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I noticed that. But I did wonder if Densmore was drum-synching.

I highly recommend the Old Dogs duets with Gerry Hemingway. Not a dull moment over four CDs. Interesting to hear Braxton spend some extended time on his lower horns and Hemingway mixes it up, including some great swinging passages that remind me of Braxton's duets with Max Roach.

Beyond the money issue, I wonder if Erroll Garner has also lost some recognition and exposure with more recent generations (I associate him more with Charlie Parker) due to the fortress that his back catalogue has become. I've always skipped the Sony CDs because those Columbia Jazz Masterpiece CDs were ugly and generally sounded awful.

Here's Stan Getz on David Letterman from either 1985 or 1986:

Me too. I believe the Ayler estate may be actually estates as there are different factions. I also remember when the box came out, ESP seemed miffed and announced it was doing its own box, which never happened. IIRC, Sunny Murray also distanced himself from the Holy Ghost project and there's a very snide comment in Holy Ghost about the version of the second disc of Prophecy material that Murray helped release. Whatever happened, it's too bad Revenant is gone. What a great label.

I saw Stan Getz on his show years ago. And wasn't that Mats Gustafson on bass saxophone ("You're going to hurt someone with that," Letterman said to him) backing up Laurie Anderson's recent appearance?

Good for you for outing them. I've heard of this practice at some other music magazines too. Whenever you read a review that sounds like a press release and you see a corresponding ad nearby, there's a good bet that the ad-for-review deal happened.

Van Patterson Quartet, Live at the F.W. a cassette only release on The Tapeworm label. It's organ, guitar, drums--there may be a bass, can't tell because it's a cassette. A bit jazzy in parts, but more psych. Not sure if it's from the 1960s as it is purported to be or a more recent knock-off, as many suspect.

I've been listening to the Zorn/Anderson/Reed concert. Most media reports I read ignored the fact that Zorn got a loud applause after telling the boo-birds to f off.

Try Love Cry Want, featuring Larry Young. It was recently reissued on vinyl on Weird Forest.

RIP. Way too young. I love his 1975 live albums, particularly Live in Berlin.

Just heard about it. Sad news. Great player. Saw him play with the Dedication Orchestra a few years back.

At the Blackhawk is a great one--probably my favourite Monk record. Harold Land and Joe Gordon keep things unpredictable and nice to hear Billy Higgins on drums. The Newport 63 disc with Pee Wee Russell on two tracks is a keeper too. I love the version of "Criss Cross" that opens the concert (sans Russell).

Your notes provide more of a political/social/historical context. Joe McPhee gives some background on his use of tape, "The Looking Glass I" and mentions it was a recording of a radio broadcast. Werner says he first heard the recording when he met with McPhee and Craig Johnson of CJR Records back in 1974. It was scheduled for release on LP in 1988, but the rise of the CD scrapped that plan, and it was forgotten until 1996, when it was released on CD.

Well, sonnymax, this is a session around which much misinformation has been generated. Do the notes really say that I managed The Free Music Store? I have read that I engineered the session while serving as General Manager of WBAI, I have also read that I produced it. Needless to say, this has made me rather curious to hear it! The CD says "Broadcast recorded by Chris Albertson." You wrote the liner notes in 1987 when it was supposed to have been released on vinyl.

Not aware of that one, but this one has made the rounds on the tubes... Afraid I don't know anything about the source, or whether the discographical information is correct, but more information is available HERE. I seem to recall the personnel is correct, but it was not done for Blue Note. The music is fantastic.

What an appalling article about Maria Schneider.

The Bitches Brew 40th will contain alternate takes of "Spanish Key," "John McLaughlin" and "Miles Runs The Voodoo Down." The previous 4-CD "Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" contained no alternate takes from the actual sessions.

I hear that the Zorn/Anderson/Reed gig caused some controversy in that 200 people asked (and got) refunds because they thought they were in for a night of "Sweet Jane" and such. When told to play some music by a heckler, Zorn said "If you don't think that's music, get the fuck out of here!" I find the over-reaction quite surprising. What were people expecting? The trio has already put out one CD of improv, Reed has been revisiting his Metal Machine Music days recently, Anderson is an avantgardist and Zorn is Zorn. http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Walk+wild+side/3230426/story.html#ixzz0tUJuhSf2 http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Anderson+Reed+Zorn+raise+ruckus/3234057/story.html

I have a Rega P1. It's a good turntable for the price, though I have to manually lower the tonearm because the lever stopped working. Other than that, it's well built. It's an honourable replacement for my old Pioneer, though it's no-frills and I'm not clear if you can play 45s on it.

There's also this--Why we love Antony Braxton: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128079453

Joe Morris (the guitarist) writes about Weight/Counterweight here: http://ageofeverything.blogspot.com/2010/02/weightcounterweight-bill-dixon.html

Exposure, Let the Power Fall, No Pussyfooting.

Yes and on the Cosmic Music sessions as well.

I bought the Fillmore Concerts box and don't recommend it. It does have At Fillmore (sort of) and the live tracks from Eat a Peach plus others, but it didn't sound as great as the vinyl and they dicked around with one of the songs (Elizabeth Reed, I think), taking half of it from one night, half from the other as opposed to the original released version. The deluxe edition looks tempting and has a song that wasn't on the Fillmore Concerts box.