What music did you buy today?

[JSngry]

If Zoot ever got drunk AND tripped, do you think that was what Al might have looked like to him when it all peaked together?

[T.D.]

Broke down and bought 2 recent reissues that have been much discussed here: Sun Ra Monorails and Satellites vol. 1-3 and Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet.

[jcam_44]

I'll buy anything by Gonzo.

The wonderful Anthony Braxton - Sextet (Parker) 1993 complete set from a fellow member

and I got the new album from James Brandon Lewis - An Unruly Manifesto which I've spun 3 times since Friday 

Edited February 5, 2019 by jcam_44

[JSngry]

Berg/Stravinsky __________________________ CD         
3.99
  Chamber Concerto/Concerto In E Flat Major/8 Instrumental 
Miniaturen/Ebony Concerto -- Barenboim/Zukerman/Arrignon/Boulez/Ensemble 
InterConte
  

George Crumb/Anton Webern/Witold Lutoslaws CD            

  Black Angels/String Quartet Op 28/String Quartet -- Cikada Quartet
  

Lutoslawski ______________________________ CD     

  Complete Works For String Orchestra -- Preludes Et 
Fugue/Ouverture/Musique Funebre/Grave/Five Folk Melodies -- Jean Paul 
Dessy/Orchestre Royal De Chambre De Wallonie
  

[Steve Reynolds]

Ordering both the DKV Trio plus Joe McPhee 6 CD set & the Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band 5 CD set with a promise from me to my wife that they don’t get opened until my birthday in April

time to remind those here who have been unmoved about previous reminders about these Barry Guy Small Formation box sets that these releases are some of the finest played/improvised live music of the past few decades and are all presented in sound quality that is second to none. The first box is now hard to find and quite expensive (Mad Dogs with the New Orchestra members) but Mad Dogs on the Loose with almost the same personell (including Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, etc.) is almost as great and is available for a fair cost while Tensegrity is small formations improvisation from the Blue Shroud Band and it is arguably a more exciting collectionby mostly lesser known players (save for Guy, Peter Evans & Agusti Fernandez) is even less expensive. 

[T.D.]

This had been on the wish list for a while, price has fallen and there was a $5 eBay coupon.

I like weird microtonal string music.  Had this in cart @ Berkshire but it went out of stock. Broke down and bought from Amazon. I know there's a more recent set (played by Haba Quartet), but that's considerably more expensive.

[HutchFan]

Ordered these today:

  

 

  

 

Here in the U.S., Handley's Vaughan Williams cycle appears to be out-of-print.

But I was able to buy all five of these CDs through one U.K.-based vendor on discogs -- and the price was right. 

 

Edited March 1, 2019 by HutchFan

[jlhoots]

Infinite Spirit Music

[Pim]

Both new on vinyl on the wonderful Pure Pleasure Records. Already had Capra Black as a German Bellaphon reissue which sounds quite bad. The sound of this vinyl version is way better.

 

Also both vinyl

[David Ayers]

On 15/02/2019 at 5:20 PM, Steve Reynolds said:

Ordering both the DKV Trio plus Joe McPhee 6 CD set & the Barry Guy Blue Shroud Band 5 CD set with a promise from me to my wife that they don’t get opened until my birthday in April

time to remind those here who have been unmoved about previous reminders about these Barry Guy Small Formation box sets that these releases are some of the finest played/improvised live music of the past few decades and are all presented in sound quality that is second to none. The first box is now hard to find and quite expensive (Mad Dogs with the New Orchestra members) but Mad Dogs on the Loose with almost the same personell (including Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, etc.) is almost as great and is available for a fair cost while Tensegrity is small formations improvisation from the Blue Shroud Band and it is arguably a more exciting collectionby mostly lesser known players (save for Guy, Peter Evans & Agusti Fernandez) is even less expensive. 

So you won’t have a report on SQ of the DKV + McPhee yet? Would be a rare box set purchase for me and since each session has a different engineer I find myself wondering...

[Steve Reynolds]

10 hours ago, David Ayers said:

So you won’t have a report on SQ of the DKV + McPhee yet? Would be a rare box set purchase for me and since each session has a different engineer I find myself wondering...

No report until some time after 4/25!! My experience with the 2 previous DKV box sets is that the sound quality is very very good. If one compares it to the William Parker Wood Flute Songs Box on AUM, the Not Two DKV boxes sound better. 

I use that as a comparison as Hamid Drake is on both and the sound of his drums is very important to me. Not Two records to this avid non-audiophile provides the best sound quality as compared to any current label I know of. The “Sound in Motion” box maybe sounds even better than the previous “Past & Present” box but both are spectacular sounding documents.

I hope you are also considering the Barry Guy box as the previous Tensegrity 4 CD set is among my favorite collection of current day freely improvised music. It’s exciting to these ears to hear the playing from a number of younger players I was previously unfamiliar with (Per Texas Johansson, Julius Gabriel, Fanny Paccoud, Ben Dwyer, etc.)

similar excitement in hearing the 3 CD set from Per-Ake Holmlander with a number of younger woman players I’d never heard of including a bassist Elsa Bergman who is amazing and some horn players who are also very very good and all seem to have fresh approaches to this music. Plus this set has Steve Swell & Tim Daisy as “veteran leadership” so there is a wonderful young & older or ying & yang feel to this release. This one might end up being an all-time favorite as my second or third time through in listening to the composed & improvised suite on disc 3 (with the full large ensemble) reveals a mature accomplished composer in Holmlander. 

