colinmce

Awesome.

It's called Blossoms. Can't find the website. Thanks, I found information about the single disc on the Senators site. Maybe the box set never came into fruition. I thought I saw a photo of it once, but perhaps I made that up.

If someone could help to direct me to information about the handmade box set of Lacy's "farewell tour", I would appreciate it. I forget the title and am having trouble turning it up.

Looking forward to grabbing the Ottoviano CD. I know you're not just "playing Waldron", so that should make things quite interesting. If anyone is interested, I have a spreadsheet of Steve Lacy's recordings that is as complete as I know. I included only leader dates, or albums where he makes a significant contribution, so a few marginal things are missing. I also skipped over the early Dixieland stuff. I hope to flesh this document out as time goes on, but I use it as a guide for which recordings I have, which I need, which I'd like, and which I will skip. Just drop me your email address. (FWIW the count stands at 166 known works available!)

Yeah, Fritz Hauser. Unfortunately this much-discussed album took me many years to track down. But it's well worth the effort.

Thom Keith:

I was thinking this as well. Will have to pull out the album of the same name tomorrow.

This looks to be something else. They put the right musician pictures on the "sleeve" at least, but streaming euro bootlegs for certain.

I would also vote yes (though I don't own it...yet, but have sampled it). I think it will reward you for many years to come. I do get the feeling this is as advanced as the GTM music gets and the ensemble is redoubtable.

I think we've been over this before, but I wonder if Jonathan Horowich could do anything with this one.

Enjoy!

Would love to if I had the cash. It was physically painful having to let this one go during some hard times.

Just got it recently. Very absorbing; one I know I'll return to a lot.

Put in an order for a Braxton Willisau set on Amazon for a very low price. No mention of it being a partial...here's hoping it's not.

Likewise the titles from the 2011 box set are available from the usual resellers in the US.

I will never stop beating myself up for passing on a $30 copy.

Forgot Opulence, the do with Weasel. A good one.

Right. I would argue that's it's done... not so well.

There are two new volumes of Lacy-Centazzo-Carter from 1976 out on Ictus April 21: http://www.amazon.com/October-Steve-Carter-Andrea-Centazzo/dp/B00TAFFO20/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1424278427&sr=8-5&keywords=steve+lacy+centazzo

Agreed that you can't go wrong with any of the leader dates, or the work with Braxton. Seconding Clifford on the trio with Peter Evans and Weasel Walter, which is my favorite outlet of hers. People, the duo with Jessica Pavone, and Thirteenth Assembly are shakier ground AFAIC.

Definitely Kofsky. You're right that there's valuable info in there. I learned a lot reading it but the perspective is unhinged.

I actually enjoyed that book when I read it, although I certainly didn't take the parts on avant garde and more recent jazz very seriously. I keep it around because it does a good job untangling the MCA/RCA/Bluebird/etc reissue scene of the 80s and 90s, but his tone re: free jazz is total bullshit. He dismisses Cecil Taylor with such confidence. To so fully conflate one's taste with the objective truth is delusion on a grand scale. There's a book about Miles Davis and Coltrane that is so doltish I can't believe it was published. The author repeatedly refers to MD as "The Chief" and insists that he was widely known by this nickname. I have literally never seen or heard that anywhere else but you'd think it was Pres or Pops the way they lay it on. Bizarre. I also think the Richard Cook Blue Note book is largely a waste of time. I once read a long book about free jazz by an author whose name I forgot that was so bombastically anti-white that it could only have been written by a white man, if you know what I mean. Cranky and pointless.