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An outstanding player. Great technique, beautiful sound, good ear for melody. Loved his early ESP / BYG work, some of the best and original trumpet playing in the "freer" idiom. It was great to see him reemerge in the XXI century, "Minimal Brass" (Tzadik, 2005) is a beautiful, innovative work. Still need to get that Rogue Art release with Silva - will actually go ahead and order it right now.

Yes, as a part of this excellent box set: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Jazz-On-Disques-Vogue-/release/9587276

Mark Dresser - Unveil (Clean Feed). Powerful.

Yes. From my experience here in Vienna, Japanese packages sent "SAL" (the cheapest and slowest shipping option from Japan), even larger ones, are very rarely taxed for whatever reason, they probably get at a different customs point. The ones sent by "Airmail" would be taxed 50% of the time. The ones sent by DHL or FedEx would be taxed all the time - in fact, DHL / FedEx wold not even deliver it to you unless you pay the VAT + "handling fee" in advance.

Sticks and Stones eponymous release on 482 Music is excellent. The one on Thrill Jockey ("Shed Grace") is not as good.

A Moers release, Street Priest, available in expanded form (with two bonus cuts) at Bandcamp as of today: https://ronaldshannonjackson.bandcamp.com/album/street-priest-60

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I guess with this artwork they wanted to convey that this is a fourth generation copy of a recorded radio broadcast.

I like this one more: https://limitedsedition.bandcamp.com/album/ls026-liverpool-bluecoat-concert I have heard most of the stuff Butcher has released and 13 Friendly Numbers is still one of my favorites.

New release on Rogue Art: Butcher - Shipp - Lehn "The Clawed Stone". I strongly prefer Butcher solo, I find his paying so complete that partners only subtract. Well, Gino Robair might be an exception. In any case, I might give this one a try. There is an earlier release by this group, "Tangle", on Fataka: https://f-a-t-a-k-a.bandcamp.com/album/tangle

Placed my order with Moers on Monday and received Out for a Walk today. Listened through it once, good stuff, although Almost Like Me is better.

Talkig about favorite drummers, here is one: Garth Powell

I did a few months ago. No problems.

Ain't gonna happen. Even in the much more active years, 15 years ago, there were probably 10 people on this forum interested in "freer" music. And now with the board in a zombie mode it's even worse.

I agree on Peterson and Sorey, maybe Rainey, but Cleaver (?), Waits (???) as world's best? To each his own of course, but this strikes me as an outlandish hyperbole that even subjective variations in taste would fail to justify. And there are a couple of good drummers outside of NYC too. And maybe we could refrain from grand proclamations about "best", this is not competitive sport after all, and rather talk about "favorites"?

Could it be that you meant "one of the 4 or 5 decent drummers from NYC" by chance ?

Inspired by this topic I listened to my first Perelman in 10 years (at least): a randomly selected Tarvos (Leo, 2017) with Shipp and Bobby Kapp: https://www.discogs.com/Ivo-Perelman-Tarvos/release/9996101 It's actually very good, I liked it much better than I'd thought I would.

I have not kept up for the last 15 years or so, and it's unlikely I will, but from the older stuff I remember liking these three: Children of Ibeji (on Enja MW, 1992): https://www.discogs.com/Ivo-Perelman-Children-Of-Ibeji/release/1974004 The Eye Listens with Michael Wimberly and Wilber Morris (on Boxholder, 1999): https://www.discogs.com/Ivo-Perelman-The-Eye-Listens/release/536752 The Hammer with Jay Rosen (on Leo, 1998): https://www.discogs.com/Ivo-Perelman-Jay-Rosen-The-Hammer/release/2492679 None of these is on Spotify. The first two are OOP (sorry), but should be relatively easy to find. Ah, and one more: En Adir (Traditional Jewish Songs) with Marilyn Crispell, Gerry Hemingway and William Parker (who is somewhat less annoying than usual here) on Music & Arts, 1996: https://www.discogs.com/Ivo-Perelman-Quartet-En-Adir-Traditional-Jewish-Songs/release/3246054 . This one's on Spotify.

You don't really need to "search" for it, the CD (or even LP, if you are so inclined) is available directly from the label: https://www.moers-music.com/productscd/odean-pope-trio-out-for-a-walk-cd2072

Don't know the answers, but I love this (Almost Like Me) album! Regarding shady-grady, I find it odd that "Out for a Walk" reuses the the artwork from the unrelated Pope's Soul Note release "Epitome".

Not sure about "the best", but I like these a lot. All of them are not exactly jazz, though. https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/fracture-mechanics https://f-a-t-a-k-a.bandcamp.com/album/prediction-and-warning And just released: Sorry the images are so small.

Today only Ayler records gives a 20% discount on all bandcamp purchases (both downloads and CDs) with a discount code 65bcf20 I bought a couple of albums: https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/garden-s https://ayler-records.bandcamp.com/album/tower-vol-4

A lot of live Ronald Shannon Jackson stuff on Spotify / bandcamp (apparently, released by his estate).

Owen Howard (drums) "Sojourn" (KOCH Jazz 1995, recorded in 1993) with Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier, Phil Grenadier, and Brad Shepik: https://www.discogs.com/Owen-Howard-Sojourn/release/4367486 This one is actually really good. To be fair, I don't know how much of a profile the sidemen had in 1993, but by now all of them (expect for Phil Grenadier, I guess) are definitely more well-known than Owen Howard.