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Yeah, Rischka's Light Faces is a rare one - would love to have it (Dauner of that period is particularly excellent) but it's a little outta my league.

Stockhausen - Spiral/Wach/Japan/Pole - (Electrola Germany) LP 1 of 2 - good to knock a beer back to before heading "out on the town."

Ha, that is the ONLY way to post!

Frippe Nordstrom was the one who did Bird Notes - indeed, I only have one of the variants of Natural Music (clean orig) as well as the Ayler vol. 1 (Japanese). What was cool about Frippe was that he put different music on different pressings of the same release, so the cover and title might be the same but who knows what you were going to get music-wise? The dead-wax was the only giveaway! Someday I hope all of his Bird Notes releases are collected into a boxed set.

Looks cool.

Oh man, I wish... I have quite a few of their LPs but not those. Good luck!

The only Morrisey LPs I have are a couple on Mercury reissued by Vocalion and one of the Gearbox EPs. He's excellent but for whatever reason I didn't go further...

Yeah, that Feza is an enjoyable one - I agree.

Yeah, hard to find the earlier work on CD but very rewarding. The material with Lasse Werner that came out as a Jazzland LP is, I believe, now available on a Dragon CD and is well worth seeking out. Numerous alternates and additional music really line the platter there. Stockholm Dues is his second LP as a leader and is excellent. It was reissued on CD a while back (as well as going through a few different vinyl iterations). Agreed about the groups with Tommy Koverhult (1968-early '80s?) being real strong. The quartet variant that cut Fly Me To The Sun (Torbjörn Hultcrantz, Leif Wennerstrom) was really something; there are also two strong LPs on Amigo (one adding Bobo Stenson) and half of an LP for Sveriges Radio - the latter a pretty monstrous performance. I've spent less time with the big band work than I should, but can recommend First Moves (EMI Odeon LP) as a knottily robust and rhythmically charged date. I still would rather hear him in a small group or, if in an orchestral setting, under someone else's direction. Sideman work: In addition to some earlier sessions with Krzyzstof Komeda (who I have explored less than I should), Maffy Falay & Sevda rules as far as "non-Western jazz" goes, in my opinion, and the first of two volumes on Caprice has some killer Rosengren in that context. Rosengren also worked with Don Cherry pretty frequently; the fruits of that can be heard on Improvisationer (scarce LP on SJR) and Movement Incorporated, a big band date released on the small Stockholm label Anagram (CD only). Orangutang!, led by saxophonist/arranger Gunnar Lindquist, is an excellent Cherry-inspired workshop big band date that's rare (Odeon Swe LP) but worth seeking out. George Russell was also seemingly quite integral to Rosengren's evolution as a player/composer and the saxophonist is on a number of Russell's Scandinavian sessions. I recently picked up a Harvest LP under Benny Bailey's name that has some very strong Rosengren playing. It's titled How Deep Can You Go?. At times he sounds like Joe Henderson on that record, though I wouldn't say he always does. He's a robust player who amalgamated a highly structured form of post-bop improvising into relatively free (to very free) contexts and was successful at it. Clearly Rosengren was more comfortable with a somewhat regimented harmonic environment as his later records are more "in" than "out."

His last disc as a leader (piano duos w/ Renee Rosnes) was released in 2010, which isn't too long ago all things considered. Seems like he gigs regularly out east. It appears he's had some TV gigs as well. Nice work if you can get it.

Paul Smoker Trio - Mississippi River Rat - (Sound Aspects)

John Surman - The John Surman Trio Live in Altena - (JG Records)

John Surman - s/t - (Deram UK stereo)

Ha, right, figured you'd chime in with that one.

Right, DIW. They issued a 45 to go along with the first couple hundred copies of their Sonny's Time Now reissue but mine is lacking that.

I have to be in a 45 mood but when it strikes, I'm glad to have some things to play. I sold a lot of my punk & indie singles but there are certainly a number of those I wouldn't mind getting back someday.

There's also the jukebox single version of Ascension, which I would love to have - more as a curio than anything. The Free Music Quartet produced a very rare EP called Zand, privately issued in Holland at the turn of the '70s. It's been on my wants list for years but I've never scored a copy (or even heard it). The group consists of Peter Van Der Locht (reeds), Boy Raajmakers (trumpet), Ferdy Rikkers (bass), and Pierre Courbois (drums). Anyone who's holding... cash or trade awaits! Would also like the Paul Bley and Ayler/Ornette singles that ESP released even though I have the same material on LP. I don't have too much but here is what I do have in terms of improvised music 7"s. Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink - Free Jazz ünd Kinder - (FMP) Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink - Einheitsfrontlied - (FMP) Leo Cuypers, Keshavan Maslak, Harry Miller et al - Nachtricht b/w Drivin' Through The Night - (Theaterunie) Arthur Doyle & Rudolph Grey - Ghosts II - (Foreign Frequency) Hans Dulfer & De Perikels - Red, Red Libanon b/w I Need Some Money - (EMI) Globe Unity '74 - Der Alte Mann Bricht... Sein Schweigen - (FMP) Globe Unity Orchestra - Bavarian Calypso b/w Goodbye - (FMP) Tubby Hayes - Voodoo Session - (Trunk) Keefe Jackson & Frank Rosaly Duo - (Molk) Ardell Nelson's Jazz Prophets feat. Leroy Jenkins - Swamp Chanting for Weedy b/w Miss Eula - (Lola's) Marten Klapper & Martin Küchen - Irregular - (Fylkingen) Thomas Lehn & Raymond Strid - Here/There - (Fylkingen) Orkest de Volharding - Solidariteitslied - (De Volharding) Oh and the ICP Flexi collection (Mengelberg-Benninnk) issued on ICP 013 is probably worth noting... There's also a nice ICP + Breuker flexi issued as a museum promotional item in Amsterdam. I've heard it and it's pretty good.

Sorry to hear of his passing. He was something.

High Rise - Live - (PSF/Squealer Revisited) Now: Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising - (Homestead)

Agreed.

Yup.

Yeah, some of that is pretty cool indeed.

I've seen that Kourate one before and heard it was good. Will keep an eye out. As for solo bass records, Unaccompanied Barre from '68 (aka Basse Barre, Journal Violone) is pretty much tops imo. As a Peter Ind fan I'll have to check out his solo bass LPs too, though. And there is this: Spendy boxed set but if you go for solo trumpet and avant-garde music, it's indispensable.

I don't know that work too well but feel like if it had the Mosaic treatment, I'd learn it. Or whatever part of it I could learn.