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I ALWAYS LISTEN TO AYLER OR CECIL IF I FEEL LIKE MUZAK, OR "ASCENSION" - THAT'S VERY EXTREMELY RELAXING AND FUCKING PLEASING, YOU KNOW? SECRETARIES *MUST* LOVE THIS! AND THEN THROW IN SOME "LAST EXIT" AND BROTZMANN AND SOME GDR FREE JAZZ AND RELAX WITH THE SECRETARIES...

Thanks, EKE and deus!

Barre Phillips is not too bad a bassist either . Guy and Phillips have a duo record, don't they? - Anybody knows it by chance? a bass-fetishist's dream?

Volkher, would you mind having a link to the Basie project board here? And could someone in the meantime PM me the link? I'd like to have access to that site without having my notebook at hand (as is the case right now). thanks, ubu

Good news - Schiano is a wonderful musician (ubu, you can hear him on the Italian Instabile Festival double CD)! And bravo to Atavistic for digginig up this really obscure stuff. Thanks, I know! Also, I have a very nice LP by Sam Rivers, called "Rendez-vous", where he actually "meets" Schiano. The others are Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, the usual suspects... ubu

That's cool, John! The man with the half-bald head ougth to be Marshall Royal, lead-alto man of all the great Roulette-dates (thanks again, François!) ubu

I posted about this in the "funny rat" - one of these moments, HELLYEAH! Also, when I first heard the 2CD "Nefertiti" set - which was fairly recently, too. ubu

That's one of those moments for me, too! An absolutely unbelievable solo! And next to the virtuoso players Dolphy and Hubbard, it's all the better! ubu

A very good one, indeed! ubu

I think I was that young once, but I can't remember. huh? That's what I meant! Matthew, I mis-read your post, but once I realized what you wanted to say, it was too late to delete, sorry! ubu (youngest ever emperor of outer poland)

glad you got it! ubu

This is terrific news! Thanks for sharing, Rooster, and thanks for insisting (maybe you DID have some influence, only God knows, if he then exists...) ubu

good luck and lots of fun! ubu

Congrats! Hope you like it! ubu

Order it NOW or else you will regret as long as you live...

da shit, I wanted to say... really!

Gianni Gebbia, "Arcana Major" - it's da shit! ubu

Two funny-rat-residents, the russian one and the humble king, have been completely blown away by the Barry Guy New Orchestra - we heard it in Zurich on Sunday. Friggin' great it was! You can read our reviews on page 95 of the rat-thread. ubu

This reminds me about that one here: (from: http://www.intaktrec.ch/ge-a.htm) Is anyone familiar with this? Wogram is quite an astonishing musician, too. Should be very very interesting, if not very very good! ubu

well done. edirol ? No, nothing at all! I figured out another way, with some help of a friend, no equipment needed, and sounding just as good as the MD sounds! That Edirol thing would be economically prized here, I'm afraid!

btw, I transferred my "Inscape-Tableaux" Minidisc to CDR this morning, and listened to pts 1-5 on my way to work - it is excellent! Longer lyrical passages than in the concert we heard/saw, and while I think Crispell and Fernandez do have a similar touch, Crispell is much sparser, in general. My CDR includes a 10-minute interview (over the phone, I think, and translated, so actually it's not that long) with Guy as a bonus (I got the whole thing over the air, they broadcasted the whole album shortly before it was released). ubu

I saw them in concert about three weeks ago... and? ...and it was an excellent concert. It was in a West Philadelphia non-profit art gallery that's been hosting a couple jazz concerts a month. It was pretty much a full house for the gallery, which is about maybe 50-70. The playing ranged from very free, to occassionally melodic, with a bit of metal thrown in. Martin Schutz was all over the place -- playing the cello with a stick through the strings. He alternated acoustic and electric cello and did some electronic manipulation. He got a laugh when he threw some objects off his table to musical effect. The drummer, Studer, did some playing with what looked like a metal wire (as well as more usual mallets and sticks). Koch was into sound manipulation, usually playing a single note through his sax which he altered tonally both acoustically and electronically. He seemed to enjoy making noise with a semi-spherical control attached to his laptop. I bought two of their CDs at the show -- the Egyption one mentioned below (which I haven't heard yet) and "Harcore chamber music" which was the only trio record they offered that didn't have guest musicians. It's a good representation of their music. It was a very nice show, which the crowd enjoyed as well. I did some sketching during the show. Sometime later I might scan a fairly abstract drawing I did of Schutz. Alan, sounds like an excellent concert you heard! I never heard them live. I think the Penguin gives "Hardcore Chamber Music" a pretty good rating. ubu

Thanks, Lon - I shall keep this in mind and *occasionally* update... ubu