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A sweet spot.

The sons Djinji Brown and Ruomi Lee-Hampel would have to work together ...

It was a school, or a clinic really. So Giuffre & Cherry could well have played together, even though not on the concert that was recorded. Original LP: https://www.discogs.com/release/4368556-Various-Ornette-59-Lenox-School-Of-Jaz https://www.discogs.com/release/10340832-Various-Lenox-School-Of-Jazz

Mystery takes longer than familiarity because you're not yet sure about exactly where you are and what that is. Same thing with driving.

I bought the Royal Jazz bootleg CD reissue of this concert recently, so many of the musicians are unidentified. It is obviously dubbed from an LP as the audio clicks are audible.

These two and Number of the Beast are a perfect trifecta. Nothing after was quite the same, IMO.

This looks wonderful. I'd love to do that hike - how long was it?

Tiff Rodney - On The Rough Side!!!

Yes, that performance is awesome -- a real classic. I saw him read as part of Equal Interest in at least one Vision Festival, IIRC.

For those of us who have hit, say, age 50 or older: Have you ever in recent years put on an album that you had from your childhood or youth, and were amazed at how quickly the thing flew by? The tempos, and the length of tunes? As a kid, I would listen to Beach Boys and Beatles US LPs, and I would totally get lost inside them. All of these albums clock it an under 30 minutes. Some of those Beatles sides are as short as 12 or 13 minutes. I very rarely listen to rock/pop from my youth, but one Friday night a few years ago, I put on side 1 the US Rubber Soul - in mono, of course - went to kitchen to mix a few cocktails, and by the time they were ready and I brought them out into the family room, it was time to flip the record. Bernard Herrmann's late-career recordings of his earlier scores have been criticized for their sluggish tempos. I wonder if he was experiencing the phenomenon I am talking about. Anyone experience this?

Having read Joseph Jarman's book published by Blank Forms, I should have mentioned him... Going to see Joe McPhee in a spoken word concert this weekend, but don't know what is on the program.

Now all that's left is the imitators. Sad news. RIP, and thank you for always knowing the words to the love songs.

Very sad to hear. He played on so many records that it seems like I hear about a new one every day. His TV show had some great people on it. I still have a video tape of him and Phil Woods playing Willow Weep For Me on it. He certainly got a lot of use out of the pentatonic scale. My friend Lenny Sciniscgalli worked with him a lot in the NY studios, and loved him, so he probably was aware of him on a deeper level than I was on. RIP

Sanborn playing Ornette's Ramblin' Man could play anything.

👌👍 ....

Eddie Daniels & Roger Kellaway Live at the Library of Congress

Personally I could never get that into them, but the Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) albums certainly fit the bill. Forgot to mention these upthread: https://www.discogs.com/release/4059278-Nation-Afrikan-Liberation-Art-Ensemble-Featuring-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Don-L-Lee-Rise-Vision-Comin https://www.discogs.com/release/1274063-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Nation-Medasi I thought Rise Vision Comin was the better of the two. Ended up trading them years ago, alas. Joe McPhee's poetry is awesome. I will have to pick up a copy of that CD.

I've heard a few live clips of the Brown-Hampel group not otherwise released, and it would be nice if more could be publicly available. Hopefully that happens.

Faith Ringgold died in April, so that's probably why they chose to use the image. It's quite something.

That's too bad. He could certainly play, though the contexts weren't always my personal bag.

This is sad. I liked a lot of what he did. His work with Bowie sent me to 'Hideaway' which was possibly my first Jazz (some may say not) album. 'Another Hand' was a stand out for me but there was good to be heard in lots of what he did. Fond memories of seeing him live in a rammed venue in 90s. I bought his last but one release 'Time And The River' after someone posted it here, it's good

This was the first complete Nielsen symphony cycle, if I recall correctly (at least outside of Denmark), and is still very highly regarded from what I've heard and read. I currently have 4 complete Nielsen symphony cycles in my collection, including this one. At its current low price in this Alto release, I figured it was worth picking up.

He was a friend at the University of Iowa - Dale Oehler convinced him to transfer from Northwestern and join the scene in Iowa City. That scene included JR Monterose, John Wilmeth, Rusty Jones and Al Jarreau.