Hat Hut 4th of July Sale!

[Ron Thorne]

I just ordered the four titles below from TheJazz Loft for a total of $21.46!!!!

Jimmy Giuffre - Emphasis & Flight 1961 (2-disc set)
Lee Konitz - Thingin'
Ran Blake - Something to Live For
Marc Copland / David Liebman - Lunar

The sale is for Hat Hut titles which were previously on sale for $9.99 (single CD) and $12.99 (2-disc set), which are now on sale for $4.99 and $6.49, respectively.

There are currently 192 Hat Hut titles available.

Sale ends July 6, 2007 at Midnight Pacific Time. All orders will be filled as sold. If we run out, we will hold your order until we get more stock (about 10 days). Your credit cards will not be charged until your order ships. - Alan Lawrence

It's nuts, kids.

[Bill Barton]

Ron, Ron, Ron... (sigh) Shame on you for passing on the info on this scarily voluminous sale. You, sir, are to blame for the unwarranted disintegration of my July budget.

[jaka]

Ron, Ron, Ron... Now if my cats die of hunger this month, you'll be the one responsible.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Cem]

Ooooh boy... Ron, you are such an enabler, buddy!! ... though I still love you. I was able to stop at 34 hats!!

[Ron Thorne]

Sorry, guys. I knew that it would be rough on some.

I had to really stifle myself from going completely nuts.

Does anyone have any comments on the titles I chose?

[Cem]

I ordered your first 3 choices, too. I'm confident about half of my choices. I must have a few dogs in there, but I needed to spike up, as I haven't been to a show (including missing the Vancouver Jazz Fest completely over the last 10 days) or bought music in months... so here I rationalize as a good junkie must...

Peter Brotzmann Tales Out of Time (1) @ $4.99
Clusone Trio An Hour With... (1) @ $4.99
Ellery Eskelin The Secret Museum (1) @ $4.99
Jimmy Giuffre Emphasis (1) @ $6.49
Richard Grossman Even Your Ears (1) @ $4.99
Richard Grossman Where The Sky Ended (1) @ $4.99
Lou Harrison Labrynth (1) @ $4.99
Sven-Ake Johansson Barcelona Series (1) @ $4.99
Sven-Ake Johansson Six Little Pieces for Quintet (1) @ $4.99
Theo Jorgensmann Pagine Gialle (1) @ $4.99
Theo Jorgensmann To Ornette - Hybrid Identity (1) @ $4.99
Franz Koglmann We Thought About Duke (1) @ $4.99
Lee Konitz Thingin (1) @ $4.99
Steve Lacy Clinkers (1) @ $4.99
Joe Maneri Coming Down The Mountain (1) @ $4.99
Joe Maneri Out Right Now (1) @ $4.99
Joe Maneri Tenderly (1) @ $4.99
Joe McPhee Oleo (1) @ $4.99
Mat Maneri So What? (1) @ $4.99
Joe McPhee Tenor (1) @ $4.99
Myra Melford Eleven Ghosts (1) @ $4.99
Misha Mengelberg The Root of the Problem (1) @ $4.99
Polwechsel Polwechsel (1) @ $4.99
Polwechsel Polwechsel 2 (1) @ $4.99
Pauline Oliveros The Roots of the Moment (1) @ $4.99
Arnold Schonberg Works For Piano (1) @ $4.99
Archie Shepp I Know About The Life (1) @ $4.99
Matthew Shipp By The Law of Music (1) @ $4.99
Matthew Shipp Expansion, Power, Release (1) @ $4.99
Matthew Shipp Prism (1) @ $4.99
Matthew Shipp Thesis (1) @ $4.99
Sun Ra Sunrise In Different Dimensions (1) @ $4.99
Cecil Taylor One Too Many Salty Swift (1) @ $6.49
Carlos Zingaro Western Front: Vancouver 1996 (1) @ $4.99

[Ron Thorne]

Cem, you're clearly out-of-control, buddy. Don't blame your urges on me. Plus, you live in a idyllic setting, so relax.

Damn, now I wish that I'd ordered David Liebman's Bookends CD, too. It's a duo with pianist Marc Copland, and the samples I just heard sound wonderful and fresh.

[Cem]

I'll be ok, Ron. I've wanted at least 6 or 8 of those for quite a while.

[Ron Thorne]

Originally Posted by Cem

I'll be ok, Ron. I've wanted at least 6 or 8 of those for quite a while.

Somehow, I knew that.

Hope things are going well for you, pal.

[Gary Sisco]

Cem -- Madness!

