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I did not want to listen to L. L. and am waiting for alternate recordings. 😁

Yeah, but the Mozart piece was juvenilia (even by WAM standards), so IMO this Chopin piece, if authentic, would be more significant.

I remember when that biography was published. It caused a real sensation in all the book review columns. I never read it because it seemed too creepy. I did read Maggin's biography of Stan Getz, though...probably because I've spent more time with Getz's music than Sellers's films.

Has anyone read (or started) this? I'm really interested, was about to order but saw that it's only 166 pages (per Forced Exposure; oddly the C vs D site doesn't give the # of pages)...If there are a lot of photos and footnotes, the text might be rather skimpy, in which case I'll hold off. Recently shelled out for The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, which is disappointingly brief but significantly cheaper. OTOH, the C vs. D combo book/CD offer might be the way to go.

I figure the film will soon be coming to an art house cinema relatively near you. Maybe streamable. I saw it in a cinema with excellent sound system, which was a plus. The director's website says "currently screening at special live events worldwide...More cities and cinema runs to be announced and the streaming release. Follow Gary Hustwit on Instagram for more frequent updates, or join our email list for news and updates on Eno." Eno's website claims that the soundtrack is "Available on vinyl, CD and on all streaming platforms" [Stock disclaimer: I have no connection whatsoever with the film or its makers]

Finally saw this (Eno). Tried a few weeks ago but it was sold out. I never heard much of Eno's music: some famous Roxy Music and Bowie cuts, knew of the ambient work but heard relatively little apart from a couple of early albums. But the film is outstanding. He's extremely articulate and thoughtful. You can find all kind of info describing this as a "Generative" film (clips selected via algorithm so that no two viewings are the same). It's implemented a little quirkily (no real need to show onscreen process of clips being sampled IMO), but works well.

RIP. All I know of her is this recommendable album with Don Ewell, which I own: Will try to listen to more online.

Thanks! Excellent interview. I used to read paristransatlantic semi-regularly, but don't recall seeing it. Maybe at that time I was more into avant-garde classical than jazz.

They were in Saugerties (NY) yesterday 10/20. I think Cliff Peterson went. I saw the Lou Grassi (drums) Trio (with Michael Bisio on bass and Cécile Broché on violin) in Kingston instead. The 2 events overlapped (5 PM and 4 PM starting times) so one had to choose.

Listened to the whole set over the weekend. Doubt that any of the individual albums rank as "classic", but the package works really well and is one of the Mosaics I play most often.

Obscure Japanese reissues. Can't say they're essential, but I like pianist Takeshi Shibuya (he also sometimes plays organ), who is on both. First is a duet album, second a quartet.

Big Dave Burrell fan here, have a few CDs but would like to see much more on the medium. After Love, from the French America series, stands out as weird but extremely interesting. I originally got into DB because I l dig people who bash on the piano (e.g. Bobby Few, Cooper-Moore,... of course CT), but I enjoy his playing in other styles as well. The Jelly Roll Joys is great fun, High Won High Two has some surprising medleys. Consequences, the duet with Billy Martin, has lots of outside bashing. Don't have too much else with him as leader, only a Japanese piano duet album with Stanley Cowell comes to mind right now.

As Cliff P. mentioned upthread, Forced Exposure and Dusty Groove have the component CDs (singles and one twofer), but no box. I checked DMG, but they only seem to have one of the CDs (maybe prior release?). Nothing at Squidco, as Colin stated upthread. I only see the LP box set on discogs at this time. So I have no idea! Those are all my suspects. 😢

It's really good. Larson seems to be a Zen practitioner (based on her intro/dedication) and gets far more into the Buddhist aspect than anyone else I've ever read on Cage. And the whole thing is extremely well written. About 3/4 of the way through. In the meantime I finished this (more urgent because it was from library): Funny thing. I browsed a bookstore I hadn't visited in a while and saw Larson/Cage, Threadgill/Edwards and The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins on the same shelf, which triggered a reading binge. Purchased the Cage paperback, got the Threadgill via interlibrary loan. Couldn't bring myself to buy the Rollins notebooks because it's a slim volume with a lot of white space; may need to because the (pretty good) interlibrary loan system doesn't have it. 😕

In response to a "wobble" today, the 5 PM (Eastern time) guidance has shifted slightly South. Marginally better for the Tampa area, but quoting the NHC's latest discussion: It is still critical to remember that even at 36 hours (around the time of potential landfall), NHC's track forecasts can be off by an average of 60 n mi, which means we still can't pinpoint an exact landfall location, especially if additional wobbles occur in the short term.

