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Bought the vinyl in mint condition for a pittance in the early 80's .... those were the days ....

RIP, too bad. Just watched her in After Hours not too long ago.

Steve Lacy Double Sextet: Clangs. hat ART CD 6116 [1993] Painting by Wassily Kandinsky 'Improvisation 9', 1910 https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-125.php

Right, I actually talked to Dave about this so it was indeed conceived as a mass of individual lines/phrases superimposed to create a collective whole. If musicians are playing their own thing in parallel, then they're doing right by the music as it was composed. A lot of free music is quite organized and sometimes even precomposed. Good call on the Coursils. I think of them a bit differently but they are rigorous and spacious for sure. the Horos are pretty bound up in all sorts of questionable ownership deals. That said, there's only a handful of Horo LPs to my mind that are really in the "free jazz" realm. Most of what I own or have heard is of the "off-kilter mainstream" variety. There are some more experimental exceptions, though: Lacy, Schiaffini, Mengelberg-Bennink-Schiano-Rutherford, Laboratorio Della Quercia, MEV... IIRC at least one of the Lacys got the vinyl reissue treatment not so long ago. Re: Togashi, those are great records but I don't feel that something like, for example, Guild for Human Music has much in common with the Black Unity Trio on the face of things.

Surprisingly inspired and great.

Joe Ely - Live Shots

That was weak and she didn't bring much to the role either. The music was the highlight and it took three minutes out of a 3:42 short to get to the one punch line that the rehab facility is Maxwell House.

Not as much as they would have behind home plate, but for WS, probably $100 each, as a guess.

Denny McLain Bobby Fuller Vernon Law

They'd certainly be arrested and get lifetime bans for an equivalent action in a UK sports stadium, football, cricket or whichever sport. How much would they have paid for their tickets that close to the field?

Katrina & The Waves The Beach Boys Sandy Denny

The sound is OK, they're no doubt straight MP3 transfers from the original CD releases according to Euro PD laws. The notes, discographical info, artwork, etc. are sorely lacking. Other Membran sets just randomly mix titles together. There are higher and lower quality Euro PD labels as far as those considerations (which are important to me). Fresh Sound is the gold standard, often far surpassing the quality of the original CD releases. Avid sets are nice. Enlightenment is basic, but they do have the original album covers, now have full personnel listings, they fill up the CD's (often exceeding 80 minutes) and their album groupings are very logical. Real Gone Jazz (now defunct, I believe) are on the same level as Enlightenments, with original album covers and personnel listings in place, but they have more random groupings of albums and often don't use the capacity of the CD wisely, plus they will often cut up an album between two CD's when there was no reason to do so. If the Fresh Sound releases are too expensive for you, I would go with Avid, Enlightenment, and Real Gone Jazz (who later renamed themselves Reel to Reel). Sound quality is generally acceptable on all of this stuff, because all the labels pull it from the same sources.

If it was up to me, those two would have been arrested for battery.

👍 … 'Im schwarzen Kreis/Dans le cercle noir/In the Black Circle', 1923 https://www.meisterdrucke.de/kunstdrucke/Wassily-Kandinsky/78509/Im-schwarzen-Kreis,-1923.html

Ken Peplowski: Live at Mezzrow

Revisiting

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Karim Benzema Karina

Volume 2 is just availabe

Arthur Blythe Bobby Battle Abdul Wadud ....

Mary Stuart Ann Steuart Bob Stewart

Thanks for your rating, Can you exyplain that a bit more. I have the Cal Thader & Horace Silver box. The sound is not bad here. I do no shootouts just to compare because sooner or later your hearing ability will not hear any changes anymore due to aging. and some original Blue notes are ridiculous in price + postage to get them here in Europe.