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I LOVE THAT TUNE!!! Best one on the album, for sure, and for all the reasons you put so well... Don't know Mrwebi, sounds like it would be up my alley though. My favorite track as well (I don't like the rest of the album that much, frankly), and some of the best solos of Mitchell and Shepp I've heard.

New one: http://www.nocturne.fr/produit.cfm?id_produit=5697

Let me say it again... Haven't heard it, but after all I've heard I think I've been sold on a copy. (and another disc falls into the "always on the lookout" pile...) I concur, this is an excellent one.

Anybody's heard Curson's recent(ish) recordings? Is he still playing well?

New CD with Curson is coming out next month on Terronès group of labels (click on Blue Marge): Live in Paris at the Sunside Ted Curson & Alain Jean-Marie trio (Gilles Naturel et Philippe Soirat) plus Pierrick Pédron, Guillaume Naturel, July Saury, Sylvia Howard & the Four Voice Ensemble

No. But my Lacy collection is steadily growing, so I will get there.

Yeah, that was me commenting on Bobby Few overplaying. I am listening to his solo "Continental Jazz Express" (on Boxholder) to refresh my memory, and, well, my impression has not changed much - there is a lot of rather cheesy impressionistic 100-notes-per second up-and-down noodling runs. Pretty unfocused. Gotta relisten to those Center of the World (Wright, Few, Silva, Ali) recordings on Fractal - haven't listened to them for a few years now. I remember when I was living an Italy I once listened to Center in World disc late at night (2 or 3 AM) with windows open and the music blasting out. I then heard some noice outside, and when I look outside I see a young Italian drogato standing on the street right under my window, looking at the sky with a expression of horror on his face. I don't know how long the guy had been there. I turned the music off - didn't want him to have a cardiac arrest right there. As for the "unofficial" releases of OOP stuff: I will be most happy to buy them as legit releases. As long as they are not available as such, I will be buying these unothorized copies.

"On top of their game" is a very generous overstatement (at least as far as Mitchell, Braxton and Smith are concerned), IMO. I will try to catch them live, of course, but my expectations are not too high. Your smug attitude is sad. Please demonstrate the "degradation" of these musicians and explain your "expertise". Don't bother going to the gigs. Please detail your reasons for dismissing their current work. Chuck, my attitude is based on seeing all these musicians live in the last few years and hearing quite a bit of their work - both early and recent. My expertise is my ears only. I will elaborate some time later. I would be interested in hearing your recommendaitons for good records of/with Mitchell, Braxton or Smith recorded since, say, 2000. "Good" like in "on top of their games". I would be most happy to discover that I missed some of the masterpieces. I'll still go to the concerts, if you don't mind.

"On top of their game" is a very generous overstatement (at least as far as Mitchell, Braxton and Smith are concerned), IMO. I will try to catch them live, of course, but my expectations are not too high.

Your collection is larger than mine, in that case... I'm just only getting into it! This one is really good. http://www.amazon.com/Kar-Boubacar-Traor/d...5315837-0791254 Since you are at it, check this beautiful disc by Rokia Traoré out: http://www.amazon.com/Wanita-Rokia-Traor%C...TF8&s=music For kora, this one by Toumani Diabate: http://www.amazon.com/Kaira-Toumani-Diabat...TF8&s=music and this one by Ballaké Sissoko: http://www.amazon.com/Deli-Ballak%C3%A9-Si...TF8&s=music are great. My favorite disc of West African music is a masterpiece by Jali Musa Jawara titled "Yasimika", sadly OOP: http://www.amazon.com/Yasimika-Jali-Musa-J...TF8&s=music This looks like a good compilation of West African music: http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Guide-Music-Ma...TF8&s=music Get some good West African music (thankfully, quite a bit is easily avilable these days) and throw this Rudd's "Malikool" nonsense away. If you like Djeli Moussa Diawara's "Yasimika", you'll like these other albums he has out in France. http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_ss_m/171-389...=11&Go.y=10 Note Jali Musa Jawara and Djeli Moussa Diawara are the English and French ways of spelling the same name. It makes searching for his records just that little bit more irritating I think Diawara has done more than anyone to develop the use of the kora in contemporary Guinean pop music. I love his stuff. MG I have most of those, as well as (mediocre) Kora Jazz Trio - none is even close to "Yasimika". I guess I will just write an e-mail to Rykodisc pleading to reissue it.

