Steve Reynolds

Same vendor:)

Here in the U.S. there is a vendor directly related to the label where we get ONE shipping charge for as many CD’s as we want from Not Two. I made an order (that I documented on another thread) that was over 8-9 releases with a total shipping cost of $7.43 U.S. dollars. Same for these 2 boxes - I think $122 cost & 7.43 shipping:) for the two boxes. Great price in my view for these very high quality recordings.

No report until some time after 4/25!! My experience with the 2 previous DKV box sets is that the sound quality is very very good. If one compares it to the William Parker Wood Flute Songs Box on AUM, the Not Two DKV boxes sound better. I use that as a comparison as Hamid Drake is on both and the sound of his drums is very important to me. Not Two records to this avid non-audiophile provides the best sound quality as compared to any current label I know of. The “Sound in Motion” box maybe sounds even better than the previous “Past & Present” box but both are spectacular sounding documents. I hope you are also considering the Barry Guy box as the previous Tensegrity 4 CD set is among my favorite collection of current day freely improvised music. It’s exciting to these ears to hear the playing from a number of younger players I was previously unfamiliar with (Per Texas Johansson, Julius Gabriel, Fanny Paccoud, Ben Dwyer, etc.) similar excitement in hearing the 3 CD set from Per-Ake Holmlander with a number of younger woman players I’d never heard of including a bassist Elsa Bergman who is amazing and some horn players who are also very very good and all seem to have fresh approaches to this music. Plus this set has Steve Swell & Tim Daisy as “veteran leadership” so there is a wonderful young & older or ying & yang feel to this release. This one might end up being an all-time favorite as my second or third time through in listening to the composed & improvised suite on disc 3 (with the full large ensemble) reveals a mature accomplished composer in Holmlander.

Gong: Angel’s Egg

Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks 19 from 10/19/73 Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers

Adding Brotzmann’s “For Adolphe Sax” stunning true debut LP from 1967 with Peter Kowald & Sven-Ake Johansson imagine oneself hearing this knowing what other jazz/improvised music existed at this point in time

Repeating from New Releases thread Journey to Parazzar Joe McPhee: alto saxophone & pocket trumpet, voice John Edwards: bass Klaus Kugel: drums stunning

Hopefully they get Ches Smith recorded as he sounds in real life. If that’s the case it should be played very loud.

Among others but the 2 drummerless trios on ECM with Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri & Barre Phillips are amazing (note that Joe plays a bit of piano on a few tracks in place of his alto & tenor saxophone or his amazing clarinet). Tales of Rohnlief Angles of Repose After all these ears I’ve become way more open to these sessions without my guy Randy Peterson on drums. I still believe the recordings with Peterson are even more incredible / especially the Hat ARTs & the above 2 CD trio set on Leo. That trio set also has quite a bit of Papa Joe on piano fwiw. As time has moved on from his passing and it will be ten years in August and well over that amount of time since he played or recorded - the last concerts were in 2005 (farewell shows that I was not able to attend - where are the release of these recordings?!?!?) and the last released recordings are from 2002 - his music is gaining even more depth & uniqueness, in my view. still his muse was an off beat or even an eccentric one but his originality and singular voice can never be questioned. still...... Coming Down the Mountain

Waiting to get this when I see them in Newburgh NY on 4/20

Excellent album

The 2008 disc from the DKV Trio Past & Present 7 CD box is spectacular as good as Vandermark has sounded with the trio - they play a suite of music based on Don Cherry compositions. Even better than the great Trigonometry 2 CD set from 2001. Plus Hamid explodes out of the speakers and Cherry’s tunes are right in his swinging/grooving wheelhouse.

I’m happy Jim wrote/posted above what he did. I loved the liners from the old jazz classics from the 50’s & early 60’s when I was getting and buying all those great classic recordings via CD back in the early 90’s. When I evolved in my jazz listening I ran into his “critical” comments regarding much of the newer or more abstract or challenging music I was discovering and those “critical” comments came across to me as ignorant and close-minded more than anything else. He didn’t like it so therefore he made silly value judgements against all of it. He (and many others) were so SURE that they were correct as they had SEEN and heard the guys who really “swung” and none of these guys blah fucking blah....

