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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.

To me, the writer seems as if he's slighting Blue Mitchell and not totally grasping Nichols or Hope.

Cool piece on the Elvin group. Also read an interesting interview with Liebman on Grossman and that scene -- http://davidliebman.com/home/interviews/on-saxophonist-steve-grossman-with-jonathan-beckett-2012/ really don't know much of Grossman's music apart from Elvin, Miles, Terumasa Hino, and Sunrise Studios, but I do like his playing in those contexts. RIP.

rare one -- have seen images before but never actually fingered a copy.

Chamberpot is great; White String's Attached is a wonderful piano-violin duo LP. Marsh Gas (Ian Brighton) is killer as well. The Alterations record is pretty sweet although I prefer their Quartz LP by a hair. After Being In Holland For Two Years (solo Peter Cusack) is grubby fun. Levers "Alone" is underrated and bonkers too. Groups In Front Of People I'm sure will get the reissue treatment -- essential and very out. I like the Oxley but I like other Oxley LPs a bit more. The first Bead, by A Touch of the Sun (Cusack/Mayo) is cool, supposedly issued in an edition of 99. My copy isn't in the greatest shape though I don't think the pressing is that high quality either.

Wow. RIP. Was lucky to catch Andrew Hill and Lee Konitz (separately) at the Showcase when I went to school in Chicago. Great times, both.

Weird!

yeah, Ricochet is the one I wrote text for. It's excellent in my opinion. I believe that they only have rights to do CDs -- no digital.

Bead is one of my favorite labels. Just missing a few.

from what I can tell it's FMP 70 + a bunch of extra music. Perhaps the extras are with Evan Parker, who replaced Peter van der Locht for several live performances. The Roy Ashbury/Larry Stabbins "Fire Without Bricks" LP on Bead, which is also getting reissued, is very cool as well. The cover art looks quite impressive on LP, hopefully it translates to the "little silver disc."

yeah; the records are strong, but seeing them live is something else...

There are a lot of awesome ECM records but also a lot that I don't really care that much about. Life goes on. I agree that the German vinyl pressings do sound better than a lot of their CD releases from the first half of the '90s. I would assume that they sound better now, though I've only heard a smattering of newer ECM titles ( < 20) to judge from. To me they are just another player in the landscape of contemporary music imprints and I don't feel like they need to be offered "cult status" or anything, but here we are. Most of the ECM records I like are earlier rather than recent. I suppose if I were to list ten today it would be the Mal Waldron, Afric Pepperbird, Just Music, Conference of the Birds, Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians," Barre Phillips "Mountainscapes," Gateway 1, Music Improvisation Company, and Divine Love. Tomorrow it might include the Bleys, Michael Naura's "Vanessa," the John Clark LP, and the new Barre Phillips solo.

Sorry to hear about Mr. Cannon; looking forward to hearing the CD, in any event. Just catching up to this project now.

What a crazy situation.

Got a car again this summer and have lucked into Schaap on a few drives. I am among those who really enjoy hearing what he has to say. Sorry that he's still dealing with health issues.

this looks awesome -- I'll have to watch it later, listening to something else right now. of course comedy and much in music is all about timing, so when the timing is good, it's really something. I worked on indexing the video oral history of Bob Newhart for a project in graduate school and it was a real lesson in more ways than one!

I've never had Moot (aware of it, just doesn't pop up often enough over here) but it does look like a fun one.

Right, I knew there was an aristocratic connection. I've never really seen his name without the "von." He looks like an aging soap opera star!

I can imagine!!

I've always liked Shepp's version. It was a great day when in my college jazz history class (taught by the late Dick Wright), he crammed both free jazz and bossa nova into one class, using that as the segue. We bonded over our shared love for Roswell Rudd's Impulse! album, Everywhere. Owe that dude a lot.

story of my life! but yeah, I've been listening to CDs a lot more in the last year; now that I no longer review albums, the pressure is off and I can just listen to things and enjoy them. It's fun!

Spaulding is great. I will write him and wish him a happy birthday as well! I plan to republish the great interview I did with him in 2004. It still holds up as one of the finer ones I was able to do.