This thread is like holding out a bag of skag at the NA meeting. Just so happens, however, that I received a $25 gift yesterday. Now it's gone. But these are on their way:

Morton Feldman -- Early Piano Works
Joe Maneri -- Out Right Now
Joe McPhee -- Oleo
Arnold Schonberg -- Works For Piano

[jaka]

Cem's frenzy makes me feel much better about my 10 CDs order.
I am a reasonable person in the end.

[Gordon B]

I bought 8 cds. Only the first three were $4.99.

Ran Blake Something to Live For
Guillermo Gregorio Red Cube(d)
Lauren Newton Filigree
Vienna Art Orchestra Concerto Piccolo
Evan Parker / Matthew Shipp Abbey Road Duos
Willem Breuker The Compositions of Eric Dolphy
Alexander Von Schlippenbach Twelve Tone Tales, Vol. 2 (1)
Iannis Xenakis Works for Piano

[stonemonkts]

I went for these nine:

Myra Melford - Even The Sounds Shine
Myra Melford & Han Bennink - Eleven Ghosts
Daniele D'Agaro - Strandjutters
Morton Feldman - Early Piano Works
Sven-Ake Johansson - Barcelona Series
Sven-Ake Johansson - Six Little Pieces for Quintet
Joe McPhee - Tenor & Fallen Angels
Michel Portal - Arrivederci Le Chouartse
Per Henrik Wallin - Proklamation / Farewell to Sweden

[Cem]

I woke up this morning and, ahem... had an itch to scratch... order another 6, including a box, I'd been eying ... so it's an even 40 now.

Ran Blake Something to Live For (1) @ $4.99
Morton Feldman Early Piano Works (1) @ $4.99
Per Henrik Wallin Proklamation / Farewell to Sweden (1) @ $6.49
Daniele D'Agaro Strandjutters (1) @ $4.99
Dane Rudhyar Works for Piano (1) @ $4.99
Albert Ayler Holy Ghost (1) @ $74.99

Really excited about the Ayler, in particular. Curious about so many. Ahem, the dollar is almost par, man... what can I do?
This music will help me through my post-Jewels & Binoculars-tour depression in a couple of weeks.

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

I just bought the complete MJQ with Giuffre (+ Teddy Charles, Pee Wee Russell, etc.) from Jazz Loft, which is neither on Hat nor on sale.

But I do appreciate the posts, boys, and I'm already starting to feel better about all those Fania resissues I just bought!

[Rob C]

Thanks for the heads up!

1 Peter Brotzmann Tales Out of Time $4.99 $4.99
1 Ellery Eskelin 12 (+1) Imaginary Views $4.99 $4.99
1 Ellery Eskelin Arcanum Moderne $4.99 $4.99
1 Sven-Ake Johansson Six Little Pieces for Quintet $4.99 $4.99
1 Sun Ra Sunrise In Different Dimensions $4.99 $4.99
1 Mat Maneri So What? $4.99 $4.99
1 Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio Constellations $4.99 $4.99

[Paul B]

Hard to pass up this sale, just ordered six discs. May decide to add more, the Hat catalog is a gold mine.

[Bill Barton]

Originally Posted by Ron Thorne

...Damn, now I wish that I'd ordered David Liebman's Bookends CD, too. It's a duo with pianist Marc Copland, and the samples I just heard sound wonderful and fresh.

There's still time, Ron, though the clock is ticking. Yes, this is a marvelous CD. I've had it in my collection for quite some time and it's one of those discs that often makes it's way into the CD player.

I too ordered the Ran Blake. Others were Clusone Trio An Hour With..., Myra Melford Even the Sounds Shine and Cecil Taylor One Too Many Salty Swift. My ruined budget is obviously somewhat smaller to begin with than that of some folks.

Oh, and your choice of Thingin is a good one, Ron. It's a unique recording in Konitz's scarily huge discography, and another hat I return to quite often.

EDIT: Well, somehow I missed the listing of the Myra Melford/Han Bennink duo CD Eleven Ghosts the first time around... Just ordered that one too.

[Gordon B]

Originally Posted by Rob C

1 Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio Constellations $4.99 $4.99

That's a great disc. I also love John Law- Abacus, Melford-Alive in the House of Saints and most of the Ellery discs. Several of the McPhee's are excellent, too as is the CT.

[Ron Thorne]

Thanks, Bill. I may have to spring for the Bookends CD from Liebman.

I'm also open to suggestions from any of you who are hip to my musical tastes for other CDs I may have overlooked.