[relyles]

I ordered the DKV/McPhee box last week. Looking forward to receiving it.

[jlhoots]

new Unthanks 3 CD set

[David Ayers]

5 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

No report until some time after 4/25!! My experience with the 2 previous DKV box sets is that the sound quality is very very good. If one compares it to the William Parker Wood Flute Songs Box on AUM, the Not Two DKV boxes sound better. 

I use that as a comparison as Hamid Drake is on both and the sound of his drums is very important to me. Not Two records to this avid non-audiophile provides the best sound quality as compared to any current label I know of. The “Sound in Motion” box maybe sounds even better than the previous “Past & Present” box but both are spectacular sounding documents.

I hope you are also considering the Barry Guy box as the previous Tensegrity 4 CD set is among my favorite collection of current day freely improvised music. It’s exciting to these ears to hear the playing from a number of younger players I was previously unfamiliar with (Per Texas Johansson, Julius Gabriel, Fanny Paccoud, Ben Dwyer, etc.)

similar excitement in hearing the 3 CD set from Per-Ake Holmlander with a number of younger woman players I’d never heard of including a bassist Elsa Bergman who is amazing and some horn players who are also very very good and all seem to have fresh approaches to this music. Plus this set has Steve Swell & Tim Daisy as “veteran leadership” so there is a wonderful young & older or ying & yang feel to this release. This one might end up being an all-time favorite as my second or third time through in listening to the composed & improvised suite on disc 3 (with the full large ensemble) reveals a mature accomplished composer in Holmlander. 

Thanks, Steve. I have a good handful of single CDs from this label and the sound is just great. I’d pick up more (even though I’m mainly off CDs) but I don’t like their shipping calculator. It will be one box only for me this year, or at least only one box at a time, but I think this one has my name on it...

[Steve Reynolds]

18 minutes ago, David Ayers said:

Thanks, Steve. I have a good handful of single CDs from this label and the sound is just great. I’d pick up more (even though I’m mainly off CDs) but I don’t like their shipping calculator. It will be one box only for me this year, or at least only one box at a time, but I think this one has my name on it...

Here in the U.S. there is a vendor directly related to the label where we get ONE shipping charge for as many CD’s as we want from Not Two. I made an order (that I documented on another thread) that was over 8-9 releases with a total shipping cost of $7.43 U.S. dollars. Same for these 2 boxes - I think $122 cost & 7.43 shipping:) for the two boxes. Great price in my view for these very high quality recordings.

[2scoops]

35 minutes ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Here in the U.S. there is a vendor directly related to the label where we get ONE shipping charge for as many CD’s as we want from Not Two. I made an order (that I documented on another thread) that was over 8-9 releases with a total shipping cost of $7.43 U.S. dollars. Same for these 2 boxes - I think $122 cost & 7.43 shipping:) for the two boxes. Great price in my view for these very high quality recordings.

In the UK, you will find that a Polish seller called serpent.pl will also offer a very reasonable combined shipping charge. You can either use them direct or via their page on a ceratin auction site. I have used them on numerous occasions and found their service excellent.

(make sure you use the 'English' version of their website!)

Edited March 11, 2019 by 2scoops
spelling error

[Steve Reynolds]

57 minutes ago, 2scoops said:

In the UK, you will find that a Polish seller called serpent.pl will also offer a very reasonable combined shipping charge. You can either use them direct or via their page on a ceratin auction site. I have used them on numerous occasions and found their service excellent.

(make sure you use the 'English' version of their website!)

Same vendor:)

[David Ayers]

16 hours ago, 2scoops said:

In the UK, you will find that a Polish seller called serpent.pl will also offer a very reasonable combined shipping charge. You can either use them direct or via their page on a ceratin auction site. I have used them on numerous occasions and found their service excellent.

(make sure you use the 'English' version of their website!)

Thank you for this tip, and thanks also to Steve. I’ll order the box direct, I think, and check out serpent for future individual purchases. 

[T.D.]

Looking for Ted Daniel recordings. Have had good experience with NoBusiness, specifically their NYC loft releases, so this should work.

[David Ayers]

On 12/03/2019 at 2:30 PM, David Ayers said:

Thank you for this tip, and thanks also to Steve. I’ll order the box direct, I think, and check out serpent for future individual purchases. 

DKV + McPhee now on its way. When it gets here I’ll post on it every day until Steve’s birthday. 

 

Well, if I get chance to even listen to it...

 

meantime Steve, maybe you could make do with this:

 

 

[David Ayers]

We might all be wondering why jazzmessengers has details about this set, including track titles, that are not on the NotTwo website...

 

https://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/79881/dkv-trio/the-fire-each-time-w-joe-mcphee

[mikeweil]

https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/b/bach-family-organ-works/

https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/g/gabrieli-complete-keyboard-music-1/

[JSngry]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Treasure trove ....

[David Ayers]

Disk 1 emanating from the (TV) speakers as I write. Not a very effective taunt, I now realise.