B. Clugston

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Momente (DG). I actually prefer the 1965 version, half of which shows up on Side 6.

Ethan Iverson posted this on his blog a few years back: HH wrote in about another mystery, Carl Brown, the bassist on the Lacy/Cherry Evidence. "I asked Billy Higgins about Carl Brown. I was assuming it was a stage name. He said that was his real name and something like, 'He came to NY, did what he had to do and he split.'" http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/2011/04/we-see.html

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), African Space Program (Enja). Great album with a large ensemble. Sadly my copy is worn--sounds like the previous owner played it a lot on granny's old stereo console with the thrashed needle. Don Ellis At Fillmore (Columbia). I'd give this one 3 3/4 stars, or 1 and 7/8 thumbs up.

Duke Ellington, Black, Brown and Beige, The 1944-1946 Recordings (Bluebird) Art Ensemble of Chicago, Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic)

Put me down as a big fan of the Village Vanguard recordings, though perhaps heretically, I listen to Living Time with George Russell more often.

Anima (Pilz). German improv from Limpe and Paul Fuchs, with Austrians Friedrich Gulda and J.A. Rettenbacher sitting in.

Someone (JSngry?) posted this Don Ellis video from 1978 in another thread recently. At the end of the first video Ellis introduces a young Ted Nash fresh out of high school. His solo spot is in the following video. http://youtu.be/XUJL-7rOvDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhNbhiREDU

The Mirror newspaper is not noted for getting it right.

Three tracks from the aborted second volume are on the Mosaic set, but I've never heard them. Joachim Kuhn, Sound of Feelings (BYG).

Henry Threadgill, X-75 Volume 1 (Arista Novus). He sure has his basses covered on this one.

New Yorker writer explains Geoff Dyer 2014: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/coltranes-free-jazz-awesome "He writes like a club patron who insinuates himself into the company of the musicians between sets, extracts their confidences, observes scenes of intimate horror, and then passes them along—using first names and nicknames—as if to flaunt his faux-insider status. But, when the musicians are back on the bandstand, he never lets them forget that they’re there to entertain him."

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys. I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together ! Would love to meet up. DM me when you are in town.

Hemingway is just fantastic on this disc. In his own words: "it is actually the second set that brings chills and tears to my eyes each time I listen to it. It reaches a level of intensity that is nothing short of explosive."

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys. It's cheaper to fly here than to buy a copy of Lacy's The Wire. Homefromtheforest has an incredible record collection as many of you might have gathered from the recent blindfold test.

I like the first one, 23 Standards, the best. Great versions of "Giant Steps," "Ill Wind" and "Ju Ju." The second one, 20 Standards, has a few memorable moments, but I find I rarely play it. Never made it to the third set.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Shirley Scott and Gary McFarland, Latin Shadows (Impulse) Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler, Technicolor Skull

Bill Evans and George Russell, Living Time (Columbia). More of a Russell album than an Evans one and with a pretty impressive orchestra--Tony Williams, Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, etc. Wonder what the suits thought of this?

Just Ike Quebec and Douglas Quin (field recordings).

If you decide yes, a board member has Santa Cruz on offer:

Joe Daley is fantastic. With Rivers, he gets the fullest exposure on the Horo trio dates (he also plays baritone horn) plus the Circle label recordings where he tries to drown out an univited guest. He was also with Howard Johnson's tuba-powered Gravity. A good place to check Daley, Johnson and a whole lot of other tubas is Taj Mahal's The Real Thing (check out the banjo plus tuba on "Tom and Sally Drake").

Thanks for elaborating! I don't really know his playing all that well yet ... any particular recommendations? Time to dig up that last Mobley rekkid again, I think ... what else? Joe's recs of the KD Time & Jaro (did he hit both of those?) & Steve Lacy Candid are spot-on, and for later work, try Super 80 on Nilva. The Mobley album is great, imo, butnot in the manner of GREAT, if you know what I mean, more like, oh look mommy, that man is pissing on the wall, and it's ok baby, that man is a genius who's just had a hard time, but mommy, it' still piss, yes baby, it is, but it is GOD'S piss, gee mommy are you drunk, don't ask baby, lust keep walking, mommy's got to see this man over here, I'll be right back, mommy, are you having a hard time too, yes baby, Mommy's having a hard time, everybody has hard times, and when we do, we piss on walls sometimes sometimes we get out of room. So if you have an aversion to seeing geniuses piss on walls because they're peoples who are out of rooms, hey, this will NOT be the record for you, ok?. Me, I love it for the blood, which is kinda like piss when it comes out like this. You can also get him on a lot of early Ra things, and Elvin's Illumination! the cat was never "high profile" for whatever reasons, but he was there, and he could play. Davis is great with Abdullah Ibrahim's Ekaya band, too.

I saw him with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra a few years back and he was the standout in the band, both for his playing and his arrangements. I would be interested in any recommendations of his work.

Kenny Dorham, Matador (United Artists reissue) John Coltrane, A Love Supreme (UK, mono)

A good time of year to pull out Gary McFarland and Steve Kuhn's The October Suite.