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New World is releasing a “definitive” CD reissue of Dogon A.D. https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/julius-hemphill-dogon-ad I will pick a copy up, but anyone would be hard-pressed to best the 2011 International Phonograph edition in my book.

Been mentioned many times, but as always I would love an official release of the 1966 Newport set. I would wonder if there’s a better source hiding somewhere, but the circulating version is really not too shabby and could surely be improved.

RIP. He had the uneviable position of following Jimmy Lyons in Cecil’s group, and I struggle with those albums most in his discography, but never stop coming back to them, I think to find what Ward sought to find in the music. And he had an incredible body of work outside.

An extraordinary pianist and musical thinker, “The Code” — an essential link in the continuity of jazz music throughout the 1970s, and of course beyond, a deep creator across many decades. If you haven’t heard the 2021 5xCD box set entitled Empathy you should seek it out. In addition to a (I believe) final duo with Dave Liebman, it includes a bevy of other music, including a solo piano disc, imparting his great range.

Fantastic, thanks!

I added this list to Discogs for easier consumption: https://www.discogs.com/lists/NOW-JAZZ-NOW-Addendum-Global-Free-Jazz-Free-Improvisation-1981-2001/1663074 & that certainly wasn't me grabbing that LP! if only!

Well it just so happens that I felt inspired to put together a list of what the next 20 years could look like. I tried to keep with the spirit of the original list, and used only vinyl or cassette releases that came out between 1981-2001: Brötzman/Miller/Moholo Opened … But Hardly Touched FMP 1981 Wally Shoup & Ross Rabin Scree-Run Waltz Too Sound 1981 Tristan Honsinger/Steve Beresford/Toshinori Kondo/David Toop Imitation of Life Y 1981 Glenn Spearman Night After Night Musa-Physics 1981 Billy Bang Changing Seasons Bellows 1981 Keizo Inoue In Moers '81 Trio 1981 Christoph Anders/Heiner Goebbels/Alfred Harth/Paul Lovens/Rolf Riehm/Annemarie Roelofs Es Herrscht Uhu Im Land Japo 1981 Pierre Favre/Léon Francoli/Michel Portal Arrivederci Le Chouartse Hat Hut 1981 Horace Tapscott Sextet Dial 'B' For Barbara Nimbus West 1981 Donald Ayler In Florence 1981 Vol. 1/Vol. 2/Vol. 3 Frame 1981 Richard Dunbar Clear-Eyed Vision Jahari 1981 Toyozumi Unit The Masterpiece Alm-Uranoia 1981 Burton Greene & Alan Silva The Ongoing Strings Hat Hut 1981 Joe McPhee Oleo Hat MUSICS 1982 Paul Flaherty/Froc Flipetti/Bill Wallach Trinity Symphony - 1982 Han Bennink Tempo Comodo Data 1982 Alan Silva Celestrial Communications Orchestra Desert Mirage IACP 1982 Bill Dixon November 1981 Soul Note 1982 Anthony Braxton & Richard Tietlbaum Open Aspects '82 Hat Art 1982 Akira Sakata Trio Dance Enja 1982 Air 80° Below 82 Antilles 1982 Steve Lacy Feat. Bobby Few & Denis Charles The Flame Soul Note 1982 Jemeel Moondoc Quartet Muntu The Athens Concert Praxis 1982 Doug Hammond Spaces Idbib 1982 SME + SMO In Concert Sweet Folk and Country 1982 Bert Wilson & Rebirth Kaleidoscopic Visions Au Roar 1982 Charles Tyler Quartet Definite Volume 1 Storyville 1982 John Carter Octet Dauwhe Black Saint 1982 Günter Christmann/Torsten Muller/LaDonna Smith/Davey Williams White Earth Streak Trans Museq 1983 Globe Unity Orchestra Intergalactic Blow Japo 1983 Peter Kowald/Wadada Leo Smith/Günter Sommer If You Want The Kernels You Have To Break The Shells FMP 1983 Improvisational Arts Quintet No Compromise! New New Orleans Music Prescription 1983 Barbara Donald & Unity The Past and Tomorrows Cadence 1983 Cecil Taylor Unit Nicaragua: No Parasan - Willisau 83 Live Nica 1983 Masahiko Togashi/Lauren Newton/Peter Kowald Contrast Paddle Wheel 1983 Jack Wright & Marv Frank Free Life, Singing