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Other good sources of it (although not necesserily the cheapest ones) are: Brennan Denzler Weber Wolfarth Leo Records

Tony, don't bother - I can get it relatively cheap in Russia (if it is still in print), and sent it to you - and anyway I need to send you some stuff (Captain Beefheart concert, etc.). Shipping directly from Russia is expensive and unreliable.

Incidentally, I was also listening to "Closed Mountains" this morning! As for "Duets", you can get it from your most reliable (if not too fast) Russian music supplier, of course. This is an excellent disc (I like it more than "Closed Mountains"), allowing Yaremchuk to display his talents in a more pronounced way. Some folk-inlfuenced singing on a couple of tracks, though. I have a feeling it might be not available anymore - in this case, I will make you a CD-R.

Also, a very reliable service - and they send you discount coupons for future purchases. If a CD form one of the labels they sell is not featured on their website, just send them an e-mail - they will get it for you. I recently purchased a lot of pfMENTUM releases form indiejazz - still have to go through them. Just noticed they added between the lines label, which is good, as finding reasonably-priced BTL releases is not easy in Europe. Hey, they added Double Moon label as well! Might buy this one with my next order:

Listening to Georg Graewe Fantasiestucke I - XIII for piano solo (nuscope CD 1014) now, for the first time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And proceded to listen to this one FOUR times. WOW this is good stuff! Tony, the other great Gräwe solo record, San Francisco 1995 (on Music & Arts), that, as I mentioned I feel is even better than Fantasiestucke solo release, is avialable for $7 or so at your favorite themusicresource.com and Cadence.

If you take "jewish" as nationality, not religion, I assume the list could include: Dave Brubeck Lalo Shifrin Don Friedman Denny Zeitlin Steve Kuhn Lee Konitz

I've never sampled OGG files either, but they supposedly sound very good. The bitrate varies at emusic, depending on what each label supplies them. Some older tracks are encoded at lower rates. Mostr tracks (and I believe all of the Leo tracks are done this way) are encoded using VBR (Variable Bit Rate) at an average of 192k. I used to be an e-music subscriber a couple of years ago when they had all-you-can-download-for-flat-fee policy - still have dozens of CD-Rs with poorly sounding OJC mp3s. ------------------------------- I have five or six nuscope titles, including the one pictured above. Sounds like you might be enjoying Light's View more than I am. Can't really get the hang of Graewe and unfortunately, he's on most of the nuscopes I have. More listening ahead, though. I like Gräwe a lot. Have you had a chance to hear his solo work on nuscope or (even better) the one on Music & Arts ("San Franciso 1995" it's called, I think)? The only one Gräwe I found less-than-inspiting is the one in trio with Ernst Reijseger and Gerry Hemingway on Music & Arts "The View from Point West" (whereas a disc by the same trio on Random Acoustics - "Flex 27", recorded more-or-less at the same time, I though was outstanding).

Or, as you will be downloading mp3s either way, emusic has this set. $10 for 40 tracks. There are 44 tracks spread over the 8 discs, so you could get the first 7 discs for $10 and get discs 8 as part of your second month's allotment of tracks or you could get the 65 tracks for $15 package and get the entire set plus 21 other tracks. When I bought a digital juke-box I did a little comparison, and found I don't like the sound of MP3 files too much (even at higher bit rates), so I use WMA (300+ kbit bit rate). Leo offers OGG files which aparently sound better than WMA at the same bit rate (haven't had a chance to check myself yet). What's the bitrate of e-music MP3s?

Loading some big files from some record label website at the moment.

Leo Records decreased the price of a download to $7 per CD, and they now have the OOP Document: New Music from Russia 8-CD set available for download for $56.

Well, I have problems telling "jazz" from "non-jazz", so classifying something as EAI (as opposed to AI, E or EFI) is an insurmountable challenge for me. Some of the music that others call EAI I like (like Drumm's "Particles and Smears"), some I don't (like Sachico M's "Do"). As for "easing" somebody's way into music, I could never understand the point of it - if you want to go for something new, do it - don't go for something "semi-new" or "partially-new".

Two early ECMs: Derek Bailey "The Music Improvisation Company" Dave Holland / Barre Phillips "Music from Two basses" Were reissued in Universal Japan "Hardcore Jazz" series (with excellent sound - well-baked master tapes, I assume): http://www.universal-music.co.jp/jazz/hardcore_jazz/

Very true - I also thought so!

paristransatlantic.com interview As far as I remember, he is mostly complaigning about lack of "recognition" (compared to Shepp), not about the money. Well, it's hard to figure out with Murray.