Your collection is larger than mine, in that case... I'm just only getting into it! This one is really good. http://www.amazon.com/Kar-Boubacar-Traor/d...5315837-0791254 Since you are at it, check this beautiful disc by Rokia Traoré out: http://www.amazon.com/Wanita-Rokia-Traor%C...TF8&s=music For kora, this one by Toumani Diabate: http://www.amazon.com/Kaira-Toumani-Diabat...TF8&s=music and this one by Ballaké Sissoko: http://www.amazon.com/Deli-Ballak%C3%A9-Si...TF8&s=music are great. My favorite disc of West African music is a masterpiece by Jali Musa Jawara titled "Yasimika", sadly OOP: http://www.amazon.com/Yasimika-Jali-Musa-J...TF8&s=music This looks like a good compilation of West African music: http://www.amazon.com/Rough-Guide-Music-Ma...TF8&s=music Get some good West African music (thankfully, quite a bit is easily avilable these days) and throw this Rudd's "Malikool" nonsense away.

News from Innova: Innova has received a major grant from the New York State Music Fund to increase its activities in that state. Over 2007-8 innova will 1) release at least 20 CDs of music by New York artists, 2) do extensive marketing of existing New York artists' works on the label by placing nearly 2,000 CDs in school and public libraries in small towns across the state, and 3) establish an outstate touring network with travel subsidy for the artists to present their work to new audiences. The touring subsidy will allow each artist to present outreach activities and performances at our venue partners who include: Society for New Music, Syracuse; SUNY, Potsdam; St. Lawrence University, Canton; Deep Listening Institute, Kingston; Roulette, NYC; and several others. Artists included (subject to evolution) LaMonte Young (NYC), Cristian Amigo (Astoria), Rudresh Mahanthappa (NYC), Sean Noonan (Brooklyn), Amanda Monaco (NYC), Kiku Collins (NYC) , Neil Rolnick (NYC), Todd Reynolds (Sunnyside), Roger Kleier NYC), Susie Ibarra (NYC), Lukas Ligeti (NYC), Yuanlin Chen (Kew Garden Hills), Robert Een (NYC), John Morton (Tappan), Ushio Torikai (NYC), Ethel (NYC) plays Mary Ellen Childs "Dreamhouse", Michael Farley (Canton), Billband: "Ferocious Groove Monkey" (NYC) music by Bill Ryan, Esther Lamneck (NYC): Works by Cort Lippe, Robert Rowe, Dinu Ghezzo, Orlando Legname, Lawrence Moss, Zack Browning; David Del Tredici (NYC), Virgil Moorefield, Stephen Gosling, Tom Chiu, David Eggar, Tom Kolor, Michael Lowenstern, Thad de Brock (NYC), Brian Dewan (New Rochelle) The New York State Music Fund was created when the New York State Attorney General's Office resolved investigations against major record companies that had violated state and federal laws prohibiting "pay for play" (also called "payola). The fund is administered by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

October 7, 2006: Thank you for visiting Drimala Records. After 10 years, 25 releases, and 32,546 customers in 47 countries, we have decided to take a hiatus from the music business. We have gone off to play out other dreams that are right for this time in our lives. So thank you to everyone that made Drimala possible and the ride of a lifetime. Be well and may you go in peace wherever your ears take you. We leave you with this quote from Keith Jarrett, ⌠Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.■ -- The Drimala Crew Drimala releases are still available from indiejazz

This is really a rough performance of "Amnerika". I heard an MP3 from a (much) later performance of Ensemble Modern (they do Zappa programs from time to time) and they just nailed it there - I hope it gets released one day.