David S Ware: New York Live at The Blue Note 2010 / 2 CD set on AUM

Fred Anderson with William Parker & Hamid Drake: Blue Winter Peter Brotzmann with the above bass/drums: Never too Late But Alway too Early Both double CD’s on eremite Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio - any of them but the latest is Desire and Freedom - on Not Two records Paul Dunmall with John Adams & Mark Sanders: Ghostly Thoughts - on hatology Joe Maneri: Trio Concerts with Mat Maneri & Randy Peterson / 2 CD set on Leo Parker Guy Lytton: At the Vortex - on Emanem Records Mats Gustafsson with Barry Guy & Raymond Strid: Tarfala / on Intakt records Tony Malaby with William Parker & Nasheet Waits: Tamarindo / on Clean feed many many others from these and other great players but the above in my view are top of top great trio recordings

Tickets ordered for me and my pal who is experiencing a bunch of these musicians for the first time. He is also coming with me to see Schlippenbach Trio & then Peter Brotzmann with Andrew Cyrille @ Vision Fest in June. so we will hear Gustafsson, Parker & Brotzmann back to back to back and for my young friend - first time for him to each of them and maybe last shot on the two older legends - who knows how many more opportunities any of us will get to hear the first generation European improvising grand masters. I’m very grateful for these concerts being scheduled for this spring. I never really expected any of the three to be so close by this year.

Ordering both the DKV Trio plus Joe McPhee 6 CD set & the Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band 5 CD set with a promise from me to my wife that they don’t get opened until my birthday in April time to remind those here who have been unmoved about previous reminders about these Barry Guy Small Formation box sets that these releases are some of the finest played/improvised live music of the past few decades and are all presented in sound quality that is second to none. The first box is now hard to find and quite expensive (Mad Dogs with the New Orchestra members) but Mad Dogs on the Loose with almost the same personell (including Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, etc.) is almost as great and is available for a fair cost while Tensegrity is small formations improvisation from the Blue Shroud Band and it is arguably a more exciting collectionby mostly lesser known players (save for Guy, Peter Evans & Agusti Fernandez) is even less expensive.

Good to hear - please send him my regards many good memories from here and beyond:)

Any word on where our friend Bev is??

Glad that both Schlippenbach Trio & Fire! will be in NYC on 3/25 & 3/28 respectively so I can join in seeing at least 2 of the great bands you all will be seeing! really a dream for me to be able to see these two trios a few days apart with 2 of my saxophone heroes - Evan Parker & Mats Gustafsson. Plus I know I’ll be seeing Peter Brotzmann in June so this is going to be a great late Spring/early Summer for me!!

Yes - looks like Schlippenbach Trio on 3/25 and THIS on 3/28!!!

Some of these are amazing topped by the Red Trio, the Gustafsson & the Leandre Quartet. The Red Trio + that vibes player is beyond amazing. Freely improvised jazz at it’s finest in a new language to these ears.

DKV + Joe McPhee playing live in New Orleans coming up on Valentine's Day (2/14/19). Twilight Room 2240 St. Claude Ave @ 8:00. If anyone is nearby....

I’m waiting to order these (being as patient as I can - plus some of the below recent arrivals (and other recent arrivals from No Business) are still in my “to be played list” - including the Joelle Leandre box) as the shipping isn’t awful when buying directly from Not Two but recently a seller closely associated with them has been offering one shipping cost for multiple CD’s from Not Two through the famous bid re-seller. On one of my orders at the end of last year, I ordered 7 CD’s (including the 8 CD Joelle Leandre box) and I paid a total of $7.44 shipping for the whole package!! Once the same seller offers these 2 new sets, I’ll add an older release or two and get the whole thing delivered for a similar very low cost. I’m sure it’s not the same for orders/shipments to the U.K. The other new release from Not Two looks totally out of the box / a quartet including Otomo Yoshihide and three other musicians I’m unfamiliar with - I’ll certainly add this to my order when & if it appears plus these 2 recent releases: Akira Sakata/Nicolas Fields: First Thirst - Live at Cave 12 Agusti Fernandez with Artur Majewski & Rafal Mazur: Spontaneous Soundscapes

We already knew about the DKV + Joe McPhee 6 CD box as it was offered on pre-order elsewhere but the new Barry Guy 5 CD set of The Blue Shroud Band in Small Formations is the most exciting release of the new year - called “Intensegrity” (previous 4 CD box was called “Tensegrity” from 2014, I think. The new box is also described as “Odes & Meditations for Cecil Taylor”. the DKV box is recorded live from November 2017 at concerts in France, Poland & Czech Replublic and then in late December 2017 at a show @ Sugar Maple in Milwaukee and then 2 homecoming shows @ Elastic Arts in Chicago. I’m so fired up about this one as I’ve been waiting to hear the trio with a foil for Vandermark and I think McPhee is playing at as creative a level as anyone on the planet these days. Looks like we have a few different new members of the Barry Guy band including Percy Pursglove (no Peter Evans this time) & Jurg Wickihalder. Another exciting aspect is that we get the full band on disc 5 with what is called the “Ode & Meditations to Cecil Taylor”. This could be a composed Guy piece. Discs 1 through 4 recorded live @ Alchemia in Kraków, Poland (11/27-29, 2016) and Disc 5 recorded 11/30/2016 @ Radio Kraków. Wow Having received and listened to most of their recent releases (I choose the ones that have the appeal to me along with ones that I take chances with) Not Two Records continues to release for my ears the most exciting, best sounding catalogue of new recordings of any label operating today.