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now: François Tusques - Le Nouveau Jazz - (Mouloudji, FR orig) little xmas present to myself.

Jay is a great dude - miss his insight around here but I know he's got a full plate.

It's not a tape issue. You can hear Kenny Burrell play his lick exactly one revolution ahead of whats coming next. It is very, very low in volume almost buried in the noise floor. But on high sensitivity speakers you can make it out. Since Mule is the softest song on side one that is where it's most obvious. Other than that I like the way the reissue sounds, it has really nice transient snap and dynamics. that sounds like print through on the tape.

You drink like you're from Romania, which is the fifth heaviest-drinking country in the world. I went to a couple of parties...

whoa.

don't notice this on my old Manhattan-era CD. Wonder if they used a faulty copy of the tapes.

gonna try to go.

correct, you're good chewy.

the Ogun is the first issue afaik. now: Jack Ruby - s/t - (Feeding Tube) archival release, a melange of no wave and power pop madness

It's funny, these threads do sort of evolve in that direction... I tend not to think in terms of "this solo really knocked me out and I can recall every note of it" with the exception of a few records that I heard early in my jazz listening and thus spun excessively. Certainly I can call out an awesome solo but the music isn't totally about that (to me) and I think that if you hear someone you like, you'll want to listen to as much as possible - and not just the solos, but how the players' comrades supported and shaped those landmark statements. Regarding Trane, "The Inch Worm" is, I think, the first place I really heard his soprano playing.

Surman's soprano is really hardcore, especially in the early years. There's some particularly blistering playing on the Live at Altena LP (JG Records) but this is just one among many options. Oh, and he also tears things apart on "Glancing Backwards," from the Where Fortune Smiles LP on Dawn.

was glad to catch it for a minute - hope it is commercially, legally available at some point. Good set (and I'm not even a hardcore GG dude).

Traditional Inuit Music of Eskimo Point and Rankin Inlet - (CBC Northern Service) intense stuff.

This.

Hmm, I may have to grab this from iTunes as well.

What I have heard has been musically more engaging than I expected it to be, to say nothing of the tragedy that inspired the work.

IDK, though I know Corbett vs. Dempsey will be reissuing some other choice Hat Hut LP rarities, including (I think) the excellent Baikida Carroll solo record, The Spoken Word.

What's in the dead wax? OG is in a very thin matte paper cover and the print is black, rather than the greenish tint. Labels are bright green with black print. Fairly thin vinyl, maybe 120 grams on the original as well. I would say one super easy way to tell them apart is, of course, the sticker price!

Ricordi International (SNIR) did custom pressings for a lot of very small Italian labels/artists. The first Altsax Record, Patterns (recorded in Holland) was AMC (Altsax Music Company) 1000. What you have is the original/only issue until the recent grey-market Serie.WOC reissue.

Fahey's The New Possibility is really all I need.

I'll be very curious to hear this, for sure.

only have the Scott record on LP - would be curious to hear these extra tracks!

Guitarist Mimi Lorenzini apparently passed over the weekend.

As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Really? How so? I have a mint German vinyl issue and it sounds excellent to me... I admit I only have the CD, but the bass is the typical 70s sound: clear, thin, and rubbery. The drums are distant and tinny. Generally no depth with kind of an odd balance. Maybe I'd be happier with a German LP. But like I said, it comes off as typically terrible 70s production to me. I'd rather it were ECM'd! I have a US pressing that doesn't sound too great - fairly "dull" although the music is awesome - would prefer the German to compare the sound.

Kiyoshi Takunaga is a very underrated bassist, and Randy Kaye was quite a special drummer. No reason these records wouldn't be top shelf!