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Ulrich Gumpert, Raud Malfatti, Tony Oxley -- Ach Was?! -- (FMP, Ger) pretty great example of this kind of thing if you are into this kind of thing.

Well in 2005 my grasp was a little less clear. Strata-East would have made sense. Tribe not so much, since it was localized to Detroit and environs.

Sun Ra -- God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be -- (Cosmic Myth reissue)

The Dorham is Dave Bailey's "Bash" with alternate takes, correct?

Helen Merrill -- s/t -- (Emarcy, dg 2nd press) Hal McKusick -- Jazz Workshop -- (RCA Victor, mono)

ah, that's what I had kinda guessed -- which is why, despite intrigue, it's never entered the collection.

Huh. Will be curious to see how and what they do in the future, though admittedly I wasn't sure how hands-on Koester had been for a while.

Don't have this one on LP, so I'm eager to check it out. I do like the steel drum-heavy Timeless album.

haha, too true.

Alan Skidmore -- T.C.B. -- (Philips, UK)

yeah, that's one of my favorites too. Now, on a work-from-home afternoon: John Betsch Society -- Earth Blossom -- (Strata-East, US)

From Fred Weaver: Rest In Peace to my cousin Brooks Kerr who died last weekend. Brooks was a once-in-a-lifetime character, respected musician and essentially an adopted son of Duke Ellington. Over the past several decades, Brooks loved to create three-party phone calls where he would listen silently as my mother spoke to his friends, many of whom were famous musicians, their spouses and children. My mother knows next to nothing about jazz, so she talked politics with Max Roach, cats with Doris Parker and history with Alan Gershwin. Brooks would leave frantic, rambling free jazz voicemails on our phone that referenced people, quotes and historical events I don’t know that I’d ever be able to connect (or, hell, even *identify*). These messages were a great source of entertainment and bewilderment, and invariably wrapped up with the exclamation“Til Death Do Us Part!” before hanging up. Indeed, Brooks. You will be greatly missed.

His cousin, a musician in the post-punk vein and also a lefty political activist, is Kerr's cousin. He posted some remembrances on Facebook and I'll try to get permission to quote those here. Kerr seems like a really far-out and interesting dude. I'd heard the name before but didn't know much about him.

Alan Braufman -- Valley Of Search -- (new test pressing sounding super)

Rémy Couvez -- Paysages Intérieurs -- (self-released, FR) beautiful, intense hurdy-gurdy and electronic compositions. I'm new to this artist but am enjoying this record a lot.

DownBeat; Return To Forever. Now: Amon Düül II -- Dance of the Lemmings -- (United Artists, UK)

Fascinating!

yes; the CD altered the track order a bit and added one cut from '67.

Roswell Rudd -- Blown Bone -- (Philips, JP) the Patti Bown thread reminded me to dig this one out.

Good one. Third World Underground is quite something. The stars aligned for that album.

Sarah Hennies -- Embedded Environments -- (Blume, IT) superb contemporary percussion ensemble music recorded, I believe, in a cistern.

Impressive. I think Brandon Burke did this with Archie Shepp's Live in San Francisco, as he lived near the houses that appeared on that cover.

good one! as is Wo Der Kopf Sitzt, for that matter...

Yep. Especially LP 1 of the unreleased jams.

International Harvester -- Remains (live record 2) -- (Silence, SWE) really nice boxed set that collects the two original LPs and three albums of previously unreleased live recordings.