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More reading, less computing. Keep up with cycling and running (although this polar vortex is not helping). Continue drinking less (that kinda happened a couple years ago and has helped, I think?)

Excellent.

Dan, I did't think you'd want to be further associated with a track you called offensive and rated zero stars! Looking forward to a relaxed January BFT full of Gene Harris, Percy France, and the like. Happy New Years, my friend!

Hat Hut would not have recorded that, but the Festival itself has an archive and it could be there. I *believe* that McPhee got his tapes back from Werner. I don't know whether the Lacy material was returned/sold back to Irène. Extras from Clinkers were issued by Roaratorio (duo with Lacy/McPhee) as an EP titled The Rest.

Okay now lets hope they leave all the catologues alone that they don't own and focus on their own magnificent legacy. There must be great unreleased stuff on the vaults by Joe McPhee, Steve Lacy etc.

the 2LP set with PB is very strong. Also, Children of the Forest is incredible. saw Gayle with Graves, Parker, and Rudd, which was pretty interesting. Baraka read poems as well... one of many Vision Festival highlights over the decades. Judson Church sound wasn't the greatest, but the music itself was deep.

That sounds great Clifford. I saw Gayle once at the Bimhuis with Parker and Rashied Ali. I remember that after 20 minutes or so I came in a trance like state. I am now on the fence for buying the 2 LP set with Brotzmann as well. For now I am enjoying this one

wow, I'm shocked to see that Mr. Joy has never been on CD. Strange! Ballads/Virtuosi were supposed to be packaged as a double LP on ESP; obviously the sound and pressings on those individual albums from ECM and IAI are much better than anything we would have gotten from ESP, but it would still be cool to see what Bernard might have chosen for cover art.

Yeah, that is a fabulous set indeed. Glad you picked one up. I wonder what goodies the Black Editions/Graves archive will uncover in the near future; I have heard that another trio set with Brötzmann is in the offing, and am hopeful that the Graves-Brötzmann duo also gets representation. I saw that duo once, at the Berlin Jazztage (or Berlin Jazz Fest, if you prefer), and would enjoy revisiting that music.

He certainly was. Saw him quite a number of times over the years (as well as William & to a lesser extent, Gayle).

maybe I’ve missed it but I can’t remember anyone mentioning this excellent 3LP set coming from the Milford Graves estate. It’s called WEBO. Highly energetic hypnotizing performance with Milford shining as the absolute star but Gayle and Parker are also excellent and I’m not necessarily a big fan of their playing. I really enjoy this set a lot plus it’s done very nicely with the photographs and beautiful artwork. Sound is top notch: cut by Kevin Gray and pressed by RTI

Charles Gayle / William Parker / Milford Graves - WEBO 3 LP set. Stunning. Milford was a beast.

Just ordered ... https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/books/detail/-/art/100-essential-free-jazz-improvisation-recordings-60-0/hnum/12525045?lang=en

https://www.discogs.com/release/22878047-Julian-Mazzariello-Enzo-Pietropaoli-Easytude-Live/image/SW1hZ2U6NzY1ODU3MDA=

Because my BFT is all predicated on tunes people should know, I'd like to point out that I named track 2 correctly and first, but without any acknowledgement.

Herbie Nichols Trio: Herbie Nichols Trio. Blue Note/King GXK 8121(M) [Japan 1979] Personnel: Herbie Nichols (p), Al McKibbon (b) resp. Teddy Kotick (b), Max Roach (dr)

It is a statue/sculpture. Ordered the book from Forced Exposure for $43 + shipping.

Not to forget his own LPs on Fantasy (notably 3-213 "Modern Music from San Francisco" and 3-225 "Trio"). And actually those and the above two Mode albums come to my mind first when the name of Vince Guaraldi is mentioned. The Peanuts? Not so much ... I watched them on TV as a youngster and read plenty of their cartoon books, but the background music to the TV episodes never did much for me. To me it just tinkled along, and even later I've never felt the urge to revisit them at LP length. Listening in on Youtube to to re-check now hasn't made much of a change either. Unsurprisingly Vince Guaraldi suddenly found himself with Co-leader billing on the cover when the Conte Candoli album on Mode was reissued on the Premier budget label in the 60s. Shades of Peanuts fame to come?

I'm hoping someday Mosaic will release “The Complete Paul Bley GNP/Savoy/ESP/BYG/Fontana/Polydor/IA/Limelight or whatever Recordings 1957-1970.” Not holding my breath, though. For now, I wish at least someone would properly release Fontana's ‘Blood’ and Limelight's “Mr. Joy.”

Vince Guaraldi plays on these 2 albums that I like.

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