Spring Garden Music 1983 Jon Rose/Luc Houtkamp/Leo Cuypers/Jan den Boer Dutch Trumpet Music Fringe Benefit Records 1983 Paul Rutherford Trio Bracknell '83 Ogun 1983 Peter Kowald/Maarten Altena Two Making A Triangle FMP 1983 Gunter Hampel All Stars Jubilation Birth 1983 London Jazz Composers Orchestra Stringer FMP 1983 Marion Brown 79118 Live DIW 1983 Hal Russell/Mars Williams Eftsoons Nessa 1984 Freestyle Band Freestyle Band Adeyeme Productions Unlimited 1984 Sun Ra Arkestra Nuclear War Y 1984 XPact Frogman's View Uhlkang 1984 Joel Futterman/Jimmy Lyons/Richard Davis/Robert Adkins Inneraction JDF Music 1984 William Hooker Brighter Lights Reality Concept Units 1984 Keshavan Maslak with Charles Moffett Blaster Master Black Saint 1984 Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett Bergisch-Brandenburgisches Quartett AMIGA 1984 Jackson Krall & The Secret Music Society Untitled Stork Music 1984 Rich Corpolongo & Joe Daley Sonic Blast Coda 1984 Detail Okhela « To Make A Fire » Affinity 1984 ICP Orchestra Extension Red White & Blue Instant Composer's Pool 1984 Gianluigi Trovesi & Andrea Centazzo Shock!! Ictus 1984 Marilyn Crispell Live In Berlin Black Saint 1984 Phil Wachsmann Writing In Water Bead 1985 Danny Davis Atmosphere Fool 1985 Eddie Prévost Quartet Continuum Matchless 1985 Takehisa Kosugi/Takahisa Kazamaki 円盤 (Live At The すとれんじ ふるぅっ) Fool 1985 Volapyk Volapyk Dragon 1985 Evan Parker/George Lewis/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton Hook, Drift, and Shuffle Incus 1985 Griot Galaxy Opus Krampus Sound Aspects 1985 Tristan Honsinger Picnic Data 1985 Marco Eneidi/William Parker/Denis Charles Vermont Spring 1986 Boticelli 1986 Evan Parker The Snake Decides Incus 1986 Ganelin Trio Ttaango... In Nickelsdorf Leo 1986 David Murray Recording NYC, 1986 DIW 1986 The Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble Get Down! Shove It! It's Tango Time! Shih Shih Wu Ai 1986 Butch Morris Current Trends In Racism In Modern America (A Work In Progress) Sound Aspects 1986 JoJo Takayanagi & John Zorn Experimental Performance With John Zorn Mobys Record 1986 Company Trios Incus 1986 Akemi Kuniyoshi-Kuhn/Marcio Mattos/Eddie Prévost Handscapes Leo 1986 The Blue Notes Blue Notes For Johnny Ogun 1987 Masayuki Takayanagi Action Direct Alm-Uranoia 1987 Roscoe Mitchell Quartet The Flow of Things Black Saint 1987 Quintet Moderne Ikkunan Takana = Behind The Window Bead 1987 Russell/Durrant/Butcher Conceits Acta 1987 Other Dimensions In Music Other Dimensions In Music Silkheart 1987 Borbetomagus & Voice Crack Fish That Sparkling Bubble Agaric/Uhlkang Produktion 1988 David S. Ware Passage To Music Silkheart 1988 Irène Schweizer/Maggie Nichols/George Lewis/Joëlle Léandre/Günter Sommer The Storming of the Winter Palace Intakt 1988 Jerome Cooper Quintet Outer and Interactions About Time 1988 Phil Minton The Berlin Station FMP 1988 Charles Gayle Trio Homeless Silkheart 1989 Johannes Bauer/Annick Nozati/Fred Van Hove Johannes Bauer Annick Nozati Fred Van Hove AMIGA 1989 Daunik Lazro/Lê Quan Ninh/Michel Doneda Concert Public VanD'Oeuvre 1989 Various Sounds - Contemporary Swedish Improvised Music Blue Tower 1990 Floros Floridis/Vincent Chancey/Peter Kowald/Louis Moholo Human Aspect Om 1990 Sonny Simmons Global Jungle - 1990 Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra ECM 1990 Gush & Sven-Åke Johansson Tjo Och Tjim Dragon 1990 Schlippenbach Quartett Das Hoe Lied Po Torch 1991 Peter Brötzmann/Shoji Hano Funny Rat EGG 1992 Hession/Wilkinson/Fell Foom! Foom! Bruce's Fingers 1992 Bill Cole/Warren Smith/Joe Daley Untempered Trio Shadrack 1992 In Actu Music & Painting Po Torch 1993 Matthew Shipp Duo with William Parker "Summertime" Yak'u'za 1995 TEST Ahead! Jazz Ramwong 1998 Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble Plays The African Love Call Esoteric Yod 2001

