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I noticed just the other day that even the Evans Universal edition is starting to go for big bucks. Wish I’d bought one now.

It is being reported that the great man passed away August 29th. May he rest in peace. A singular musician.

Good list Clifford. have or have had all of those except the Curson, Lacy, and Pilz; the latter two are on the ol' wantlist but the Lacy esp. is a ridiculous pull.

Asked upthread but didn't hear anything: does anyone have any additional info about the December 1966 "tentet" performance at the Village Theater? Sessionographies list a "private tape" source. Does anyone know if this exists? Or does it circulate? John Coltrane Tentet John Coltrane, soprano, tenor sax, percussion; Pharoah Sanders, tenor sax, percussion; Alice Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, Lionel "Sonny" Johnson, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; + John Salgato, trumpet; unknown, tambura; Omar Ali, congas; Algie DeWitt, bata drum. "Village Theatre", NYC, December 26, 1966 unknown title private tape Hymn - unknown title - My Favorite Things - My assumption about the "missing" 1966/67 studio recordings is that they perished in the fire, but does anyone know this for sure? This pamphlet purports to be from the VT engagement:

Speaking of this and later Trane, is it really possible that only "Naima" and "My Favorite Things" were recorded at the Vanguard in 1966? Did Impulse only record one set? Did they record more but destroy the tapes after selecting the album material? Seems odd there would be nothing else. Also, does anyone know anything about the 12/26/66 Village Gate tape?

Corbett vs. Dempsey has prepared a CD issue of the Cecil Taylor/Sunny Murray performance a the 1996 TMM that was previously available as a download from Destination: Out https://www.corbettvsdempsey.com/records/corona/ There is also a new Tom Prehn release available, both of these appear to be shipping now. Discs from Ken Vandermark, Okkyung Lee, Joe McPhee, and Moreno Veloso are scheduled for release next month.

haha I personally appreciate his restraint on this one That said, I do find myself much more open to this whole situation now that he seems to have moved on from Leo. Something about that relentless decade of musical chairs made me feel insane. But since I've finally investigated some of the music on other labels, I find I like it very much.

Second the recommendation of that Emanem duo disc, it's fantastic. There's also the great Tea Time album with Coombes, John Russell, Dave Solomon, and Gary Todd also reissued on Emanem and still available direct. I presume you may have heard the classic Double Indemnity/Imitation of Life recordings with Toshi Kondo, Tristan Honsinger, and David Toop but if not I personally think very highly of those. Trap Street on Emanem with Alan Tomlinson and Roger Turner is excellent. And I like his more straight ahead playing in Foxes Fox, though I do find their output a little uneven. He reminds me of Jim Baker a bit in this role. Finally the excellent Chinese BBQ disc on the SAJ 'Selected 80s Concerts' box with Hans Reichel & Rudgier Carl. I have never been very keen on AS aside from a few fine recordings in the jazz realm. Personal taste probably, I just don't find it a very rigorous enterprise. Also struggling to find anything new on the horizon that is piquing interest. ymmv, but I'm very much looking forward to Ivo Perelman's upcoming 9 disc set of piano duos on Fundacja Słuchaj: Dave Burrell, Aaron Parks, Sylvie Courvoisier, Vijay Iyer, Agusti Fernandez, Craig Taborn, Angelica Sanchez, Auran Ortiz, and Marilyn Crispell.

Same, it's worth a try. My fill rate has been about 80% over the years.

If you're still looking, Euclid has a copy for 7.99 https://www.euclidrecords.com/catalog/product_detail.jsp?id=6671608

I mean, neither are great, and a lot is buried either way, but Offering has that kinda weird thing where you hear people very clearly close to the main mic before moving away, so it’s a but uneven. Olatunji is just distant the whole time, so it’s a little less distracting.

Correct. Both are very muffled, but the mic'ing on Olatunji is more consistent.

I personally think Olatunji is more "listenable" than Offering. Both are among my favorite recordings ever.

This seems to be the recording Ravi was talking about. I think, especially without the A in the title, that this is probably just a name, albeit a misleading one. Impulse has released all this archival stuff on CD and LP so I would assume that would be the case here. Looking forward to it!

If anyone has copies of the following they would be willing to sell, please get in touch, thanks! Brotzmann/Borgmann/Parker/Bakr - The Cooler Suite (GROB) David S. Ware - Apogee/Birth of a Being (Aum Fidelity) Carter/Parker/Shipp - Seraphic Light (Aum Fidelity) Glenn Spearman - First & Last (Eremite) Rashied Al Akbar, Muhammad Ali, Earl Cross, Idris Ackamoor ‎– Ascent Of The Nether Creatures (NoBusiness) LP

