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  1. Black Unity Trio – Al-Fatihah

    in Re-issues

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    11 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Just arrived this morning.

    Great sound and pressing. I'm a bit of a puritan when it comes to non-expanded reissues with different covers, and the gatefold isn't ideal (compared to an insert) but Ras Moshe Burnett's liner notes are cool. I had not heard it in such a long time that I'd forgotten how introspective the record actually is, and the quietness of some of the cuts is well-served by this very silent vinyl. Recommended.

    The anticipation builds...

  2. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    8 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    cracking good album. I have the FMP reissue, which sounds great, but the private original pressing is pretty sick!

    Mine's a little bit of a crackling good album unfortunately.  Doesn't detract too much from the impact of the music though.  Signed by Favre and Schweizer too, although I've no proof they're legit.

  7. John Coltrane's Creation

    in Discography

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    6 hours ago, EKE BBB said:

    FWIW, and according to Tom Lord discography, besides the Moon and Blue Parrot LPs, ‘Creation’ has also been issued on:

    - an Audio Fidelity LP (AFE 3-9), as ‘Untitled Original’

    - a Chiaroscuro LP (CR 2023)

    - a Canadian Black Label Cd (BLCD 8005)

     

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    Thanks for posting this. I've just grabbed a copy of 'Reflections'. Be interesting to hear it after all the comments 

  10. Charlie Parker documentary

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    41 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:

    there is just this sense in all of these that Bird was a troubled guy who, if only he could have settled down like these other saxophonists, could have been a regular guy. I find this to be a very middle-class attitude. Bird was Bird, and he was what he was because of the way that he was.  I mean, Bobby Watson plays great, but using him on this is a way of taming the craziness of Bird's work and life, to say "this is what Bird's music really means." But that' not right.  I think it's crazy, because Bird's intensity was part of the life he lived, on all levels. Now there IS another side to this - Al Haig always said he thought that at heart Bird longed for stability, for a family life; Dave Schildkraut said the exact same thing. But if we are going to look at Bird's life, we have to show both sides and the battle between them. Instead, these documentaries are like someone trying to domesticate a pet.

    Thanks for responding. 

  12. Charlie Parker documentary

    in Jazz In Print - Periodicals, Books, Newspapers, etc...

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    25 minutes ago, AllenLowe said:

    to me, if they were going to show Bird's importance through those that came after - well, there were much better ways to do it. I feel like all these types of documentaries, unlike Bird, just continue to play it safe. Bird was a musical radical, and they have turned him into a symbol of middle-class stability. He was anything but. Too much respectability.

     

    I saw respect but not necessarily respectability. Nor did I see much representation of 'middle-class stability', could you expand on that point so i can understand what I missed?

  22. Derek Bailey

    in Artists

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    The big surprise for me was the one with Tony Coe, superb. 'Cyro' has been in my sights for a while now

    I have a couple of the Companys, Epiphany & Epiphanies I-VI.  Both well worth the entry fee despite the first being 45rpm and having some sudden, abrupt track endings. HJ told me these were on the originals, who am I to argue. 

  25. What music did you buy today?

    in Miscellaneous Music

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    16 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

    A last pre-lockdown treat:  A copy of the LP reissue of Horace Tapscott's The Call and the book Free Jazz In Japan: A Personal History by Teruto Soejima, from Cafe OTO's new books wall. 

     

    No Smooth Jazz? Oto probably not the best source...

    I'm interested in that book too

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