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I placed 4-5 orders with the over the last few years. Never had any problems.

I think Waldron is best in duos - he really tends to bring out the best in his partners in such a setting. In addition to numerous duos with Lacy, I would recommend: "Songs of Love and Regret" with Marion Brown "After Hours" with Jeanne Lee "Left Alone '86" with Jackie McLean "Left Alone Revisited" with Archie Shepp (Waldron's last, I think) and conditionally, "One More Time" with Jean-Jacques Avenel (Avenel overplays a bit, but Waldron's solo "All Alone" is phenomenal, and there are a couple of wonderful tracks with Lacy).

Gentle Giant's "Free Hand", "The Power and the Glory" and "In a Glass House" will be reissued in the end of January. These are the remasters from the original 1/4-inch tapes, which were apparently not available for the previous reissues. Some audio and video bonus material is going to be included too. Available for pre-order at amazon and cduniverse.

It appears that this is related to an imminent reissuing of much of the Zappa catalog. Most of these 1995 CDs are now discounted at Amazon and DeepDiscount.com if they are still available. Has anyone heard these new versions yet? I can't seem to find a ton of info on release dates and am trying to decide whether it's worthwhile to just pick up the old versions. My main goal is to avoid the albums that FZ butchered with redone drums and so forth (I know some of the 1995 series suffered from this). Imminent reissues? I very much doubt it. ZFT can barely handle issuing a couple of titles per year, them reissuing the whole FZ catalog of 70+ titles in unthinkable. Just two recent ZFT releases can conditionally qualify as reissues: MOFO (which contains the original mono mix of Freak Out!), and Lumpy / Money containing mono mix of "We're Only in it for the Money" and an a few rare versions of "Lumpy Gravy". Many FZ titles desperately need a new reissue treatment, "Hot Rats", "Uncle Meat" and "Sheik Yerbouti" in particular.

Why, we already see what happens. Old FMP stuff is being reissued on jazzwerkstatt (http://www.jazzwerkstatt-online.de/ ), and there are new FMP releases on "FMP-Publishing" : http://www.fmp-label.de/ . The "old" FMP (http://free-music-production.de/ ) is now only in charge of TMM festival, it seems.

I finished this a while ago myself and would agree 100% with your comments, especially the "quite depressing" one. It shows that they really started breaking up around MMT and it was basically a very slow, painful death. I think I mentioned it further up the thread that after you read this, none of them come out of it looking good, Paul in particular, he really does come across as a complete arsehole, the "McCartney Overide" and the whole McCartney/Lennon thing being the iceing and the cherry on that particular cake. I think that "Revolution in the Head" and "You Never Give Me Your Money" are probably the definitive works on the Fab Four, great "warts and all" pieces of work, although I haven't started reading "Shout" by Philip Norman yet, but it's supposed to be excellent. They make a great trio of Beatles books. :tup I didn't think any of them comes looking particularly "bad" except for Lennon. His behavior was the most selfish (or erratic, at least) and destructive. McCartney made it quite clear from the beginning that he wanted out of the Apple partnership if Klein was managing it, and his further actions were consistent with this position. There is no consistency in Lennon's actions (even less so in his words). The "McCartney override" was negotiated on behalf of McCartney / MPL alone and was not done to the detriment of the other Beatles. As for McCartney / Lennon, I am left with the impression that McCartney was the only one making a conscious effort to reconcile.

Just finished reading "You Never Give Me Your Money". Excellent read, although the story is quite depressing - more so than I though it would be. Well researched, excellently written, and refreshingly impartial, given the sensitivity and complexity of the subject.

I am in.

JETman, thanks for the heads up. I received my set today - the presentation is truly outstanding, and the sound quality seems to be very good. Even with the shipping and customs fees this is still much cheaper than I could ever obtain it here in Europe.

The European music entrepreneurs (Werner at Hat Hut, Manfred at ECM, Bonandrini at Black Saint and Soul Note, and the guy at Steeplchase (forget his name)) will NEVER license their stuff out. They look at it as their life's work. I think Bonandrinis are not in charge of the Black Saint / Soul Note catalog after it was acquired by CAM Jazz. Incidentally, most of Black Saint Air and Threadgill releases are since recently available as downloads only.

Letov is academically trained.

Paul Bley played with both Chalrie and Evan Parker - how about that? With Ornette too. Buell Neidlinger played with a lot of people.

Ryko 1995 editions of "Hot Rats" and "Uncle Meat" seem to have gone OOP.

Oh yeah, and one more: Matthew Sperry / Jack Wright : Duets 1998. Sperry was a very talented musician (played wit hToma Waits, among others), died tragically young. A few samples are available here: http://www.limitedsedition.com/matthewsperry.html

There are a few CDs of Braxton duos with bassists: with Mario Pavone (on Music & Arts), with Peter Niklas Wilson (on Music & Arts too, I think) and with John Lindberg (on Cecma, probably OOP). I haven't listened to them in ages, but I recall they were all good. There are two discs of Peter Kowald's duos on FMP, they include a few tracks with saxophonists (Parker, Broetzmann, etc.). Leandre's duo with Lacy is quite weak IMHO, a more interestign one is "Gyor" with Akosh S. Thay have one more duo CD out on Leo, but I have not heard it. This Shepp / Davis duo on Enja ("Body and Soul" it's called, I think) is outstanding. If you consider electric bass worth your attention, there is a beautiful duo of Daniele Camarda and Gianni Gebbia out there. Some more: Julius Hemphill / Abdul Wadud "Live in New York" (Red). Wadyd is laying cello, but more or less the way one would play bass. THis is ny favorite Hemphill disc. Time Berne / Michael Formanek "Ornery People" (Little Brother) - very strong. Vinny Golia has a few duo discs with Bertram Turetzky and Ken Filiano. Have them, don't remember of they are good. The good one though is Golias trio with two bassists, JOelle Leandre and Barre Phillips - "haunting the spirits inside them..." (Music & Arts). Matt Bauder / Jason Ajemian - "Object 3" (Locust) is deifnitely worth having - a lot of long saxophone tones and arco playing there. Sadly OOP is a beautiful duo of Domonic Duval / Mark Whitecage "Rules of Engagement. Vol. 1" on Drimala. Get it while you can.

On Chet's latter period records: "Diane", a duo with Paul Bley on SteepleChase is phenomenal. One of my favorite CDs.

I replaced my first-generation CD reissues of "Lizard" and "Red" with 30th Anniversary reissues (which sound excellent to me) literally one month ago...

Joelle Leandre, probably the most interesting improv bassist today (only Barre Phillips is in the same league, IMHO). Lotte Anker and Co Strieff are both very interesting saxophonists. India Cooke is quite an original on violin. I wonder if she is still active. Quite a few females in the London improv scene (well represented on EMANEM label).

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Well, at the moment I am looking for "Géorgie: Polyphonies de Svanétie" (Le Chant du Monde, 1994).

Just discovered I have a second copy of it. It's still sealed. Selling for EUR 39 plus shipping. Payment through PayPal.

Holiday-10 10% discount till January 1.

Yes, his disc on BS (or SN, I forgot) is good (and quite unique).

You can buy them cheap from the Back Saint website directly. I think they dropped prices further after they were purchased by CAM Jazz. One needn't listen on computer speakers. I find emusic's mp3s more than acceptable for the cost. And in the case of BS/SN discs, I can barely find/buy them at any price.