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an original pressing that sounds amazing. What a great soundscape. Definitely my favorite of Shepps big band projects. I think quite some of the Afrocentric Freejazz (think of Hannibal for instance) of this decade were spoiled by bad vocalists but the girls (and guy) on this album could sing 👍

Lovely raw and energetic live performance.

Ran across it in a used record store.

Had a long detour into Virginia Woolf, rereading Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway, and I am now back into Russo's Empire Falls, which I expect to wrap up next week. Next books on the horizon are McCullers's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor, and Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow. Oh, and Jane Austen's Persuasion.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/oklahoman/name/hugh-walker-obituary?id=27591505

Not live but part of the current London Jazz Festival, a double bill today at the Barbican: Big Ben, Ben Webster in Europe (1967) and Cecil Taylor a Paris (1968).

Ts-find, I have to say that the 'Authentic Barock Sound' is highly present on the Astree label. I would say this is a recommended label for stuff like this ...

Night cap:

I hope this is still happening, was just thinking of Hugh Walker after a huge Big John listening rehearsal. Perfect drummer, think this dude made total sense in this genre.

November 16 Diana Krall - 1964

Already posted, but this record is blowing my mind...wow!!!

Whoever is conducting this research got to talk to Marvin Cabell, GMIII, wowwww, alright, alright. Like, maybe I'll like it. No chance talking to Hugh Walker? That dude was badass, right up there with Eddie Gladden and Idris Mohamed!

It's a pretty wonderful thesis though, based on the author's own interviews with Patton, Harold Alexander, Marvin Cabell, Leroy Williams, Grachan Moncur III and others and with loads of detail on things that are barely documented otherwise... There's always room for more research...

👍 Found it in the dollar bin. Couldn't believe it! One of the most wicked jazz records of the 70's.

Joachim Kühn - Famous Melodies (Label Bleu)

WOWW!! About Pharoah, he never hid behind Trane, he was always Pharoah, love that about him!

It was Vince Guaraldi and this man that got me hooked on jazz at 8 years old: Love this dude, and my wife loves him too. 👍 I think this is fair to say, given it's just a thesis and not a disseratation. Maybe some more research would benefit us....still interesting though, especially if Big John left the music buisness, just because he didn't like the packaging of his music.

I don't know much about the Black Muslim organization Patton was a part of and the thesis is also not very precise on what exactly offended him... But, in the broader picture, there are Islamic traditions prohibiting pictures of all living things... Even though interacting with living things is completely ok... And practice looks more complex a lot of the time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniconism_in_Islam