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    Here's another weird music dream I had: last night I dreamt that I met Nas on the train and asked him about his dad (trumpeter Olu Dara). However, in this instance, Nas was a chubby, awkward Jewish teenager wearing a yarmulke...

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    Guess it's a Gary Windo kinda day... Alan Shorter - Tes Esat - (America)
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    Ray Russell - Secret Asylum - (Black Lion, UK gatefold orig)
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    Ack, poet Jayne Cortez has also left the building. What an incredible artist - RIP.

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    Your head is like a yo-yo / your neck is like a string / your body's like Camembert / oozing thru its skin.... RIP Fontella Bass. Your voice was a life changer for me.

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    So an hour into Django Unchained I was looking forward to seeing it again. Is that how they make movies nowadays, for easy suckers like me?

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    My dad gave me his Canon EOS 60D camera. I'll now be shadowing Peter Gannushkin and Scott Friedlander around the city.

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    Man, strangely efficient and chill at LaGuardia. Do others know something that I don't?

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    When I think of "spiritual jazz" I think of post-Coltrane modal plateau mossy stuff, perhaps with electric piano, additional percussion, and/or choral elements. Funky rhythms are encouraged, but with significantly longer tracks than "jazz-dance" DJ material (such as Sahib Shihab Seeds, Sadi records, etc.). It's more a tag for collectors and the increased wallet linings of dealers than any real aesthetic thrust. I tend to like some of these kinds of records just because I like good music, but I'm sometimes amazed by the prices that people will pay for that one "spiritual groover" that few would have batted an eye at 10-20 yrs ago.
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    Blergh. I haven't gotten that far yet and am about to head home for the holidays, but will check mine when I return. Probably will encounter the same issue.
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    Samara Lubelski - Wavelength - (De Stijl)
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    And I suppose not many people on this board are Brice Marden fans - though I'm just going on the assumption, since he's not nearly as well known as his peers in the world of modern painting.
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    The whole thing is just unimaginable.
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    Alas, I'll be back home for the holidays so I won't be able to catch Open Loose. Dang. Just pulled this one out of my mailbox too. Looking forward to diving in.
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    Second both of those recommendations. The Masters LP is excellent, and features Tony Ortega, Harold Land, Bob West, Roger Guerin and Mike Wofford among others. There are also a couple of other Mary Lou Williams LPs that are or could be relevant: Mary Lou's Mass and Zodiac Suite.
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    Well, don't want it to turn into a V'mark bash thread (we've already got a pretty amazing one of those around here somewhere). Haven't spent time with the Resonance Ensemble music at all, though I may have a couple of things lurking around here under that banner... Caught Jon Irabagon's Outright in concert at Cornelia Street the other day, w/ Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Tom Rainey and Ralph Alessi. Very fine music clearly building on Wayne Shorter's classic BN era, with a kind of 21st-century rockist angularity. Admittedly the CD didn't really grab me a ton, but seeing the band work through the music was another story. So I now am going back to the disc to see how my opinion continues to form. Enjoyed Iverson with Ted Brown recently, though that's a VERY different thing from TBP. Iverson was creative, respectful and engaging as a pianist playing the standard repertoire.
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    Well, after going through the DKV set a number of times I actually came away with the feeling that it's solid and consistent. Nothing earth-shattering and a few lame funk breakdowns aside, but pretty strong trio blowing on the whole. I'm not sure if 7 discs is necessary but, you know, I'd say it's worth sampling if you have the opportunity and aren't totally anti-KV. By "holds" earlier I meant holding attention, rather than it being scattershot or anything of that nature. Had vols. 1 & 2 but they left in the big CD purge before I moved (I wasn't totally in love with them, just thought they were "decent"). I might try to grab these again at some point, though.
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    Same here.
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    It's easier to comment on the problems that surround or enable a tragedy than to comprehend that same tragedy.

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    Many happiest of returns today.
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    Continually rendered speechless by mass shootings in this country. We need stricter gun laws, as well as a better infrastructure to deal with treating or locking up extremely mentally ill individuals.

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    Wonderful set, so underestimated as a chronicle of improvisation at it's best. I only have the LP and would like to get the discs. Looks like the box is selling for around $100 at Amazon UK.
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    Yeah, I still listen to that one fairly regularly and it's probably still my favorite of that group of albums. Finally got the Candid LP (German press) of the session with Bley and Swallow. It's interesting though I do prefer How Time Passes and Essence.
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    I've passed on that John Gordon a few times - maybe I should grab it next time if it's not stupidly expensive.
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    Yeah, the recording isn't that hot in the first place.
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