B. Clugston

Happy Birthday!

Dollar Brand, African Portraits (Sackville). Abdullah Ibrahim warms up a Toronto studio in the winter. Steve Lacy, Lapis. (Japanese version)

I don't think I could single out 10, let alone 3 or 4. Back when i first became interested in 60s jazz, I would have said Eric Dolphy's Last Date, Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity or In Greenwich Village and Monk's Big Band and Quartet. This week, I'd pick Ascension, Numbers 1 & 2, The Sidewinder and anything/everything by Andrew Hill.

Of all the nights to be overcast... I was hoping the wind would blow away the clouds.

Bobby Bradford, Love's Dream (Emanem 3302)

That's a great one!

Joseph Jarman and Famadou Don Moye, Egwu-Anwu. The Band, Rock of Ages. Includes a few names familiar to this board: Joe Farrell, Howard Johnson, J.D. Parran, Snooky Young and Earl McIntyre. Great charts by Allen Touissant.

That's a nice one. I once saw one of the earlier editons of it in a record shop, but unfortunately the vinyl looked like it had been hit by meteorites.

Isn't Teo really responsible for "It's About That Times" as Miles played it in concerts? Listening to the original studio version on the In A Silent Way box set it appears that what Miles might have originally thought of as the theme sounds a bit like Chuck Mangione. Teo completely jettisoned that part and pulled out what we now think of as the theme from one of Miles's "Shhh/Peaceful" was the track where Teo jettisoned the theme.

Happy Birthday Allen!

Yes, the first two sides are quite wonderful. I also love the freak out on side 6.

Alan Silva and the Celestrial Communication Orchestra (Get Back reissue). All-star cast featuring the Art Ensemble of Chicago, 4/5s of what was to become Steve Lacy's Quintet and some of the top French players of the day, among others.

Charles Wuorinen's Chamber Concerto for Cello and 10 Players. Archie Shepp, Coral Rock (Prestige).

Hope this finally gets released. Very interesting concert from what I've heard. Here's some eyewitness accounts of it: http://www.wildmusic-jazz.com/jcfh661111.htm

Albert Ayler, Love Cry. David Rosenboom & J.B. Floyd, Suitable for Framing.

Previous bootleg series issues have come out on vinyl, so hopefully this one will get the same treatment.

Tom Buckner, Gerald Oshita and Roscoe Mitchell, New Music for Woodwinds and Voice.

Rosenboom put out some interesting albums in the 1970s. I recommend the two-piano one with J.B. Floyd. He was also on the Mike Douglas show when John Lennon and Yoko Ono were co-hosts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-OaumT8w8o

That's the one they printed with the wrong album title. Later re-released as "Six Compositions For Quartet." Great band. I need to pick this up one of these days--it's one of the few Braxton quartet albums I don't own

Since most of you seem to be on a Jeanne Lee kick, I'm now playing Broadway by Gunther Hampel and the Galaxie Dream Band. It has one of those generic Birth covers you are supposed to colour yourself.

Love that Milt Stegall miracle TD.

That's a great record. Miles Davis, Big Fun. Jimmy Lyons-Sunny Murray Trio, Jump Up/What to Do About David Holland/Barre Phillips, Music from Two Basses

Open Sky, with Dave Liebman, Frank Tusa and Bob Moses (PM Records). Interesting trio recordings from two 1972 sessions which straddle Liebman's first session with Miles Davis on On the Corner. Liebman sure covers a lot of musical ground.

Capricorn Rising, Don Pullen with Sam Rivers. Just found it at a record shop and I like what I am hearing.

Nicra, Listen/Hear (Ogun). Nice quintet date led by trombonists Nick Evans and Radu Malfatti (back when he played hot trombone as opposed to staring at his shoe). Keith Tippett, Buschi Niebergall and Makaya Ntshoko are also on board.