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Not jazz -- but then, neither was that Powerman 5000 track -- but the first things that came to my mind were '80s Tom Waits or maybe some Serge Gainsbourg (particularly the Melody Nelson album).

me too ..... Francois Rabbath -- Bass Ball (1963)

Did I miss it or has no one brought up the great William Parker?

Any of the albums by Kartet. Paris-based label Dark Tree Records has only released 4 cds, but they would also fit the bill. Scott

Obscure but not forgotten over here. And a short tribute to him ('Abena') played by Matthew Bourne kicked off the big Jazz Britannia concert back in 2005 (most fitting). It was in the Thames Estuary near Southend that he drowned I think. I'm glad to hear that. Taylor deserves to be remembered, he had a very original voice -- who knows what he could have done if things had turned out differently.

Mike Taylor. Two great albums in the mid-1960s, then drowned swimming in the Thames. Scott

Christoph Erb is a new name to me. Anybody heard him? Lots of good people on his releases. Erb is Swiss, but spends a lot of time in Chicago. His Veto releases have always struck me as being of the "let's get some guys in studio for a few hours and just roll the tape" type of free improv w/o much forethought as to what they were going to do. They're sort of the modern free improv version of '50s blowing sessions albums -- not bad, but certainly no one's best work. Of the Veto releases I've heard the best one was Erb's album w/ Keefe with two bass clarinets and two cellos -- name of it completely escapes me at the moment. Scott

Jean-Marc Foltz -- To the Moon. This is one of my all-time favorite albums.

Thanks for the tip -- I enjoyed their Bay Window album.

Yes, it's primarily an analysis of each song on the album. It is great for those of us who can sit down at the piano and plunk along with the transcriptions and descriptions of Monk's moves, but I can also see where non-musicians wouldn't get much out of the volume. Scott

Gabriel Solis, Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (Oxford U.P. 2014). Mine just arrived, so I haven't had time to really dig into it, but looks good so far. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/thelonious-monk-quartet-with-john-coltrane-at-carnegie-hall-9780199744367?q=solis&lang=en&cc=us

Hiroshi Matumoto & Hideo Ichikawa Quartet -- Megalopolis. I'd like to see a reissue of the 2005 reissue that was available for about a day and a half & now goes for $160 used.

My favorite Intakt recordings are probably the Barry Guy LJCO and New Orchestra recordings I'll put a vote in for their Die Enttauschung records -- love that stuff.

Rolf & Joachim Kuhn, Impressions of New York Dave Brubeck, Jazz Impressions of New York

I have a CSP2+, Torii IV, Rachael (not needed, so in the closet right now and up for sale), & MG 944s. I've never bothered to listen to the Decware cd player Lon speaks of, but I've never been disappointed with anything of Steve's I've listened to. The CSP family of pre-amps are fine machines. Scott

Totally unfamiliar with this album until this thread, but picked up a copy of the WEA reissue -- tasty stuff. Thanks for the tip gents.

Intakt Records. USA Release date: February 20, 2014

To say that audiophiles don't understand diminishing returns is really a stretch. Plenty -- myself included -- recognize the concept w/ audio gear. And while I don't buy the all wire sounds the same argument, I will say that diminishing returns set in very quickly with wires.

and to do that, he makes up a premise which doesn't hold water at all, and it is so far away from the truth that you have to question either his ability as a listener, or his honesty as a writer. And that gets published in The New Yorker. F Holy hell -- how does someone write a sentence that allegedly defines what Ellington "was" without even mentioning his compositional skills?

Out of the albums that you mentioned, which would you say are the least structured? San Francisco, probably, or rather the bonus album therein. But plenty of stuff on those in your list is pretty structured (Dolphy and Tyner for one, and Ornette's c major music, too, really). Donauseschingen certainly is a good suggestion, too! I don't see "lack of structure" as a point of interest, rather how structure (or form) is used, how tradition is being expanded and stretched into new areas (which is maybe why "Mama Too Tight" is my favourite Shepp, you can hear Ellington in there ... and which is why ultimately I prefer Mingus or Dolphy or Ornette to, say, Charles Gayle, Frank Wright and others that are more on the berserk end of the spectrum. As for "the more dissonant ..." - different genre, but try some Phill Niblock (make sure no animals are harmed, though). At the present time, a lack of traditional structure and consonance is not only a point of interest for me, it's my primary interest. I'm currently interested in hearing the least traditional, least structured offerings in each artist's catalog. I'm less interested in hearing a representative sampling of Artie Shepp's work than I am in hearing his least structured albums. Have to agree w/ other posters -- you're pretty far from the least structured possible with the list in your first post. Try tracking down stuff on BYG Actuel, or ESP-Disk for the original way out there material & go hunting for stuff billed as "energy music" for more recent vintage. My rec would be for you to start w/ a copy of either Brotzmann's Machine Gun or Nipples.

King Ubu said: . But then again, if David mentions such a breakdown take with a great Hubbard solo ... I'd be all for hearing that - that might even be of more interest than an alternate take that was for decades considered too close to the master to be worthy of release. If I was in charge, I might throw some compilations of leftovers out and test the market for that - buying the same over and over again for yet another alternate take or yet another remastering does get tiresome, even to unbounded enthusiasts like yours truly The adoption of that philosphy is one of the reasons, IMO, that the Complete Sun Ship Session is such a good set. I love hearing the "mistakes."

I was never the same after this one.

I just received a copy of Gilbert Holmstrom Kvintett's Utan Misstankar CD in the mail today & I'm enjoying it quite a bit. This is my first exposure to Holmstrom and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for other works by him. Thanks Scott