B. Clugston

is this good? What's it like? It's a great one. One of my favourites from Big John.

Cool photo! Have you read that biography? I've been meaning to pick it up.

Julius Hemphill, Raw Materials and Residuals (Black Saint). ?????? Has Abdul Wadud ever been on a bad album? Dudu Pukwana and Spear, In the Townships (Caroline).

Hidehiko Matsumoto, The First by Sleepy (Toshiba). Nice 1977 date by one of Japan's more renowned tenor saxophonists. Liner notes are unintentionally hilarious going into obsessive details over the direct to disc recording process. Billy Harper, Knowledge of Self (Denon). A recent purchase and the first Harper leader date I've picked up. There's a lot of love for Billy Harper on this board and I can see why--a great one.

Julian Priester, Love, Love (ECM, U.S. pressing) Pepper Adams, Encounter (Prestige). Love the lineup on this one: Zoot Sims, Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones and Ron Carter.

I used to feel that way, but that band with John Scofield and Al Foster was smokin'. Mileage varies after that.

Schoenberg/Berg/Webern, The String Quartets, LaSalle Quartet (DG)

Bill Dixon, November 1981 (Soul Note) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse Japan) Lester Bowie, Numbers 1 & 2 (Nessa)

Isn't that one of the LPs that Paul Buckmaster spun for Miles before the 'On The Corner' sessions? Buckmaster mentioned that "Mixtur" and "Gruppen" were on heavy rotation at Miles' house prior to On the Corner.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Telemusik/Mixtur (DG). One side of electronics and tape collage and one side of orchestra tripped out through ring modulators. This and Gesang der Jünglinge/Kontakte are the ones I spin most from Stockhausen,

Excellent choice. Many treasures to be found on the Hungaraton label in the 1970s and 1980s, especially by composers of the Budapest New Music Studio (Jeney and Sary were both founding members). I've yet to find a dud on that label. Zsolt Durko is another favourite. Do you have any other recommendations? Hungaraton also did that amazing edition of Bartok's works. Sorry for replying late and I don't have my records here, but I would recommend really almost anything by the New Music Studio composers (I'm particularly fond of Zoltan Jeney). Hungaroton also released a string of excellent electronic/electroacoustic records by Hungarian composers. And there's Kurtág, of course... (I'm not an expert on "straight" classical music, but given the high quality of so much contemporary/avant-garde releases on the label, I would imagine their standards to be pretty high there too. The Bartok edition you mentioned is a case in point.) now listening to Endre Szekely on Hungaroton (this time I spelled it correctly). More great stuff, especially a trio for percussion, piano and cello. Thanks for the Kurtag recommendation--that's one composer I really need to check out. haha the allmusic reviewer had following choice words for the cover (and the album i guess) "If things weren't dismal enough, the album cover, looking as though drawn by a fashion-school dropout, is possibly one of the worst ever". I always liked the album a lot and am listening to it right now Thanks for posting the cover. When I'm playing the record I always display the back cover because the front is so gaudily awful. The music, however, is wonderful. That's a great rendition of "The Hard Blues" and Hemphill's playing on the title cut makes the David Sanborn connection even less surprising.

Julius Hemphill, Georgia Blue (Minor Music). Live recording featuring Alex and Nels Cline, Steubig and Jumma Santos. I think this was Nels' first recording. Features updated versions of "The Hard Blues" and "Dogon A.D." The cover screams 1980s.

He's pretty well-known among jazz fans north of the border. I liked that track from your last BFT so much that I bought the album (Sun Song).

Track 12. Sonny Greenwich? Track 14. A cover of Steve Lacy's "Blinks." By Dave Douglas I'm guessing. I love that version of "Beatrice." Is that a ring modulator on Track 10?

Awesome--looking forward to it. ?

Julius Hemphill, Blue Boyé (Mbari). 2 LPs of Hemphill on alto, soprano and flute, often overdubbed. There's another similarly constituted 2 LP set from that era on Sackville.

Excellent choice. Many treasures to be found on the Hungaraton label in the 1970s and 1980s, especially by composers of the Budapest New Music Studio (Jeney and Sary were both founding members). I've yet to find a dud on that label. Zsolt Durko is another favourite. Do you have any other recommendations? Hungaraton also did that amazing edition of Bartok's works.

Contemporary Hungarian Music, Zoltan Jeney and Laszlo Sary (Hungaraton). Early 1970s works from two Hungarian composers--very nice and adventurous.

Bobby Bradford, Love's Dream (Emanem) Miles Davis, Pangaea (CBS Sony)

I love Corky Laing's drumming on "Never in my Life." There's some cool bass on that record too.

Eric Dolphy, Live at Gaslight Inn (Ingo) Lee Morgan, s/t (Blue Note)

RIP. He played the guitarist in Chico Hamilton's band in Sweet Smell of Success. Unusual for Hollywood, he and his wife had been married since 1957.

John Carter, Variations (Moers). Java: Gamelans from the Sultan's Palace in Jogjakarta (Archiv Produktion)

? Now listening to Frank Lowe, Tricks of the Trade (Marge), with Butch Morris.

Freddie Hubbard, The Body & The Soul (Impulse).