Still plan to pick up a copy of the book, but here's a list of the recordings therein. More surprises than I might have thought, especially near the end-- love seeing the Schweizer/Carl/Moholo, Gunter Christmann and LaDonna Smith/Davey Williams records on there, and Nuba is an inspired choice. A couple titles I wasn't familiar with either, like the Gaslini and Percussive Unity albums. Only occasionally would I say their fetishism gets the best of them-- Akisakila is great, but at least in my book it's hard to argue that it compares in stature to records like Salty Swift, Brewing Luminous, and the Fondation Maeght or New World recordings (much less the Blue Notes, but I dig that those are well-trodden). Similarly like the Marion Brown LP but find albums like Porto Novo, Gesprächsfetzen, and In Sommerhausen to be superior, and the Ware LP on Palm, while nice, is not a patch on the Hat Hut album from the period. And there are a lot more Lacy recordings that seem to fit the mold of this project better than the ESP, but ultimately these are all personal quibbles. I look forward to reading this. It would be a blessing if this book spurred on some reissues of titles like Origination, The Third World, Alabama Feeling, The Sun is Coming Up, and Orangatang! and I hope that it inspires some newer listeners to look beyond the currently dominant "Spiritual" canon. I have 68 of the 109 recordings mentioned filed, and several more that I sold off over the years. I was hoping that number would be higher, so I've got some work to do! Mary Lou Williams Signs of the Zodiac Vol. I Mary Lou Williams Signs of the Zodiac Vol. II Stan Kenton City of Glass Charles Mingus & Spaulding Givens Strings & Keys Lennie Tristano Classics In Jazz: The Capitol Session Le Sun-Ra and His Arkistra "Saturn"/"Call For All Demons" Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity Eric Dolphy & Ron Carter Esoteric Sound Studios Acetate Ornette Coleman Double Quartet Free Jazz Jimmy Giufffre Free Fall Giorgio Gaslini Oltre Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons/Clifford Jordan/Don Cherry It Is Revealed Tom Prehn Qvartet Axiom Sonny Rollins Our Man In Jazz New York Contemporary Five Recorded 'Live' At Jazzhus Montmartre Vol. 1 New York Contemporary Five Recorded 'Live' At Jazzhus Montmartre Vol. 2 Bengt Nordstrom Natural Music Paul Bley Quintet Barrage The Contemporary Jazz Quintet Action Sunny Murray Sonny's Time Now New York Art Quartet New York Art Quartet François Tusques Free Jazz John Coltrane Meditations Sun Ra and His Myth Arkestra When Angels Speak of Love Roscoe Mitchell Sound Don Pullen & Milford Graves In Concert At Yale University Hugh Steinmetz Nu! Patty Waters College Tour Barney Wilen Zodiac Don Cherry Where Is Brooklyn? Gato Barbieri In Search of the Mystery Steve Lacy The Forest and the Zoo Alexander Von Schlippenbach Globe Unity Charles Tyler Eastern Man Alone Clifford Thornton New Art Ensemble