Good question. Despite my buying a lot of stuff in 2006, the list of most-listened-to CDs is more-or-less the same as in 2005. In the order of decreasing frequency of listening: 1. Rustavi Choir: "Georgian Chorales" 2. Prokofiev: String Quartets (mainly the first movement of the 2nd quartet) 3. Fela Kuti: "Zombie" 4. Bach: "Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould)" 5. Frank Zappa: "Shut Up 'N Play Yer Guitar", disc 3 6. Death: "Individual Though Patterns" 7. Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Jazz Impressions of Japan" 8. Faith No More: "Angel Dust" 9. John Coltrane: "First Meditations" 10. Kevin Drumm / Martin Tetreault: "Particles and Smears" 11. John Handy: "Live at the Monterrey Jazz Festival" 12. Andre Jaume "Peace / Pace / Paix" 13. J.J. Johnson Mosaic 14. Ustad Sultan Khan: "Sarangi. The Music of India" 15. Joëlle Léandre, Mat Maneri, Christophe Marguet, Joel Ryan: "For Flowers" 16. Jali Musa Jawara: "Yasimika" 17. Nicolas Simion: "Luca's Dream" 18. Pee Wee Russell: "Ask Me Now!" 19. Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen, Patrice Héral, Terje Rypdal: "Karta" 20. Subramaniam: "South India: Le Violon de l'Inde du Sud / Karnatic Violin"

This track with Brötzmann is avilable at Musik in Deutschland 1950-2000: Musik für Radio compilation: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00005B0SE...3123398-0312512 I have it, but have not listened to it yet (as well as Free-Jazz in DDR compilation from the same series)

I finally was able to track down a copy of this disc. $10 on ebay. Not too expensive, either. I've been listening to a lot of Schlippenbach recently, so I'm really looking forward to getting home and giving this disc a spin tonight. I bought it a couple of months ago, and it turned out to be one of the few discs that went to get-rid-off pile just after a couple of tracks. Murray's drumming is horrendous - heavy-handed and unimaginative, the bass is too busy... just ruin the Monk's compositions. Schlippenbach's "Monk's Casino" project (whom I saw live - don't have their CD set) is much more interesting (while also being not entirely successful).

A 5-minute movie of Brötzmann/Bennink duo on the Eremite page. Not bad, I say. How is the Brötzmann/Bennink "total music meeting 1977" on brö (brö B)?

I've never listened to the record that started this thread! Love Brotz with Waits, Moholo (tho no duo "exists"), Bennink, Perkins... not so much with Drake. Zerang is fine, especially on Tales out of Time. Hope he gets to record a duo with Paal Nilssen-Love one day... I am not a fan of Drake normally, but I think their duo works perfectly.

Squidco.com $19.95 plus free shipping. Or at jazzloft for $19 without free shipping: http://ssl.adhost.com/jazzloft/baskets/pos.cfm?CD=9897. I am pleasantly surprised it seems to sell this well (released in 2006 and already OOP), unless there are some other reasons for its current unavailability. I am curious about this one as well. I think Brötzmann sounds really well in duo with drummers (his duo with Hamid Drake "Dried Rat Dog" on Okka is one of his best ones ever, IMO). I got Brötzmann's trio (with Wertmüller and Pliakas) "Full Blast" (recorded earlier this year), and it's some of the worst Brötzmann I've heard (together with his solo "Petrogliphs" on Long Arms)... But I believe in the man.

Too bad "Thoughtful" and "Duquility" are missing. All seven solos from that date should be reissued together somewhere. They are included on "One-Upmanship" reissue: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-2092

yeah, a box set may be the only way Up Popped The Devil sees the light of day.... "Up Popped the Devil" was reissued quietly by Enja Horst Weber (http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/) in 2003. Easily avilable here in Europe. Quite a mediocre disc, though. Enja Matthias Winkelman just reissued "Moods" in 24-bit with one track added: http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-2110 This one is good.

You're a fan of the Shepp BYG's, then? There's some dross in this period, but it may represent some of the most virtuosic "free" tenor ever waxed...

I don't like Rudd in general - a one-trick pony, IMO. For some reason I have quite a few (10 or so)discs with him in my collection... - the only one where I like his playing is Marcello Melis's disc on Black Saint "The New Village on the Left" - some really beautiful stuff.

Same old, same old, eh? Quite pleasant, nonetheless. Thanks for posting.