I'll probably be placing a small 2nd order ASAP, though.

[Cem]

Originally Posted by Ron Thorne

Thanks, Bill. I may have to spring for the Bookends CD from Liebman.

I'm also open to suggestions from any of you who are hip to my musical tastes for other CDs I may have overlooked.

I'll probably be placing a small 2nd order ASAP, though.

Ron, Myra Melford's Alive in the House of Saints & Even the Sounds Shine would be up your alley, I think. Her playing is blues-drenched & I find her inside/outside approach and writing very compelling and inviting. She plays with some of the greater younger players of the past 20 years. I saw the trio a bunch of times live in the 90's and loved them. She has Cecil Taylorisms that I love, not sure how you feel about that?

My dealings with Jewels & Binoculars, recently, reminded me (same bassist, Lindsey Horner) of how that trio of hers (with Reggie Nicholson on drums) needs to get back together & tour. Even The Sounds Shine is an "extended ensemble" recording with Dave Douglas & Marty Ehrlich. Quite powerful.

Btw, Myra took a lot of her titles from poetry & literature, from the liner notes / from a Fernando Pessoa poem:

In Broad Daylight Even The Sounds Shine

In broad daylight even the sounds shine
On the repose of the wide field they linger
It rustles, the breeze silent.
I have wanted, like sounds, to live by things
And not be theirs, a winged consequence
Carrying the real far.

[Gordon B]

I agree with Cem about Melford's early stuff. I'm less enamored with her recent releases.

I went back and added three more:

Sun Ra Sunrise In Different Dimensions
Matthew Shipp Expansion, Power, Release
Matthew Shipp Gravitational Systems

[bluenoter]

Ron--

What about

Max Roach & Anthony Braxton
One in Two-Two in One?

I don't know it, but maybe the other kids could tell you what it's like. That Braxton guy is versatile and can be quite simpatico.

I'm in serious financial peril, but I'm thinking of springing for One Too Many Salty Swift (Cecil Taylor) and maybe one or two others. Yeah, thanks a lot, buddy.

Edit: I could have sworn that the Roach/Braxton album was one of the sale selections, but it's not; it's $19.99. Never mind.

[Jason Bivins]

Rita, that's a great duo in my opinion. There's one passage that kills me every time: Braxton is huffing away on contrabass clarinet, and Roach switches to triangle. So perfect.

[Felix]

The problem with hat is that if you're not careful, you'll end up with their entire catalog on your shelves... Anyway, I went for these:

John Zorn: Cobra
Myra Melford: Alive in the House of Saints
Anthony Ortega: Scattered Clouds (BTW, has anyone heard his recent hat release?)
François Raulin: Trois Plans sur la Comète
Max Nagl: Big Four
Mat Maneri: So What?
Clusone 3: An Hour With...

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

I WAS trying to avoid looking at this sale (I already have the choice Melfords, Blake, CT), but seeing Felix list Cobra made me break down.


So I'm in for:

John Zorn -- Cobra
Melford/ Bennink -- Eleven Ghosts
Pauline Oliveras -- The Roots of The Moment
Lou Harrison -- Labyrinth

[Ron Thorne]

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

Now it's crunch time. I'll let you know what others I chose.

Also on my list of possibles, stretching my taste/library were:

Morton Feldman - Early Piano Works
Joe Maneri - Coming Down The Mountain

Comments?

[Squaredancecalling Steve]

Originally Posted by Ron Thorne

Joe Maneri - Coming Down The Mountain

Ron: Is this is your first Joe Maneri? If so, this'll be a stretch for you. Dahabenzapple, Tales of Rohnlief and some of the others are easier to get into. I like Coming Down The Mountain, but much of it is very slow and very mournful. Plus of course it's Maneri so he's on his own microtonal system.

[Ron Thorne]

Yes, it would be my first Joe Maneri, Steve.

Thanks for the heads up.

Unless someone offers compelling reasons for me to add Morton Feldman's Early Piano Works, I think I'll go with:

David Liebman - Bookends
Myra Melford - Alive In The House Of Saints (Expanded)
Myra Melford - Even The Sounds Shine

[Gary Sisco]

It was my first Maneri, too, and I'd say it's not going to be a further stretch than any if it's your first. I liked it very much and now have all of his Hats. It's free music, though. So, it's anybody guess what you'll think. I found it very musical, including the drumming, which I think you'll find interesting and colorful.

Incidentally, Mr Maneri told me that the title is meant "as in when you're coming down the mountain into the valley and you don't want to."