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    Hi all, My parents will be in London from the 14-21 of September and are looking for good improvised music / jazz gigs. They're pretty open-minded. I'm not sure what's going on that week (if anything) and Time Out wasn't really too helpful, so I thought I'd ask here. Recommendations? I was hoping that the Convergence Quartet was playing at the Vortex but I guess that's not until October...
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    Ah, thanks for the info.
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    Ha!
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    Did Richard "Prophet" Jennings live in Sweden at some point? I recently saw a Freddie Roach LP for sale autographed "to our Swedish Prophet" or some such and was curious.
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    what's shipping like from Amazon UK to the US? worth it? I don't have some of this stuff and others I have in less-than-stellar CD issues. Might be worth it.
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    Listening to Archie Shepp on The Way Ahead playing "Sophisticated Lady." What is it that whenever I hear the tune I think of Jeanne Lee singing it on Shepp's album Blasé? I first heard the latter in about 1998 on a reissue that Michael Klausman ordered for me at Love Garden. I suppose I would have heard them both around the same time, actually. Shepp in '69...

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    Cover drawing by one Vinny Golia...
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    Wish I'd been there. Someday.
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    Matt was sort of chuckling as he made some of his more intense statements; to me he seems quite self-aware, and in some ways (non-musically) appears to be saying "take what I say with a grain of salt." Very friendly and jovial. I apologize if that didn't totally come through in the interview. As for the Susie Ibarra thing, I remember the dust-up but never really delved too deep. A lot of NY musicians aren't fans or have had negative experiences with her, and I do get that she came on strong without working in the trenches too deeply. My favorite Ware drummers were Marc Edwards and Whit Dickey. I really liked hearing Parker with Denis Charles and Rashied Sinan on record, never saw him with either in person.
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    Looks like Richard Kern.
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    Nice score on the Lacy ALM. I've heard it - never owned it - and it's excellent.
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    Green/red cover is first. Absolutely love this record, ragged as it may be in parts.
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    Yes. I like Ware, especially the work towards the end of his life - but don't love his music overall.
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    Yeah, I always liked the look of it. The US Verve looks cool too but I decided one copy was enough.
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    Some of you might enjoy this interview I did with Matthew Shipp. There's also an in-print, shorter version running in this month's New York City Jazz Record.
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    Just used an iPhone photo in a TMT news article. JUST TO PROVE I WAS THERE. (Bored Spies-related)

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    Oh, he's Cecil through and through on those records. He hadn't met Sunny Murray yet and the rhythmic conception wasn't where it would be, but the improvisational arcs and purity of conception are 100% CT. I think that the Marian McPartland interview that's recently resurfaced in the share blogs is worth hearing, especially if one is new to the world of Cecil Taylor.
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    I'll keep my eye out and a span of ducats in my wallet for that Djanger Bali LP. 't ain't cheap! Yeah, Parabolic is the UK version of Orgasm, released in 1969 with a cover image by Jacques Bisceglia.
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    I haven't listened to an LP on Blue Note in lord knows how long. Got hundreds of Blue Note albums on vinyl and CD, but they've just been shelved lately for whatever reason. On deck now: beautiful-sounding Liberty blue/white first edition of Jackie McLean's "Demon's Dance" with Woody Shaw, Scotty Holt, Lamont Johnson and Jack DeJohnette. Sublime.

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    Nice - would like to hear that Tony Scott album. Now: Alan Shorter - Parabolic - (Polydor/Verve UK)
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    The Jazz Couriers - The Message from Britain - (Jazzland, stereo) not the greatest pressing (looks strong VG++, plays pretty noisy) but musically excellent.
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    Grex shredding in Brooklyn. Y'all shoulda been there.

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    Both great and very different from one another. Keep in mind that Bill Dixon adds an entirely different cast to the proceedings, and this date was just a couple of days before he began recording the landmark Intents and Purposes for RCA. Dixon had suggested to Taylor that he use Mike Mantler on trumpet instead, but Cecil was adamant about their collaboration.
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    David Atteberry has given me the assignment of listing my favorite 10 records of 1982. BEFORE YOU GO LIKING THIS POST WILLY-NILLY know that doing so will set into effect a social contract. I will give you a year. You will give the world a list. In 1982 I was five years old and living in Topeka, Kansas, where I was born. I was mostly into trains and bugs (still am), but there was Miles, Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Cage and Braxton on the stereo courtesy of my parents. Today my record collection...

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    How are the Prestige titles? Seen, never bought.
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