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Thanks for the heads-up, John. I, in turn, would highly recommend Hautes Plateaux by Carlos Zingaro / Daunik Lazro.

I ncase anybody's interrsted in Baroque period music, amazon.de has a sale for Deutsche harmonia mundi "Baroque Esprit" series - €5 (€4.3 for non-EU citizens!). Search for Dhm (Sony BMG), and then sort by "preis aufsteigend" so that low-prices CDs are listed first. Monteverdi madrigales are essential.

That's a great disc - you'll enjoy it!

His solo record in Jazz 'n (e)motion series (BMG France, 1998) is beautiful. It might be OOP now.

Paul Bley - Hommage to Carla (Owl / Universal France) Randy Weston - African Nite (Owl / Universal France) Jaki Byard - To Them, To Us (Soul Note) Sun Ra - Solo Piano Recital, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia (Leo) Cecil Taylor - Indent (Freedom / DA Music) Cecil Taylor - Willisau Concert (INTAKT) Gaorg Gräwe - San Francisco 1995 (Music & Arts) Fred Van Hove - Complete Vogel Recordings (Atavistic) Stefano Battaglia - Ecumenica (Splasc(h)) Sergey Kuryokhin - Waves of Freedom (Leo) Stephan Oliva - Jazz 'n (e)motion (BMG France) Steve Kuhn - Jazz 'n (e)motion (BMG France) Andrew Hill - Les Trinitaires (Jazz Friends)

I'm only familiar with Denman Maroney from one of the earliest discs on Erstwhile, Fire Song. This discs is half solo tracks and half duets with alto player Earl Howard. I've never been too impressed with this disc, but I was listening to it as a disc on Erstwhile, perhaps hoping to hear some top notch eai, which it is not, rather than judging it on its own merits. ← This is a pretty weak disc, IMO. For good Maroney, check out Mark Dresser's "Aquifer" on Cryptogrammophone. ← Was looking through the Denman Maroney website and found a link to Einstein records. Anybody's familiar with any of its releases?

Paul Smoker on this disc.

Dave Taylor is featured on excellent CD by Absolute Ensemble called Absolution (Enja Winkelmann): http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9394 Highly recommended if you are interested in exploring combination of 20th century academic orchestral music with improvisation. Besides Taylor this disc features Denman Maroney on impressive prepared piano. ← i certainly will check this out, THANKS!!! ← Website of Absolute Ensemble: http://www.absoluteensemble.com/

I'm only familiar with Denman Maroney from one of the earliest discs on Erstwhile, Fire Song. This discs is half solo tracks and half duets with alto player Earl Howard. I've never been too impressed with this disc, but I was listening to it as a disc on Erstwhile, perhaps hoping to hear some top notch eai, which it is not, rather than judging it on its own merits. ← This is a pretty weak disc, IMO. For good Maroney, check out Mark Dresser's "Aquifer" on Cryptogrammophone.

Dave Taylor is featured on excellent CD by Absolute Ensemble called Absolution (Enja Winkelmann): http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9394 Highly recommended if you are interested in exploring combination of 20th century academic orchestral music with improvisation. Besides Taylor this disc features Denman Maroney on impressive prepared piano.

Tony, I have no idea what to expect. I understand there is some klezmer and some metal . I do indeed hope the guitar will turn out to be GUITARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. The idea of Gebbia and Speed together (hopefully they perform on the same track) is exciting - would be interesting to hear Gebbia performing with another strong reeds player (if they don't play on the same tracks still should be good as I like Speed a lot). Looks like there are some RA samples from the older (2001) release here. Myself, can't listen to RA on my computer.

According to the Gianni Gebbia website, there is a new release by the Full Metal Klezmer band of which he is a member, called Sachor. From what I found the band is: Fabio Basile: chitarra Gianni Gebbia: alto sax Giorgio Pacorig: piano Enrico Terragnoli: basso Zeno de Rossi: batteria Guests include Chris Speed ( ), Vince Vasi and Achille Succi. "Metal". I will get it for sure.

I like it a lot. Quite different from the usual "conceptual" BERNE. ← As soon as the cd I am listening to ends I will put it on. I'll let you know what I think. ← I am getting curious, given that my favorite Berne CD is another duo Ornery People (Little Brother) with Michael Formanek.

Still haven't listened to it.

Netiehr do I. Don't find Dunmall particularly striking there either, but really enjoy guitar & drums.

What label was it reissued on? EMANEM, I guess?

If anything, second-hand CD industry is worse for musicians than downloading, since it captures consumers' disposable funds (downloading does not).

I'm tracking down a copy now. Thanks for all of the recommendations! CDBaby is the place.

Leo website is updated with APril 2005 releases listed: HERE.

I am really glad you liked it.

Great list, P.L.M.! I would make different choices for 90% of the artists you list, though .

This Hill is excellent.

have you heard Howard's The Black Ark from the early seventies? barely reissued on CD (Japanese Tokuma), this is not only the best Howard I've heard, but the only Arthur Doyle I've ever liked. a real classic from this area of music. Never heard (of) it. Will look for this disc.

If you decide to buy this disc, I'd recommend getting it from indiejazz (they actually don't have this disc at the moment, but you can ask them to get it and they will do it) - excellent service (including some fuckyoucustoms arrangements ).

Flurin, you are referring to the Live at the Village Vanguard released lat year by Phantom Limb, I guess. This is definitely not a good representation of either Lowe's or Howard's talents, and is indeed a pretty standard spiritual fire-music blow out. I think at their best neither Lowe, nor Howard can be accused of not listening and interacting with their musical partners. Howard, IMO, has a very uneven discography. The one I like the most is Red Star (Boxholder, 2001) - a recording from 1977 with Bobby Few on piano, Guy Pedersen on bass, Richard Williams on trumpet and Kenny Clarke (!) on drums. This is actually a very musch "in" date with Williams providing some smoking pyrotechnical solos (what a longpower, I tell ya!), Clarke laying some real groove and Howard doing all this lyrical, soulful and "spiritual" stuff that he is good at (Howard has sxome of my favorite alto sound out there). I feel that with years, this "spiritual" side got out of proportion a bit, and while Howard retained the sound and technique, his music sounds very mannered and non-creative after a while (I am referring to Howard's disc on Ayler, and some other staff on is own label I've heard). I think that Howard is from a different date. It also includes a French horn (otherwise the same band). It has a hum that is pretty disturbing (and would be too bad for an official release, in my opinion, even for a cheap CDR). This disc that I have has two lenghty tracks (27:28 and 19:30). Could you compare with the official CDR, please, and tell me if they are identical? No, that one does not have french horn (tambourine and bells instead ). There are three tracks: 12, 8 and 14 minutes.