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Yes, you're right, 2nd movement )Allegretto) only 12 seconds long on Spotify! I sent a request to Ensemble Modern to make it at least 24 seconds.

Not familiar with the performers, but this Janacek sonata is gorgeous. The first classical CD I bought was of Janacek and Prokofiev piano & violin sonatas!

As far as I am concerned, Brötzmann is as traditional and "idiomatic" as you can get. He's been playing more or less the same stuff for 50 years. It is extremely repetitive (IMHO, of course) full of autopilot hooks and licks. I think he is a very nice and dedicated guy and has a beautiful sound on tenor (not on clarinet or (God forbid) tarogato, which one needs to hear in the hands of Hungarian folk musicians to appreciate what this instrument is actually capable of), but that's about it. Barry Guy is a different story, different caliber altogether. I agree (if I understand you correctly) that The Thing is a waste of Gustafsson's talents. I know Trzaska and Kaucic, and like the former quite a bit. I just checked - it looks like I was the first person to mention either of them on this forum, 15 years ago.

Yeah, cool. I can't speak for "us", or even for "many of us", only for myself. When I listen to music I don't care about "sound of love" and "passions" from "within" or elsewhere. Neither am I interested in whether the music is made from a "lifetime of living" (is there other type of lifetime, non-living?). The only thing I care for is whether it is interesting to listen to. In case of Brötzmann, it is not.

Hal Singer is excellent on this one. The man is 100 already (was 90 when this album was recorded)! Murray is doing his thing, boring. But Singer is the man!

Excellent stuff

Inspired by the solo Peter Herbert concert I saw in live streaming (sort of, due to unstable connection) earlier today I listened to this one (has Peter Herbert as a sideman): Woody Shaw with Tone Jansa Quartet (on Timeless). Such an excellent work. Good original tunes. One of the best records with Woody Shaw, IMO. This one, as well as Dr. Chi by the same group.

The Enja edition is still easily available: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00AO7HOPI/

Cool, thanks.

Looked through the track list: https://www.nottwo.com/mw1000 Not too interested. I can fairly easily imagine what most of these would sound like, and what I imagine does not excite me that much. Really don't need to hear any more Brötzmann and Vandermark. Guy / Homburger duo is nice, but is well documented elsewhere. Leandre / Guy thing is probably overkill. Mats Gustafsson / Rafal Mazur / Paal Nilssen-Love could be interesting if Mats is not in the silly "The Thing" blow-hard mode. I have not seen him live for years, I wonder if he still plays tenor much, he is such a good tenor player (while his baritone and flutophone playing I find gimmicky). Trzaska I would be interested in hearing, he is an excellent player. Agustí Fernández too. Not sure about Kaučič in these combinations.

I have not listened to it in ages. I remember it being a decent date. Shaw excellent, Henderson OK. My go-to Shaw / Swainson album is Woody Shaw's "In My Own Sweet Way", my favorite Woody Shaw.

How is the music?

Yes!

For whatever reason neither of these seems to be available at Spotify, hence the purchase of:

Since starting this thread seven years ago I explored dozens of solo guitar albums (actually checked most of the recommendations from this thread), and decided I'd add one more recommendation - "Wichlinghauser Blues" by Hans Reichel on FMP. It's such an original work: https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/wichlinghauser-blues

Christmann with John Russell:

Yes. And there is another release by the same duo recorded a year earlier: https://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/thrumblin

There are three excellent Mangelsdorff / Scofield tracks (around 20 mins total) on this live release: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Int-Jazzfestival-M%C3%BCnster/release/5063934 . Also, in a more adventurous direction, there was a fantastic two trombones / two guitars quartet (Conrad Bauer, Johannes Bauer, Joe Sachse, Uwe Kropinski) called Doppelmoppel. They had three releases, all are highly recommended: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1840346-DoppelMoppel . And there is indeed a Mangelsdorff / Zoller duo - one track on this album: https://www.discogs.com/Albert-Mangelsdorff-Albert-Mangelsdorff-And-His-Friends/master/334713

I had this CD, and really hated it. As a disclaimer, I can't stand Roy Haynes' playing. There is close to nothing about it that I find enjoyable (well, I do like some of his solos - bet never his playing behind somebody) and I don't listen to many otherwise fine albums because Haynes is ruining it for me. There is only one other well known (and ubiquitous) musician that provokes equally strong negative feelings in me - William Parker. I am indifferent to Corea. And I don't like Peacock in "mainstream" setting (particularly with plastic sound he has here). So this leaves just poor Joe to make this session bearable for me against all odds, and no, the miracle does not happen. He is overly verbose (like everybody else here), just keeping mounting one cliche upon another.

"More..." is available for streaming at Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7H9h0xqGD8EiiwcJp6NriV Agree re Haden's playing being not the best match for neither Henderson nor Foster. On the original album ("And Evening With...") he and Foster are also mixed too upfront (and Henderson a bit too distant). Foster plays well (a bit too intrusive to my taste) but the sound of his drums is really ugly. All is compensated by truly inspired playing by Henderson. I also like this trio date better than the earlier Blue Note release.

Well said indeed. Let me listen to the "Declaration..." again, and I might come up with a refute. Meanwhile, I check the discogs entry, this is indeed not an Eicher production - it's Sun Chung and Rick Kwan. Praise to them, they did an outstanding job.

I actually did not like this one that much (the playing by everybody - Frisell, cute as ever, in particular - is sort of decorative). I thought that Teitelbaum was the most interesting player here. I liked its sound, though - this is not Eicher's production, is it? The Silkheart duo is more gritty (with Teitelbaum being much more prominent).

His earlier duo with Cyrille on Silkheart is excellent, as well as the CD on Moers.