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Just ordered it. Thanks!

Got a Leo press release. Five new releases (all look interesting), including a double CD of Joelle Leandre. I am particularly intrigued by the Frank Gratkowsky (clarinets) – Thomas Lehn (analogue synthesizer) – Melvyn Poore (tuba, euphonium) release.

Having attended the Ochs - Masaoka - Lee concert that plain sucked all the way, I decided I'll check out this What We Live: "Especially the Traveler Tomorrow" (Metalanguage, 2002) CD. What We Live is Lawrence Ochs on tenor and sopranino saxophones, Lisle Ellis on bass and Donald Robinson on drums. The disc is excellent! Ochs is a monster on both saxophones (tenor, in particular), Ellis and Robinson are a perfect rhythm section (with Robinson really dancing on drums). This is the third What We Live disc I hear, and I think this is their best one. Recorded live, excellent sound.

Another CDBaby find: Daniel Carter, Morgan Craft, Eric Eigner. Samples sound not bad at all.

This does look promising. Do you have many others from 577? I have two - Astonishment - a duo of Carter and Ughi, and it is very good - really opened my eyes on Carter. Sparce playing with a lot of space, occasioanlly quite lyrical. Unfortunately, Ughi chooses to vocalise on a couple of tracks, and it does not contribute much to the music. Still good stuff. You can check the samples out at CD Baby and at 577 records page. Another one is trio Ughi-Carter-Swell. It is more busy, and less original, IMO, but still very strong. Samples.

I wouldn't bother much with critical opinion. Particularly when something is declared an indisputable classics. I like this set too. I also think highly of the duo with Tatsi Aoki recently released on Southside. The Pi discs are OK, I much prefer Mitchell's non-AEoC work these days. (And my opinions are in no way influenced by where I think they stand in comparison to Sound.) I'll go back to this set one day. My first impression was of Mitchell just going through the motions, regardless of the instrument. And with extremely ugly alto sound, IMO. But sure, he can still play. ------------------------------ New release on 577 Records: The Dream Daniel Carter William Parker Federico Ughi I am boycotting everythign with William Parker, but Carter/Ughi is an excellent combination. -------------------------------- Bleu Regard seems to be releasing a Charles Tyler recoridng from 1984. -------------------------------- New VHF (Graham Halliwell (alto saxophone) - Simon H. Fell (double bass) - Simon Vincent (electronics, percussion)) release on Bruce's Fingers. I thought the VHF release on Erstwhile was great, so I will definitely pick this one up as well. -------------------------------- Whoa! Last time I checked the Experimental musical research page they had five or six 3" releaes - now there are 30, including several full-length CDs. Many surely look tasty (Fuchs / Turetzky duo ). --------------------------------- New Foghorn release: Bruise with Derek Bailey Derek Bailey: electric guitar Tony Bevan: bass saxophones Orphy Robinson: steel drum, marimbula, percussion, electronics, trumpet John Edwards: double bass Ashley Wales: soundscapes & electronics Mark Sanders: drums & percussion Recorded live at the 291 Gallery I still don't have any Foghorn releases - waiting for Mr. Bevan to come to senses and decrease the prices on his CDs. -------------------- Jazzland: new Atomic release. -------------------- Might have been mentioned, but worth repeating: new release on Emouvance: Next to you J. McPhee D. Lazro R. Boni C. Tchamitchian Oh yes.

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.