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Strongly prefer JH's sideman dates for BN generally: I'd take Unity, Basra, The Real McCoy, Idle Moments or Brown Sugar over any of his BN leader dates which IMHO YMMV are all pretty good but the same difference to me.

Hey, i have a neck strap just like that, probably the only thing my playing has in common with Roscoe's...

Right, I'd have done that or something very much like it instead of Free Jazz - a whole album devoted to one tune smacks of hype and putting a faded out and back in break in it just stops the flow, IMHO. really 20-25 minutes should be enuff to get most anything said. On the other hand, People In Sorrow is a work of genius that totally justifies its length, just wish there was a proper CD version with no break in the middle.

With 3 Stanley cups in the last 6 years they are the dominate hockey team of our time, discuss...

Yeah, First Take says about 90% of Free Jazz in half the time - I'd put that out on one side of an album and some of the as of then unissued things on the other instead of splitting Free Jazz in two. In Dana's Perfect Fantasy World....

OK, Chicago won the Stanley Cup last night so NOW we can talk football!

IMHO, not that I'm qualified but... I thin Lonely Woman and Ramblin' [auto-corrects to Rambling Gambling] are head and shoulders above the generally excellent level of ornette, as compositions, performances, whatever. Hard to pick after that.

Lovano sounds way better live than on record. I'd even say that he sounds better live than live sometimes - I saw him on two different stages on the same day at Newport and his sound was way better on one than the other but then one was in the sun and the other in the shade and that could play havoc with any acoustic instrument.

"The term has created other misunderstandings: a rare double quartet-concert, in Cincinnati in 1961, was cancelled after a near-riot, because the patrons took the marquee billing “Ornette Coleman—Free Jazz” too literally and refused to pay admission." (from the times article linked above) Did this realy happen? Too funny...

Everybody triews to ralate everything to Punk nowadays, some days I'm not even sure that punk reelates to Punk...

But Ornette is all that, and a bag of chips!

UCCI 9282 = UCCU 3057 (2006 edition) Compressed. Loud. That's a relief, i thought it was his playing that had lost all subtlty.

Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow. Like myself, Stegner lived in Saskatchewan for awhile when he was young and then moved to the States, albeit at a younger age and a long time ago. It's set in and about the country near East End at (you guessed it!) the east end of the Cypress Hills, an intersting place.

That's kind of the point of the joke, Melancholy Baby was the kind of saong drunks asked for and was widely reputed to be such, and so...

Les is more!

Ilived thru the 70s, so I don't need this. To those who didn't and therefore do...knock yourself out! (Yes I did finally get around to listening a bit, not unpleasant, but that was all i needed.)

This thread is the most (presumably) unintentionally hilarious thing I've read in a long time. Not that you don't have points, or whatever, but still... Thanks.

I linked thru to the Dicogs page - anyone know anything about the 19th Whole album he wa apparently on? Good body of work, the part i do know.

Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow - the subject/setting is near & dear to me, and the writing engaging, but he puts Batoche on the wrong brantch of the Saskatchewan which is disconcerting and buys into standard Canadian mythology a bit much.

A great loss, his enthusiasm came thru clearly in everything I saw that he was involved in, and more importantly he turned that love of music into finished projects, so for getting all those rare grooves reissued and especially for getting GG @ the Mozambique issued in the first place, THANK YOU SIR!

They showed "MacBeth" last Friday, and I caught most of it. Dark production of a dark play and ill-fated too, since it was made at the same time as Olivier's far more famous and successful "Hamlet," but I thought it was pretty good. Liked the Scottish accents! gregmo Wasn't McBeth the last Gaelic speaking King of Scotland?

Very poetical, that bit that Lloyd added, and I can't read it without hearing the horns kick in after!

I believe our Mr. Kart wrote an elaborate explanation of why that might be so, no?

For ECM tours I assume they turn the AC all the way up/down?

Sometimes it seems like they wanted to be a different, artier for lack of a better word, band than their fans wanted them to be...and then sometimes not.