What Jazz album are you listening to?

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I downloaded it off libgen.

Nice.

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 02:35 PM

John Coltrane
Concert in Japan

What is there to say? It's sublime.

OccultHawk · 04-08-2020, 02:41 PM

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The Pyramids
Lalibela

Wild spiritual and afro jazz. On the cusp of being free but in a more tribal way. Crazy rhythm section.

Unassailable

Thanks Sexo

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 02:46 PM

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Unassailable

Thanks Sexo

I'm going to assume you don't have an instagram but you can still use your browser to check out my friend who owns a shop in upstate NY. He's one of the top jazz collectors in the tri-state area and is literally friends with Joe McPhee. He turns me onto a lot of stuff. His IG handle is Hvvinyl. Dude is writing a book on Sun Ra records as he has pretty much all of the originals. Check him out.

OccultHawk · 04-08-2020, 03:12 PM

I looked at the page. About 10 second in it blogs the view with a download instagram for more thing.

I’m not that into original pressings and all that. I’m just a listener not a collector. Finding stuff that hasn’t already been said about SunRa is a tall order. I mean, I haven’t actually read a biography on him but I think there would be a fine line of respecting his mythology and disrespecting it.

It might sound like I’m being negative about your friend. I’m not. It’s tricky business to get right. Music writers often want to demystify or offer a tempered response to deification. I’m a fan. Not an artist. Not a critic. A fan. When I read about music I want the writer to worship the subject. Podcasts too. I don’t want tempered opinions. I want praise sprinkled with worship.

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I looked at the page. About 10 second in it blogs the view with a download instagram for more thing.

I’m not that into original pressings and all that. I’m just a listener not a collector. Finding stuff that hasn’t already been said about SunRa is a tall order. I mean, I haven’t actually read a biography on him but I think there would be a fine line of respecting his mythology and disrespecting it.

It might sound like I’m being negative about your friend. I’m not. It’s tricky business to get right. Music writers often want to demystify or offer a tempered response to deification. I’m a fan. Not an artist. Not a critic. A fan. When I read about music I want the writer to worship the subject. Podcasts too. I don’t want tempered opinions. I want praise sprinkled with worship.

Yeah, f*ck that then. I hate when I try to see anything on Facebook and it does that to me so I get it.

I only told you about him because he's a great source of new stuff to listen to which is my main objective in life. Listen to as much as I can to broaden my ears. It's to the point where I'll actually listen to Frown's music. Give it all to me. Give me the weird. Give me the strange. Give me the noise.

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 03:29 PM

Anthony Braxton
3 Compositions of New Jazz

First record from the professor. Right off the bat he's out there. Dude is a whacky genius.

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 04:05 PM

Trio Vjačeslava Ganelina
Ancora da capo

Fantastic free jazz from Czechoslovakia. Live recording I believe.

OccultHawk · 04-08-2020, 05:45 PM

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Trio Vjačeslava Ganelina
Ancora da capo

Fantastic free jazz from Czechoslovakia. Live recording I believe.

That’s probably this from my exchange with Frown on your top 50 jazz records

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Susana Santos Silva is Portuguese. FYI

In my mind Vyacheslav Ganelin is way up near the top of not at the very top of the European Jazz mountain.

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New to me, which album(s) should I scope out first?

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Ancora da Capo by the Ganelin Trio

If after looking at it that doesn’t ring a bell that kind of blows my mind. Not in an insulting way or anything but when I was in college there was a huge mystique about these guys that were literally risking their lives to play free jazz in the Soviet Union. The recordings listed on the Wikipedia page were bootlegged into CDs and cassettes with so many misleading titles and ****. I sent paychecks to Leo Records once I saw their catalog.

Much later I had terse email exchange with Leo Feigin himself (I think) about how bull**** it was the records were so expensive. I was super respectful of what he did bringing so much great music to the world but still. Some of those big mail orders from Leo Records were the last big additions to my physical music collection.

However, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t really recorded in Czechoslovakia

LEO RECORDS: CD LR 108: The Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo

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Part 1 recorded in Leningrad 15.11.1980, part 2 recorded in West Berlin two weeks earlier, which was the first appearance of The Ganelin Trio in the West.

**Exo** · 04-08-2020, 05:51 PM

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However, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t really recorded in Czechoslovakia

LEO RECORDS: CD LR 108: The Ganelin Trio - Ancora Da Capo

Totally possible. I had it in my endless Spotify list but I have no idea how they got there at this point.

As for where it was recorded...I have it on good authority from a certain guru on this site that it was recorded in Czech but RYM says they formed in Lithuania and the LP was pressed in Czech.

04-08-2020, 02:35 PM	#422 (permalink)
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04-08-2020, 03:12 PM	#425 (permalink)
OccultHawk one-balled nipple jockey Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Dirty Souf Biatch Posts: 22,006	I looked at the page. About 10 second in it blogs the view with a download instagram for more thing. I’m not that into original pressings and all that. I’m just a listener not a collector. Finding stuff that hasn’t already been said about SunRa is a tall order. I mean, I haven’t actually read a biography on him but I think there would be a fine line of respecting his mythology and disrespecting it. It might sound like I’m being negative about your friend. I’m not. It’s tricky business to get right. Music writers often want to demystify or offer a tempered response to deification. I’m a fan. Not an artist. Not a critic. A fan. When I read about music I want the writer to worship the subject. Podcasts too. I don’t want tempered opinions. I want praise sprinkled with worship. __________________ 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Member of the Year & Journal of the Year Champion Behold the Writing of THE LEGEND: https://www.musicbanter.com/members-...p-lighter.html

04-08-2020, 03:29 PM	#427 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Anthony Braxton 3 Compositions of New Jazz First record from the professor. Right off the bat he's out there. Dude is a whacky genius. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

04-08-2020, 04:05 PM	#428 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Trio Vjačeslava Ganelina Ancora da capo Fantastic free jazz from Czechoslovakia. Live recording I believe. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE