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For newly minted avant/free jazz on LP, I can vouch for the musical merit and mastering and pressing quality of NoBusiness Records out of Lithuania. I have a bunch of their LPs Charles

Steve Lacy - The Door, a 1988 RCA Novus LP

Abdullah Ibrahim & Johnny Dyani - Echos From Africa - a 1979 recording on Enja

The four volumes of the Wildflowers - the New York Loft Jazz Sessions on Douglas, recorded at Studio Rivbea May 14 - 23, 1976.

Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet - nessa

Anthony Davis - Hemispheres - Gramavision

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with Doc Watson - Strictly Instrumental - Columbia mono 2-eye

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah - nessa Records

Add Fred Hopkins

I am sorry that I missed the group photo. I had a 3-hour drive back to San Antonio. The music was transcendent and the venue was a perfect fit. Playing Snurdy McGurdy and her Dancin' Shoes right now! Is anyone familiar with Roscoe Mitchell's Sound Ensemble Live in Detroit on Cecma? Charles

My favorite new releases in 2012: Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love - KAMPEN - NoBusiness Records Ravi Coltrane - SPIRIT FICTION - Blue Note Dave Douglas - BE STILL - Greenleaf Harris Eisenstadt - CANADA DAY III - Songlines Michael Formanek - SMALL PLACES - ECM Billy Hart - ALL OUR PLACES - ECM Vijay Iyer - ACCELERANDO - ACT Music Living By Lanterns - NEW MYTH/OLD SCIENCE - Cuneiform Simon Nabatov - SOLO: SPINNING SONGS OF HERBIE NICHOLS - Leo Records Ted Nash - THE CREEP - Plastic Sax Reissues or Archival: Keith Jarrett Quartet - SLEEPER - ECM Magico - CARTA DE AMOR - ECM Charles Mingus - THE JAZZ WORKSHOP CONCERTS 1964-65 - Mosaic Records

Living By Lanterns - New Myth/Old Science - a 2012 release on Cuneiform Records with Jason Adasiewicz on vibraphone, Greg Ward on alto, Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Ingrid Laubrock on tenor, Tomeka Reid on cello, Mary Halvorson on guitar, Joshua Abrams on bass, Tomas Fujiwara on drums, Mike Reed on drums and electronics and Nick Butcher on electronics - arrangements of found Sun Ra rehearsal tapes.

Dannie Richmond?

Bobby Bradford/Frode Gjerstad/Ingebrigt Haker Flaten/Paal Nilssen-Love - Kampen - NoBusiness Records

George Lewis & Douglas Ewart - Black Saint 26 from 1978.

Happy Birthday Barry Harris! Barry Harris plays Tadd Dameron on Xanadu Records from 1975, with Gene Taylor on bass and Leroy Williams on drums.

Thank you Stuart!

PM sent

Alvin Batiste, best heard on Henry Butler's The Village on Impulse!

Listening to The People's Republic on A&M Horizon in honor of Sirone......I recognize Sirone's influence on William Parker - see "Chinese Rock".

As for unreleased material, the jacket to Air's Open Air Suite references a fifth suit that could not be included because of the time limitations of the LP medium - I hope it was recorded and will be included in the Mosaic set, along with Vol. 2 of X-75. I have all of the Novus recordings on LP - but will preorder this set because Threadgill is one of the artists I have never tired of - I am always hearing something new when I listen for the umteenth time. I do not have the three Columbia cds, so I am happy that they will be included - I, for one, do think that Cuscuna knows "wtf" he is doing - but we each have our own view. There must have been a liscensing issue that required Mosaic to leap frog the Black Saints.

Hiroshi Tanno of Early Records has announced that Venus Records will be releasing ten new LPs on January 24, 2007: Ken Peplowski Quartet - Memories of You * vol. 1 - TKJV 19168 Ken Peplowski Quartet - Memories of You * vol. 2 - TKJV 19169 Eric Alexander Quartet - Gentle Ballads II - TKJV 19170 Francesco Cafiso Quartet - Seven Steps to Heaven - TKJV 19171 Richie Beirach Trio - Manhattan Reverie - TKJV 19172 New York Trio (Bill Charlap) - Thou Swell - TKJV 19173 Dan Nimmer Trio - Kelly Blue - TKJV 19174 David Hazeltine Trio - alfie - TKJV 19175 John Di Martino - Jazz Mozart - TKJV 19176 Harold Mabern Trio - Somewhere Over the Rainbow - TKJV 19177

If a friend is convinced that Irene Aebi ruins Lacy's music, I play Vespers on Soul Note - it causes open-eared listeners to reconsider their criticism. charles

Not Austin or Dallas, but in the neighborhood and worth the trip to San Antonio this weekend - Saturday, August 26th - The McCoy Tyner Septet - with Donald Harrison, Billy Harper!, Walace Roney, Steve Turre, Charnet Moffatt and Eric Gravatt - McCoy Tyner in San Antonio! charles