All Activity

Unknown to me until reading this thread - I listened to some of the albums mentioned above, and placed an order! Unknown to me until reading this thread - I listened to some of the albums mentioned above, and placed an order!

Very sorry to read this. I've been out of touch for a while, but he was most generous in sharing his knowledge, his photos, and in tracking down many great CDs for me in Paris' well-stocked second hand shops.

Oh no! Thats sad news. RIP Brownie

Oh gosh, sad news. What a man. . . .

I always appreciated brownie's posts. He was such positive presence here.

Brownie was a great man. Back when we did Blindfold Tests with CDRs, he would take on the task of getting the discs to members in countries where US mail might or might not arrived on time (or at all...). He never failed. RIP and thank you for being that kind of a human. Large!

Francisco Mora Catlett “Mora/Mora 2” Far Out cd Mexican-American percussionist from Detroit, a spiritual jazz player who even performed with Sun Ra. Nice material with Kenny Cox on piano.

I'm more inclined to believe Discogs listing of 1968. World Pacific was then part of United Artists, but UA didn't become part of EMI/Capitol until about a decade or more later. All things considered it's a pretty trippy album, and so is the Lewis (thank you Charles Stepney). Good times, albeit quite niche!

He was one of my favorites to see live. I recollect seeing him nine times: Three different versions of Special Edition: one about the time of Inflation Blues (with Marty Ehrlich instead of Chico Freeman), the group on Album Album with David Murray, and twice for the Greg Osby/Gary Thomas edition. As a sideman twice, backing up Keith Jarrett and McCoy Tyner. And finally, three times with Matt Garrison and Ravi Coltrane.

Very saddened to hear this ... and I had no idea he had such an illustrious career with the AP. Guy was a great asset to the board and exceptionally generous as well - a couple of years ago I reached out to him because he had mentioned a rare Harry Edison CD with Curtis Peagler, and I had not had any luck even finding a copy anywhere. I hoped he would favor me with an upload of mp3 tracks and instead he simply shipped his copy to me and didn't even take payment for the mailing cost. RIP.

It was a sad day when he stopped coming here; he was so knowledgeable yet so very polite. As a Mingus fanatic who loves The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, I was amazed to interact with someone who was not only there but photographed the concert.

Man, if the recording dates on Wikipedia are correct, Shank was putting down these tracks before Magical Mystery Tour had even hit the shops in late 1967. I assume he had early access to it, given that World Pacific was part of Capitol? Makes Ramsey Lewis' Mother Nature's Son--Lewis' record of White Album songs that came out several weeks after the White Album itself in late 1968--seem like a slowpoke!

I have quite a few of the Legends of Acid Jazz CDs. The graphics suck, especially if you want to actually read what's written in front of said graphics. For instance, on this CD: This is the back of the booklet: Have fun reading that. I'm spinning this now and it's pretty darn good, crappy graphics and all.

Yeah, he was on the BNBB. Brandon Burke did an interesting interview with him in Wax Poetics. That must’ve been about 20 years ago now.

R.I.P. brownie.

Gosh, he was such a great resource and source of positivity. He will be missed!

Such a great series. Picked up quite a few of them over the years, not sure if I ever landed the Stitt, but yeah, those titles generally go for high prices now. Thanks for reviving this topic, Late!

Oh man, *very* sorry and sad to hear this news. He was on the old Blue Note board as well, correct? Had some very nice exchanges with him over the years, and he was very helpful with a couple of early Night Lights episodes. Thanks for letting us know... he was much-liked around these parts.

I feel ya, but all the better going back home up 3-2 instead of down 3-2. They need to at least tax Yamamoto and get him out of the game relatively early enough to take advantage of L.A.'s bullpen.

Very sad to hear of our friend brownie's passing. He was an invaluable resource for so many of us with this music, not to mention having photographed the new music and musicians in New York and Paris during the 1960s. https://apnews.com/article/guy-kopelowicz-france-obituary-3b0173beacfe8b6c40324ec2a80ffab1 Hopefully he and Marion Brown are sharing some cosmic ice cream.

I saw that band live. Indeed, splendid!

I noticed—while browsing eBay, Amazon, and discogs—that the entire Legends of Acid Jazz series is now pretty scarce. Some discs are going for weirdly high prices. I came to the series many years after its initial run and don't have that many. I'd say you can safely skip that Stitt disc pictured above if you don't like the Varitone. Stitt's solos are excellent, but it's one of the worst Varitone sounds I've heard—the octave doubling isn't there, and it sounds like Sonny has a drawer-full of socks stuffed down the bell of his horn. That said, the music is amazing, and Muhammad just kills on the record. I love that guy's playing. I wish Craft would find a way to re-release their catalog of late 60's-early 70's organ dates.

Nice one. Japanese promo, too.

I especially liked the ECM New Directions albums with Lester Bowie, John Abercrombie, and Eddie Gomez. Doesn't sound like a lineup which should work, but it did, splendidly.

Congrats!