Freedom & Unity Han Bennink & Willem Breuker New Acoustic Swing Duo Lester Bowie Numbers 1 & 2 Peter Brötzmann Octet Machine Gun The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra Han Bennink/Misha Mengelberg/John Tchicai Instant Composer's Pool Spontaneous Music Ensemble Karyobin Marzette Watts The Marzette Watts Ensemble Black Unity Trio Al-Fatihah Marion Brown Le Temps Fou Dave Burrell Echo Togashi Masahiko Quartet We Now Create: Music For Strings, Winds, and Percussions Joe McPhee Quartet Underground Railroad Michel Portal Our Meanings and Our Feelings Sonny Sharrock Black Woman Archie Shepp Blasé Alan Shorter Orgasm Horace Tapscott Quintet The Giant Is Awakened John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica Afrodisiaca Yosuke Yamashita Trio Dancing GL Unit Orangatang! Jimmy Lyons Other Afternoons Friendship Next of Kin Facets of the Universe Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble Heliopolis Ric Colbeck Quartet The Sun Is Coming Up Full Moon Ensemble Crowded With Loneliness Jan Garbarek Quartet Afric Pepperbird Masayuki Takayanagi/Kaoru Abe 解体的交感 Kaitai Teki Kōkan Tony Oxley 4 Compositions For Sextet Evan Parker/Derek Bailey/Han Bennink Topography of the Lungs Mario Schiano Trio If Not Ecstatic We Refund Edward Vesala Trio Nana Abdul Hannan The Third World Art Ensemble of Chicago Phase One Anthony Braxton For Alto Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communications Orchestra Seasons Masahiko Togashi & Mototeru Takagi Isolation Masahiko Sato Trio In Berlin - Penetration London Jazz Composer's Orchestra Ode Julius Hemphill Dogon A.D. Noah Howard The Black Ark The J.R. Mitchell/Byard Lancaster Experience Live At Manchester College Evan Parker & Paul Lytton Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) Peter Kowald Quintet Peter Kowald Quintet Kaoru Abe 1972 Winter Frank Wright Quartet Church Number Nine Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe Duo Exchange Black Artists Group In Paris, Aries 1973 Rudiger Carl King Alcohol (New Version) Emergency Homage To Peace Dewey Redman The Ear of the Behearer Ray Russell Secret Asylum Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio Pakistani Pomade Cecil Taylor Unit Akisakila The Phil Musra Group Creator Spaces Howard Riley Synopsis Jeanne Lee Conspiracy Mount Everest Trio Waves For Albert Ayler Toshiyuki Tsuchitori & Mototeru Takagi Origination Schweizer/Carl/Moholo Messer Milford Graves Babi Ensemble Muntu First Feeding Percussive Unity Only Change Is Unchanging - Percussive Unity Live Arthur Doyle Plus 4 Alabama Feeling Louis Moholo Octet Spirits Rejoice! David S. Ware From Silence To Music Polly Bradfield Solo Violin Improvisations Andrew Cyrille/Jeanne Lee/Jimmy Lyons Nuba Feminist Improvising Group Feminist Improvising Group Borbetomagus Borbetomagus Lokomotiv Konkret Lokomotiv Konkret LaDonna Smith & Davey Williams Direct Waves Vario II Vario II John Zorn Pool

