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Flurin, I think this Lacy disc is scippable - mostly due to not-too-original playing by CHarles and Boykins. Eskelin's Ramifications is the one I like the most out of the Eskelin-Parkins-Black hatOLOGY CDs, but I would need to go back to all of them to be able to specify what exactly I like about it.

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 got: 1. Blue Collar "____is an apparition" 2. Kawasaki / Akiyama / Kahn "Luwa" 3. The Bohman Brothers "A Twist For All Pockets" 4. Assumed Possibilities "Still Point" 5. HISS "Zahir" 6. Alvin Curran / Domenico Sciajno "our ur" 7. Punctual Trio "Grammar" Listening to "our ur" tight now - quite a breathtaking ride! Will post more after I am done with it.

From what I know, there three The Thing CDs - self titled, "She Knows..." with Joe McPhee and "Garage" (recently released on Smalltown Supersound). Looking through the Smalltown Supersound website I found also a 7" LP by The Thing.

Thanks for the link -I could't resist this one & I placed an pre-order. I'll be spinning this one tonight thanks again Д.Д Let us know what it's like. As mentioned, I am not a fan of McPhee's non-tenor playing, so I am cautious on this one (not to mention that I don't have a turntable).

do you know my man Keith Rowe taught crazy Syd guitar in the sixties? not his primary teacher, but one of them. there's a short AMM homage on the first Pink Floyd record, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, I can dig out the specifics if people are interested... Yes! Not much of a Pink Floyd fan -- listened to Dark Side of the Moon a couple of weeks ago for the first time in many years... underwhelmed. May be for younger ears -- but Syd Barrett looks to be an interesting fellow. Used to be a huge Pink Floyd fan when I was 14 (listend to "The Wall" EVERY DAY during a year or so). Can't even imagine listening to them today.

So did you listen to it?

This is a great Gräwe, IMO! My favorite of his (out of 5-6 I have). -------------------- Ubu, this Lowe looks not too bad at all. Get it and tell us about it.

Looks very interesting. Hope this band gets recorded.

All this Funny Rat reading was not lost on you, Mark. Try contacting Dan Plonsey directly: http://www.plonsey.com/.

I am still a bit perplexed by this disc. I mean, it's a good - very good, but something prevents me from calling it a great one (DA SHIT, using technical terminology). Probably it is that both Gebbia and Goodheart display their talents much more eloquently on their solo discs (Arcana Major and Songs from the Time of Great Questioning, respectively).

I'm taking your advice, Chaney. If anyone outbids me I will be pissed.

from between (SOSeditions) by Michel Doneda / Jack Wright / Tatsuya Nakatani turned out to be one of the best discs I've heard in the recent time. Available from the lable directly, or from Erstwhile.

Tony, in case you are missing some the mid-priced hatOLOGY or hat[NOW]art titles, check out Jazzloft - $10 per CD.

A little bit of playing with HatHut website yields these ones as likely pending releases: Both look interesting.

Flurin, I have heard no Arista Braxton, but from what I understand "Basel" and "Dortmund" on hatOLOGY and "News from the 70s" (on Newtone, a Felmay subsidiary) should be a good approximation of what it is like. If you want my opinion - I am not too interested (except for solo/duo projects, probably). Talking about Braxton, anybody managed to go through all 4 CDs of the Ghost Transe Music 2001 set on Rastascan/Barely Auditable. I failed miserably.

Marion Brown is the man! Check out his duos with Mal Waldron on Freelance (Songs of Love and Regret, second one I forgot what it is called) - here is Brown (and Wladrin) palying (with) tunes. ALl played very slow, in a mood is of reckless depression. Also, Brown's duo with GUnter Hampel - Reeds and Vibes (on Paul Bley's IAI) - this is more "free-jazz"-leaning music, but also really lyrical. Haven't heard his ESPs yet, and Three for Shepp (Impulse!) is actually the only Marion Brown I've heard I didn't like. Hope the man will go back to recording.

Cool sale. This Soviet Avantgarde piano is excellent (not very avantgarde, though).

Hey Tony! Have you listened to the Leandre / Naseef duo on 482 Music? I listend to it yesterday for the first time, and it seemd like a very boring affair to me. Surprisingly weak for Leandre, I thouhgt. Will check it again one of these days.

OK, the Chadbourne/Lovens disc I like is called Patrizio (Victo). Haven't had a chance to listen to it today, but form what I rememeber it is freely improvised mostly quiet but busy music, with a lot of intricate interpaly and some creative sound exploration by Chadbourne (on acoustic instruments). Rather careless, but interesting. No vocals. Will give it a listen this week. AMG review

Harvard's WHRB is starting their Spring orgies again, and one of them will be on Giacinto Scelsi. Schedule here and webcast link here. Also of interest are the Abdullah Ibrahim, Joe Lovano, five Russian composers (Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Modest Mussorgsky) Charlie Parker and Tokyo jazz. Out of Russians, I'd highly recommend Mussorgsky, partiucualrly "Pictures at the Exhibition" (and this is a great performance they chose to feature).

I have a few (5-6) Chadbourne's CDs, and I remeber that I liked at least a couple (one duo with Paul Lovens in particular). Surely enough, I don't rememebr the titles. I'll get home, will go through them and will post here.

It's in my incoming indiejazz order (together with the Scott Rosenberg 482 release). Also nt a big fan of Chadbourne in general, but the man can play and when he is focused he can be really brillaint. ------------------ Regarding the CD you review at Bagatellen - I have it (and I also was somewhat bemused by the packaging - talk about pretentious), but haven't listened to it yet. I gave very high expectations (becoming an ardent Jack Wright fan), so I need to allocate a quality listening time to that one, as it deserves.

WOW! Never saw that site before. Looks VERY interesting. Anyone (David?) have any experience with this material? Not yet, just stumbled upon the site today. Really interested in Bailey/Bennink disc and in Riley discs (will get a couple of them randomly - Riley with Chet Baker?!?!). Somebody proclaimed himself to be a insatiable West Coast music explorer. Will the 10-CD Los Angeles Free Music Society set suffice for a starter?

HEINER STADLER'S JAZZ ALCHEMY. A pioneering album of merging jazz and contemporary composition.. Could be interesting.