saxophonist Shipp is working with a lot is Ivo Perelman - they seem to release a duo records every week. I skimmed through a couple of them on Spotify, they sounded quite good. There was a trio record, "Dione" with Andrew Cyrille - I thought that one was strong, but I listened to it only once. I liked that old Shipp / Mat Manery duo on HatHut, "Gravitational Systems", actually how about I listen to it now, it's been ages. I suspect Shipp is a Scriabin fan, with all this drama... Regarding Butcher, who is among my favorite musicians today, I believe (and yeah, I keep repeating myself here) the way to enjoy his music is solo. His solo performances are so compete that with partners he has no choice but to subtract a from his paying, while his playing is so idiosyncratic nothing seems to gel well with it. I saw him many times in very different formations and the only time I really liked him an playing non-solo was with Polwechsel - but Polwechsel is a very different (and very quiet) animal altogether. I was at a Butcher mini-festival in Berlin last year where he played in various groups with good musicians (Agnel, Lehn, Schick, Buck, Mayas...) - and all was mediocre. The best piece was Butcher playing a bit of solo at the beginning of his duo with Agnel. These concerts will be released as a 5-LP set, so here you go, you have my anti-recommendation.

Yes, Butcher sounds rather unhinged at times here. And untypically jazzy. As mentioned earlier, there is a new release by the same trio on RogueArt: https://roguart.com/product/the-clawed-stone/154

And got this one too: https://f-a-t-a-k-a.bandcamp.com/album/tangle

Well, I got me Hans Reichel's "Bonobo" - a work of genius, as far as I am concerned (and I am not using the g-word lightly!). https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/bonobo

Clean Feed has a destocking sale that runs until Nov. 1, 2020. Many items are €5.90 each: https://cleanfeed-records.com/product-category/sock-off/

Well, thanks Mr. Lazro! And I guess you know that there is another album by the same trio - Lazro / Duboc / Lasserre - Sens Radiants: https://darktree.bandcamp.com/album/sens-radiants

Yes, a great one. Here is a good one with Lazro too: https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/garden-s And a fantastic solo Lazro: https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/some-other-zongs And Lazro's duo with Carlos Zingaro Hauts Plateaux is great. It's OOP, but cheap copies are available on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Daunik-Lazro-Carlos-Zingaro-Hauts-Plateaux/release/1309514

Will check these out, Küchen is great. There is a new solo Barre Phillips album, "Thirty Years in Between" on Victo: https://www.discogs.com/Barre-Phillips-Thirty-Years-In-Between/release/15560544 . It's released as a twofer with the long OOP solo release from 1989, "Camouflage" (which might be my favorite solo bass record).

Several new releases on Fundacja Słuchaj, including Evan Parker / Agusti Fernandez duo: https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/music

One track available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0DkWUpd9RHG7jimffPyvBH

I guess this is it: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/jacques-coursil/

It's apparently available from the label directly: https://www.savvy-contemporary.com/en/pillars/savvy-records/jacques-coursil/

Coursil's BYG albums became available on Spotify: 'Way Ahead': https://open.spotify.com/album/0jB4eK43gKgPwniQVpnYLU 'Black Suite': https://open.spotify.com/album/44TmvJt3XiweZZ4YXtoc3D

Yes. I sampled a few of tracks from across his discography - pretty boring player, as far as I am concerned. Sort of unfocused and contrived, no flow, the sound is forced. I don't get it. There are dozens of more interesting players, both young and old (IMHO, of course). Randomly - Jean-Luc Cappozzo:

He's a sideman on Dizzy Reece's "From In to Out" (a live recording from 1970), which is pretty good.

Yes, "Thelonious in Action" and "Misterioso".

Martial Solal "Just Friends" on Dreyfus, recorded in 1997. Piano trio with Paul Motian. Joyful stuff!

There are a few cheap copies available at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/5600397?ev=rb

I hope that when I die - or will be dying, as is possibly the case of Mr. Peacock, - those around me won't feel obligated to post the status of my condition online.

Perhaps we could discuss his music as well?

His playing on Tony Williams's "Spring" is phenomenal.

"Currently unavailable" at amazon UK - but not before it had reached the top-100 in CD bestsellers list.