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I think Marty Ehrlich is a great musician. First time when I listened to him was when I listened to Myra Melford recordings and later on when I listened to Andrew Hill's "Dusk". I general, I have a special and unexplained weakness to multi reed players: Joe Farrell, Buddy Collette, Paul Horn, Dolphy, RRK (the greatest of all) and some others. IMHO, Mr. Erlich can stand in the same line with all the musicians I mentioned. I saw that there was a discussion here a few months ago about his last release for Enja- The Long View. I must be honest and tell you I don’t like it. But a few weeks ago I bought his duo recording with Anthony Cox: Falling Man. In this session Erlich blows the tenor, alto, soprano, flute & alto flute. This is a great session especially if you like the duo format (I do). Of course Anthony Cox sounds great also and contributes his part to the success. This CD is oop for a long time but if you have the opportunity to put your hands on it, don’t hesitate. Since the AMG rating, 3 stars, is definitely not enough, I have to add two of my own. Falling Man

Thank you Scott for the anatomy lesson. I always knew I can learn a lot on this board.

The Original Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan Quartet Cecil Taylor: Conquistador

I love your imagination

Thank you for this info Claude.

I have Bird's complete recordings on Verve in my collection and it is a real treasure. I have no idea how Verve compressed the master takes into 4 CDs. Does it mean that the rest 6 CDs are full of alt takes and false starts??? I doubt it. Please double check the discography on the 4 CDs set before you shell out your $$$.

CT music is not easy listening music. It is a bit more challenging music (I am sure this is not a new discovery for you) and many times it happens to me that I have to give this kind of music 2ed and 3rd chances until I start to get into it. Sometimes, even after 2ed and 3rd chances I have difficulties to get into CT music (his recordings for the German label FMP for example). And regarding the sound quality: the sound is perfect, but the music is much better than the sound so the music wins.

This is definitely one of the best Avant-Garde jazz album I have recently listened to. A trio session with Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Lyons on alto & Sunny Murray on drums. Al three musicians sound in their best. I like very much what CT recorded at the early 60s. After listening to this double CD I realized again how strong Taylor influenced Marilyn Crispell's playing.

Barak, According to the AMG his styles are World Fusion & Avant-Garde Jazz. Since we share the same opinion about fusion I went to read again your post and your definition of his music is "fusion of Chino-African Jazz". I don't really understand the differences, but since you know my taste, do you think I'll like it??? Anyway, when I'll see you, you'll let me listen to some samples. I have the feeling that "Tiananmen" that was recorded after the square slaughter should be very interesting.

This is exactly the way I got into jazz music: I bought Porgy & Bess. I new some of songs so I thought to myself that it might be interesting to listen to a new artist performing it. I was so impressed that two days latter I bought the live recording of Miles & Gil Evans at the Carnegie Hall.

Miles Davis could have been 78 today. Miles was the first jass artist I used to listen to and as you probably know, we always remember our first love...

Banny Carter has recorded hundreds of sessions during his long career, but his small group recordings for Verve are among his best.

Art Tatum's small group recordings on Pablo.

I voted classical. I like very much the music from the baroque era and specially the music of JS Bach. The greatest musician ever:

Joachim Kühn is one of my favorite pianists and I think he is one of the important pianist in the contemporary jazz. During his career he crossed many boundaries between different styles of music and between different styles of jazz. IMHO, the trio he led with Daniel Humair & J.F. Jenny Clark recorded together some of the best trio recordings of the last 20 years and for sure among the best trio recordings in my collection: From Time to Time Free Music From the Threepenny Opera Carambolage Easy to Read All of them are superb albums, and of course also his duo with Ornette. I hope one day I'll have the opprtunity to see him.

"Hat Trick" is a very good one.

Session F of this set was Originally issued on 'BOUT SOUL by Jackie Mclean (Blue Note BST 84284). On disk # 2, track # 8 we can hear a vocalist. According to the AMG her name is Barbara Simmons but her name is not mentioned in the set. Any explanation? Do you think Mosaic holds anything against Barbara Simmons???

I know it is a question of taste but from my point of view this is the most interesting set. I love the combination of Golsen & Farmer and they always sound better when Curtis Fuller joined them to the front line. I can promise you I'll be one of first to pre order this set and I have started already the count down... The Jazztet really deserve a Mosaic set so thank you Mosaic for doing this historical justice.

Very interesting Red. Thanks for posting it.

Another great pianist is the Japanese Junko Onishi. The late Joe Henderson helped her to promote her career. At the early 90's she began recording for Blue Note and she recorded 5 CDs for the label. To the best of my knowledge she is back in Japan and she's recording for a local label.

I saw Francesca Tanksley more than a year ago here in Tel-Aviv. She came with Billy Harper quintet. She is a great player and the only CD she released so far, Journey, is really superb.

RIP dear Mr. Jones.

Dewey Redman's playing is one of the reasons I like Keith Jarrett's recordings for Impulse between 1973-1977.