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2010-05-02 - 9:53 a.m.

The Vanessa Daou CD arrived very speedily all the way from the US � the booklet has all the words and arrived in excellent condition considering it was under �2 plus PP. Lots of references to Trane - so this is nu-jazz. Well done and thank you LFM.

The Sorceror also arrived � recorded in May 67 - four months before I saw this band at Hammersmith. Nefertiti was recorded only a month or two after the Sorceror. This is freebop - very sophisticated music which belies the fact that its over 40 years old. This album includes Tony Williams� first composition for the group. The CD has several extra tracks. Oddly they add a track from 1962 with vocals � from the same bunch that produced Blue Christmas, Miles� only Christmas song. The extra version of Masqualero is excellent but the 2nd Limbo is maybe not so strong. I wonder if Sorceror is now my favourite of the four 2nd great 5tet albums?. I have played ESP so much I know it off by heart and I know Miles Smiles quite well. There�s a very impressive live guitar version of Wayne Shorter�s Masqualero with Steve Khan�s trio here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlK2Co0uqBg

Steve Khan�s chord book looks inviting

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hrDofTwviJMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Contemporary+Chord+Khancepts&source=bl&ots=F1VrTgyEdQ&sig=k0o25WakT9x46dgSNMTJPaTLrjM&hl=en&ei=DgDcS7bfO5Si0gSd093LBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

Except it�s only 77 pages - �7.50 2nd hand � but there are 2 playalong CDs included. I tried Miles Davis Radio on LFM � first up was a live version of So What, definitely not the original studio version, claiming to be from Kind of Blue. Next Orbits by the 2nd great 5tet. There�s a discussion of this tune here:

http://vivache.xanga.com/586670433/miles-second-great-quintet--orbits-jazz-paper/

I looked at the Middlesex University site which led directly to a paper by the prof on
Badiou:

http://abahlali.org/files/Hallward_Badiou_article.pdf

I read the Postcript to Hutto and the first third of Ch 6. Its almost as if he keeps the philosophy on a tight rein so that he can pursue the psychology as he wishes.

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