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I got the 50 CD set too. At this rate, we'll outnumber the "strictly limited" issuance

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I saw Regev, Lane, and Foni together backing Avram Fefer about a 6 or 7 months ago; a pretty good ensemble. Lane is always so intense. Regev is a remarkable trombonist, fluid and witty. She is married to Foni. I can see Greene fitting into that ensemble.

Picture didn't show here either. I am so glad you will be able to experience one of the very special free improvisation recordings of the 1990's. I couldn't see the image either but discovered if you right click on the "?" (where the image should appear) and click either "Open Image in New Tab" or New Window, you'll be able to see the posted image. I'm a Leimgruber fan also; have a lot of his Hat recordings, stuff with OM, etc. but not the one you picked up, which I know is a good done. Eventually.......

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Man, you can dance to this stuff!

Yes, I like this one. It has some quite profound moments in addition to the humor. I even turned my cousin on to it (he's moved to Wisconsin, which is close enough). I bought a copy of the short stories, but haven't read them. Late in life, Powers published another novel (Wheat That Springeth Green) which is supposed to be pretty good. I have a copy of this as well, but haven't tackled it yet. (The cover of the NYRB edition is odd -- you are looking into a refrigerator.) Given that all my books are going to be in transit for a while, after I finish The Tin Flute, I think probably I can get a library copy of Grass's The Tin Drum, which I've never read. I hope you find The Tin Drum more engrossing than I did. I finally gave up on it about half-way through "with prejudice" as they say in legal circles; i.e., made me not want to read any more Gunter Grass. I was pretty surprised by that, considering its "classic status," but I just found it tedious, and, something in the tone or attitude of the book (can't recall exactly) really put me off.

I expected more from the French. A rather anti-climactic game. The Germans are looking increasingly likely.

Yes, that is one of her finer works. I would agree about the young woman character being her forte, but followed closely by the quirky/troubled young man type. I'm reading her late Territorial Rights novel at the moment.

BOTH ENDS - Ballister: Dave Rempis (as, ts), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello, elec), Paal Nilssen-Love (d, perc). Bocian LP. Yellow vinyl. Rempis channeling Brotzmann, indeed the group is reminiscent of the early Brotzmann Trio. Reportedly recorded live while suffering the effects of food poisoning and the alcohol drunk to defeat the bacteria (does that work???), they definitely pounded the snot out of those bacteria if the performance is any indication.

I'll keep my eye out for those, sound interesting. Thanks for the recs. I'll second those recommendations...there's a whole bunch of Japanese TOK Lps that are great too...and "legend of the sea myself" is also very worthwhile. OK, thanks. The "Paradox" LP is marked as a TOK LP btw. I only alerted to it because of Kent Carter and Oliver Johnson. I figured it would have to be good if those guys were on it. Just played: MENTAL SHAKE - Peter Brotzmann (reeds), Jason Adasiewicz (vibes), John Edwards (b), Steve Noble (d). OTORUKU LP. I guess the buzz on this one is Adasiewicz' vibes, but the thing that hit me was the intense gravitational force field created by Edwards and Noble, that often had the vibes on the outside looking in. Not that it wasn't nice anyway. The vibes get a bit more of a look-in on side-2, and Adasiewicz even gets Brotzmann into sort of a swing mode for a minute or two. Brotzmann is on fire for most of the set, especially on side-1, just wailing.

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I'll keep my eye out for those, sound interesting. Thanks for the recs.

PARADOX - Takashi Kako (p, celeste), Kent Carter (b, cello), Oliver Johnson (d, perc). JAPO/ECM. On his website, Kako states that while he was in France in the 1970s, he was a student of Messiaen, but that he also became interested in free jazz and and that he "collaborated" with Steve Lacy (likely the source of his rhythm section) and Masahiko Togashi, and you can hear a lot of these influences going on here.

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I would bet the drug user network was more important and influential than freemasonry. I thought that was what the "secret history" was a reference to. Still, I did find the freemason angle interesting.

JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN - Margaret Drabble (1967) I'd never gotten around to Margaret Drabble's work, although it seems she has put together a significant literary career. I found this early novel rather peculiar. It's so much in the Jamesian mode, it almost feels contemporary with James. There are only the sketchiest references to contemporary life: a telephone is mentioned here, a television there, even Marlon Brando gets a quick mention, but the feel is oddly pre-modern. Pop culture doesn't exist in this novel. The narrative voice was also odd; it's hard to determine if it is earnestly serious, utterly droll, or deeply ironic. Likewise, is the young heroine of the novel, Clara, from the North of England, who yearns for an exciting and cultured life in London, an object of sympathy, or even admiration, or an object of satire? Hard to say. I wouldn't call it a feminist novel, but it does delve deeply into the female mind with almost brusque honesty, more so than I found in Iris Murdoch or Muriel Spark. I found it interesting that Clara walks into the office of a former flame and catches him reading Iris Murdoch. "And he showed her the book on his desk, which was, no less, Iris Murdoch.... they would find him something better to do than to read iris Murdoch under the desk." So maybe this is the anti-Murdochian novel, deeply existential to IM's Platonic haze.

I just saw you rpost. I bought it from Fujiwara at a concert his past weekend for $20. Very cool looking color vinyl. Oh....the music...yeah, it's pretty good....I played it a couple of times back to back and it grew on me.

I wonder what exact money changed hands on that deal. Looks like he is selling the non-annotated ones. I would think the annotated ones could bring super serious money. It's a funny kind of collectible; if you actually use it, you pretty much ruin its value. I'm sure Dylan listened to them too, so they might be fairly worn already. I probably walked by that building a 100 time in my undergraduate days at NYU.

I'm not really a "futbol" fan, but these World Cup games have been pretty entertaining. If I can, I'll watch the remainder of them. Generally I don't watch much sports, or TV, at all, and that includes "football" which has become a 4 hour time suck for each game.

Yeah, Howard was fantastic, absolutely, but if your team is playing well, you shouldn't have to make 16 saves either. I mean, if Howard didn't have the game he had, it could have been 10-0 or something. However, in extra time, the US side came alive and played with incredible courage and guts. I kept wondering if Landon Donovan had been kept on the team would the results have been different; he's such a keen competitor.

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THROUGH FOUNDATION - Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet) & Tomas Fujiwara (d). Edition of 250 copies, color vinyl. 2014.