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https://mikebullock.bandcamp.com/album/at-home-benefit-album Gorgeous.

https://tonybevan.bandcamp.com/album/everybody-else-but-me

In Memoriam of a truly great musician

Bandcamp HR will reach out to you shortly.

At this point, with full-tracks streaming available, I do not see any value in music reviews for me. Instead of trudging through randomly stringed pet hyperboles, I would be more happy with a simple list of albums by a person whose taste I trust. I can take it from there myself. When reviews influenced my record-bying decisions I really enjoyed the ones by Eugene Chadbourne and Dan Warburton.

Yeeey, the list game. That Burning Ambulance list does not suck. Here is what I would put for the albums recorded (not necessarily released) in 1974: Lee Konitz - "Lone-Lee" Amalgam - "Innovation" Earl Hines - "West Side Story" Mine Kosuke - "Out of Chaos" Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band - "Kogun" Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky; Konrad "Conny" Bauer; Ulrich Gumpert; Günter Baby Sommer - "Synopsis" Ella Fitzgerald - "Fine and Mellow" Zoot Sims; Bucky Pizzarelli; Buddy Rich - "Nirvana" Toshinori Kondo; Kazutoki Umezu; Toshi Tsuchitori - "Live Concert Tokyo 1974" Fred Frith - "Guitar Solos" Hans Koller - "Kunstkopfindianer" Dewey Redman - "Coincide"

Suddenly there is a new AALY Trio recording, first one for 25 years! It's on Silkheart: https://silkheart.bandcamp.com/album/sustain . Unlike all previous AALY Trio recordings, this one actually is a trio, just Gustafsson - Janson - Nordeson, no Ken Vandermark. Listening to it for the second time in a row - excellent album, mostly on a subdued side. It's such a pleasure to hear woefully rarely-recorded Peter Janson in free jazz context again - what a master! He gets this mesmerizing deep singing sound from the bass like no one else.

Listened to it on Spotify. Well, it's not great. Too much noodling, not too many ideas. After it was over, Spotify auto-played this one, and I see no reason to object to the good robot - it is much better:

Don't know (about) it, shame on me. Will definitely check it out, I love Altena - both as bassist and as composer / bandleader.

Well, looks like there is a duo album with Kent Carter on Horo: https://www.discogs.com/release/549498-Steve-Lacy-Catch ...

Yeah. Listening to this, I realized I want to hear some Lacy-bass duos. Does there exist a good one? There is an album with Joelle Leandre, but I did not like it. Anything else? Maybe some tracks with Kowald somewhere... Wouldn't it be great to have an album of duos with Avenel!? Or with Kent Carter.

I don't have it, and I am not sure I want it.

New Lacy "Live Lugano 1984" release on HatHut-whatever-they-are-called-now: https://first-archive-visit.bandcamp.com/album/live-lugano-1984-first-visit

Very interesting re-interpretations of Debussy piano works by for piano / percussion duet by Alexei Lubimov and Vladimir Tarasov. The first CD is Debussy played straight (very well) by Lubimov, and the second one is piano / percussion duets. It does not always work, but interesting nonetheless.

Sony Japan version from 2014 is still easily obtainable: https://www.discogs.com/release/13287806-Ornette-Coleman-Chappaqua-Suite

BYG / Actuel story is definitely worth a detailed book. There's a good recent one on ESP Disk, and the story of BYG is at east as exciting. Some of the music released by the label - e.g. Jacques Coursil - is among the best jazz of that period, IMHO.

It's on Spotify (courtesy of Charly) for a few years now, I think. Sounds like a (good) needle drop:

Not if it is a limited edition Japanese raccoon.

EU is a single market, the goods bought through amazon.it are not necessarily invoiced by "amazon Italy" (normally EU amazon purchases are invoiced by their head Luxembourg office) or shipped from Italy. Amazon automatically tracks where the goods go for VAT collection purposes, so they might share this information with Sony Europe. The low price has nothing to do with exchange rate of course, this is most likely a mistake that will be corrected pretty soon. These happen with amazon from time to time - I guess many here bought Billie Holiday Complete Columbia set for $17 at amazon.com in 2001.

Thanks, Lon.

Are any of these new remasters a noticeable / substantial improvement? I got "Unity", and I liked its sound quite a bit better than the standard RVG, but that's about all I bothered to check.

Well, Mark Helias is still active, right? He's got a new solo one, btw:

Both Noble and Sanders are great (for very different reasons). Edwards is definitely good, but I can't say I enjoy his playing that much. Regarding bassists, the other day I was listening to an old Lol Coxhill / George Haslam album and there is a fantastic British bassist on it, Steve Kershaw. What a great DEEP sound. https://www.discogs.com/release/2542327-George-Haslam-Richard-Leigh-Harris-Steve-Kershaw-featuring-Lol-Coxhill-From-Whichford-Hill

Who's that? Edwards / Sanders?

Coincidentally, was listening to this one (well, first two tracks) a few days ago in order to decide whether I want to go see Jones live. Well, I am not going. I thought Jones's playing was extremely robotic - no variation in sound, intonation, no nuance whatsoever. Very narrow expressive palette. Both the tunes and backing from drums / bass also sounded quite basic (again, I got as far as the second track only). This is what I imagine AI would come up with. I have some old Jones' CDs and I remember liking them when they were released; got to revisit them soon. Might be candidates for culling - I need some space for that John Lennon "Mind Games" box. It's not all negativity here. I really enjoyed this recent release from Travis Reuter (whom I never heard of previously): https://travisreuter.bandcamp.com/album/quintet-music Among many positives (Mark Shim!), isn't it nice to hear Tyshawn Sorey in expansive bashing mode?!