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Shipp is great, and I think the duos work really well. Callas, Nuremberg, and Bendito would all be good places to start. They are both pretty obsessive players, in terms of working/reworking a concept or fine-tuning a process, and it's interesting that we have the documentation.

I want to hear that Sato/Takada/Kang trio! The catalog number of that Pope CD fits right in line with a number of other new, not-on-LP Moers releases, so it's certainly plausible. Would like to hear it.

Yeah, I think that's right. Seasons is a hell of a ride... the CD is from the ORTF tapes, not a needle-drop (I have the original LP set and bought the 2CD reissue when it came out). Seasons, other than side two, is not so much about individual players but about the orchestra/sound as a living, breathing thing of variable density. It's an amazing, amazing album.

yep! Schoof is great. His albums with Alexander von Schlippenbach from the late '60s are all excellent as well. Yosuke Yamashita sure does have a lot of records; I have about 20 and that seems maybe a bit excessive! I like his playing but those records are quite a bit less warm than Pullen or Taylor.

Can cosign on all of these; Live in Nuremberg (brand new) is another excellent duo set with Matt Shipp. Here's a lengthy but fun interview I did with Ivo a few years ago now... https://www.cliffordallen.me/interviews/ivo-perelman-the-indisputable-truth-of-process-an-interview-2013 and like jcam_44 I must have at least 30 of his CDs! I would agree that there's so much variety it's hard to know where to dip in, but everything I've heard has been really enjoyable.

I like that one.

nice, glad you got one!

Sorry to hear this; Hoyle I only really know from the Ra recordings, so it looks like I need to educate myself on more of his work.

wow.

It's a cool record, glad it exists, but yeah, Shorter is only on one cut. I think it was probably cut at the same session as Coral Rock and (most of) Pitchin' Can.

yes.

Yep. We are going to need a lot of lawyers on our side, and judges.

not currently. the NYAQ tracks are pretty shambolic, I must say, though I'm glad they exist. Coral Rock and Pitchin' Can are awesome LPs.

never actually saw one in operation; they sure are funny looking. I'll go for a DL109 over a PA. Or a DR6 Shark, for that matter.

CB&Q, yes -- an interesting railroad indeed. Why not an E6? Always liked that gentle shovel-nose. great shots, jazztrain. -- to add to catesta's story, when I was a kid watching trains with my dad in Topeka, we were photographing a Cotton Belt engine sitting in the small ex-Rock Island yard. The engineer came on duty to do some switching and invited us to visit him switching sometime after my school was out. So the next week I did not only a ride-along but also got to drive the B23-7 locomotive on my own, which was very cool and very illegal! I know that the engineer was well aware that making such a memory was more important than the laws and regulations at the time.

Interesting; mine has SACEM labels but does have the original gatefold cover (it was later issued in a single sleeve). I would imagine that with Edici not being a very big label some things got shuffled around at the "warehouse"...

yeah, I posted something about this on IG; short version is I grew up in a very very white neighborhood and when I was a teen asked one of the few black classmates I had about his experience of racism, and it was basically this. Really opened my eyes at that time to something that was otherwise a completely abstract concept.

yep, noticed yesterday & gripped. thanks! On the Corner arrived the other day; discs are definitely not CDRs, really nice package as hoped for.

at a certain point on here, we will have to have some political discussions. There's just no way around talking about the fact that Black Lives Matter and that the police have been going nuts on people of color for decades. Silence = complicity.

yeah, took me years to find a nice copy and it was expensive (probably about $100 or more). Good luck. Excellent album.

oof.

FWIW, NYC is offering free testing at numerous locations; I've been out marching, and will try to get tested this week and periodically thereafter.

I mean, that to me seems like straight up fascism.

Yeah, I too think we are on the precipice of something. I hope something better eventually will be made from what this is and was.

Haven't been on a long train journey in a few years (last one was DC to NY) unless you count semi regular Metro North jaunts. I do love Amtrak though it can be a slog. Lifelong railfan here so I always try to keep up with what's happening in American railroad news.