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This one has been "upcoming" for a year or so now. Looking forward.

Why, I always listen to music with fresh bananas in my ears. Helps smoothen the rough edges, on CIMP releases, in particular. Shall I try something else? Or other banana brand?

You can say what ever you want about this record (one of the master piece of TAYLOR recordings). But one thing who's sure, it's his incredible sound quality. At least, if you take the bannanas from your ears, you could hear (I hope) the indisputable value that sound quality brings to this record. As mentioned, I do nto have the disc, so cannot add my authoritative and definitive opinion, but could it be that David refers to older edition of the album, not the remaster released last year:

I wouldn't give up a chance to see Roscoe Mitchell live. Especially when he is on stage with Moye and Jarman! Well, I skipped - went to a fashion show instead. The main reason I would go see AEoC is not Mitchell or Jarman. It's Moye. Silly boy. Don't like fashion shows, Chuck? Guess not. Didn't know that was your goal. Chuck, not considering years of your friendship for a minute - you seriously think Mitchell's recent work (like his 3-CD soloset) is on par with what he did 30 (or even 15) years ago? I assume you heard Jarman play recently - casting the glorius past and sentementality aside - would you say this is something worth hearing live?

I wouldn't give up a chance to see Roscoe Mitchell live. Especially when he is on stage with Moye and Jarman! Well, I skipped - went to a fashion show instead. The main reason I would go see AEoC is not Mitchell or Jarman. It's Moye. Silly boy. Don't like fashion shows, Chuck?

I wouldn't give up a chance to see Roscoe Mitchell live. Especially when he is on stage with Moye and Jarman! Well, I skipped - went to a fashion show instead. The main reason I would go see AEoC is not Mitchell or Jarman. It's Moye.

P.L.M. is he main Portalologist here. I remember not liking "alors!!!" too much - but I listened to it only once, time to revisit.

Flurin, for inexplicable reason I rodered this one about a week ago from amazon.fr! Will let you know my opinion when I have a chance to listen to it.

I would. Especially if the tickets were not too expensive. I hope to catch some of that on the radio later tonight... I guess I could tell you around midnight I saw them live three years ago (with Malachi then), and it was so-so. And Chris Potter is opening... I think I will skip. I'll go see Ochs-Masaoka-Lee tomorrow, though (15-minute ride form my place ).

Do you guys think it makes sense to go to AEoC concert? Starting in two hours, one hour drive from my place.

I don't have this disc, so I cannot comment on it. Talking about what I appreciate in music in general, I could never really formulate for myself why I like what I like and don't like what I don't like. I would argue there is not much sense in over-analyzing it. Thinking about it, if there is one thing I am consciously looking for in music, this would probably be a sense of surprise. I get bored by predictability and routine extemely fast. Two times I saw Cecil live (once with a large American band, second time in duo with Oxley) the music was quite predictable.

Fat Kid Wednesdays. Not bad at all.

P.L.M., what solo piano interpretation of Feldman would you recommend? Jazzloft also carries Butcher/Durrant/Russell: "Concert Moves" (Random Acoustics) that I haven't seen elsewhere. I remember Nate praised this one highly. Tony, what happened to your once-exquisite taste?!?! Me? I am buying this CD, for sure.

John B, have you heard this: http://edgetonerecords.com/catalog/mp3/JawofTraitor.mp3 And this: http://www.edgetonerecords.com/catalog/mp3...teLikeSteel.mp3 Tony and ubu, friendly warning - you would not like it. Very much so.

I wonder if they have all this talking all throughout the disc Btw, nice man Damon Smith included a bonus CD with with 4 CDs I got form him on e-bay. Haven't listend to any of them yet.

I listened to it today for the first time. Twice in a row. It's excellent. Different in feel than Duos for Doris - more joyful and aggessive. It's remarkacble that despite there being 13 musicians, it is very tightly organized.

You will get the German VAT deducted, so with shipping to the US (€14) your total will be €67. You might be able to find it cheaper in the US. Amazon.de does not have this set in stock, so it will take them two months or so, but they will most likely get it - they are very reliable in this regard (unlike amazon.co.uk for example). Otherwise, ordering process is the same as at amazon.com.

Jon, I realize that, and no I am not comfortable bringing this up. But I am uncomfortable with this inscription either. And this is precisely the point that this dedication is written for the attention of the people who know nothing about Tilbury's mother.

Cosmos: "Tears" is one of the few Ersts I decided to skip - this M lady with her sinister waves is driving me bananas. I think I also need more Tilbury. Amazon.de has this little thingy: Feldman. Tilbury. That's a 4-CD set, mind you. Any thoughts? --------------------------------------- Too beautiful to burn is nice but a bit too pretty, IMO. --------------------------------------- On a tangential subject, Duos for Doris has an inscription: "This music is respectfully dedicated to the memory of my mother Doris, who died on January 5, 2003, in her 96th year, just two days before this recording was made". John Tilbury I was thinking about this. There is obvioulsy a whole depth of emotion associated with somebody's mother passing away. It is touching that the music is dedicated to her. But is this "respectfully" really necessery here? What is the importance of Doris being in her 96th year? Don't these words just belittle the subject, grand enough in itself not to require any explanatory detials? I feel that the shalloweness (IMHO) of this dedication contradicts to the both its subject and the astonishing depth of the music.

