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Ha, I am in Barcelona tomorrow, so might drop by the store to pick this one (or, more likely, something else) as well!

Thanks

Well, Liszt apparently admired Alkan's playing (and his compositions too). Liszt, Alkan and Chopin would regularly perform on the same bill together (yes, I read the Wikipedia Alkan entry). So yeah, I guess he was a decent piano player. I liked this Maltempo disc, thanks for the recommendation. The piano sounds great indeed. Now, any recommendations for Alkan performed on pédalier?

Yes, all these young guys (and gals) are excellent. And no, Dwyer (thankfully) does not sound like Derek Bailey at all .

Oh man, I still did not go through the whole (excellent) Tensegrity box - and there is this one already...

Nice, pensive stuff. https://brucesfingers.bandcamp.com/album/harmonic-2011

Just got this John Butcher / Gino Robair / dieb13 CD, and it' excellent. http://theopensecret.bandcamp.com/album/a-geography-for-plays

Oh, "Both Directions at Once" sold 250,000 copies - advertising does work, after all. There was a lot of better music released last year, I guess it should have been just advertised more aggressively. I am quite curious about this upcoming release. "Blue World" track sounds good. Won't buy the CD, but will definitely listen to it on Spotify.

Sound intriguing, will give him a listen

Why do you assume this was of much importance to Kuhn at all? Was working for Trane as a pianist in 1960 supposed to be a dream job and career-defining experience for everybody?

I listened to it twice, I thought it was pretty boring and the compositions sounded like something a conservatory student would write for a grade. I doggedly attend concerts of young composers here in Vienna. 90% of the time the music would be labored crap, which sounds very much like this. But 10% of the time there would be something excellent, sounding MUCH better than this.

The Ayler disc mentioned that it is released by permission of the Ayler estate. I wonder what sources were used for the remastering.

I'll be perfectly content to have this one on Spotify.

Bravo ECM for making these long OOP albums available for streaming. That's the way to do it. Some interesting stuff here.

Good stuff.

Another nice one is Mike Nock's Trio "Not We But One" on Naxos: https://www.discogs.com/Mike-Nock-Trio-Not-We-But-One/release/4153597 . Cox is very prominent here. I think the drummer Tony Reedus is needlessly hyperactive here, but it's a nice record nonetheless. I have Cox's solo on Sketch. Haven't listened to it in ages, but I do remember finding it good but not great. The sound is excellent, but does not have the range of ideas of the best solo bass records (like the ones from Barre Phillips or Joelle Leandre or Mark Dresser or Paul Rogers), IMHO.

Listening to this one. Very nice. And this organ has such a focused sound.

Another winner from another timbre label:

ZYX: https://www.discogs.com/Art-Pepper-The-Complete-Galaxy-Recordings/release/10052370 I remember getting this box around 2002-03, it was very cheap indeed.

Excellent de-romanticized version of Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps", as well as a very strong (if too Feldmanesque) work by Linda Catlin Smith from this brand new release on another timbre label: http://www.anothertimbre.com/messiaen.html

Yes, a lot of nice textures on this one.

This is a good one:

Well, it's listed as 2019 release on the orange sidebar. Whatever.