B. Clugston

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/

My first was Bitches Brew. Or Soft Machine's Third, if you classify that as jazz.

Steve Lacy, Outings.

Soft Machine, Six. Things weren't all downhill after Robert Wyatt's depature. This and Bundles are great.

I seem to recall that album had an interesting discographical history, with a few different songs replacing others on subsequent pressings. Had the CD for a while, which had a nice version of "I Remember Clifford."

The Mingus Atlantic box set.

Jerome Cooper, For the People (Hat Hut), with Oliver Lake.

With ESP, it's pretty much a guarantee you are going to find the opposite inside.

I mostly buy from record shops or record fairs. Online, I use Discogs or straight from the label.

Karl Berger and Edward (aka Ed) Blackwell, Just Play (Quark). Don Elliott, Mellophone (Bethlehem).

I've often wondered about that one. How does it stack up against other Bluietts? Fine but not earth-shattering. I agree. It's more of a Melis and Moye show, than a Bluiett date. A bit eccentric at times, but interesting enough not to add to the for sale pile.

Hamiett Bluiett, Marcello Melis and Don Moye, Bars (Musica). Melis wrote all the tunes.