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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.

Of Free America's I thought Burrell and Thornton were the best, and for me, the only really essential discs in the series. Shepp I found extremely weak - and I am quite a fan of this period of Shepp (check out Blasé on BYG for his good work from this period). Braxton's solo is OK, but I like his later solo recordings more (like solo Milano and Köln from late '70s released on Leo). Braxton's "Donna Lee" is quite superficial, mannered and dated. Of AEoC stuff "Phase One" is good, but not really on the level of their best works (like "Fanfare for the Warriors" or "People in Sorrow"). The rest is between merely average (Wright) and weak (Bley, Lacy, Rudd). I need to revisit Emergency - don't remember it too well.

Same stuff. I have DA Musik / Black Lion eidtion of Silent Tongues: http://www.da-music.de/shop/dispitem.php3?...=0&maxrec=3 Jazz Colors series on DA Musik has a lot of good stuff - I just listened to Bechet/Pee Wee Russell set today - excellent. Don Byas concert recordings are outstanding as well. And the sound is good. I don't have Dexter (not a big fan).

I think 1201 licensed them from DA Musik for US distribution. "Air..." is good, for sure.

Da Musik / Black Lion is reissuing Cecil Taylor's solo Indent in 24-bit. This is one of Cecil's best solo records, IMO, and DA Musik is doing a good job with remastering (they did Cecil's Silent Tonguges in 2000).

Well, E and AK, are you up for keeping it up? I know PLM is around here somewhere, too. I wonder if Chaney and DD went over to Bagatellen, the usual source for EAI and improv banter... We did not go anywhere (at least I didn't). I'm just not too much in a mood to discuss music at the moment (don't listen too much either). There is no point in keeping the thread up just for the sake of it. I don't think this was ever the point - to have it stuck at the top permanently; nobody who used to post here really cared about that. Go for it, if you have anything to discuss that fits here. Currently I don't. When/if I do, I'll be back.

yeah. it hit really hard. i thought i knew shosty, but damn! proky and stravy can hit pretty hard as well. But you know them, of course.

Nate, I can't help with the original artwork, but did you try searching in the packaging behind the disc section? A few of the HatHut editions have inserts behind the disc - they are not really noticeable. I am also a bit ambivalent about hatOLOGY cover art - just as ECM's I enjoy many of them individually, but at some point, after 100 of similar covers it's enough...

I am a fan of Hans Koller as well. Some MPS stuff has been reissues in the Universal Japan HardCore Jazz series (Cecil, Sun Ra, etc.).

I don't know how about you guys, but I am quite excited about the new release of Mike Patton's project Peeping Tom (haven't heard it yet; just placed an order). Mike Patton might be my favorite living male vocalist. For those of you who are not familir with Patton (can it be so?!?), here's a little video of his performance.

You'll not be enjoying this one then: I don't like Ballet Mécanique too much mainly because it's infested with Stravinsky clichés. I enjoy Serenade and Symphony much more.

Waldron's one of the last (recorded in January 2002) - and one of the best, IMO - recordings One More Time (Sketch) features Lacy on a couple of tracks (in trio with Jean-Jacques Avenel). Superb.

We're Only In It For the Money has some of Zappa's best melodies, IMO. You might wanna check out Make a Jazz Noise Here, a '88 live recording that contians an excellent instrumental medley of We're Only in It for the Money tunes.

Go for Borodin Quartet or a cheap Shostakovich Quartet box on Regis.

Diluted focus. There is much less of Butcher here than you would hear on his solo disc, and I miss it.

Flurin, I assume you checked out the samples on the CD baby website - they are normally quite generous, so you can get a more-or-less clear picture what to expect. So, Bühler is excellent. Sort of a delicate extended technicues solo thing. Get it without hesitation. Tri-O is good, but not as good as their later incarnations. Eneidi disc I don't have but you can download huge sound samples of various live performances of this trio from here. Butcher - Masaoka - Robair I used to like a lot, but now, having heard more solo Butcher, this is definitely not on that level. Masaoka is quite an incoherent imprivisor (doing these pretty but mindless decorative koto splaches most of the time), and the whole thing is not very focused (atypically for Butcher). If you need more CD Baby recommendations, I suggest you get this, and this, and this as well. And get the Vapirov disc.

I'll check it out.

Claude Delangle - "Solitary Saxophone" (BIS, 1994) = stunning Listen here.

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