1. Columbia Small Group Swing Sessions 1953-62 8xCD Excellent shape $90 shipped 2. Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 10xCD Box and booklet are in excellent shape. This is a promo copy with the discs as gold-backed CD-Rs in slim cases. They all play flawlessly on my system $65 shipped

Any new Ayler on disc is worth it even if it means buying the (fantastic) Newport set for the third time!

Caught this in Squidco's Upcoming section. No other information online, but looks to me like a new WXU venture in this vein: Mike Westbrook: The Piano In The Room And The Blues ALAY (thingamajig 2503) Louis Armstrong Hot Five & Hot Seven: At 100 ALAY (thingamajig 2-2502) Albert Ayler Quintet: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release ALAY (thingamajig 2501)

Fundacja Sluchaj! will be releasing the 2016 Whitney Open Plan performance with Harri Sjostrom, Tony Oxley, Jackson Krall, and Okkyung Lee

These were my favorites of the year: *Sven-Åke Johansson - Stumps (Second Version) (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson/Fritz Hautzinger/Ignaz Schick - Rotations (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson - Two Days At Café Oto (Otoroku) [Ahmed] - سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot (De Platenbakkerij/ICP) Bill Nace & Sakina Abdou - Rinse Cycle (Open Mouth) Bill Stewart - Live At The Village Vanguard (Criss Cross) Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust (Relative Pitch) Chris Byars - The Dark Forest (Steeplechase) Das B - Love (Thanatosis/Corbett vs. Dempsey) Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake - More Than Anything (Random Acoustics) Jean-Luc Guionnet - L'Epaisseur de l'air Live (Potlatch) Joe McPhee/Susanna Gartmayer/John Edwards/Mariá Portugal - Monster (Klanggalerie) Julius Hemphill Stringtet - Plays The Music of Julius Hemphill (Out Of Your Head) Martín Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Teté Leguía - This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) Myra Melford Trio - Splash (Intakt) Pat Thomas - Sufi Women (Scatter Archive) Sophie Agnel - Learning (Otoroku) Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) *Various - The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1996-2005) *Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink - Irene's Hot Four (Intakt, 1981) *Rashied Ali Quintet - Sidewalks In Motion (Survival, 2002) AMM w/ Sachiko M - Testing (Matchless, 2004) Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley - Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance, 1988) Joe Maneri/Tyson Rogers/Jacob Braverman - In The Shadows, First Visit (ezz-thetics, 2002) Khan Jamal - Give The Vibes Some (Souffle Continu, 1974) Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo - Live In Foggia 1985 (Ogun, 1985) Marco Eneidi Quintet - Wheat Fields of Kleylhof (Balance Point Acoustics, 2004) Mujician - In Concerts (Jazz In Britain, 1993-2010) Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Vibrations in the Village: Live at Village Gate (Resonance, 1963) Sun Ra - Uncharted Passages (Modern Harmonic, 1977-79) Webster Young - A Quiet Legend: Live In St. Louis 1961 (Fresh Sound, 1961)

Haven't heard it in just about a couple decades, I would gladly grab a copy next time I see it around. But I too remember having mixed feelings.

I have all the discs but would love to be able to secure a box and book for them in this lifetime.

This has been re-pressed for anyone who slept on it the first time

I have a handful of his CDs since they turn up so often in the dollar bins, and I've enjoyed them all. But I would give this one the nudge. Arguably slightly dated by now, but it's intense, highly personal, and passionate modern jazz.

Have them all, but some of my very favorite Lacys are here, in fact maybe almost all of them! The Door, Cliches, The Rent, Blinks, Sorite/Disposibility, The Way, Beat Suite, Evidence .... doesn't get much better.

I stand corrected! I had this confused for the Train Wreck session, definitely do not have a copy.

I'll have to pull my cdr of that session out. In my recollection, it's neither as bad as Cuscuna made it out to be, nor necessarily as good as what did come out around that time.