I have a couple of Nuscope releases. I can certainly recommend this one: Clarinet-guitar-bass. Despite different instrumention (save for clarinet) this is the most direct development (not imitiation) of the Fusion/Thesis era Jimmy Giuffre trio. Beautiful.

Wasn't Archie Shepp's relatively recent CD "St. Louis Blues" (with Sunny Murray and Richard Davis) released on Jazz Magnet as well? Will chekc when I get home. That disc was not too bad, by the way. nope, that one is on PAO indeed, not too bad at all Dug it out - oh yes, this is a good one! Mainly a duo for Shepp and Davis (Murray is only on a couple of tracks and is somewhere far far far in the background) - both in very good form. Shepp's playing (tenor only, thankfully - cannot warm to his soprano) is just superb here - rich sound: relaxed, but not lazy or sluggish; good ideas. No screaming, but quite explorative at times. Davis is very prominent here, and he delivers. Interestingly, he sometimes sounds more aggressive here than on his classic earlier recordings - also stretching quite a bit on a couple of pieces (some very impressive arco playing as well). Shepp is singing on "St. Louis Blues" and "God Bless the Child" and, I htink he is quite effective as a blues singer. Overall, very few cliches, and no impression of tiredness or routine - these are two masters thinking and still focused on creating. Nice work. Now I am getting interested in hearing Shepp's duo with Mal Waldron on Enja ("Left Alone Revisited") - looks like wrote off Shepp way too early.

I ahve another disc by this star trio (forthose who are not recognising the musicians - Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille) on Lake's Passing Through label, and also didn't like it too much (to my surprise) - still not sure why. Will have to listen to it again.

I insistently recommend the trio disc of Pierre Dorge-Khan Jamal-Johnny Dyani "Three" (also on SteepleChase) - relaxed, melodic spirited playing. Sometimes a slightly too much on the lite side, but exceptional musicanship (Kahn Jamal is the man! Not to mention this Dyani guy...) and obvious joy of playing together emanationg from the music more than compensates for it.

Wasn't Archie Shepp's relatively recent CD "St. Louis Blues" (with Sunny Murray and RIchard Davis) released on Jazz Magnet as well? Will chekc when I get home. That disc was not too bad, by the way.

What label is it on? Have you had a chance to listen to Free America Lacy ("The Gap") - some wild stuff there - much more so than his later works I am mostly familiar with. I liked it. Steve Potts is such a powerful player (Lacy is more intense here, though!). Irene Aebi on cello only (doesn't add much - but, more importantly, doesn't hurt either). Surprisingly good sound quality (woudl have preferred if wonderful Kent Carter was recorded more upfront, htough).

Hmmm... A bit heavy handed, wouldn't you say? POUND! POUND! POUND! I think it's a nice POUND! POUND! POUND! You know, I've been listening to a lot heavy metal today. I guess "heavy-handedness" is intended here, and I assume the expressive pallette of the music on the rest of the disc is somewhat wider (they sound too tight, disciplined and GOOD to be only what we here in this sample). The pianist and composer of the band Bettina Kee is only 24 years old, btw. Impressive.

Not I. And at $22 a pop, Bevan's likely to remain unknown to me. ($16 each from Cadence, though.) It'd be nice if sound samples were available on that site. Here is a label with sampes for you: Chief Inspector. Listening to MOP 54 now - very impressive!

Tony Bevan's Foghorn Records. Anybody heard Bevan?

they will ship abroad, although some may be reluctant to do so. BUT amazon charges you with something like 16 (SIXTEEN) euros for the transport to the US, if I remember correctly. The private sellers will also only have to be paid postage for each CD, whether they mail them individually or not, making larger batches less interesting. To send one disk complete with jewel case to the US from Germany will cost 4 eur. At the same time, amazon.de will subtract VAT for non-EU destination - i.e. the price for a Sonet CD will be jnust €6.70. If you want to buy several CDs at once amazon.de probably makes more sense than market sellers.

I liked it a lot. This is a sparce trumpet-bass-piano session, recorded in what seems to be very relaxed atmosphere in a a library (!). There is a picture from the session - Chet sitting, legs crossed in a huge leather armchair, beer glass beside. This might have stimulated Chet for some pensive, explorative and wise playing. He takes his time, and lets his ideas develop. The (good) bass-piano tream is mainly at the background, putting no pressure on CHet, letting the man think aloud through his trumpet. Chet sings on several tracks, and he is in good (if not top-form) voice. The beginnig of the disc is particularly strong - the second half feels more meandering to me, but still good. There is also a track of recorded conversation of Chet with Red Mitchell, but Ihaven't listened to it yet. Good sound.