Below are the content of these sets with my notes tracing their appearance on CD. It took me a minute to untangle all this, hoping it could be of help to anyone looking to complete their Impulse-era Coltrane collection down to the track, as I am! -------------------------------------- The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. I Feelin' Good Feelin' Good 6:20 My Favorite Things 14:44 Living Space 10:20 Untitled 90320 10:44 Untitled 90314 14:40 Dusk-Dawn 10:45 Nature Boy 6:52 Joy 12:10 ["Living Space > "Dusk-Dawn" released on Living Space. "Joy" from Infinity, released here without string overdubs, as well as on First Meditations For Quartet. "My Favorite Things" was from Newport 1965, hence released on the New Thing At Newport CD and My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport. "Feelin' Good" and "Nature Boy" released on the Coltrane Quartet Plays CD] The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. II To The Beat Of A Different Drum Impressions 15:52 I Want To Talk About You 8:17 My Favorite Things 17:31 After The Rain 4:07 Dear Old Stockholm 10:35 After The Crescent 13:34 One Down, One Up 15:25 Dear Lord 5:34 ["Impressions" > "My Favorite Things" released on Newport '63. "After The Rain" > "Dear Lord" released variously on Transition and Dear Old Stockholm] The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. III "Jupiter Variation" Number One 11:56 Peace On Earth 7:08 Jupiter (Variation) 6:45 Leo 11:00 ["Jupiter Variation" and "Leo released on Interstellar Space CD editions. "Peace On Earth" from Infinity, released only here without string overdubs. "Number One" released on the Expression CD] The Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. IV "Trane's Modes" Impressions (Take One) 8:50 Miles' Mode 10:00 Chasin' Another Trane 15:34 Greensleeves (Take Two) 4:50 Impressions (Take Two) 10:55 Naima 7:39 Africa (First Version) 14:06 The Damned Don't Cry 7:38 ["Impressions > "Naima" released on The Complete Village Vanguard box set. "Africa" and "Damned" released on The Complete Africa/Brass] The conclusion I would draw, then, is that the original "Peace On Earth" is the only track from these albums that was never reissued elsewhere, aside from the Japanese CD of this compilation.

Looking forward to this. I liked Lebroba a lot, but Declaration of Musical Independence is a masterpiece. He's making some very deep and special music these days.

The Flow Trio + McPhee album on ESP is shaping up to be my favorite release of the year. Joe is playing at an extremely high level these days.

Looking forward to hearing this: https://bluerealityquartet.bandcamp.com/ Joe McPhee, Michael Marcus, Jay Rosen, and Warren Smith recorded in the studio last year.

PM sent on: Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark & Kent Kessler - A Meeting In Chicago OD12016 $5 McPhee*, Brötzmann*, Kessler*, Zerang* - Guts ‎(CD, Album) Okka Disk OD12062 $8 Trio X The Watermelon Suite CIMP 183 $8 Joe McPhee Quartet Legend Street Two CIMP 132 $10 Joe McPhee Quartet Legend Street One CIMP 115 $11 Joe McPhee and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten* - Blue Chicago Blues ‎(CD) Not Two Records MW 841-2 $13 Equal Interest - Equal Interest ‎(CD, Album) OmniTone 12001 $5

Fingers crossed for a CT Black Forest CD.

The Sam Rivers title was mentioned in another thread, but NB is releasing several other awesome-looking discs at the same time: Joel Futterman - Creation Series 5xCD box set http://nobusinessrecords.com/creation-series.html Total Music Association - Walpurgisnacht archival reissue of a 1971 LP http://nobusinessrecords.com/total-music-association-walpurgisnacht.html Mototeru Takagi - Live At Little John, Yokohama 1999 http://nobusinessrecords.com/live-at-little-john,-yokohama-1999.html Itaru Oki - Live at Jazz Spot Combo 1975 http://nobusinessrecords.com/live-at-jazz-spot-combo-1975.html Szilard Mezai Tubass Quintet - Rested Turquoise http://nobusinessrecords.com/rested-turquoise.html Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Alexander Von Schlippenbach - The Field http://nobusinessrecords.com/the-field.html The label is offering all these at a package price. 72 euro shipped worldwide without the Futterman box, 110 with it. "All of them should be ready to be sent out around the 20th July, 2021"

I just bought one recent for $20. After shipping it was $27.

Another roundup of recent & upcoming releases of note: -Two new William Parker trio albums from Aum Fidelity. One with Daniel Carter & Hamid, the other with Ava Mendoza & Gerald Cleaver https://aumfidelity.com/ -Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey duo on Burning Ambulance. It took me time, but I came around to these frequent Shipp/Dickey/Perelman/Wooley musical chair releases. These are guys who undoubtedly can all play and, contrary to my initial apprehensions, are pushing themselves deeper all the time. The recent Ivo/Nate duo on BA is fantastic https://matthewshippwhitdickey.bandcamp.com/album/reels -Wandering The Sound Quintet on Not Two. Mazur, Gregorio, Tamura, Fuji, and Lopez; a combination of musicians I will always be down to hear -Butcher/Solberg/Barre Phillips on Relative Pitch https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-met-and-then -Duck Baker - Confabultions. Encounters dating 1994-2017 with an interesting range of players https://duckbakeresp.bandcamp.com/album/confabulations -Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio + Alexander Schlippenbach - The Field. Not yet formally announced on NoBusiness, but hopefully coming very soon. Also really looking forward to the new This Is Our Language album on Trost -Keith Rowe - Absence. His final solo guitar performance. https://www.erstwhilerecords.com/store/p268/Keith_Rowe_-_Absence_%28CD%29.html

ymmv, much of his work is sort of community-based, political, and in continuation of certain strains of post-60s black urban art. In that context, I like it and appreciate it very much, particularly the two Positive Knowledge albums on Music & Arts (there's also a 2xCD on another label that adds Wilbur Morris & Michael Wimberly that's good). If you appreciate some of the more text-based spiritual jazz & spoken word of the 70s, or William Parker's vocal projects, I think you'll find a lot to like here. If you're looking for something more straightforward, his date on NoBusiness with Wimberly & Sirone is quite good and the duo with Henry Grimes on Not Two is nice.