Barry Guy, LJCO, New Orchestra etc etc etc

[Д.Д.]

This solo record is great (as long as you don't mind your solo bass a little bit over-the-top https://nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/irvins-comet 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:06 PM by Д.Д.

[colinmce]

I would say the Blue Shroud Band music is essential listening-- 2 box sets and 2 standard albums. The small group breakouts on the box sets are all lively and fantastic, but above all I would say the initial Intakt release from 2016 is among the great albums of the 21st century. For this project he expanded the ranks with some newer, younger players, including some with classical backgrounds. The blend they manage to achieve is the truest basic third stream expression I've heard. Just really remarkable.

The other titles mjazzg noted are all quite enjoyable. Plays is especially phenomenal. Others I might mention:

-2 duos with Jordana Milla on Fundacja Słuchaj and ECM; the latter is my pick of the two
-the 2xCD trio recording Bosque de niebla (also on Fundacja Słuchaj) with Agusti Fernandez and Lucia Martinez

[clifford_thornton]

good to know. I have a couple copies of the Incus solo (one with an Alan Davie print tipped into the cover), as well as the Jazz & NOW album (half solo, half duo with Fred van Hove).

[T.D.]

3 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

I'll admit I stopped trying to keep up with his output years ago. He's amazing, but I only have so much room, physically and mentally.

Agreed. I can't keep up either. I'm a few years behind the times, try to add selectively. I prefer the large ensembles such as LJCO, and I see your "mentally" point because those recordings are so intense that they take a while to absorb.

[Rabshakeh]

5 hours ago, T.D. said:

Agreed. I can't keep up either. I'm a few years behind the times, try to add selectively. I prefer the large ensembles such as LJCO, and I see your "mentally" point because those recordings are so intense that they take a while to absorb.

This is precisely my feeling. 

His output is amazingly consistent. I think far more than his peers. But that's a problem in itself, given the mass of output.

Lots of suggestions, so thank you. I'll get investigating some of these.

[mjazzg]

Which is why, I think, I just dip in and out occasionally fairly safe in the knowledge whatever is there at the time is going to be worth hearing.

Thanks for prompting the most recent dip

[Holy Ghost]

Have this one:

Like this one very much. Couldn't believe it when I found it in the dollar bin at Half Price. 

[Steve Reynolds]

Tensegrity & Intensegrity are the 2 box sets of the Blue Shroud band playing improvised segments in small formations. Brilliant throughout.

the 2 more recent boxes are wonderful as well although a step slightly down from the above.

along with the earlier Mad Dogs & Mad Dogs on the Loose (new orchestra in small formations), all 6 of these boxes (all on Not Two Records) are the most undervalued recordings of this century. 

 

[T.D.]

32 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

Have this one:

Like this one very much. Couldn't believe it when I found it in the dollar bin at Half Price. 

Indeed that is a key recording. But it was released in 1989.