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yeah, I have the Both Directions set on LP and that version is nice/fine. The Coltranes both were easily bigger sellers as downloads or Spotify streams, and I'm sure that the Monk will be the same way. I still would rather have a CD than a few files on my Apple Music setup.

So I assume it's like the Coltrane "Blue World" CD packaging, which is/was pretty shoddy. I'll still buy the thing when it comes out in ten days, but sheesh, Impulse! really could give less of a shit what their product looks like.

Cadence North Country was sold to a pianist whose name escapes me at the moment, and he is handling the shop.

ha, it would not surprise me. Luckily this artist would have not been for lovers!

yeah, they have really made a mess of the Takoma catalog. A friend was working with one of the Takoma artists, before that artist passed, and Concord basically did not want to license his music nor put it out themselves. Just holding an obscure album hostage for no gain.

Sad news -- I was traveling this weekend but heard it from my former editor at the NYC Jazz Record who, like NPR, had received confirmation from family members. Glad I got to catch him live once (not with Jarrett!!).

yeah, true, I tend to spend less on non-jazz records anyway. Jazzinvinyl were great, miss that place.

I'd be fine with a hq reissue; never seen the Deccas at anything close to an affordable price, at least for clean copies...

I picked it up at a nearby shop for $80. Great sound, really nice package. I used to own Nidhamu and Nature's God, but neither were in the greatest of condition and I sold them ages ago. Honestly, I'm happy with the box set. For what it's worth, the shop I bought it from was taking appointments at 9AM so I was one of three people at the opening, and we cleaned them out of Ra boxes. I think it must have sold very well yesterday. An addendum to the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble, I think that Holidays did an excellent job with that reissue as well; my opinion stands now as I guess it did when I owned an original: the first side is quite interesting, but the second side is (to my ears) rather boring. Better to learn that for $25 than $500 !

saw that Colin Fisher group play at a bar in Greenpoint years ago, fantastic... haven't heard the album however. Karl's 2CD is amazing, full stop.

agree! and the interview with Roy Brooks on the CD version is a treat as well.

website is still active at least. I think he did a very good job while he was doing CDs.

what happened to Horwich anyway?

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.