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I gave Disc 1 a listen after your post, and I would put "Alms" in the "truly worthwhile" category (as I recalled from previous listening). A really crackling performance. Penguin over Jurek in this instance. Of course, one man's meat........

ALMS = 2 discs, 16 piece all star Euro free improv orchestra, plus Cecil providing impressive additional motive force, better recorded than usual, so, a necessary document. Penguin gives it a strong rating FWIW (4th edition). Basically, can't pass up Cecil in a setting like this!

I have all, I think, but one, "In East Berlin 88, " but the DL won't get you the book that came with the box set. Now if they put that on PDF......

Appears I made a good guess over in the Listening thread on what would be 37 - . Of course I'll want it!

I picked that up on RSD but haven't spun it yet. Which version do you prefer?

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The *best* Parker-Guy-Lytton on record Do you have "The Two Seasons"??!??! Sorry to report--no. Will have to remedy that.

Good catch. I just put in an order for the Carter/Bradford.

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Not "hating" on Steve Coleman, or "raging" either. I prefer to see it as a collective critique of the market forces that shape our music, and out individual responses to same. Besides how can one hate on a guy who schedules his concerts for the solstices? Can't you feel the vibe?

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Squidco I think has taken on the role of HAT distributor in US, and they have these recent releases. http://www.squidco.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=20026&Store_Code=S&search=braxton&offset=&filter_cat=&PowerSearch_Begin_Only=&sort=&range_low=&range_high=&srch_name=1&srch_artist=1&srch_personnel=1

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Just want to respond to your astute comment Paul. What we're seeing now around Coleman is a full blast PR effort, Tesla-level power, full court press, alley-oop, 4 on 2 at the net, free penalty kick PR effort. When the shills have had their moment, it will be time to sort through the evidence and touch reality.

I'm not letting Vijay "Hyperbole" Iyer off the hook yet. That quote is every bit as insufferable and overblown as it appears on first and last readings: "Vijay Iyer, who once declared in JazzTimes magazine that Mr. Coleman was, for him, as important a figure as John Coltrane, someone who “has contributed an equal amount to the history of the music.” Vijay needs to get his weights and measures re-scaled. Not sure how he measured out an "equal amount" (like cat food?) but, please, I don't care if JC came 50 years ago, Coleman doesn't come close to weighing measure with Coltrane (although he shares 3 letters!). Vijay is swimming in the guppy tank. Every molly must look like a shark to him. Plus the comment is immensely self-serving. If SC is equal to JC, well, that must mean that Vijay is right there with Cecil. And Finlayson--good grief, he must be another Miles! How did we miss it? Risible indeed.

Sounds like a description of the marriage itself, from what little i know. I haven't read her work, but it sounds interesting.

And that "career move" to the center has been, for many other jazz musicians, a move towards convention and mediocrity. Why do you think all the little fish huddle in the "main - stream"? I'm not enamored of Coleman's pet numerology systems and cultish musical organizations, but at least it tells me that there is an individual in there. Once that is co-opted (Validated) by the forces of convention, that individuality with be hard to find. Or it will become a parody of itself, bereft of real substance. God or Mammon, it's the old story.

While we're at it (and Steve's point is right on--if I was being "validated" by the jazz "mainstream" I'd run far and fast), how about this piece of vast overstatement: "Vijay Iyer, who once declared in JazzTimes magazine that Mr. Coleman was, for him, as important a figure as John Coltrane, someone who “has contributed an equal amount to the history of the music.” That's a big load of BS.

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That's certainly part of it, in particular, Jane, but Roche is I think a more complicated situation. In most of Naipul's novels, no one is likely to come off terribly well I think. That's part of the heaviness, the brooding, of the atmosphere.

GUERRILLAS - V.S. Naipaul - 1975 Jane, something of a thrill-seeker from England, and Roche, her lover, a white South African who had been tortured by the regime, come out to an unnamed Caribbean island (modeled on Trinidad), where they hook up with an erstwhile revolutionary, Jimmy Ahmed. You know something bad is going to happen--and it does. The tension in the book remains palpable from the start. As in much of Naipaul, there is hardly room for a smile (after those early novels); it's all deadly earnest (literally). But beautifully crafted.

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Tim Berne's Snakeoil - Bohemian Caverns, Sunday April 26, 2015 Tim Berne, (as), Oscar Noriega (cl, bcl), Matt Mitchell (p), Ches Smith (d, perc, vibes). First set started with two pieces not on the new CD: "Incidental Contact" and "Stingray Shuffle." Then two from the new CD, "You've Been Watching Me-" "Small World in a Small Town" and "Embraceable Me." "Small World" was absolutely killer and "Embraceable" was pretty close. The new songs struck me as stronger, more expansive, more interesting than the two previous pieces. Second set contained two more pieces from the new CD: "False Impressions" and "You've Been Watching Me." One other piece was not announced (or I missed it), and the set closed out with "Jesus Christ Minibar," which is either a real composition and title or a sample of Tim's wicked sense of humor. One thing you are going to get at a Tim Berne concert is hard playing; real bare-knuckle here. Don't know what the CD sounds like as I only picked it up last night and haven't spun it yet. Too bad Ryan Ferreira couldn't make the tour (post-NYC). When I heard the group in NYC with Ferreira it provided a somewhat different, more coloristic sound. Noriega played a lot of bcl last night; maybe the most aggressive bcl player around. Tim's playing was very strong. This group has gotten stronger each year, and there are few who can match it. If you can see them on this tour, I recommend you getting out to the show.