paul secor Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 www.folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/smithsonian-folkways-acquires-arhoolie-records I guess that it was inevitable, given Chris Strachwitz's age, but I'm sorry to see it happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 A very good transition done in a timely manner. Love both of those labels and I hope the sharing continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 I met Chris once a few years ago and IIRC he was planning something like this. He was worried about what would happen after he died. Glad he got his wish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Does anyone know the source behind the small clutch of Bay Area jazz records that Arhoolie released? While excellent, they always seemed like catalog outlier to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Those records never seemed like Chris Strachwitz's thing. Perhaps they resulted from someone connected with him. There are at least three Sonny Simmons Arhoolie records, so there evidently was a connection there with someone at Arhoolie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 Makes sense. The avant-garde titles consisted of one Simmons, one Smiley Winters 2LP, one Lee Cronbach (Luna), one Jerry Hahn, and Now! which was a small orchestra directed by pianist/percussionist and arranger David Young. I'm glad these albums exist, because I get the feeling that if Arhoolie hadn't documented them, nobody would have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 I always just assumed that they were a case of local hustlers mutually hustling each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 2 hours ago, JSngry said: I always just assumed that they were a case of local hustlers mutually hustling each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted May 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 13 hours ago, clifford_thornton said: Makes sense. The avant-garde titles consisted of one Simmons, one Smiley Winters 2LP, one Lee Cronbach (Luna), one Jerry Hahn, and Now! which was a small orchestra directed by pianist/percussionist and arranger David Young. I'm glad these albums exist, because I get the feeling that if Arhoolie hadn't documented them, nobody would have. There are actually two other Sonny Simmons Arhoolies, though both are on CD - Live in Paris (recording isn't great, but Simmons is on fire) and Reincarnation (1991 recordings with Barbara Donald). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 Ah, I wasn't thinking of the archival stuff. Right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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