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Don't want to get too much into discussing the unfortunate and unnecessarily public Dweezil / Zappa Family Trust conflict, but if you delve into the details a bit, it's not about ZFT prohibiting Dweezil to perform Frank Zappa's music. It's about Dweezil selling Zappa-themed merchandise at his concerts with proceeds not flowing to ZFT as they were supposed to as per old Dweezil / ZFT agreement. If I remember correctly, the ZFT offer was that if Dweezil honors the merchandise agreement he gets the right to use the Zappa name (trademarked by ZFT) to promote his concerts for a fee of one dollar per year.

Selling the Audio Wave XRCD edition of this item: https://www.discogs.com/release/5042906 , remastered by Alan Yoshida. Still sealed. Price: 23.90 euro with shipping to Europe, 28.90 euro with shipping elsewhere.

I might be tempted. There is a lot of dross in Breuker's released output, but his best stuff is quite phenomenal, and if this set is well compiled, it might be worth it.

All (or most) ICP albums - including the Nichols / Monk one - are available on Spotify.

I an in total agreement with Jim on "Hot Rats" - and yes, I can't stand "Peaches..." either. I think the best track on the album is the last one, "It Must be a Camel", it has some very interesting harmony there. Having said this, it is important to keep in mind that Zappa made an enormous leap as a guitar soloist around '74, so his blues lick-infested and repetitive soloing on Hot Rats is not representative of his guitar improvisation prowess .

In addition to Humphrey, Zappa's other drummers, Terry Bozzio and Chad Wakerman, attended Ellis clinics and workshops. Vinnie Colaiuta, another Zappa's drummer, mentioned that attending Don Ellis Big Band concert as a child was a formative experience for him. Trombonist Glenn Ferris and bassist Dave Parlato played with both Ellis and Zappa. And Ellis played on Zappa's "Absolutely Free". Otherwise, no connection.

Perhaps "Meat Light", the expanded / remastered edition of "Uncle Meat"? https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Light-Uncle-Project-Object/dp/B01M69ONQZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487552122&sr=8-1&keywords=zappa+meat

You can buy a download (presumably from McPhee directly) via Bandcamp: https://joemcphee.bandcamp.com/album/joe-mcphee-trio-impressions-of-jimmy-giuffre

I am selling a new copy of the Melodiya 100th Anniversary Edition set:

Selling a new copy of this excellent 50-CD Richter set. This is from the second (and last) batch of 1000 copies, a white edition. Included are concert recordings (most of them never released before) spanning most of Richter's career (but predominantly from the 60's and 70's) in very good remastered sound. The set was released in late 2015 and is already officially OOP. Content is listed here: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Melodiya/MELCD1002270 Amazon US link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016OW2DBQ/ Price: € 290 including shipping to Europe; € 310 ($ 350) to North America or elsewhere. PayPal or direct bank transfer. And a YouTube fetishist video, of course:

This is the first 1990 CD edition of this FMP classic: http://www.fmp-label.de/fmplabel/catalog2/fmpcd025.html , with a different cover. Good condition. $43 postage paid to North America, €33 postage paid to Europe. Other locations will quote individually. Accept PayPal or bank transfer. Offers welcome. PM me or send me an email to djmdavid at yahoo dot com. Thanks.

Very saddened by this news. A wonderful under-appreciated musician, and at 59 way too young to go. He's been living here in Austria for some time, but to my regret I never caught him live.

I like Dantone playing Handel's keyboard works: https://play.spotify.com/album/6hZOVR3LlTMnn6fOS3lxw9 and https://play.spotify.com/album/1Bzb6iWyuTdHf7bsyt7uVn

I guess your point is that Moore is not particularly overlooked. Maybe. OK, here's some more: Christine Abdelnour Urs Leimgruber Wally Shoup Biggi Vinkeloe Lotte Anker Jean-Luc Guionnet Michael Lewis

Yes, these Liebner discs are excellent. I like the Tilbury set as well.

Michael Moore Matt Bauder Jonathan Moritz Rodrigo Amado Alfred 23 Harth Martin Küchen Gianni Gebbia Katsura Yamauchi Lucio Capece Joachim Gies Bobby Wellins Mikolaj Trzaska Marco Eneidi

I am not a fan, I find his playing tedious and predictable (and that's on tenor, on soprano it's godawful), but I can wholeheartedly recommend this one: John Law "Extremely Quartet" on Hat - Law, Moholo, Burry Guy and Dunmall. This one is long OOP, unfortunately. "Ghostly Thoughts" is also very good, but mostly due to fascinating interplay of Mark Sanders and John Adams. The CD is OOP, but it's available on Spotify.

Tonight: (London) Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting, Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano. Program: Ravel - Pavane (for orchestra), Piano Concerto for the left hand, Stravinsky - Firebird (ballet version). This is fantastic music that I am quite familiar with - heard all of these works live a few times. Excellent, tight playing by the orchestra, OK playing by Aimard (I have a feeling he got out of sync with the orchestra at one point). A funny touch was the trumpet player hiding somewhere at the balcony playing a solo during Firebird - acoustically this actually worked out well. Dynamic shifts we executed perfectly. Very enjoyable evening. I was surprised that the concert hall was not full, perhaps at 85% capacity. Might be the heat.

Malipiero - if you like Debussy, Ravel, early Prokofiev and early Stravinsky, most likely you will enjoy him too. Great melodies. Perhaps start with his shorter symphonies, ##3-4.

Thanks for the recommendations, gentlemen. Keep 'em coming. sgcim, cool insight into MIlhaud's writing method.

Pondering whether I should buy this recently released Erato / Warner set, but any Milhaud recommendations are welcome.

Good reading, both of these.

Windkraft – Kapelle für Neue Musik, Ensemble Marcus Weiss, Saxophon Manuel de Roo, E-Gitarre Kasper de Roo, Dirigent PROGRAMM Edgard Varèse Intégrales (1924-1925) Georg Friedrich Haas … über den Atem, die Stille und die Zerbrechlichkeit …. Versuch (1994) Arturo Fuentes In der Luft Johannes Maria Staud Violent Incidents (Hommage à Bruce Nauman) (2005-2006) Iannis Xenakis Akrata (1964-1965) Giacinto Scelsi I presagi (1958) Very good concert by a wind ensemble (plus a mighty percussion section). The present-day composers' works were so-so, but Varese, Xenakis and Scelsi were outstanding. I have heard them all in recording, but hearing it all live played so well is a different story. Xenakis was quite funky, actually. Wise decision to put Scelsi last - this was a monumental work, it would be hard to find anything to follow it with.

In case you need it, you can search by label on Spotify too. Type label:"labelname" (e.g. label:"blue note") in the search box.

Well, 5-minute trailer has footage of Tchicai, Brötzmann, Hampel and Bennink, all non-Americans.