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Butch Morris, Frank Lowe, Billy Bang, Denis Charles, A.R. Penck, etc. - Be Cool in Munich Vol. 2 - (Penck)

David Murray - Last of the Hipman - (Red) w/ Butch, Dyani and George Brown

He's a big Hawk fan, indeed. I would say Song X and Live in Japan are much more melodically easy to get into than much of Brotzmann's work. The quartet with McPhee, Kessler, and Zerang might be a good place for you to start - dip into Tales out of Time on Hat Hut, for example, which is a favorite of mine.

I hope to attend as well. May see you there.

Somebody call Half Price Books!

Would the RSS feeds be readable off Organissimo and in my Google Reader?

Lonnie Smith?

I know, right?

Warhol madness!

Seconded!

The two on Arista were reissues of material on Universal Justice. I assume - but I don't know - that they were only leased, and that the rights returned to UJ and Charles Shaw.

Rapeman - Budd - (Touch & Go)

Yeah, I saw that. Whenever I see the name Nick Forte, I think of the guitarist from hardcore band Rorschach. Probably not the same dude!

Who says there won't be one? That's what we thought we were hearing before. There's a lot of the trio stuff floating around on blogs, as we previously noted, and it's fair to say that it is all much of a muchness. So it may be that project was abandoned in favor of this - or it may just be that we misinterpreted the whispers. In any case I find I am pretty much seventied out these days... I dig what you are saying; the muchosphere has really changed the landscape for reissues/unearthed material, especially for titles that aren't sure sellers.

And our own Allen Lowe right in the middle!

Looking forward to these, though admittedly I would have looked more forward to a big box of Sam Rivers trios.

Out of sync. The recordings date from 1974 so there's a distinctly raw, low-tech vibe to it.

Oh - no, "Fifteen Saxophones" uses a tape delay to the effect that the original saxophone sound is delayed four times. That in turn is overdubbed twice. So 4+1 saxophone sounds (5), three times = 15 saxophones. The other pieces use delay as well but to a lesser degree. Wild stuff.

Yuk yuk.

Tape delay.

Please excuse the shameless self promotion: I'm very proud to have been involved in writing the liner notes and nudging the label toward reissuing this gem of American avant-garde music. It's not "jazz" or "free jazz" per se - Dickie Landry was part of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in the 1970s - but I've long been fond of his work and it really is unique in the realm of music that straddles the line between structured/didactic composition and open improvisation. Buy Dickie Landry's Fifteen Saxophones from Unseen Worlds Records here. It's available on CD and high-quality LP, both of which look very nice!

haha my thought exactly.

Mary Lou Williams - Mary Lou's Mass - (Mary)

Always liked his playing - tasteful, exact and swinging. RIP.

Peter Kowald - Quintet (FMP)