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  1. I disqualified myself from the BFT by peeping, so just a quick note since it was not identified - the first track is from this album: https://www.discogs.com/release/10910192-Ken-McIntyre-Hindsight . I think the artist was a mildly interesting composer but a mediocre player on all instruments, and his bassoon sounds decidedly clumsy (I appreciate that this is an extremely tough one to master). Track 12 - maybe some Paul Smoker trio stuff, although I tend to think of Smoker is a more varied trumpeter than this. Good stuff still. Drummer and bassist way too busy. Track 14 - would this be Wadada Leo Smith in some Miles project? I don't like Smith's sound and his ideas either, so I do not know his work that well. Sounds like him to me.
  2. Anna Barron died in 2012: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/hartfordcourant/name/anna-barron-obituary?id=18944351
  3. Recent Japanese CD reissue. Very tasteful.
  4. I saw Perry live in New York in 2002. He was playing in trio with Art Baron on trombone and Ed Schullern on bass. This was one of the best concerts that I (together with 10 other people who were in the audience that night) ever attended.
  5. I think Robert Plant has never sung as well as he did on the first Led Zeppelin album and during 1969 concerts. He sang lower and with amazing raw power that would pop up only occasionally later on. On later albums he got more and more into that mannered squeaky voice (hear "The Song Remains the Same" for example). I am not sure what happened, maybe that powerful full-throat singing was physically not sustainable live.
  6. Listening to this one today, it's a really good one. I like the other Jaume trio on CELP (this time with Charlie Haden and Olivier Clerc), "Peace / Pace / Paix", even more though. I sent a message to Joe McPhee (or whoever is managing his bandcamp page) to consider making it available on bandcamp. The CD is in my Discogs wish-list for years.
  7. I did not even have to think of it - for me it's most definitely "Refuge" from Andrew Hill's "Point of Departure" (my favorite Blue Note album). The driving dancing cymbals from the get-go, the voicing of the horns on the theme, all the solos (Kenny Dorham!) - just perfect. And unlike anything else on Blue Note.
  8. Д.Д.

    Frank Zappa

    New release upcoming, some 1980 tour stuff. This is a boring tour AFAIAC but check this solo out:
  9. Pim, I understand that you like to believe what you like to believe, but the research seems to show that the facts are different: "While vinyl album sales continue to gain each year in the U.S., only half of those fans buying records actually own a vinyl record player, according to a research survey commissioned by Luminate. Last September, the firm published the statistic as part of its U.S. Music 360 2022 – Wave 2 report. Of those respondents over the age of 13 who had purchased vinyl in the previous 12 months, there was a question asked about which devices they owned, and only 50% said they owned a record player. Total respondents for the Music 360 study: 3,992". This could be a sloppy research (available for interested parties for $10K here: https://luminatedata.com/studies/music-360-us-2022/ ), but 4K respondents is a good enough sample to be representative. I don't know the methodology, there might be a selection bias here, but assume they know what they are doing, this is not a very complicated thing to do. Unless you have something better to propose, I would prefer the research vs. "common sense".
  10. Well, I don't know. People tend to make a common mistake of assuming that other people think like them. They do not, they have different motivation. I would not be surprised if Taylor Swift fans buy an LP just to pose with it on Instatok. It does not make sense for you or me, but does for them, so our "common sense" is not a good predictor for their behavior. The article quotes some research by Luminate to support this claim ("50% of the vinyl buyers don't have a turntable"), I am not really interested in investigating it any further (I could not care less about vinyl) - but I am sure this research and its methodology can be found online.
  11. Asking for data from every market participant individually is not how numbers are derived, whether for turntables or for anything else. There are various ways how you get a good estimate - you can have a survey of a representative sample, you can check the number of turntables sold multiplied by an average lifetime of a turntable, you can trace the spare parts sales and derive the population of "active" devices from it, etc.
  12. I totally agree, this is a shockingly bad market analysis for somebody who has an MBA and worked in consulting (as per Wikipedia), and actually knows the industry. How about this pearl of wisdom: "they might have easily convinced 40-50 million consumers to buy a dozen vinyl albums per year"? Is it back-to-1968 wishful thinking or what?
  13. Cipsela is a nice little label. If you order CDs from their website directly, they ship for free worldwide. Might work out better than with bandcamp's VAT and shipping fees.
  14. I agree. I often restrain myself from posting here about older stuff (like super-old, 2010 or something) mindful of the thread's premise (new releases). Perhaps the discussion focus could be broadened somewhat - like "modern / avant stuff I am enjoying at the moment".
  15. Well, nobody here ever advocated that one has to listen to "incendiary" music exclusively. A certain wistful bemusement was expressed, however, that the vast majority of the posters on this board refuse to engage with jazz/improvised music that was recorded in the last decades (like five last decades, if you ask me). Whenever newish music is brought up it is usually the stuff that could have just as well been recorded in 1960. Sound of surprise and all that.
  16. Glad to hear that. Yes, and I htink the compositions are excellent. Go for their other two albums, they are equally excellent.
  17. I did not hear that many 2022 releases this year, of those I did I found these ones to be good: Max Johnson Trio - "Orbit of Sound" https://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-of-sound Luke Stewart's Silt Trio - "The Bottom" https://maxjohnson.bandcamp.com/album/orbit-of-sound Cath Roberts, Olie Brice - "Conduits" https://westhill.bandcamp.com/album/conduits Thollem - "Obstacle Illusion" https://astralthollem.bandcamp.com/album/obstacle-illusion There Be Monsters - "Rubikon" https://therebemonsters.bandcamp.com/album/rubikon Barry Guy And Friends - "Kraków 2018" Toshinori Kondo - "Renzoku Jump" (previously unreleased recordings spanning 1978-2020, not exactly new stuff per se) - https://henrykaiser.bandcamp.com/album/renzoku-jump-henry-kaiser-remembers-toshinori-kondo-1948-2020 Barre Phillips, György Kurtág jr. – "Face À Face" (yes, for once I enjoyed an ECM release) Billy Mohler - "Anatomy" https://billymohler.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy Maya Homburger, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli - "Acanthis" Silt - "The Loft Sessions" https://impakt-koeln.bandcamp.com/album/the-loft-sessions Just in case, you do not have to listen to all CDs from a box set in one go. You are supposed to, but I won't tell anybody if you don't. I've been perusing this one lately:
  18. Discogs is your friend: https://www.discogs.com/artist/303165-Mark-Shim?type=Credits&filter_anv=0
  19. Bought this just-released CD at (excellent) Butcher - Buck - Stangl concert the other day, and it's very nice stuff: https://impakt-koeln.bandcamp.com/album/the-loft-sessions
  20. Yes, a lot of quality stuff here. Here is a link to the webshop: https://aerophonicrecords.com/category/catalog/
  21. For full geriatric experience go to a classical music concert. I was at one a week ago and there were barely any non-grey (or alternatively, non-bold) heads in the hall, which was nearly at full-capacity. This created a somewhat morbid contrast with the orchestra (Wiener Symphoniker) which was full of young players. Well, I saw Tomeka Reid in duo with Jessica Pavone a few weeks ago, and there were probably 25 people in the audience (yes, mostly old dudes). Reid is supposed to be fairly well-known, right?
  22. Yes, I am aware of this, this is why I was wondering about other European broadcast recordings Mr. Uehlinger might consider for release.
  23. Swiss concept of English played a role as well, I guess. Did Mr. Uehlinger mention if he plans to release more European radio broadcasts (like Giuffre and Coltrane Graz recordings)?
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