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  3. Jackie Paris dies

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    Jackie Paris is awesome. Most current rap stars are not very good rappers, and rely heavily on autotune to mask timing issues, intonation, etc.. Autotune can be used effectively on its own as an instrument, but it is overused.

    Kendrick Lamar is pretty damn good, and there are others. I prefer old-school rap and harsh, staccato delivery with complex wordplay. As with any genre of music, there's good and there's bad.

  4. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    I think I remember now that it was called that way. 

    The one album I knew when I was a teenager "Rhythm X" had that "Dolphy Series" written on it´s cover. I think I had picked it up because though I didn´t know who is Charles Brackeen, I loved Don Cherry with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell. But Charles Brackeen is also very fine, I think the LP sounds very similar to a lot of Ornette Coleman albums. It was exactly the music I liked, not completly atonal and not completly out of a regular beat, but "modern" as we called it then....

    The Brackeen is swell. He didn't have a bandleader recording again until the late 1980s, though he was quite active in the loft jazz scene of the 1970s, working regularly with Ahmed Abdullah, Paul Motian, Blackwell, Cherry, and others.

  10. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    9 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    This is sure a pleasure and brings a lot of memories back ! 

    I don´t know much about Strata East, was it Clifford Jordan´s label ? 

    I must admit the only Strata East I had heard when I was a teenager was the "Rhythm-X" , and I must admit that it appealed mostly to my musical tastes especially then as a teenie-kid . I was crazy about Don Cherry ! 

    Strata-East was founded by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell. The musicians owned the recordings, acted as producers, and chose the artwork. Strata-East handled manufacturing costs and distribution.

    Clifford Jordan's unrealized label was called Frontier and when that didn't get off the ground, he brought a number of tapes to Tolliver and Cowell for release as Strata-East LPs.

  14. Coffee Makers - Recommendations?

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    5 hours ago, Pim said:

    Bialetti Moka Express Espressomachine, Aluminium, Grijs, 6 Kopjes

    Does it look like this? Been to Italy on vacation these holidays and there's one of these in every Italian accomodation. YOu put water in the bottom, coffee in an iron filter and the pressure pushes the hot water trough the coffee. Can't get much purer than that. I was sold instantly and ordered one directly when I was back in the Netherlands. So now I get these:

    Illy espresso intenso koffiebonen

    Grind them and make myself some delicious Italian coffee. The downside is of course that making a cup takes some time plus attention (the making process have some points of attention) and you'll get like 3 cups maximum but the taste is amazing (and the whole process pretty fun).

    not exactly, though I used to have a stovetop espresso maker like that.

    what I use is an older Espro: https://espro.com/products/coffee-french-press-p6?variant=40619347411123&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&srsltid=AfmBOoqB-Fc3Mp98WNV8HDP0bjXFf-Ekf5S181MgkBnIkqqb4unls9bjztQ

  18. Charlie Haden

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    yep. Buell also had his own bands which were quite interesting, well into the 1990s and early 00s. Beautiful sound on the bass and very creative, not to mention a fascinating raconteur.

    Denis Charles reemerged in the loft era and was very active until his death in 1998. Certainly his personal problems created inconsistency but when he was on fire he was definitely on fire. There are numerous recordings that bear this out.

  19. Charlie Haden

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    15 hours ago, felser said:

    Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles come immediately to mind for me, followed by Raphe Malik, Ramsey Ameen, and Ronald Shannon Jackson (realize others think more highly of his work).

    Ameen is the only one of those players I haven't heard outside of CT. I quite like them all on their own, as well as in the Taylor orbit. Malik is a musician who mined a narrow seam but did it with brilliance and commitment.

  21. Charlie Haden

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    Taylor could get some really interesting music out of players who might in other circumstances not move me much. He was a powerful force and a conduit for sound that had few true peers. 

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