B. Clugston

I think Chuck mentioned on another thread that Sackville returned the tapes to Mitchell because they had a print-through problem or something like that.

That is misleading. I mistakenly assumed it was the March 6 version.

Welcome to Record Store Day, where these issues are par for the course. On the bright side, it's nice to see "Early Minor" finally on vinyl and I do prefer this version of "Directions" over the one issued on CD.

I love Neu!'s first album. The guys from Neu! were briefly in Kraftwerk. Here's a video:

Sergei Kuryokhin could play rags or Rachmaninoff and occasionally played alto sax, too.

These were released on 19 Standards. http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_572/575

Leo Smith.

Gilmour played bass on the studio recordings of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and "Sheep" (not sure about "Dogs" - but I seem to remember that was all Roger). Apologies that I don't have time at this very moment to provide citations, but I'm pretty sure these are both fairly well established, from everything I've seen on-line. That is correct. There's a quote from Gilmour here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_%28song%29 Snowy White would play bass on "Sheep" and "Pigs" in live concerts, while Waters played rhythm guitar.

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Feeling a little creakier today.

Brazil played flute on Om. He wasn't on Ascension.

No need to apologize. It was worth it for: "Man, she is a lady with all these thoughts. And she sings those thoughts... just like, like she's talking to you. Like you ain't never heard such thoughts. And the whole time, there are so many words and you have this person saying things to you, saying things to your ear, but they are coming straight from her brain. Those words, you just gotta listen man. You gotta listen in your ear."

Also worth checking out is the earlier Nan Madol on ECM (or Japo) and Heavy Life, recorded in the U.S. of A with James Spaulding, Howard Johnson, Reggie Workman, Chico Freeman, J. D. Parran, Tomasz Stańko, Bob Stewart and Joe Daley.

He turns up on a few Ira Sullivan albums, including Nicky's Tune on Delmark. Happened to find it last week and have been really enjoying.

Yes, it's on Material's One Down LP, with that song also issued as a 12" single. Not bad. Though IIRC it's a Robert Wyatt song. Pretty sure "Memories" is a Hopper song, though Wyatt sang it a lot. First shows up on the Soft Machine demos from 1967.

I highly recommend Steve Lacy's Hooky, a recording of a 1976 solo concert in Montreal. It's my favourite Lacy solo record. Derek Bailey's LACE is among his best solo improv dates. (Of all of them, I think I only like Aida more.) Agree with above recommendation of Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special. The CD also includes part of The Crust. School Days is indeed a classic, though I know it from its HatArt incarnation.

From a French TV documentary show called A L'affiche Du Monde. Here's some info on the director: http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-greek-filmmaker-and-poet-robert-manthoulis-do

The Onzy Matthews Mosaic Select.

I have a VHS tape of this gig, which I recorded off the TV when it was broadcast at the time. It's pretty good, musically. For Sam, it was just another gig; at one point, during someone else's solo, you can see him in the background yawning very deeply. I was wondering about the band with Rivers, Braxton, Holland and Joe Daley. I heard the band broke up because Beatrice Rivers had an argument with Braxton...called him a control freak. Any thoughts folks? I think that was a one-off, a concert in 1978. Rivers and Braxton played together in Holland's group in 1972 and 1974. "That group played some concerts together, but the contrasting approaches of Braxton and Rivers proved incompatible." See http://www.bb10k.com/RIVERS.disc.html#76.00.00

Yes, that is a classic. Along that line: •Conspiracy. Excellent four CD box set on Leo of a Zurich festival featuring many of those documented on Document. •Sergey Kuryokhin. Absolutely Great! (Leo). Seven CDs documenting Kuryokhin's trip to the Bay Area, mostly featuring solo piano and Pop Mechanics-style performances with U.S. musicians. •The four Golden Years of the Soviet New Jazz 4-CD sets, while partly a shelf-clearing exercise, contain some fabulous music.

Jazz tie-in: Sadik Hakim once recorded a song called “Grey Cup Caper.”

Sorry to see that. I have one of his daxophone albums--he made quite an extaordinary number of sounds from them. I didn't realize he designed typefaces as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FF_Dax

B.C. 35. Go Lions!

The 4-CD Soviet sets are wonderful stuff. In particular, the Homo Liber, Guyvoronsky/Volkov duo, Orkestrion and Chekasin big band sides are incredible. There are a few duds here and there, but overall a great series.

I've got the Jazz Door. Fantastic concert, but both sets have several minutes edited out. Does the vinyl version have the complete concert?

That would be interesting, indeed. Of those dates, I only have Montreux and Paris. Do the others circulate? There is also the dynamite show from Tokyo on June 19 that would be worth considering. Rainbow is a good show musically. Sound isn't bad, but the drums are loud. There's also a wealth of recordings from a European tour later that year.