B. Clugston

Yes, you do need it--it's a great one. Waisvisz is a perfect partner--you can imagine what he does with "The New Duck."

Steve Lacy, Lumps (ICP). Jimmy Giuffre, Piece For Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles (Verve).

I have a copy of it somewhere, but haven't listened to it in years. I recall it's entertaining enough, but much different from subsequent creative music orchestra works and more like a big band version of his earlier work with Leo Smith and Leroy Jenkins. At times, it sounds comparable to a Kagel or Stockhausen piece. For example, there's a passage for 100 balloons. Joachim Kuhn is on piano.

Forces in Motion is an excellent book and a great way to learn about Braxton's music and where he is coming from. Regarding the box sets, both are great, but I'd give the edge to the Mosaic.

This is from the Braxton Yahoo group recounting a lunch talk Braxton gave in 2007: "He (Braxton) told how Bill Cosby, one of the gatekeepers, had emailed his agent to ask him to participate as a session musician in a band Cosby had organized for the Playboy Jazz Festival). He described how bitter he was towards Cosby's use of his name in his TV show. He said that on the show, the son Teo, was looking for drugs and the pusher was named Anthony Braxton. He (like anyone else) took great offense to this."

Calgary 35

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Karlheinz Stockhausen, Momente (DG). I actually prefer the 1965 version, half of which shows up on Side 6.

Ethan Iverson posted this on his blog a few years back: HH wrote in about another mystery, Carl Brown, the bassist on the Lacy/Cherry Evidence. "I asked Billy Higgins about Carl Brown. I was assuming it was a stage name. He said that was his real name and something like, 'He came to NY, did what he had to do and he split.'" http://dothemath.typepad.com/dtm/2011/04/we-see.html

Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim), African Space Program (Enja). Great album with a large ensemble. Sadly my copy is worn--sounds like the previous owner played it a lot on granny's old stereo console with the thrashed needle. Don Ellis At Fillmore (Columbia). I'd give this one 3 3/4 stars, or 1 and 7/8 thumbs up.

Duke Ellington, Black, Brown and Beige, The 1944-1946 Recordings (Bluebird) Art Ensemble of Chicago, Fanfare for the Warriors (Atlantic)

Put me down as a big fan of the Village Vanguard recordings, though perhaps heretically, I listen to Living Time with George Russell more often.

Anima (Pilz). German improv from Limpe and Paul Fuchs, with Austrians Friedrich Gulda and J.A. Rettenbacher sitting in.

Someone (JSngry?) posted this Don Ellis video from 1978 in another thread recently. At the end of the first video Ellis introduces a young Ted Nash fresh out of high school. His solo spot is in the following video. http://youtu.be/XUJL-7rOvDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhNbhiREDU

The Mirror newspaper is not noted for getting it right.

Three tracks from the aborted second volume are on the Mosaic set, but I've never heard them. Joachim Kuhn, Sound of Feelings (BYG).

Henry Threadgill, X-75 Volume 1 (Arista Novus). He sure has his basses covered on this one.

New Yorker writer explains Geoff Dyer 2014: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/coltranes-free-jazz-awesome "He writes like a club patron who insinuates himself into the company of the musicians between sets, extracts their confidences, observes scenes of intimate horror, and then passes them along—using first names and nicknames—as if to flaunt his faux-insider status. But, when the musicians are back on the bandstand, he never lets them forget that they’re there to entertain him."

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys. I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together ! Would love to meet up. DM me when you are in town.

Hemingway is just fantastic on this disc. In his own words: "it is actually the second set that brings chills and tears to my eyes each time I listen to it. It reaches a level of intensity that is nothing short of explosive."

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys. It's cheaper to fly here than to buy a copy of Lacy's The Wire. Homefromtheforest has an incredible record collection as many of you might have gathered from the recent blindfold test.

I like the first one, 23 Standards, the best. Great versions of "Giant Steps," "Ill Wind" and "Ju Ju." The second one, 20 Standards, has a few memorable moments, but I find I rarely play it. Never made it to the third set.

Happy Birthday! :party:

Shirley Scott and Gary McFarland, Latin Shadows (Impulse) Kenneth Anger and Brian Butler, Technicolor Skull

Bill Evans and George Russell, Living Time (Columbia). More of a Russell album than an Evans one and with a pretty impressive orchestra--Tony Williams, Sam Rivers, Joe Henderson, etc. Wonder what the suits thought of this?