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One of my very favorite bassists ever, still very much unrecognized I'm afraid, Johnny Dyani. Original member of the Blue Notes, on a co...

I love train rides. I can sit at a train window and watch the passing scenes for hours, whether beautiful landscapes or the backyards of inn...

The first Mothers album I bought was "Weasels Ripped My Flesh!". The first track on Side 2, iirc, was titled "Eric Dolphy Mem...

Nikos Veliotis/Anastasis Grivas - Vertical (Low Impedance) Four drones. Veliotis on cello, Grivas on guitar. Interestingly problematic for m...

An excellent musical change of pace last evening as I went to Issue Project Room to hear, not another eai ensemble, but the Wingdale Communi...

Rifling through the D's last evening. I could never get very much out of this album despite the personnel, and it's still the case, ...

Finished the Cardew biography this morning. That Tilbury's done a monumental, magnificent job almost goes without saying. Lucidly writte...

Turned to my vinyl last night and almost didn't feel like playing this one, a 1980 recording on ECM. But did and found it to hold up muc...

Anna Zaradny - Mauve Cycles (Musica Genera) Just as we've heard certain aesthetics from the 60s--like that of Fluxus--re-mined in recent...

My legs and feet are aching but the soul is satisfied after spending the last couple of days museuming and traipsing around Manhattan with M...

An unusual and satisfying Record Club last evening, in no small part due to my having inveigled Keith into attending. I had missed last mont...

Werner Durand - Remnants from Paradise (absurd) My previous experience with Durand's music (The Art of Buzzing) showed me a man and his ...

Choi Joonyong/Hong Chulki/Sachiko M./Otomo Yoshihide - Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (balloon & needle) Trying to elucidate what makes a re...

I've been thinking about Harry Partch for the past few days. Found this lovely photo this morning, one I'd never before seen. I'...

Don't recall if I recounted this before here (I have elsewhere), but the first so-called "loft jazz" event I attended, in May ...

A rare day with no discs waiting around to be heard allows me to delve back into the vinyl, entering the D's. Malcolm Dalglish/Grey Lars...

Trio Sowari - Shortcut (potlatch) These fellows (Phil Durrant, Burkhard Beins and Bertrand Denzler) occupy a nice zone within eai, more scra...

[photo: Yuko Zama] Went to Listen Space in Williamsburg on Saturday, a nice, new-looking white room, for three sets of music. First up, Tuck...