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Mose Alison and Dexter Gordon discs added.

Yeah, great stuff. I like it too but, frankly, wouldn't have overcome my wariness and bought the disc if Brian O. and walto hadn't heaped ample praise on it.

You have a big fan here Over the last couple of years, I've heard about a dozen of his concerts, spanning three decades, and he's great live. This has made me an even bigger fan. On his better albums - initially I would compile a best of disc from each of set of 3-4 albums of his and thoroughly enjoy every spin of those discs. As I got to hear the concerts however, I also started enjoying most of the tunes I had left out of those compilations. I will also say that I like Alice, Mule Variations, and Blood Money just fine (need to give Real Gone some more time though I can already, and easily, say that Hoist That Rag and Don't Go Into that Barn rock). One thing on these four only, Alice is the neat and tidy one of the bunch and Real Gone is the roughest.There really is a lot of good stuff from his earlier albums - I do remember that the best of, Used Songs, did a decent job of representing Waits's work within that period (1973-1980). I'm looking at his discography now and I see that though I have Bone Machine, I haven't heard either its predecessor or successor, Night on Earth and Black Rider. Better check those out soon. Though again, I've lately been returning to his concert recordings, acquired via dime but before then through the help of some helpful contacts, much more than to his albums proper.

Thanks Ron. I just ordered the Eldridge set (along with three Brilliant Classics sets - Grimaud, Richter, and Pires). Hope they will have arrived by the time I'm back in France, looking forward to working my way through them

Not characteristic of the series in terms of the repertorie (but then again most, perhaps all, classical releases are released as part of the New Series) but I would nominate the Zehetmair Quartet's disc of Schumann String Quartets nos. 1 and 3. Great chamber music making - an interpretation which makes the most out of the score, nuanced and vibrant where appropriate. I will get their other disc in this series, a Bartok string quartet with a coupling, soon.

Of what I've heard from the recommendations so far, I'd say the following are good albums: Frank Lowe - The Flam (agree with D.D., very good) Giorgio Gaslini - Gaslini Plays Monk Giorgio Gaslini - Ayler's Wings (though so far I like the Monk album better by a fair margin, so though both are interesting, get the Monk first, if you like him it's likely to be so much that you'll want to get Ayler's Wings at some point and if not, well at least you'll have heard some of his best work) Waldron/Lacy - Sempre Amore (this is good, though most people seem to like it more than I do; my favorite of the Waldron/Lacy duos is Let's Call This...Esteem on Slam) Anthony Braxton - Six Monk's Compositions (one of my first Braxton - and Waldron - discs, and one that I still enjoy every bit as much as I did back when I got it, very good) And I have added The New Village on the Left to my to-get list.

It is. Some of these tracks were initially available because (I guess) e-music uploaded the whole catalog first and it took them some time (and possibly a number of reminders) later to take down the longer tracks.

I remember reading an interview where Ornette mentioned this forthcoming release, and he'd said early 2006, iirc, so shouldn't be a long time coming now.

Missed this the first time around. My favorites are Jubilee Varia and Oh My Dog. Their most recent, Aan & Uit, and Boospadje Konijnehol (I) are not bad but I would recommend them only if you are or become a fan.

Agreed, Four in One is a very good disc - great solos by Douglas (even more so than Misha in this instance, imho). Baars usually does nothing for me (well at least the one time I saw ICP live, on his own disc, Four, and on Mengelberg's Two Days in Chicago). Expect some fine solos from Heberer, Moore, Delius, and Misha if he happens to be in the mood for bothering to play - and yes, fun it will surely be.

Seconded! I finally had a chance to hear this album and, after listening to it a few times over the past two days, I definitely recommend it. Rivers sounds fantastic and Rudoplh and Eisenstadt provide some very nice rhythms for him to improvise over. I agree that this is a very good album. I've also been downloading a good number of live Rivers, from late 70's and 80's - duos with Holland or trios with a percussionist added, and though they're unedited concerts, most are good enough to return to again and again.

ubu - Jan Strom (label owner) is a great guy and I'm sure you'll get the 25% discount no problem. So have you heard any of the ones I've recommended (except the Lyons, which I'm pretty sure you have) - because you know maybe it wouldn't have hurt to spring for one of those rather than getting another Brotzmann disc (which, I also have and what I can say is that I certainly like it better than the more recent Atavistic disc, which I've traded a while ago).

