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These looked interesting (to me): Geoff Kaplan’s Power to the People: The Graphic Design of the Radical Press and the Rise of the Counter-Culture, 1964-1974 (University Of Chicago Press). Ironic tht it is a coffee-table book though. David Grubbs, inRecords Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording (Duke University Press) People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now! (Duke University Press) Garry Winogrand (Yale University Press). I saw the exhibition and was quite impressed. Thanks for the link.

I have the "Great London Concert" on Arista/Freedom 2LP, then for good measure (ha ha), I have "Ornette Coleman in Europe, Vol. 2" on Freedom/Polydor (gatefold LP).

The Dinesen tales go beyond short story, they almost reach the novella. The first one in the book, "The Deluge at Norderney," is the long and most challenging I think, or maybe just its position as first tale forces the reader to acclimate to the word of the tales. It might be worth starting with the last, "The Poet". There is some interconnectedness but it is not crucial or requiring a particular order. My surprise was at just how sharp the wit is that Dinesen deploys. It bristles on every page. A lot of it is "drive-by" humor, a glancing shot. She is having some wicked fun with it all, while more or less keeping a straight face. There is a serious quality, one might even say a spiritual quality to it all but it is hardly conventional. Indeed, upending the conventional is her "MO." I like the pairing of Martin and Kingsley, probably done for reasons of profit and to give both books' sales a nudge, but it makes good literary sense too.

Never seen this one. What's the date? I think the music is the same as that on The Great London Concert - 2LP on Arista Freedom. The music is from 1965. Not sure if Paul Secor's version has more tracks (?).

Ingrid Laubrock, Kris Davis for starters. Also Taylor Ho Bynum. Katherine Young. How about Old Lion Tim Berne?

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Some guys want to know if their girlfriend is "on the pill" and some want to know if she is "on to Pilz." Sorry, couldn't resist. Still working the Ran Blake inventory at Casa Leeway: Owl LP. Pretty interesting. Looking forward to the rest. This is one of my favorite Blake LPs. I'm really puzzling over the liner notes on the back. Are they written by Ran? The left column is pretty straightforward, about Schuller, 3rd Stream and the NE Conservatory of Music. The right column though is perplexing. Were John Simon, Susan Sontag and Amiri Baraka figures that loomed large in Ran's personal landscape? Are the comments meant to be taken seriously? They are really rather inscrutable. It seems the very last paragraph might be intended humorously, but I'm not certain of that.

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Some guys want to know if their girlfriend is "on the pill" and some want to know if she is "on to Pilz." Sorry, couldn't resist. Still working the Ran Blake inventory at Casa Leeway: Owl LP. Pretty interesting.

QUOTE: "As for Hamid, he's a great foil to Brotzmann though hardly the only one. I know-- I know!!-- JSngry has perspective(s) but other folks should step back and remember-- or listen again-- to Brotzmann and Andrew Cyrille... Brotzmann and Louis Moholo-Moholo... Brotzmann and Walter Perkins (the furtive mind-boggler)... and though Bennink has his annoying moments elsewhere, there are some amazing Brotzmann-Bennink sides... Brotzmann-Bennink-Mengelberg cond. Bach Mass Bmoll... etc etc." Want to add Brotzmann and Paal Nilssen-Love, always a powerful and articulate combination. I think the two are moy simpatico. PS: Maybe Chuck could lay out what those questions about Brotzmann are, so that the discussion has something specific to work with.

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I saw that box at the Braxton concert but didn't pull the trigger (now you have to be a member to get it). Anyway, would still like to get it. Would be interested in reactions to it. One question I had about it was whether Braxton played duos with each drummer, or with both drummers at the same time, since the album is called "Trio (New Haven) 2013," or both? I've not seen that clarified anywhere. Member of what? The 4 CD set is available for pre-sale (June 10 release) at Amazon & CD Universe. Tricentric Foundation http://tricentricfoundation.org/all-releases/ Less $ at Amazon. Good to know. Not sure then why the Tricentric site lists it as "members only." Maybe only available to members prior to commercial release? I don't see a price on it at the site, but I know Braxton was selling the sets for $40 at the Roulette show.

I saw that box at the Braxton concert but didn't pull the trigger (now you have to be a member to get it). Anyway, would still like to get it. Would be interested in reactions to it. One question I had about it was whether Braxton played duos with each drummer, or with both drummers at the same time, since the album is called "Trio (New Haven) 2013," or both? I've not seen that clarified anywhere. Member of what? The 4 CD set is available for pre-sale (June 10 release) at Amazon & CD Universe. Tricentric Foundation http://tricentricfoundation.org/all-releases/

Glad I'm not imagining it! It's really uncanny. Just played: SONG FOR THE OLD WORLD - Anthony Davis Quartet with Ed Blackwell (d, box drums), Jay Hoggard (vibes), Mark Helias (b). India Navigation. Nice.

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I saw that box at the Braxton concert but didn't pull the trigger (now you have to be a member to get it). Anyway, would still like to get it. Would be interested in reactions to it. One question I had about it was whether Braxton played duos with each drummer, or with both drummers at the same time, since the album is called "Trio (New Haven) 2013," or both? I've not seen that clarified anywhere.

Clifford, thanks and I'll keep the Cooper albums in mind. rhthmycicall BIRTH -- Keith Jarrett with Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Dewey Redman. Atlantic LP. I only buy KJ when Dewey Redman's name is also on the album. This one is pretty good. Call me crazy but track 2, "Mortgage on My Soul" rhythmically sounds like a prototypical Vandermark 5 piece (minus the wah-wah), or I should turn it the other way around.

I recall a period when Coupland's novels seemed to be everywhere, especially, IIRC, "Generation X." I did not know he was involved in the visual arts. Now that you posted on it, I found that he was on hiatus from the visual arts but is working in the field again. interesting.

Haven't played it in a while, but I remember it as a good one. Every once in a while I play it, like it, but never feel really moved by it. Best is when Oliver Lake gets on the alto. It's a live recording, and it seems from the hesitant applause, that the audience didn't really know how to respond to it either. That in itself doesn't always mean much, but it reflected my own reaction. Jerome Cooper is a wonderful musician, albeit not always reflected by recordings. His solo LP on About Time, The Unpredictability of Predictability, is incredible and the solo LP on Anima is pretty strong too. I've always had a soft spot for Positions 3-6-9 on Kharma, with Kalaparusha and Frank Lowe, which almost sounds like ethnographic field recordings from a New York loft! The Revolutionary Ensemble were cool though I'm not sure that the records always captured what it was they were doing. Some of them sound a little dry, though in my estimation The Psyche is absurdly great... one of THE records of the era. Have not heard the other recordings you mention but would certainly like to. There's enough spark on For the People to make me interested in further listening certainly, but the album itself seems to me only a partial success. I feel like I should like it more, but not happening yet.