Which discs did you get? I just received Trio Sowari - Three Dances and Tomas Korber - Effacement. Both are very good, on first listen. Here is what I ordered this time: Bernhard Günter/Graham Halliwell/Mark Wastell (+minus)-A Rainy Koran Verse [uK Live] (Trente Oiseaux) Graham Halliwell-Recorded Delivery (Confront Collectors Series) Serge Baghdassarians & Boris Baltschun-13:46\11:04\25:09\\ (Charhizma) Dieb13-Restructuring (Charhizma) Efzeg-würm (Charhizma) Werner Dafeldecker/Christof Kurzmann/Christian Fennesz/Jim O'Rourke/Kevin Drumm-orange (Charhizma) Werner Dafeldecker/Christof Kurzmann/Kevin Drumm/eRikm/Dieb13/Jerome Noetinger-green (Charhizma) Kai Fagaschinski/Michael Renkel-Rebecca (Charhizma) Christof Kurzmann-The Air Between (Charhizma) Andrea Neumann/Annette Krebs-Rotophormen (Charhizma) Damion Romero-You Can Tell By The Blur (Orange) (Chondritic) Doug Theriault/Jeph Jerman-Red, Water (Fargone Records) (CDr) Bhob Rainey/Jon Mueller/Jim Schoenecker-No Title (Crouton) eRikm/Martin Tetreault/Otomo Yoshihide-Trace Cuts (Musica Genera) It will take me till the end of the year to go through all of them (I have a waiting list, you know ), so if there is any one in particular you want me to listen to and report on here, let me know. I think I have the vast majority of the Ersts by now. Of what I listened to, I liked about 50% (of the top of my head: "Bart", "Particles and smears", "The world turned upside down", "La voyelle liquide", "Wrapped Islands", "What a wonderful world", "VHF"), didn't care for the rest ("We are everyone in the room", "Too beautiful to burn"), and actively disliked a few ("Live at LU", "Do", "Weather Sky", "Fire song", the one with Kelley). Duos for Doris overshadows everything else I've heard in the Erstwhile catalog so far.

In a sentimental mood Solitude I want to talk about you

glad you're enjoying that stuff! any specifics, pro or con, yet? once you go eai, you can never go back. Jon, to be entirely honest, I listened to non-Erst stuff from your package. Are you still interested in my opinion ? But today I'll tackle Duos for Dorris and poire_z+. ---------------------- Finishing listening to Duos for Doris (for those not in-the-know: this is a duo of Keith Rowe and John Tilbury, released on Erstwhile). I am stunned. I haven't listened to anything this beautiful for a long time. ----------------------- Anybody heard Tilbury's duo with Evan Parker Two Chapters and an Epilogue on Matchless?

That's what I thought too about the Zappa material but according to wikipedia his widow sold his music to Ryko in 1995.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barking_Pumpkin_Records My understanding is that Ryko owns the particular ('93) masters of FZs tapes but not the original tapes themselves (this is probably why the recent Japanes FZ issues used the same masters as regular Zappa catalogue). $67.5million is probably too much if it hadn't included FZs catalog. ------------------- Ryko also owns Gramavision, don't they? I wonder if there is a chance we'll some of their catalogue back in print. And some Hannibals as well (would really like to get another copy of Jali Musa Jawara's "Yasimika" - my CD is in horrible condition by now).

And a reissue of McPhee, and one from Lacy band... and I understand that Warne Marsh's "Ne plus ultra" is here as well. This Polwechsel disc looks good. --------------------------- Listened today for the first time to Charlied Haden Montral concert with Joe Henderson and was shocked to discover how much I didn't enjoy it. I listened two times in a row, just to be sure. Henderson sounds like a master of clichés (his own ones, but still clichés). No flow of ideas, no development, just a set of licks played one after another. His solo on "Round midnight" does not go anywere, and just consists of variations on a theme - I can hardly even call it improvisation. I was taken aback by how un-free, confined and... well, boring it all sounded. Understand, I have considered Henderson one of my favorite jazz saxophonist. I now need to go back to (A LOT of) Henderson's CDs I have to check whether this is just a exceptionally-weak disc (could this be why it was not released at the time with other Haden Motreal sets?), or I have gone through a fundamental reappraisal of Henderson's talents. I wonder if this evil Abbey man's music (which I've been listening to and enjoying all day today :rsmile: ) has anything to do with this.

After a few hours I've got a nice burn both in the muscles of my arm and in my eyes, from the mist of spray that surrounds me at all times. This explains this wistful and sligtly unfocused gaze.