T.D.

Best "current" film I've seen in a long long time. Agreed on all counts.

Long Play 2026 – Bang on a Can A lot of diverse programs with a significant number of jazz shows.

I preordered back in January and it shipped today.

Those credits are for the entire album (The Fastest Train), 1 CD of the box. I don't know the instruments on that specific track. Parker is credited on keringot, hochiku, shakuhachi in D & A, stereophonic bamboo flute, Ojibway overtone bass flute, pocket trumpet, malakan flute, Chinese shakuhachi.

Cribbing from the booket, the Parker was recorded in Amsterdam with Coen Aalberts (conch shell, winti flute from New Guinea. cricket sounds, bird sounds, bamboo brushes, whistles, drum set) and Klaas Hekman (dogon flute, shakuhachi, bass Indian flute, piccolo, C flute).

Since Parker's been ID'd on #9, it's track #79 here. Nice choice! I actually own this (as part of the box set), but it'd never have occurred to me. Parker is one of my reflex guesses on BFTs, but not for shakuhachi. The saxophonist on #3 is interesting. Kaoru Abe and Akira Sakata are the only Japanese skronkmeisters I'm familiar with, but I was sure they weren't involved. Will have to research Kawashima!

Seriously, I'm not sure publishers do serious editing any more. OTOH, doesn't pretty much any book contain a preface in which the author thanks family, sources, assistants, publisher/editor etc. and concludes with "...any remaining errors are the author's responsibility"?

Extremely sad to hear this. RIP and thanks for a great body of work.

[Italics added] I posted about the Westbrook on a "British jazz reissues" thread a couple of weeks ago. This release initially confused me, but the way I read the non-compete agreement the "unreleased Hat Hut archives" stip allows him to release material by living musicians that's in said archives. Although it's not entirely clear: does "exceptions" apply to both the "living" clause and the "historic" clause, or just to the latter? After some thought I concluded both. Granted, I could be giving Werner too much credit on ethical matters... AlAy Ltd. is subject to a non-competition agreement starting June 2025 with a term of three years in Switzerland. During this period, AlAy Ltd. may not accept or release recordings by living composers/musicians. Our releases during this period will therefore focus on historic recordings from the past. Exceptions are unreleased recordings from the archive of the former Hat Hut Records Ltd. 4106 Therwil, which changed its name to AlAy Ltd. in June 2025.