B. Clugston

That part is real, but there was a phony story about him passing away earlier this year.

Me too. Great album.

What an awful and pretentious opening paragraph.

Too polite, but nice cover though.

Giuffre and Lacy actually played together for a bit not long before this record, but for some reason they didn't quite gel.

No it hasn't, not even in Andorra. It's a really great Rivers date--can't believe no one's ever reissued it.

Contrasts is indeed a good one.

The Complete Capitol & Atlantic Recordings of Jimmy Giuffre Mosaic, $140 (6 CDs) Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Of Roland Kirk, $115 (10 CDs +1 bonus CD) John Zorn, Spy vs. Spy, $7 Miles Davis, Big Fun, $15, 2 CDs, 90s Japan issue with original mix Fritz Hauser, Zwei (hat ART), $5, (duos with Pauline Oliveros, Lauren Newton, et al) Derek Bailey, Takes Fakes & Dead She Dances (Incus), $9 Derek Bailey & Susie Ibarra, Daedel (Incus) $13 Derek Bailey Fairly Early With Postscripts (Emanem), $12 The American Jazz Quintet ‎ From Bad To Badder (Black Saint), $11 (with Ed Blackwell, Alvin Battiste, Ellis Marsalis) The Jones Brothers (Thad, Hank, Elvin & Sam), Keepin' Up With the Joneses (Verve Elite Edition) $10 ON HOLD Oliver Lake, Zaki, (hat ART), $10

And then It's a Beautiful Day took Deep Purple's "Wring That Neck" and turned it into "Don and Dewey."

Dennis Budimir's Alone Together on Revelation is a nice one—though he is actually duetting with himself (overdubbed) on most of the tracks. (Gary Foster also shows up for two songs.)

Very sad news. So sorry for your loss.

Interesting band whose members brought a lot of diverse styles to the table—jazz, psychedelia, pop, etc. I liked them best when Jay Ferguson was in the band. A very good live band. The original band briefly reunited in 1976--there's a bootleg of a concert floating around which is great until a drunk Neil Young stumbled on stage and things promptly went haywire, ending the reunion.

Saskatchewan - 35

I'm a big fan of the two solo LPs on Sackville, the first Ekaya album, African Space Program and The Third World-Underground with Don Cherry and Carlos Ward. He's been very well documented over the years and I've enjoyed everything I've heard.

Kefir.

Pierre Henry, Le Voyage. Herbert Joos, The Philosophy of the Fluegelhorn (Japo)

Live at the Donaueschingen Music Festival and Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime (which is on the Live in San Francisco CD) are both album-length blowouts. But don't expect anything like Spiritual Unity or Pharoah Sanders in his wilder moments--Shepp was always mindful of the tradition.

John Fahey, America (Takoma). Jaki Byard, Solo Piano (Prestige). Two LPs that lost something and gained something when reissued on CD.

Sal Mosca Music.

A few updates and additions. Also, I'll be in the U.S. of A. the next few days, so shipping in the U.S. is $2 for 1 CD and $1 for each additional one.

I saw Lou Reed at several jazz gigs I have attended over the years in NYC. More than once I saw him at a Sonny Rollins gig... and he was a very enthusiastic audience member as I recall. "Walk On the Wild Side" had some nice Tenor Sax and upright bass on it. Anyone know who the players were? John Cale is still around... Ronnie Ross on sax and Herbie Flowers on bass. P.S. Maureen Tucker is also still above ground. And Doug Yule.

Johnny Dyani, African Bass (Red). Nice album of solos and duos with Clifford Jarvis.

"Ronald Shannon Jackson, a drummer and composer who worked largely within the realms of free jazz, funk and fusion, died this morning, Oct. 19, in Ft. Worth, Tex. Jackson’s passing was confirmed by his cousin, Tobi Hero, on Jackson’s Facebook page. No cause of death was cited, however, Jackson was suffering from leukemia and had been living in a hospice. He was 73...." http://jazztimes.com/articles/108150-drummer-composer-ronald-shannon-jackson-dies-at-73

Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Of Roland Kirk, $125 Marion Brown, Porto Novo (Black Lion) $14 (with two bonus tracks feat. Leo Smith) SOLD Lee Konitz meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve), $20 (4 albums on 2 CDs, including dates led by Kontiz, Giuffre and Ralph Burns) SOLD

You can always read Lester Bowie's take on Wynton Marsalis: http://www.sfweekly.com/1996-09-11/music/what-wynton-doesn-t-hear/