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This one looks tasty! Get two of them if you have a chance to listen and like it, please! I don't know about that trio you mentioned, never actually heard them! But you've heard Sonny Simmons, haven't you?

This one looks tasty!

Thanks for your offer, Tony, but with 20$ plus shipping customs should not be a problem, so I ordered them directly. Anyone knows about their shipping fees? They charge me 4.50$, which is what's displayed before you enter your address (when the website/calculation supposedly believes your ordering from teh US). Do they have same shipping fees for US/Overseas? Their overseas shipping is quite high. Check it in the backoffice section of the site.

I agree, Burtone Greene is very good - with all its melodical and rhythmical Jewish influences and that. It's all solo. My only complaint is that the first piece is so strong, that all the rest somewhat pales in comparison. Drimala website should have mp3s of it. Dunmall / Rogers I haven't heard, but will get it eventually.

All Don Ellis, Jaki Byard, George Russell, Don Freidman and Walt Dickerson CDs are highly recommended.

If it really is Jansen instead of Haker-Flaten, I'm jealous already as I always thought that Jansen would be better suited to this trio. That said, I like their discs anyway. Please let us know, D.D - well, I'm curious. Nilssen-Love, I think I saw 4-5 times live and he both amazes and at times brings a smile of disbelief to one's face. I remember telling him once that not only did I really like the his playing but that he also was a freak to watch - he seemed to be amused by the comment, best as I could tell! My mistake - it's Haker-Flaten.

Did you ever get a chance to hear this one? I just did for the first time and am very impressed. I finally listened to this one (quite attentively, for once), and I didn't like it too much. The main problem for me is Parker. He is mostly playing tenor here (which I niormally prefer to his all-too-predictable soprano). His technical ability is stunning and I enjoy his his powerful, and somehow very "compressed" tenor sound (as if he is strangling the tenor). However, his ideas here are not particualrly interesting to me - he sticks to very short similar-length (a couple of seconds) phrases with a short (also constant-lengh) pause between them. Each phrase is nice in itself, but as it is short, I don't hear much of development, and as these phrases are actually quite similar this start-stop pattern becomes tireing pretty quickly. Neither Schlippenback nor Guy add any original ideas (Schlippenback particularly seems subdued and seems to be going through motions most of the time). The most interestingg thing is iteraction of the drummers - here the sparks fly. I know that they recorded some duos, and this is what I'll be buying soon.$ --------------------------- Gonna hear The Thing (Gustafsson, Nielsen-Love, Jansen) tonight. I was not too impressed by their discs, but I really want to see Nielsen-Love live

Plutonium Records. I just recived a couple of their CDs. Gave a first very unfocused listen to brassum - good music - tuba-trumpet,-trombone-drums, New Orleans goes free. Outstanding musicians. Will giver it more listens and will expand here.

IMO, when listeninng the only thing one should take into consideration is the music itself. No comments, recommendations or "explanations" (even from the renown gurus of noise as ourselves) mean anything at that point. Another story is when you are thinking what to spend your $$$ on. Then, your best bet is to trust our "taste" .

Polish label NotTwo released a new Cosmosamatics Trio disc: Reeds and Birds. For those of you who don't know, Cosmosamatics is an excellent band of Sonny Simmons - alto sax, English horn, vocals Michael Marcus - tenor sax, saxello, Bb clarinet Jay Rosen - drums at the core. Previously there was a bassist also (on two Boxholder releases and on Bleu Regard live disc), but looks like for now it is a trio. http://www.nottwo.com/PelnaPlyta.php?Id=292&W=0&Od=&Off= I will be in Poland next week, and will try to pick up some of the NotTwo releases. Let me know of you are interested in anything. COmplete NotTwo catalog: http://www.nottwo.com/Katalog.php?ws=0&Typ=NT&W=0

Please do!

A Finnish label: TUM Records. I don't know the leaders, but the sidemen (Cyrrille, Tchicai, Workman) are vaguely familiar. MP3s available.

New Victo release: KAZUE SAWAI / MICHEL DONEDA / KAZUO IMAI / LÊ QUAN NINH / TETSU SAITOH "Une chance pour l’ombre" looks very tasty. Press release on the Victo website: http://www.victo.qc.ca/

out of the discs I have heard I would highly recommend these: Sparks Fly Upward - Alex Cline Ensemble I would argue about this one - I found it to be new-agy and lacking any sense of adventure. Cryptogrammophon website is generous with mp3s, so you can check it out before making a decision.

Another nice Internet radio: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/listening/index.html Both "smooth" and "crunchy" channels are funnyratty enough. Friends, this is some really insane stuff! (I am on the "crunchy" channel - noit yet ready for the "smooth" one). I am to a large extent ignorant when it comes to (good) modern academic music, so this is an eye-opener to me. 90% of what I hear go to THE LIST immidiately.

Drimala website is down - obviously, hordes of international customers are exploiting your kind offer and browsingthe site.

Flurin: Let me know if you want to use my address as the ship to address and then I can ship the CDs to you. You could then PayPal the postage to me. It could save you some hassle with customs. I would use this offer as well, if you don't mind.

Sergey Letov Mats Gustafsson

A lot of good stuff here. I would highly recommend (insist, basically) Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" (mp3s and reviews here) -it's on page 3 of the bargains list. Thanks for posting this! They have some fantastic discs on sale. Too bad I already own a lot of the ones I would want to pick up. Has enyone here heard Kent Kessler's solo disc and have a recommendation pro or con? I did a search for it (typing the title in the search field and displaying results as posts) - you'll find a lukewarm review of Nate Dorward's. Any recommendations? I have the McPhee, and I might be interested in the Hal Russell and Bobby Few, but most of these artists are more or less unknown to me. ubu LAMBERT! LAMBERT! LAMBERT!!!!!! Flurin, keep in mind that Drimala does not help with customs arrangements, so you are likely to pay taxes if the order (including shipping) is more than Sfr. 50.

I'll try to come to this one as well.

The compositions are excellent, but Ornette's solos seem to be absolutely the same to me here. Blackwell is on fire here. Good remaster.

Drimala sale: A lot of good stuff here. I would highly recommend (insist, basically) Michel Lambert's "Out Twice" (mp3s and reviews here) -it's on page 3 of the bargains list.

Another nice Internet radio: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/listening/index.html Both "smooth" and "crunchy" channels are funnyratty enough.

Naaked City Complete Studio Recordings. Makes sense? Haven't heard anythng by Naked CIty.

Sun Ra