I think the National Weather Service is the best source for storm graphics. Milton The "Peak Surge", "Rainfall Potential" and "Wind Speed Probabilities" are all worrisome. Example: the 50 knot wind probability chart:

Every year in Woodstock NY there's an anniversary performance of 4'33' at a museum/art gallery. Kay Larson, a Cage scholar, usually (in my experience) opens with a lecture. Then the celebrated piece, which the musician(s) follow with a "normal" performance.

Jim really nailed #4. I sleuthed and thus claim no credit, but full ID at https://tinyurl.com/2e3t9sva Indeed the flautist, who wrote the tune, is not so well known to me, but John Hicks is on electric piano! The tune is not Fancy Free, but is somewhat derivative thereof.

Looks an awful lot like Newport to me. This site suggests the same (scroll way down): Lights, Camera, Backbeat - Search (lightscamerabackbeat.com) Festival Field, Newport, Rhode Island, July 2, 1966. Includes Clark Terry - pocket trumpet, Ruby Braff - cornet, Red Allen -trumpet. *With Thad Jones, Bobby Hackett -cornet, Jimmy Owens - flugelhorn, Howard McGhee, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham - trumpets

D. B. Cooper B. D. (Doonesbury) Biggus D***us (Monty Python Life of Brian)

From the "obscure Japanese piano jazz" department

Jim ID'd the artist of #13 and John the tune. I very much dig the rendition, knew the tune but not the artist...Full ID here, tinyurl to avoid spoiler: https://tinyurl.com/mwfs2x87 Posting on about half now (after sporadic edits/adds), will cover the rest later. #13: gonna have to listen to a lot of Jr. Parker! #12 is an interesting mix of fusion and "+ strings" with a strong Middle Eastern vibe. Haven't heard it, would have to come up with some candidate performers and sleuth, but too early for that. #11 is also in my wheelhouse, but I don't believe I've heard it before. I have an excellent Masabumi Kikuchi / Gil Evans album with the players John mentioned, but this tune ain't on it. I hear a vague Middle Eastern influence on the saxophone solo, but too early to say whether that could be a BFT theme here. #9 is "Oscarlypso". Excellent tune, I know only a Curtis Fuller version on The Opener, but this arrangement is much different. Bone sounds more like JJ here, but it's somebody else (BB). I'm surprised that this (presumably the OG) recording is so much more "exotic" than Fuller's later cover. Might be hallucinating, but the opening flute passage seems to have been quoted by Led Zeppelin(?!)*, I recall the LZ song's melody but not lyrics or title. Full ID here: https://tinyurl.com/yhf4ku6u [Added] *Honest to God, compare the opening of #9 with the opening of Zeppelin's The Immigrant Song... 🤣 #6: Not bad, I enjoy the way the sax plays behind the trumpet (who must be leader?), weird that sax gets no big solo. Saxophonist sounds familiar, as if I have at least recording with him, but can't put a finger on ID. Trumpeter is a dominant player with big stamina like Tolliver, but doesn't sound like CT and I can't ID. Look forward to ID or reveal. #5: Enjoy this, especially the piano. Can't ID musicians, but it feels like the leader/reed player is someone mostly known as "avant-garde" playing more straight-ahead. Kind of a Marion Brown situation, though it doesn't sound much like him and I can't even be certain it's an alto with my crummy computer sound. #4: Felser seems to be spot on here, though I can't vouch for the musician IDs. I like this a lot more than most of the genre, especially the flute soloist. Would be inclined to seek out a recording, but IMO there are a few too many stock early '70s licks on this particular tune so I'd need to hear more samples. Definitely interested in hearing more from the flautist.

Calendar — The Local (thelocalsaugerties.com) Also: David Weiss Sextet, same venue, Nov 21

Recorded 2000. Don't think it's been issued before, so posting here. I'm probably in, but waiting for bandcamp samples. https://orgmusiclabel.bandcamp.com/album/tribe-2000

ISTR Rahsaan doing some (lip) whistling. Can't recall the tune/album or whether it was credited, but I don't think it was a bebop number.