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I owned one album from Francois Carrier and love it (Compassion - Naxos 2000) which I listened to again last night and decided to explore more of his output. 

I purchased

Happening - Leo Records 2006

All'alba - Justin Time Records 2003

Katmandu - FMR 2007

All Out - FMR 2011

The Russia Concerts Vol 1. - FMR 2014

 

 

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10 hours ago, jcam_44 said:

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I owned one album from Francois Carrier and love it (Compassion - Naxos 2000) which I listened to again last night and decided to explore more of his output. 

I purchased

Happening - Leo Records 2006

All'alba - Justin Time Records 2003

Katmandu - FMR 2007

All Out - FMR 2011

The Russia Concerts Vol 1. - FMR 2014

 

 

Please look out for “Overground to The Vortex” as well as “Unknowable” both on Not Two Records. They both have Michel Lambert on drums but the former has John Edwards on bass and Steve Beresford on piano for the second half of the recording. The latter has Rafal Mazur on acoustic bass guitar to fill out the trio. 

As always the sound quality is premium and the performances especially on the date with Edwards & Beresford is exceptional.

I have Happening and it’s good but not on the level of the above recordings I’m recommending.

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19 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Please look out for “Overground to The Vortex” as well as “Unknowable” both on Not Two Records. They both have Michel Lambert on drums but the former has John Edwards on bass and Steve Beresford on piano for the second half of the recording. The latter has Rafal Mazur on acoustic bass guitar to fill out the trio. 

As always the sound quality is premium and the performances especially on the date with Edwards & Beresford is exceptional.

I have Happening and it’s good but not on the level of the above recordings I’m recommending.

Thanks for the heads up! I actually only got The Happening because there was a copy on amazon for $1.72.

 

I did end up ordering Intuition and The Joy of Being as well. 

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11 hours ago, JSngry said:

Tell me about Ben Johnston, please?

Long-time microtonal (just intonation) American composer. His string quartet cycle has waited a long time for a full recording, recently done by the Kepler Qt . on New World.

There are a few recordings on other American labels.

Best introduction is probably the disc "Ponder Nothing" of chamber music (my father loves this album(!), which is very "accessible"). The entire 9th quartet is on a Laurel disc by Stanford Qt. I haven't listened in a long time, but recall it as pretty thorny. The 4th "Amazing Grace" was recorded by Kronos on "White Man Sleeps"; I'm not a big Kronos fan so reserve judgment. A vocal piece "Letter from Calamity Jane..." on the CRI "Urban Diva" disc by Dora Ohrenstein. There's a "Microtonal Piano" disc by Phillip Bush on Koch which is interesting but sounds a bit "plink-plonk" in places (probably the serial Sonata) iirc.

Not clear that I'll love the quartet cycle, but it's a "major event" in the microtonal sector, so I ought to give it a spin.

Quite a few good interviews out there, for instance:

http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/johnston.html

https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/a-conversation-with-ben-johnston/

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2016/12/31/507542859/ben-johnston-hears-the-notes-between-the-notes

 

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The Paris Transatlantic and NewMusicBox interviews are great.

I just spun the old Stanford Qt. recording of Johnston's SQ #9 and it's pretty darn good, much less "thorny" than I wrongly recalled.

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52 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Sam Jones: Visitation

Just got that very CD myself in mid-December.  Haven't warmed to Bob Berg yet on it (but I can't decide if the fault is mine or his), but generally liking it.

Got it for the Terumasa Hino angle, and he's in fine form, if perhaps a little more (too?) straight-ahead than was typical for him around 1978.

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1 hour ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Where did you see this?!?!

In an e-mail from Catalytic Sound. You could buy it at Bandcamp. Hope my order went through because it's now saying "Sold Out".

I did receive an order confirmation, so I'm optimistic. It was listed as a "pre-order".

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1 hour ago, jlhoots said:

In an e-mail from Catalytic Sound. You could buy it at Bandcamp. Hope my order went through because it's now saying "Sold Out".

I did receive an order confirmation, so I'm optimistic. It was listed as a "pre-order".

Thanks - I’ll wait for it to show up on the Not Two site. I’ve got a big pile of unheard CD’s that I received around the holidays so I can look forward to ordering this in a month or so. I heard about these shows. I wish I was in New Orleans as they look to be playing next month. Maybe they will make their first visit to NYC (DKV that is) in well over a decade. McPhee seems like the perfect addition to the trio.

 

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Liked their recording of #s 6,7 and 8 (OK, could have done without the short vocal addendum, but it was in memoriam Salvatore Martirano). Enjoyed the music, and the performances are (as far as I can ascertain) excellent, so decided to complete the set. Won't receive these for a while, as I ordered from European Amazon resellers.

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On 12/13/2018 at 3:55 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

Now here is the next order:

from No Business:

Joelle Leandre Sudo Quartet with Carlos Zingaro, Sebi Tramontona & Paul Lovens

Intracacies: Paul Hubweber, Frank Paul Schubert, Alexander Von Schlippenbach & Clayton Thomas

Kidd Jordan, Peter Kowald & Alvin Fielder - Duo & Trio in New Orleans - 2 CD sets

Red Trio with Mattias Stahl: North and the Red Stream

Peter Kuhn with Toshinori Kondo, William Parker & Denis Charles - No Coming, No Going - Music from 1978-79 - 2 CD set

Mats Gustafsson - Vilnius Explosion 

then I filled my Brotzmann Tentet gap with both American Landscape CD’s from 2007 along with the 2 CD set from 2011 - Love, Walk, Sleep

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.

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Snagged these today at a local shop:

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Mark Helias - Attack the Future (Enja)
with Michael Moore, Herb Robertson, a.o.

 

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Marc Copland - Softly... (Savoy)

 

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Larry Willis Trio - The Big Push (HighNote)
with Buster & Al Foster

 

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