I've yet to listen to the Return of the New Thing album (Traque) I just bought but if anyone cares, I would certainly recommend the following Ayler releases: The Electrics - Chain of Accidents (and hopefully their next release won't be a long time coming, I was at the concerts, at Glenn Miller Cafe, where they were recording the material for it) Exploding Customer - Live at Glenn Miller Cafe and Live at Tampere Jazz Happening (the second came out very recently so I don't yet know if I prefer one to the other but they're both good) Jimmy Lyons - The Box Set There are a number of reviews of each on the net (and also here and on jc, I think) if you'd like to know more about how the music sounds but there's really plenty to enjoy in each of these.

Agreed again - I'm just sharing what I saw live, and I still think he's a good drummer (played a killer solo near the end of the set). Yes, should be 20 this year and Haynes is his grandfather. We'll be hearing more from him, I'm pretty sure. He also plays on Steve Coleman's latest album - which is a double disc release and each disc also has a DVD side, one is a 30 minute interview with Coleman and the other is a 20 minute duo performance, with Coleman and Gilmore, of Little Willie Leaps - quite informal, from one of their rehearsals. There's also a short caption before the performance where Coleman speaks quite highyl of Gilmore (I might have misheard but I think he said Branford was the one to bring Gilmore to his attention).

I agree that Gilmore is a good drummer, only, he could be more comfortable with the music (thus make even stronger contributions), as when I saw them live last summer Iyer happened to guide him into the meter on a few occasions.

I also enjoy Danny's playing and hope he puts out an album soon, preferably showcasing his own playing (which wasn't the case when I saw him a few months ago at DMG with a drummer).

I like this album, would give it at least 4 stars out of 5. You get an inventive bass + drum pair doing a good job on Iyer's compositions (mostly in forms you're not used to hearing and rhythmically demanding, and also not sounding all that flowing - even though they have no trouble playing it) and you get some interesting solos by Iyer but also have a chance to hear Mahanthappa's flights (where the closest comparison I can think of, to give you a rough idea is the way Steve Coleman and Greg Osby play - though because of his tone and inflections, not to mention his vocabularly, I can tell Mahanthappa apart in a second). I still like Mahanthappa better on his own two albums but since you asked about this, I think you'd want to hear it - as the music and the way they solo is different and it's all handled very ably, so even if you end up disliking it, I think it's worth hearing their music to know how else people are playing jazz - it isn't free jazz in that it's very structured but isn't too easy on the ears, this is because the bass, piano, and sax would somtimes play different - and not diatonic sounding - lines on top of each other, at first you can hardly count the tune let alone tap your feet to it, and both because of the rhythmic issues but also because Iyer writes that way, the lines aren't exactly flowing and smooth. Iyer builds his solos more from cells of ideas which get developed through repetition and extrapolation - so they're more structural whereas with Mahanthappa there's is more of a sense of someone playing in the moment, though he still has his tricks and licks.

Thanks ubu (and couw), I'm home now but will try again from my office tomorrow.

It's probably just me but I can't figure out how to place an online order using my credit card. On the delivery & payment page, it seems to be that the options are either "payment through bank transfer" or "payment on delivery"; or do you have further options on the next page (this possibility just occured to me, so it might well be the case).

Would anyone be interested in this. The disc is in good, though not perfect, condition - has some slight nicks but certainly nothing serious, and the booklet is in very good condition. The other members of the quintet are Don Preston, Richard Davis, and Andrew Cyrille. Recorded in 1988, released in 1989. I'm thinking 25 euros but, again, don't know if this is too much to ask. Let me know if interested. We could also trade, if you have a bunch of recent major label reissues (and I'm also interested in classical music), for instance. Thanks for looking. THE DISC IS GONE.

The link doesn't work for me and neither can I find the album by searching for Avital at cdbaby.

Thanks a lot, brownie!

A small but nice haul. I hope they'll still have a few things left when I get to Paris on Saturday. Incidentally, brownie, I'm only familiar with the FNACs around Champs Elysees, Bastille, and St. Lazare. Are there any others worth visiting, you think? Also, and I know this is silly, I've never been to the Virgin at Louvre, how does its coverage compare to the Champs-Elysees branch. And finally, since you've been to the stores, were there also a fair bit of classical discs on sale? Thanks!

From this batch, I'll be getting The Gigolo soon and Gettin' Around a little later.