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I have more albums by Anthony Braxton than anyone else. Maybe the AMM/Rowe combo will surpass it sometime...Haven't bought many in the l...

I'm lifting this from a post by inharmonik on IHM just because I enjoyed it so much (even better if it's actually true): A dude was ...

So, Carla Bley. I hadn't heard "A Genuine Tong Funeral" until about ten years ago when a friend found it for me in a used viny...

I take it for granted that everyone reading this blog has seen the "Wordplay" documentary from last year. If you haven't you s...

I'd been searching for this for quite a while, finally saw it come up on e-bay in late February, bid on it and won. Arrived yesterday. ...

So, in my little descriptive over there on the right, I mention crosswords. Well, it's far geekier than that. Since 1983, I've compe...

"Mass" is a project joining the ensemble Looper (Nikos Veliotis, Martin Kuchen & Ingar Zach) with my favorite pianist in the w...

Jon Abbey hipped me to this disc and it's definitely a fascinating release. Many more listens required but I think we have a winner here...

I find myself getting more and more finicky at live performances of improvised music, not so much for the music but for the performance aspe...

Record club last night worked itself into a soulful, songlike groove. Luckily, as it turned out, I had nixed a Christian Wolff piece (would...

New Stuff: Graham Halliwell/Tomas Korber - The Large Glass (Cathnor) Dropp Ensemble - ingen tid (tonschacht 7") Dropp Ensemble - The Em...

I picked up Antonioni's "L'Eclisse" yesterday, watched it this morning. Another incredibly beautiful film, maybe even a ha...

Ya gotta admit: That's a cover. I suppose I picked this up due to Bisi's name having appeared on a number of Celluloid and other re...

On a good little roll here in the vinyl arcade. I'm trying to think, but I'm not sure I've ever seen Karl Berger in performance....

My friend Richard Harland Smith, who among other things writes for movie morlocks , came across this photo in the course of doing some rese...

Woke up this morning to the awful news that Leroy Jenkins had died of lung cancer at the age of 75. Ever since I first heard Jenkin's pi...

Well, it took a couple of months, but I finally managed to finish the Unseen Cinema set. The last disc concerned itself with dance images al...

Coincidentally enough, two of the most underknown, under-rated jazz albums of the 80s (imho), stand alongside each other in the Olewnick vau...

Somewhere around my first year of college, I discovered that the local library, Adriance Memorial on Market Street, lent out records. Much o...

I don't actually have this album. Well, I have the sleeve. I don't remember the particulars, but I probably bought this up in Poughk...