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Very cool! I've been collecting those tapes ever since they started turning up ... a whole page dedicated to them will be great! This is hands down my favorite blog of the past two or three years!

There's nothing difficult, it's just MP3 files (17) instead of a ZIP or RAR. But if it were the later, someone would not be able to unpack it and it would be just as difficult

Well, Routledge promised to rectify the situation (by offering to send me the paperback) ... haven't received it yet, but I'm okay with that. Still sucks to have spent so much money on a faulty copy.

I've got this one w/Joe Cohn: and I've been eyeing that Progressive twofer for a while ... guess I should go for it!

Thanks for the clarification, Mike! If we all go by the actual filenames and the durations above, there should be no misunderstandings! Did I hear Johnny Lytle with that clumsy ogun player somewhere? The big band track (#6) sounded gorgeous ... but I arrived at work before it ended. Looking forward to listening - hopefully tonight! - and posting some first impressions then.

Very same one I ended up with ... now if everybody else is as smart as us, there shan't be any problem

I guess we'll be fine if we go by the actual file names ... already rose that question. It also took me several attempts to get them all in btw. Ticking all and hitting the DL button at the bottom left brought about 10 or so in, the rest took two more attempts of ticking ...

Thanks for the files ... just to be clear, the sequence you want us to listen to is the one of the actual file names? (i.e. "BFT117-001", "BFT117-002" ... "BFT117-017") Since "titles" and tack numbers in tags are differnt (mostly confusingly just by one digit, i.e. the file names "BFT11-001" has "002" in the title field .. and some tracks are unnumbered and unnamed - can't give exact details as I already overwrote the tags - need a common album title for them to show up as an album on my smartphone)

Just in case ... it's accident insurance that pays (part of) the costs in my case ... skateboarding accident twenty some years ago ...

one more ...

I'm with no doubt not the only one here following - with open mouth, sometimes having to dy off some saliva, indeed - the amazing finds shared on the electric jive blog, the "Ian Bruce Huntley" tapes? Anyway, just in case someone has been missing out, check them out, amazing music by Winston "Mankunku" Ngozi, Dudu Pukwana, Morris Goldberg, Chris Schilder, Johnny Dyani ... there's also a set by the Blue Notes ... and there's even a lost Kippie Moeketsi recording! The posts always come with poignant and wonderful photos by the same man who recorded the music, Ian Bruce Huntley. And now, they just released a book of those photos, up for order in what I assume pretty limited quantities (450 copies if I have my math right): Surely I've got one on order, to be shipped from the UK soon ... they'll also have copies around in the US (and obviously in South Africa). Find all details here: http://www.electricjive.blogspot.ch/2013/11/keeping-time-get-it-while-you-can.html Makes a perfect x-mas gift to myself

short and sweet ... but to me it really feels as if Ibrahim only had his thing together by the time he made "African Piano" at the tail end of the decade ...

First listen says it's very good ... I'm being treated the same as all other non-EU countries there, btw. Makes sense to combine a few things (but then over here, there's always them custom crapperies). Now, the third and last of this order (still waiting for a much larger CD order, might have been caught by customs, but I sure do hope not!) "Kampen", by Bobby Bradford, Frode Gjerstand, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love

Second (of three) in the LP shipment I got today from Lithuania ... the Tchicai is very relaxed, has kind of an open and free groove thing going on (McBee is a master in that!), Fewell was the biggest surprise for me, hardly know him ... and Tchicai himself plays fine, what a gorgeous tone he has on tenor sax! (that, btw, applies to Borgmann, too!)

wonderful!

Oh sure I do know ... but there's no chance to revisit these once they're taken down, so .... Btw, do you have the Ligeti set on DG that's also mentioned in that review on the 9CD set? It does seem to hold a few things I still miss (like those bagatelles).

That stuff is taken down after six months, it seems (not sure about the second link - those are streaming only, but if you know how ...)

more off topic, but there's more here, including one with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (performing Frank Martin's "Polyptyque") right on top: http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/konzerte/abendkonzerte-on-demand/-/id=659392/nid=659392/did=9356208/o9n3s1/index.html

Okay, thanks! I've got the string quartets (by the Ardittis) in the Wergo set, rec. 1978 (plus a live rec. of no. 2 from 2005, again by the Ardittis but in changed line-up). And whoah, off-topic here, but just found this, lots of live music recorded at festivals by German radio station SWR 2 - these are MP3 @ 192 kbs ... and there's one with Isabelle Faust doing a Ligeti piece (trio for violin, french horn and piano): http://www.swr.de/swr2/festivals/schwetzinger-festspiele/sendungen/-/id=657016/v5sc4n/index.html Once you're on the page of the programme you're interested, to grab the (untracked) MP3, click on "Audio herunterladen", for (some) more info click on "mehr zur Sendung".

The gap option wasn't one for me, alas, as it's straight front and even if I don't play the saxophone at this time too often, if at all, I'd have *hated* the idea to never ever be able to do so ... (or to having to find some way to play it off centre). And yes, 4-6 months is indeed the time frame ... it was a bit longer with me since the damage in the jaw bone was much worse that expected ... and in those months I had the old crown glued in ... and guess what, it fell out many times, and that really sucked big time ... even once when we had my birthday dinner in a restaurant ... dammit! Glad that part is done over with. And I'm sure if it's not right out front, having a "normal" feeling for the implants will be much faster. With me, with all the on-going work, it felt like my mouth was rotting for over a year, rather digusting, but there was nothing I could do about it other than to accept and be patient so that's what I usually tried to do.

I'm wondering, too ... not that I'm anywhere near the point where I know what I need anways, but ... got the Teldec set, too, and also the Wergo "Special Edition" packing together their three single discs (two of which I've listened to while in highschool, they had them at the library there) ... and I snatched up an Aimard disc that's in the Sony box ("Works for Piano", Vol. 3 of the Edition).

Yep, mine, too - thanks for the report, Jeff, sure sounds like I need to hear it!

Bought one from the ebay seller linked to above - thanks for spreading that link, romualdo! Can't wait to hear it!

Got to add that the pain is very manageable, mostly gone for good after one, maximum two days (and of course you get painkillers, heavy ones, that also help uhm ... the dictionary give me the word "detumescence" but I can't make a sensible phrase out of it ... you know what I mean). My other (upper) front tooth is still in there, but it's dead and has a crown on top - still, it feels very different from the entirely "strange" implant (when you touch it with a finger, when you accidentally hit against it with a fork etc. ... not done much saxophone playing since, I bet that one would bite straight through the plastic mouthpiece!) ... but as I said, after about a year, I've gotten very much used to that.

Oooooooooooh, and ouch, too ... loooooong story here ... got an implant on one of my two dead upper front teeth ... turned out to be much worse "inside" (damaged bone) than expected and visible on x-rays. Operations and all went fine, and I'm trusting my dentist .... but the surrounding work (trying to fill in missing "bone" material around the implant's foundation - sorry, I totally don't know any of the correct terms for all of this!) has been going on for more than a year and no end in sight (I've had three operations trying to fix the façade, so to speak, adding bone material and fixing the gums ... not that it got worse, but it didn't help too much either, and it gets more and more difficult as the gums get more damaged by the on-going cutting and stuffing ...) As it's right in front, I guess an implant is the better-looking variant, but then I think my dentist (who's long started paying the bills for all this, it was on insurance initially) might propose to do a bridge because it would have been easier under the unexpectedly difficult circumstances. Anyway, the implant itself, I've gotten used to it ... it's much stiffer, less flexible, than the "real" teeth around it and that took a while getting used to. I just wish the surroundings will be fixed at the next attempt (to be started shortly).