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You can even watch the concert on YouTube! Cherry's playing with the Bitter Funeral Band was wonderful. The studio album (released under Bengt Berger's name) is also very, very fine.

That resembles the good old "Any three year old with a brush could paint this" argument against abstract art, doesn't it?

I didn't know about the concert in the nude, but I'm not surprised. In parallel to his "straight" classical career, Gulda was really into experimental and free music in the 1970's. Gulda fans with adventurous tastes should check his recordings with the wonderful Anima. Here's a picture of the back cover of the first LP, with Gulda proudly signing the declaration that all the music is totally improvised. That's a pretty long way from your ordinary Beethoven recital.

Splendid choice. One of those gorgeous hand-painted covers?

Nah, here's the cover of another French issue (7" ep):

It's very similar to the cover of Ray Charles's "Yes Indeed!" album, isn't it?

That's my understanding too. The Seeds label original (with a slightly different cover design) is quite rare. I guess there were more records pressed than covers made, because you can find (vintage) copies with a Seeds label in an Earthforms cover. Discogs now lists 2018 "exact repro editions" of the Earthforms ànd the Seeds issue, both supposedly limited to 300 copies. The rather strange world of bootlegging... Anyway, it's a beautiful album.

I beg to differ. For me, none of their ECM's comes even close to their 60's work. Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy vs "Numbers1 & 2"? "The Third Decade" vs "People In Sorrow"? Not in the same league, really. That said, I understand the excitement. The box includes a lot of very good to excellent music and seems great value. But I would love to see the same deluxe box treatment for their complete 1969-1971 European recordings.

I'm pretty sure the bassist on "Whirling Dervish" is indeed Kent Carter. I love Anima. Not only the music, but the whole "concept". Limpe Fuchs is in her late 70's now, but still going strong.

OK, I'll go for a full ID on track #6 then: Ted Nash's "Sidewalk Meeting", with the spectacular trombone of Wycliffe Gordon. Nicely done, reminds me a bit of that Louis Armstrong tribute by Thomas Heberer and Dieter Manderscheid.

I think the guitarist-leader on the track with Frisell (#13) is Jim Hall. I know they have recorded together a couple of times.

Congratulations. But the hunt goes on for an affordable copy of the Pathé original . Discogs lists an incredible total of 10 (ten!) pressing variations of the Nessa. I wonder if this was such a big seller.

There are a couple of Art Ensemble sessions for the America label that were reissued on Prestige. Actually, "America" was the jazz label of the French Musidisc company (distributor of Fantasy/Prestige in France), so it would have been more like a two way traffic in the 1970's.

Intrigued by this post, I spent a small fortune (for a CD, that is) and bought a copy. It sounds awesome, so thank you for pointing me there. Quite coincidentally, the next CD I played (another recent purchase: the 2017 Emanem reissue of Spontaneous Music Ensemble's "Karyobin") was also a revelation, soundwise. Although completely different (Karyobin is not a flat transfer, but a remix and remastering from the original tapes), both CD's put to shame 99 out of 100 CD reissues I ever heard.

Other members did the hard work for me, but track 4 is "Lifetime" from Randy Weston's "With These Hands" album with Cecil Payne. Nice track. As for track 2, the Dylan clue made it very easy to identify Michael Moore's Jewels and Binoculars trio (with Lindsay Horner and Michael Vatcher). That was a full-time Dylan cover band (and a very good one too). I listened to track 3 for Kenny Wheeler, but would have like it a lot more without the guitar and the organ. Google helped me out here: it's "Speak Easy" from John Abercrombie's "Open Land" album.

My copy of the reissue has also arrived. It seems they made only 150 copies of this one (it's numbered). It's a pity, really; because this music deserves a new and wider audience. I haven't found time yet to compare the sound with the original (kickstarter updates mentioned problems with test pressings), but the looks and the feel of this reissue are okay.

For me, it didn't work. This kind of fusion project (backed by a big budget festival) is rarely, if ever, more than the sum of its parts, particularly on record. But I'm probably biased and I'd also like to hear Paul's opinion. Anyway, it might be useful to know that the original LP is still available (Cam Jazz).

I always wondered if the man pictured isn't Francis Haynes. That would be kinda funny for an album called "Beaver is my name".

Give me this kind of thing any day. Above almost any other kind of thing. His Savoy album ("The Marzette Watts Ensemble") is equally great, but unfortunately very hard to find and still not reissued. How about a deluxe Now-Again-Reserve edition with an extra LP of unreleased music, Clifford?

"Now tell you what I want you to do Now when I say hit it I want you to hit it You hear me, Jabo But when I say quit it I want you to quit it You ready, hit it, hit it Quit it Well, it looks like you Got a bad night tonight But you gonna be mellow I know you're all right Have another, nah, be cool All right, you ready Now hit it, come on Quit it Bud got tired and quit on us All right, you still got the groove You still got the groove Bring it up, bring it up, come on Bring it up, bring it up now Bring it up Antoinette Can you cut the thing down Fade me on outta here Cause I got to leave anyway Fade it on out, I'm gone" James Brown "Get It Together" (1968)

OK, I should have recognized track 4 immediately... It's Mulatu Astatke! "Tezetaye Anchi Lidge" from his wonderful "Ethio Jazz" album. Top choice! Sound quality seems very fine. Is this a CD reissue?

I really like track 4 (too bad about the fade-out). Is it Ethiopian by any chance? It could also be a track from one of Jazzman's "Spiritual Jazz" compilations. Track 5: those are Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Chili Dogs". Here's a link to an entertaining live version of this track ("Echoes Of Primitive Ohio And Chili Dogs"): https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/05/rahsaan-roland-kirk-and-the-vibration-society-echoes-of-primitive-ohio-and-chili-dogs.html

I think track 2 is Spencer Barefield's "Escape From Bizarro World" from this album:

More trivia: the Stockhausen piece that I mentioned in my earlier post ("Treffpunkt" or "Meeting Point") is also on the live album, but this time credited to Mike Zwerin.

Yes, that box sure looks tempting, especially if those unreleased recordings would be closer to Pärson Sound's more "outside" stuff. Are they?