On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 18:08:14 -0400 "Steve Smith" wrote:
Derek Bailey, Han Bennink & Evan Parker: 'The Topography of the Lungs' (Incus)
A seminal session to which everyone deserves access. Me, I own it on LP, but I'm too lazy a sod to fire up my turntable on a regular basis and don't own a burner, so I'd simply enjoy the convenience. And it's all the more desirable because it will likely never happen, certainly not within the next two decades.
Agree! TOTL set up the standard for non-idiomatic improvisation. I listen to it once in a while (I have the same problem as Steve with LP...) and I still find it more original and fresher than 90% of the genre. It is almost as if Bailey/Parker/Bennink not only introduced a new genre of music, but did it in such a way that only micro-improvements (with diminishing return) could be added to the edifice. But I would put Kagel's LUDWIG VAN first (if I had to choose only one CD reissue). Patrice.