B. Clugston

Ones that come to mind: Anthony Braxton/The Berlin/Montreux Concerts (and pretty much any of the other quartet-dominated albums) Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble/Live at the Berliner Jazztage Woody Shaw/The Song of Songs Miles Davis/Pangaea Sam Rivers/Trio Live Perugia Herbie Hancock/Mwandishi Ganelin/Tarasov/Chekasin/Catalogue: Live in East Berlin Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Willem Breuker/Live in Berlin Honourable mentions: Clifford Thornton/The Panther and the Lash Roscoe Mitchell/Duets with Anthony Braxton Dave Holland/The Conference of the Birds Stuff recorded in the 1970s, but released later: Anthony Braxton/Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978 Brotherhood of Breath/Bremen to Bridgewater Miles Davis/Complete Live-Evil

George Duke went on to play with Miles Davis a couple of times in the mid-1980s, including some of the Warners sessions plus a Montreux cameo. Wrong decade to meet.

There's Hancock's pre-Head Hunters sextet. Early Weather Report.

More different. For all the funk, blues and r & b references, Miles’ 1973-1975 bands were darker and more subversive, peppered with silence and avant noise experiments. Sly Stone and the James Brown weren’t the only points of reference; throw in Stockhausen as well. By contrast, Ornette of this period sounded like a sunnier, electrified version of himself. His music was much more straightforward than Miles’. There were superficial similarities in instrumentation with twinned guitars and two percussionists (the latter post-Body Meta in Coleman’s case). Also, Reggie Lucas briefly studied with Ornette before Dancing in Your Head.

The Taylor concert showed up on three Jazz View discs taken from scratchy LPs. Great music though, especially the interplay between Taylor and Cyrille.

The other challenge with Ayler recordings is several have been reissued under different names (ie. Witches & Devils vs. Spirits; Ghosts vs. Vibrations).

So we will get the Juan-Les-Pins set--but with muthafucka overdubs from some rapper and a new drum track from Vince. And for the next person who asks "Who's Vince?", my answer is "Exactly."

Vince is Miles Davis' high maintenace nephew, who calls many of the shots with the estate.

Ask Vince. Obvious candidates are the two Juan-Les-Pins concerts from 1969 and proper reissues of Agharta and Pangaea. Sony/Columbia has a lot of live stuff in the can from Corea/Holland-era quintet.

Monk's Music, Thelonious in Action, the Prestige set, Big Band and Quartet, At the Blackhawk... Get shopping!

A DVD and a CD of that name have been making the rounds for a while. Track listings are "Hannibal," "Code M.D.," "Jean Pierre," "Time After Time," and "Call It Anything." I wonder if the latter track is a rip from the Isle of Wight footage. Caveat emptor.

Thanks for posting, Late. There ain't much information in English on the 'net about Abe. I've heard Mass Projection and Gradually Projection. The former is an unyielding onslaught of noise, but the latter is quiet, abstract, almost gentle. It would make quite the blindfold test stumper. I had no idea this type of music was happening in Japan at the time. Abe and Takayanagi deserve to be better known. I've also heard a couple of the collaborations with Derek Bailey. The best features Abe, Toshinori Kondo, Bailey and the fantastic bassist Motoharu Yoshizawa on Aida's Call. A sample of Abe playing solo was recently posted at www.destination-out.com. I'd like to delve into more of Abe's work.

My favourite version is the Ornette/Izenson/Haden/Blackwell quartet version from 1968 in Rome. Really enjoy the Naked City cover as well.

A Blockbuster in my part of the world until quite recently had stickers on DVD boxes asking people to rewind!

I'm really looking forward to this. Just finished the finale to season 2.5 and I agree it's a great show (though there was a run of stinkers between the Pegasus episode and the final three episodes). Great acting and a more deliberate slower pace than most sci-fi. I've actually been on the bridge of the Galactica. My wife worked on the pilot.

It's an orange Hatology CD, abbreviated from the original 2-LP set.

N.Y Capers & Quirks is another great set. That one doesn't really get its due. The original double album was Capers (later New York Capers), also had "The Crunch," "We Don't" I & II and another take of "Bud's Brother." Tape issues apparently prevented these tracks from being reissued.

Season 3 is much better, and season 4 is the best! I agree about season 3 -- I've seen 5 episodes so far, and it has much more depth than most of the earlier episodes. Guy This series really started to hit its stride in Season 3.

Vespers does indeed show Aebi well. I like how she always fits into Lacy's various groups and never dominates proceedings. If I were to try and win someone over on Lacy, Morning Joy would be my pick.

I have Dreams on vinyl. Good set featuring Derek Bailey as well as Potts and Lacy. I passed on Scratching the Seventies--some of the earlier stuff just didn't grab me--but it's a good set for those who like Lacy of this vintage. I love the Lacy-Potts front line. Aebi will be off-putting to some. Her vocals come from a different tradition. I happen to like her singing. Hey Swinger, sounds like you could probably get it for a good price from akanalog!

I'll deliver an answer @ 5:00 PM CPT. Jim, I didn't know Hockey Night in Canada started that early! It always came on at 6:00 MST when I was growing up! Cheers, Shane

A Slight Case of Overbombing by The Sisters of Mercy It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest by The Fugs

Last night I saw Billy Bragg in Vancouver. He played solo (on a Fender), except for a brief encore with a fiddler. Good show.

I never knew about the provenance of that song. Seems Mr. Page has a propensity for lifting other folks' tunes. http://www.furious.com/PERFECT/jimmypage.html

http://www.espdisk.com/esp4028.html ESP has released a Frank Wright live concert with the Center of the World Quartet (Bobby Few, Alan Silva, Muhammad Ali). It's called Unity and it's a concert recording from June 1, 1974 at the Moers Festival. This was a great group and I'm looking forward to hearing this.