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Nick Brignola - This is It! - (Priam) Just picked this album up. Excellent.

Mike Westbrook's Metropolis - (RCA Neon)

Beautiful.

I used to have it on LP and let it go for some reason (surprising because I've held onto all my other Byard-leader recs). Maybe I should try again.

Huh.

Different music than In Action?

bobdjukic is the king of eBay comedy.

Correction w/ Mats Gustafsson - Shift - (No Business)

Paul Flaherty, Froc, Bill Walach - Trinity Symphony - (no label) early '80s Connecticut weirdness.

According to facebook, the great reedman/saxophonist Bert Wilson died last night at his home in Olympia, WA. He had been wheelchair-bound from youth due to complications from polio, and was a fixture on the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest jazz scenes from the 1960s onward. He played with Sonny Simmons, Barbara Donald, Smiley Winters, Ed Kelly, James Zitro and many others, and released music on his own imprints Au Roar and Dr. Wheelz' Archives. There's an illuminating interview here; he and I had communicated about doing an oral history but it never materialized due to time constraints on my side. Now he's gone and I am pretty bummed. Rest in Peace, Bert, and thank you.

William Ackerman - It Takes a Year - (Windham Hill)

Chuck Johnson - Crows in the Basilica - (Three Lobed)

AEC - People in Sorrow - (Nessa)

Varese - Deserts / Hyperprism / Integrales / Density 21.5 - (EMI Perspectives Musicales, FR)

Damn. RIP.

Many happy returns, Durium!

nice!

First tried in high school, only an occasional puff as I was heavily into athletics until my mid-twenties. In graduate school I smoked about a pack a day for some crazy reason and quit immediately upon finishing grad school in 2007.

Wow. Would love to hear more from this group, should it ever turn up!

Thanks Paul. Both Pauls - Secor & Rutherford, the maestro. I have been spending the week with pianist-composer Burton Greene, another artist who has struggled for recognition and financial security and yet soldiers on with the music. Gotta laugh to keep from cryin'.

Yes, it's a classic. My friend Andrew Raffo Dewar is writing a book on the group and their activities. Also not to be missed is David Behrman's Wave Train album on Alga Marghen, which collects some related music under the composer's direction.