B. Clugston

There's also the Albert Ayler single I use as my avatar: not really free jazz, though. I'd love a copy just for the cover.

My favourites include Steve Lacy's Hooky, Leo Smith's Creative Music 1, Evan Parker's At the Finger Palace and Anthony Braxton's Saxophone Improvisations Series F, Solo (London) 1988, Solo (Skopje) 1995 and Solo (NYC) 2002. Yes, it was reissued on CD in 1999. And it's another fabulous one.

He's amazing: bop, pop, inside, outside, Stravinsky, Springsteen—he can do it all. A couple of not-so-well-known favourites: Lalo Schifrin's Marquis de Sade album and Carman Moore's Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon (with Sam Rivers).

The trio album with Chico Hamilton is great.

Two of the tracks from Duets showed up as extras on a CD reissue of Brown's Porto Novo.

Happy Birthday Allen!

I was at the release concert, which featured Evan Parker in the same venue. It's a great album, recorded on the same tour as the At the Finger Palace record. It was $15 at the source.

Steve Lacy Estilhacos.

Zorn's Masada work isn't what I would call out there. And Metheny has done some wild stuff in the past.

That's one of my favourites of this genre. Also a big fan of Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon.

It was a great concert. Evan Parker opened the first set with a 25-minute soprano solo, circular breathing the whole time. I've seen Parker in many configurations before, but never solo, and it was quite amazing to experience. Surprisingly, he followed that up with a very brief rendition of a Monk tune, played in a Steve Lacy style! (I think it was "Well, You Needn't.") Set two was Parker on tenor with Gordon Grdina on guitar and oud and Kenton Loewen on drums. They played two improvised pieces--the second, featuring the oud, had a real Moorish feel to it and it was interesting to see what a great listener Parker is—he really adapted to what the others were playing. Both sets were recorded. The LP release is from the same tour that produced At the Finger Palace. There's some details here: http://front.bc.ca/events/evan-parker-concert-and-lp-launch/

Off to see Evan Parker tonight--solo and small group. Archival LP of 1978 concert also will be released.

From http://robertmusic.blogspot.ca/2011/02/heavenly-sweetness-blue-note-vinyl-sam.html?q=heavenly+sweetness : "Heavenly Sweetness Blue Note LP's are analog sourced. Now...today, analog sourced does not necessarily mean all the way through to the cutting head - there is often a last digital step there. And...being analog sourced does not necessarily mean that the lacquers were cut ditectly from the analog tape, often, a 24 bit copy of the analog master is sent for vinyl mastering - we live in the FLAC age, after all. Older guys on Hoffman get very hung up over this, but it's their loss..."

Thank you for birthday wishes! My knees. Hopefully. Shockingly, I've never been to one.

I recommend this label. They did a great job reissuing some of the more unusual/adventurous Blue Note/Pacific Jazz titles. My only quibble is the reissue of Curtis Amy's Katanga!—it sounds great, but the cover is a really bad scan job. Other covers in the series look fine, however.

Richard Abrams — Levels and Degrees of Light - Charles Clark & Leonard Jones Maurice McIntyre — Humility in the Light of the Creator - Malachi Favours, M'Chaka Uba Bill Dixon's Thoughts has three basses and one tuba. There's multiple bassists on Horace Tapscott's The Call, up to three and possibly four at one point.

He's a national treasure. The live quartet date with Paul Desmond is something special. He has no problem filling Brubeck's shoes on "Take Five."

Duke Ellington, Black, Brown and/or Beige Miles Davis, “He Loved Them Madly,” “On the Corner,” “Pharoah's Dance,” “Spanish Key,” etc. Herbie Hancock, “Hornets,” (19:35) Anthony Braxton, Compositions 70, 93, 96, 98, 192, etc. Arni Cheatham/ Thing “Road Through the Wall,” (21:44). Lee Morgan, “Search for the New Land” Anatoly Vapirov, “The Mirror of Memory” (38) Horace Tapscott, “The Dark Tree” Muhal Richard Abrams, “The Bird Song” (22+) Jackie McLean “A Long Drink of the Blues (20+) Slava Guyvoronsky & Vladimir Volkov, “Skambha Gita” (20+) Ned Rothenberg “Trials of the Argo” (22)

They've actually started releasing a small selection of new vinyl again. http://www.ecmrecords.com/News/Special_Offers/LP-Liste.php?cat=&we_start=

Updated with some new additions and reductions.

Just awful. This is the talk of the Canadian newspaper world and the Star is facing quite a backlash. And how about worst copy editing job ever.

Not aware of an other versions. There was a brief discussion on Prophet John = Being in this thread

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere on the forum, but Ed Cassidy died Dec. 6. He was 89.

Dorman was also part of Captain Beyond, an excellent yet under-appreciated band with latter-day Iron Butterfly guitarist Larry Reinhardt (who died in January), first Deep Purple singer Rod Evans (where are you?) and drummer Bobby Caldwell. Their excellent first album still holds up well. Here's another obit: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rocker-elevated-the-role-of-bass-guitars/article6698446/

There's a video of one of the concerts floating around on the interweb. Great band. Philly Joe is smokin'!