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I dig "Fruit Salad" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-K0QBHMCwI

Trying to figure out why the names on the left are all of living people and those on the right are not. It seems an awkward comparison which begs all sorts of questions about designating as composers people whose music is very rarely performed outside their own direction. But. if you are being serious about absolute comparisons (the Brotzmann x-tets are just FUN groups) then - is there a Braxton composition that in your opinion matches in absolute compositional terms Pli Selon Pli or a Mitchell composition that equals ...explosante fixe... ? Not 'sound world', which as I think you know is a trivialisation of questions of formal composition and artistic purpose, but in absolute terms. Is there a piece by, say, Henry Threadgill, which you consider to have the same compositional novelty and accomplishment, and the same place in the history of music, as Schoenberg op. 9? Just a question, mind you, but one invited by the comparison to concert music. Which is Hemphill's 9th, so to speak - ? sorry to further derail this thread but whenever somebody brings up villa lobos the following quote comes to my mind ""Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?"--Igor Stravinsky

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It's a solid album, a solid recommendation. For me, over the last few releases Jen Shyu's vocals and Marcus Gilmore's drumming have been two key components... they've loomed large for me so their absence makes Functional Arrhythmias feel, as much as i like it, like a bit of a transitional record, the start of a new phase. Not that that's necessarilly a bad thing and it may just be some classic projecting on my part... I guess for me it's just a less exciting album than the earlier albums on Pi... more refined but more dry... any thoughts? I'm still buying every Coleman album as they come out and I'm with Xybert on this. I've really enjoyed the preceding Coleman releases to Functional Arrythmias as I heard a greater depth to the overall sound. As someone not usually keen on vocals I've really taken to Shyu's vocals. I've found that I've been a bit underwhelmed by FA and its strpped back sound. Coleman and Finlayson still doing it for me but Tidd and Rickman's return just seems to me to take the music back some years. I still enjoy it as a Steve Coleman album but miss the breadth of sound on the 2007/8 sessions on Pi. I hope he chooses to record and release something by his Reflex Trio with Virelles and Gilmore which was dynamite live Reflex trio did get recorded, kinda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9h6zLfBr-M

Russia blocks Chobani yogurt from Winter Olympics, straining relations http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/02/05/chobani-yogurt-blocked-from-winter-olympics-by-russians/

Sad to hear this, Mike. It's a cold world out there.

I'll be trying to watch the Alpine and Nordic skiing an the speed skating events and some hockey games.

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Anthropology, baby!

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Not actually this lp but the same material from the Bird Box. Enjoying it so much that I am on my second time. Thanks to the Bird thread!

Bobby Bradford's mention of Ornette's tape collection in the interview posted on the other thread here reminded me of this feature i recently came accross. Part 2 is on the tube as well for those interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YXdTvlaoOM

I have this 22 lp box of live and private recordings. That's obviously more than you ask for. But from previous discussion elsewhere I understand that it was reissued on cd and if you disregard what you probably have in some other form you may end up around 10 disks It contains most of what has been already recommended . trying to find an image I saw that an lp set was sold on the net just two weeks ago for $152.50 only. Listening right now to 3 nice cuts with Wardell Grey from Boston 1951. Bird does not sound extraordinary by his standards but I think Grey is in great form.

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I've got that one, been a while since I gave it a spin. Will have to give it a listen soon. Was looking for that but did not find it yet. played this instead. Still fun

Disk 19 & 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTO3-FuPdkU