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It is the least interesting one, indeed.

I'd encourage you to go back to trakc 2 as well, after you're done with the CD (it's less than 4 minutes, after all).

And voila, the CD is over here. A good one, I'd say. I'd probably prefer some other pianist (Denman Maroney?) here - somebody with more strong personal style, but still it sounded good. For me tracks 1 and 2 were the most interesting ones, with 2 being the favorite one (will go to it now again - really loving it) - I think it tells quite a fascinating story, and is conscise and very focused. Interestingly enough, Ninh's much more reserved here, giving the foreground to these ... "treated" piano strings - and I am absolutely mesmerized by these sounds - they seem to be always changing remianing quite static at the same time. Trakc 1 has the most invovled Blondy playing. Good disc. Not great, but a good one. Very well recorded also, although listening to to it in headphones is not always pleasent as Ninh's bass drums really hits the eardrums. I'll be returning to this disc quite often.

Track 5. Again, quite dominated by percussion. Sounds like Blondy is shy to overload the music with too many of his ideas. Ninh is great here. Track 6. Now here you can't deny some humanity. Some pensive (or "pensive"?) slow, measured piano notes with Ninh duing all these rustling sounds. Romantism . Piano is beautifuly recorded - these notes resomnate and fade away very slowly. ------------ Funny eneough, we just had a thunderstorm here, and the sounds Ninih makes are very reminiscent of distant thunder bursts. I don't think I ever heard anybody elese playing persussion/drums like this. Piano is just too conventional here.

Track 4: more tortured piano strings - good, I like these sounds. How is he producing them?!?! Parts very quiet, parts make a good WWII soundtrakc - with artillery, barrage fire, sirens and all. This resonating sound at the very end of the track is nice. Conscise enough. Not bad.

This track very much belongs to Lê Quan Ninh. ← Sure, makes an excellent self-sufficient percussion solo.

Oh... I actually really enjoyed it. And replaying it now (now that track 3 is over - and at 15 minutes it did feel quite long), I think it is rather emotional (not that I think it is always necessery in music) - and I really like the sounds Blondy extracts from strings. No, it definitely sounds human enough for me .

Track 3. Percussion solo. Great, I think - and quite uniqe. Blondy kicks in at 0:40 with plucking of bass strings - nice touch. -------------- I am quite fasciunated by what's going on here. Ninh is in some carefully controlled frenzy (the diversity of sounds he get out one (?) drum is amazing), and Blondy is throwing at him these little Cecil-ish motives. A bit bombastic, I agree, but I still like it. I am actually not sure whether Ninh isthat much attuned to what Blondy is playing, but somewhow it seems to hold on together. -------------- At around 12min I definitely enjoy Ninh more than Blondy (who is repeating more or less the same trick over and over with these short disrupted passages) on this track, but still, as I mentioned it holds together pretty well here.

Done with trakc 1. Liked it. --------------- Track two: whoa, now this is not too Cecilish, is it? - all these drones on strings. I like it a lot - and here the resonating drums fit much better, IMO. Amazing - I wonder how mushc Blondy can really control these sounds. Great thing with this bass drum providing steady pulse behind. Not hell, I'd say - probably just crossing Styx. Great.

I like this piano sound - very focused. Percussion at the same time sound somewhat ...hmm.. smeared (not to implay any sloppyness of playing), and I am not sure it fits togetherthat well. ................ This bass drum sound is just too brutal here, I think. In gerenel, I really like what Ninh is playing, but just don't think the sound fits the piano too well. .......... Blondy is excellent. Very dramatic.

Let's go then.

I will be ready to start at whatever:20 - just need to find my headphones. Ok for you?

Not sure yet. Found it too cold. Went for "Toad in the Hole" (Guberman/Ingalls/Robair/Rosenberg/Shiurba) on Limited Sedition, and enjoying it more. It is about to finish in a couple of minutes, and I am willing to join you in your listenining, although I'd propose Blondy/Ninh disc.

For US posters - check the shipping fees in advance - if I rememebr correctly, overseas rates are brutal.

Are you guys pulling my leg or what?

They don't have it listed. Cadence has some good ones listed, but not the one being sought. ← They do, actually.

themusicresource.com might have it (you never know - they tend not to update their database for years).

You might want to try to contact Ab Baars directly: Ab Baars website.

Friends, this is some great and very original music played by some of the most impressive musicians out there (I still have some reservations aboutr Dunmall - he is good, but probably the least original of the foursome, at least on tenor - his bagpipes are something else). Highly recommended. Tony, it is not that brutal, really.

I won't talk to you anymore before you buy "Funny Rat" back and make me an offer (or just send it as a gift - minimum of rat-solidarity, that would have been!) ← That's funny, when I offered it on this very board a while ago, no one wanted it... ← Now, Tony admit it - did you sell your Funny Rat to Hans? And then impudently refused to buy it back?! Is this why Hans stopped posting here and went listening to all this Hank Mobley stuff?!?!

Get the one on Boxholder with Kenny Clarke - not very "out", but a good one.

Thanks for posting about this one--I'd never even heard of it, but I was near Jazz Record Mart last night and there it was--and I couldn't resist that lineup. ← Let us know what you think of it!

Doing some auto-therapy Tony? I also keep persuading myself that I will enjoy Cold Blue new age stuff. ---------------------- FMR deal is actually quite good - you get 9 CDs for €79 with very reasonable shipping fees. ← c'mon fellas, stop your auto-therapies, answer my questions! Not all of these discs have been mentioned here or elsewhere, so I wonder if anyone has anything new to share! ← I got most of them, but haven't listened yet. I will listen to at least one tonight. As mentioned many times, I have heard only Lazro/Zingaro and Blondy/Ninh and they are both outstanding, really.

When all you guys get the Lazro/Zingaro Potlatch disc, let us know what you think. IMO, it's a KILLER!

Doing some auto-therapy Tony? I also keep persuading myself that I will enjoy Cold Blue new age stuff. ---------------------- FMR deal is actually quite good - you get 9 CDs for €79 with very reasonable shipping fees.