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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?

There is a studio recording by the same trio where they perform "Treffpunkt", one of the 15 pieces that constitute Stockhausen's monumental "Aus den sieben Tagen". Mike Zwerin really has a rather interesting CV.

That concert by the Free Form Improvisation Ensemble has been released under Burton Greene's name.

You can order the label listings alphabetically by "format".

I know it's been reissued by Jazzman Gerald last year, but there seems to be another 2017 reissue on the Gallo label (South Africa). Discogs now lists six (!) different vinyl editions of this album. Which one do you have?

It's not a CD, but the Japanese original on Victor (and not the French budget-pressing on Explosive, as Discogs claims...) is a much nicer issue.

I don't read Japanese either, but I remember reading about this. "Freedom Day" was meant to be the last part of the suite (it's the last track on the Japanese issue); IIRC, according to Max Roach, that song (and the Freedom Now Suite) should have an open ending because freedom has not been achieved yet. Anyway, it's a terrific record.

Although this news doesn't come as a surprise, it's very sad. The first time I saw him perform was at a small club in the early nineties, with Charles Gayle. There was only a handful of people waiting for the concert to begin; I was standing two or three meters away from the drum set. He walked over to the set, took his seat, and then looked at us with a big grin, seemingly not bothered at all by the modest attendance: "Hi, I'm Sunny Murray!". As if we didn't know... I thought: maybe I should say something, tell him how important a musician he was in my opinion, how much I had been enjoying his records. But of course I didn't. Gayle and William Parker came on stage and they immediately started to play. It was a great concert and a wonderful experience to observe the master-drummer from very close. Thank you for the music, Mr. Murray.

Yes, the Ric Colbeck LP is a great one. To be honest: I wouldn't nominate the Jym Young LP, which is neither obscure (fairly easy to find, at least here in Europe) nor musically exceptional. Maybe I was disappointed by the contrast between the promise of the group's name ("San Francisco Avant Garde") and the actual music... It's a decent album, but Dewey Redman's "Look For The Black Star", on which Young also plays, is a much better album and very much harder to find (the original Fontana issue).

This is a very fine album, obviously close in spirit (and sound) to the three Debut releases ("Action", "T.C.J.Q." and "Nu!"). Mid 1960's European avant-garde jazz: how can you possibly go wrong?

Yes, the Charles Tyler live and studio recordings from a couple of years back. But with those releases (even if they were not legitimate) there was no cover-up story about the origin of the recording. While this "Dogtown test pressing" would be a counterfeit and -even more remarkable (and without becoming too metaphysical )- a counterfeit of a record which doesn't even exist.