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This footage is fantastic. I do hope more surfaces as well.

Bars is the trio of Bluiett/Melis/Moye. It goes there.

The Vista is strong for sure, and not at all a "wall" record. I'm sure you can find a vinyl copy. the Schiano is somewhat rare but it does pop up on discogs.

Melis is really interesting. Not only the Black Saint and Vista LPs, but Hamiet Bluiett's Bars (which he wrote & arranged, mostly) and half of Mario Schiano's Sud (as the Bluiett).

I've heard it and couldn't get into it, and felt there was very little Budimir to be observed (compared to the Revelation sides). For completists only, but YMMV.

correct. The PJ compiles tracks from Tension and Now Jazz Ramwong.

Mine arrived last week but I was out of town. Just cracking into the single disc and it does not disappoint!

Yes, I have it -- very good.

Dead stock copies surface from time to time; can't see a luxe reissue being absolutely "necessary" at this point, but it's an awesome record and shouldn't be too impossible to find in some form or another.

Yes, BGP/Ace owns the Flying Dutchman catalog.

Both of those LPs are incredible.

I love the rave party-animal energy coming from that digital flyer. He has always seemed to me like a rather far out dude, and I love his music.

Agree, it's excellent. Funny story about him flogging copies to collectors for hundreds of dollars (I think of it as maybe a $40 LP).

Weird. I did look in a couple of 1967-era album jackets (pre-accident) and it does look like him, before he grew his hair long and started wearing shades.

Cool. I'm interested to watch this as well.

I like that one. I wish I could connect with Foster's 70s big band work a bit more. Tried several times and just can't get into it -- and certainly I'd say it's my ears, not his charts or the recordings.

Yes, Kleinschuster led the ORF big band in the 1970s/early 80s. I don't know Fehring at all.

Nice RogueArt profile incl. a short bit about Singularity Codex on Bandcamp: https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/rogue-art-label-profile

Nice selection. Had the Yusef and sold it; have the Free Improvisation and Khan; have heard the Bajas... I'd probably buy the Boulez if I saw a European pressing in a shop. Looks good.

Young. Sad news. It is unfortunate to familiarize oneself with an artist upon hearing of their passing.

Indeed he is, and certainly a highlight. Incredible that you knew him!

Das Erich Kleinschuster Sextett Live -- (Preiser) hadn't dug this out in many years. Uneven, but some strong moments.

yeah, that was one reason why my father decided not to go to UT for graduate school and instead chose U of Rochester.

Thanks so much!!

I haven't heard the Ni Vi Nu Connu LPs yet but will give them a listen. Saw Butcher a bunch in the early 00s -- first in Chicago with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Glenn Kotche (didn't like Glenn's improvising at all [I dislike Wilco immensely] but Butcher was excellent) and subsequently in Texas solo, duo with Thomas Lehn, and in groups with the Austin New Music Co-op. All of the Texas shows were stupendous. It's been a while but I hope to have an opportunity to see him again. I have a smattering of his CDs and those in which he deals most closely with resonance and acoustics have impressed me the most, but he's such an incredibly deep listener and gutsy player that even the "standard" recordings of post-SME interaction or the saxophone-drum duos with Prévost, Nilssen-Love, et al. are quite remarkable. The trio with Lehn and Shipp (and the duos w/ both) are really something else too, though of course I've recently been going back to them with a very close ear.