The Bill Barron is a no-brainer Warne Marsh - anything! private tapes, full session recordings, unreleased live recordings. I'm sure there's an angle here in the vein of the recent Tristano set New Orleans Modern Jazz - something along the lines of a full reissue of the 1976 Opus box set New Orleans Heritage - Jazz: 1956-1966 (which features Ellis Marsalis/American Jazz Quintette recordings along with some others) expanded with contemporaneous and relevant music. This is maybe a little outside the scope of what Mosaic does, but I think there's some great potential Always thought Mosaic could do something more with some of the newer BN material a la the Don Pullen and Tony Williams Selects. I think a box of Jason Moran's BN sessions would be great. In that vein a box of Geri Allen's Minor Music dates, possibly incorporating the Somethin' Else/BN material as well, would be really strong.

One I just heard of recently and really enjoyed is Harry Allen’s Christmas In Swingtime from 2001. With Jake Hanna, Peter Bernstein, and Larry Goldings on organ. A hip and swinging group playing the classics in a succinct, tasteful way.

here are my favorite new & archival releases of the year for anyone interested: *Sven-Åke Johansson - Stumps (Second Version) (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson/Fritz Hautzinger/Ignaz Schick - Rotations (Trost) *Sven-Åke Johansson - Two Days At Café Oto (Otoroku) [Ahmed] - سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) Ab Baars/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Uldis Vitols/Onno Govaert ‎– Loot (De Platenbakkerij/ICP) Bill Nace & Sakina Abdou - Rinse Cycle (Open Mouth) Bill Stewart - Live At The Village Vanguard (Criss Cross) Camila Nebbia/Kit Downes/Andrew Lisle - Exhaust (Relative Pitch) Chris Byars - The Dark Forest (Steeplechase) Das B - Love (Thanatosis/Corbett vs. Dempsey) Georg Graewe/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake - More Than Anything (Random Acoustics) Jean-Luc Guionnet - L'Epaisseur de l'air Live (Potlatch) Joe McPhee/Susanna Gartmayer/John Edwards/Mariá Portugal - Monster (Klanggalerie) Julius Hemphill Stringtet - Plays The Music of Julius Hemphill (Out Of Your Head) Martín Escalante/Charlie Mumma/Teté Leguía - This Molten Salt (Wash and Wear) Myra Melford Trio - Splash (Intakt) Pat Thomas - Sufi Women (Scatter Archive) Sophie Agnel - Learning (Otoroku) Stefan Keuene/Sandy Ewen/Damon Smith - Two Felt Tip Pens: Live At Moers (Balance Point Acoustics) *Various - The Bottle Tapes (Corbett vs. Dempsey, 1996-2005) *Irène Schweizer/Rüdiger Carl/Johnny Dyani/Han Bennink - Irene's Hot Four (Intakt, 1981) *Rashied Ali Quintet - Sidewalks In Motion (Survival, 2002) AMM w/ Sachiko M - Testing (Matchless, 2004) Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley - Flashing Spirits (Burning Ambulance, 1988) Joe Maneri/Tyson Rogers/Jacob Braverman - In The Shadows, First Visit (ezz-thetics, 2002) Khan Jamal - Give The Vibes Some (Souffle Continu, 1974) Larry Stabbins/Keith Tippett/Louis Moholo-Moholo - Live In Foggia 1985 (Ogun, 1985) Marco Eneidi Quintet - Wheat Fields of Kleylhof (Balance Point Acoustics, 2004) Mujician - In Concerts (Jazz In Britain, 1993-2010) Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Vibrations in the Village: Live at Village Gate (Resonance, 1963) Sun Ra - Uncharted Passages (Modern Harmonic, 1977-79) Webster Young - A Quiet Legend: Live In St. Louis 1961 (Fresh Sound, 1961)

Long since. Completely different operation for all intents & purposes.