Peter

Seems I've spent the last twenty-five years trying to put togather a basic collection of jazz. With close to 2,000 discs, I'm still missing some essential stuff.

Thanks for posting this.

Please tell me about sudden thoughts. What's its url? Thanks.

Wow, where would I be w/o you guys. I was totally unaware of "Back Togather Again". Needless to say, I've ordered it. Many thanks for the heads-up. And as some may have guessed from my picture signature, I'm a fan of Archie Shepp & Max Roach "The Long March Parts 1 & 2" on hat hut. Both long out of print but I managed to scare up CDRs.

Anybody out there looking for Acoustic Masters I? There are three on half.com, starting at $6.48. Snap them up now! It's a favorite of mine.

Does anybody out there have any recommendations for saxophone - drums duo recordings. The soon to be released Charles Lloyd - Billy Higgins recording got me thing in tis vein. Thanks.

Here's the Amazon review: Sadness mixes with spiritual uplift on Which Way is East, an epic series of duets recorded by saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Billy Higgins in Lloyd's home a few months before Higgins's death in 2001. The Californians were dear friends going back to their teens. Here, in eight connected suites performed on a full array of instruments, they filter their feelings for each other, their music, and their world through their religious outlooks--Lloyd is a Buddhist, Higgins was a devoted Muslim. The pieces range from spirited free jazz with Lloyd on tenor and Higgins at the traps to New Age reflections featuring Lloyd on taragato and Tibetan oboe and Higgins on hand drums and wood box. Higgins also dabbles with guitar and a Syrian "one-string," showing off a rarely heard facet of his talent. Clocking in at more than two and a half hours, the double CD is no short walk in the transcendental woods, but the varied instrumental settings keep things livelier than some of Lloyd's slowly paced band recordings. And on alto, Lloyd has fun trading in his debt to John Coltrane to emulate one of Higgins's many other legendary employers, Ornette Coleman. --Lloyd Sachs

J.A.W., since you don'y like it, perhaps you'd be interested in selling it to me?

A 2 disc set on ECM due out 3/30. With Billy Higgins. What I'm wondering is, are these all duets? Would be an interesting format.

email me at peter@zwiefelhofer.com

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Radio Doctors has been gone for many years now. It is missed. Patricia: I've been told that the world hears too much of my opinions so I try to curb myself in such situations. The results are mixed. So it goes.

Check out Pandelis Karayorgis's "Heart & Sack". I think its on Leo. This is a fairly recent (3-4 years) recording. Certrainly "free" jazz, but not a thrash fest nor a lot of dead "air/space". This one really yanks my bobber under!

Good point Patricia. I didn't say anything. I have, however, voted with my wallet.

I've not heard the Duke Pearson. It sounds like you were disappointed with it. And, again, Jazzmoose hits the nail on the head.

I believe that Raise Up Off Me mentions that Clark played on one tune from Mingus's Trio record.

Jazzmoose has perfectly explained my feelings on the matter. Alejo, I'm going to check out your Madison recommendations. Today I found myself with a spare twenty in my pocket and the itch. Knowing a trip to a local store would be a waste of time, I mailed $15 cash to Chuck Nessa for the new Marsh. My grandpa always sent cash in the mail. Course he's been dead a long time now. We'll see if USPS grabs it or it gets to Chuck. I'm betting on the latter.

Exclusive Company is a Southern Wisconsin chain that sells at a pretty good discount. A nearby store of theirs used to be managed by a guy named Eric Musial. Eric was a jazz nut and enjoyed "free" jazz. He stocked a great jazz selection. Then one day I walked in and there was a new manager and help. I could hear their comments amongest themselves ridiculing Eric's large inventory of jazz titles they felt would never sell. Needless to say, the store has never been the same. I used to get to B Side Records in Madison several times a year. B Side had a small but "choice" selection of jazz. Unfortunately, their small selection has gotten even smaller in the last year or so. Not really worth stopping by anymore. Oh well.

I don't know about the rest of you jazz fiends out there, but here in good old Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA it is almost impossible for me to walk in to a record store and buy the recordings I want. I've got to buy everything mail order. This means no browsing the record racks for new discoveries, no impulse purchases, etc. Also delayed gratification. I've got to wait 1-2 weeks. And of course mail order means credit cards which means my wife can easily keep track of how much I spent on CDs, causing some marital discord. Bummer.

Ahhh..... the eighth arrives.

Cool! Thanks!

The set is sold.

It's sold.

Anybody out there looking for the 75 disc set? Mine's available. $325 including shipping (USA) and insurance. petezwief@gdinet.com

His compositions and solos for the 1960 Art Blakey recordings are outstanding.