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nice; have the Incus LP, need to put it on deck again.

no worries; I think that it's a pretty big scene. And I think with any musical environment, there are both tendencies and reasons that preclude people from collaborating, whether socially, politically, aesthetically, or logistically. The Workshop de Lyon/Free Jazz Workshop is or was a pretty interesting group. I have several of their LPs (still missing the Une-deux-trois title, unfortunately).

ah, wonderful news! I have bootleg broadcasts of this very fine trio and it's some of the best music Rollins made, in my opinion. Truly exceptional. Bennink really keeps him on his toes!

thanks for purchasing! Excellent date.

Right, the FMP was Oki, Pilz, and Ralf Hübner -- cooperative unit I guess. Jamabiko is a cool record too, agreed. There's a couple of Pilz-Oki group CDs as well that I've never heard (or seen in person).

I've seen Sclavis play with Tusques in person, so it happens. There are a lot of French musicians of many different stripes, so it certainly gets cliquish -- I mean, hanging out with French people will certainly prove that!

oooohhhhh! -- which split are you talking about, by the way? As with scenes in New York, though players might have shared concert bills and known one another, not everybody played together. the Mechali brothers played with almost everybody, as did Siegfried Kessler, Patricio and Manuel Villaroel, Jef Sicard, Michel Gladieux, and Jean-My Truong, etc.. It was a fertile time with a lot of musicians testing the waters. Portal, Vitet, Guerin, and Tusques were a bit older, and I think part of a more established "professional" crew -- Portal was versatile in the Western classical field as well, while Vitet and Tusques came up in the post-bop environment. Tusques was also deeply politically involved with the left, so that might've been part of it too. Thollot was young but also came up among the straight ahead scene as a teenager.

Sad news -- the fabulous Japanese trumpeter and improviser Itaru Oki has passed at 78, according to reports from family. Really love his work in the 70s with his own groups and with Noah Howard, Alan Silva, François Tusques, and others in Paris. Improvising Beings also documented his late career on CD in recent years. He will be missed! Shirasagi, Genso Note, and Homicide Classroom are among the wonderful LPs he recorded in Japan, well worth seeking out also.

ah dang, yeah he was an excellent player. RIP.

YEP. Still shocks me that some people can't get with that record; it's a classic in every sense of the word.

great record. Glad it's getting some availability again.

Sad news! RIP to one of the greats.

the pressings suck. It took me several copies of La Vie De Boheme (Dave Burrell) to get one that didn't have a sticking spot on side two. It would not surprise me if these were defective Moncurs; that being said I have both records and they are fine as far as playing through.

yeah, I don't have much either, but that Gyllen Cirkeln LP on Metronome is excellent.

So this would have been right between Lytton's participation in White Noise and his joining up with Evan Parker in '70. Nice.

^ this. RIP. What a life.

got a few of their records but I must say none of 'em have been on deck in a decade!

ah, thanks for the info! Never saw that one.

Thanks Mark -- definitely have heard of this band, probably read about in liner notes or some such. Must've been a gas to see in concert.

without having heard it, my guess is they nabbed it from the older Columbia UK CD and maybe punched things up a bit.

I don't think it's legit, if you are referring to the 2012 CD. Much of their stuff is 'unofficial.'

Yeah, that looks awesome.

still need a minty copy of that one... mine has definitely seen better days!

Ah -- I really need to dig these out again, as it's been many years (they're in storage like most of my CDs). The duos with Moholo, Sommer, and Cyrille stood out the most to me at the time. I recall being less into the one with Bennink. I should revisit the duo with Favre; they did another duo CD called Ulrichsberg somewhat later that's quite nice, as well as trio and quartet dates in the '60s that are wonderfully heavy. Too bad she and Mani Neumeier didn't link up again for some duets (at least not that I know of)...

would like to hear those at some point, too.