B. Clugston

Quote me if you wish.

For new CDs from the bigs, I try to stay under $15. For the smaller independents, I usually order directly from them and don’t care about price. In the pre-eBay days, I once spent CDN $37 on a Japanese import of Ornette Coleman’s Croydon concert. The old Hat Huts used to set me back CDN $28.Nowadays, if it’s OOP and I really, really want it, I’ll go up to $33.

The On the Corner stuff is great. It includes the segment used by Bill Laswell for “What If” on Panthalassa. “Chieftain,” as I mentioned before, is the same tune that opens In Concert at Philharmonic Hall. The “Turnaround” tracks are the same tune from the second part of “Prelude” on Agharta. Some of this music was used on Panthalassa. “The Hen,” “Big Fun-Hollwuud,” and “Peace” are kind of dull along the “Billy Preston” lines and lack the edge the band had in its live shows. “Mr. Foster,” recorded the day after “Calypso Frelimo” in 1973, is a good one. It sounds like “For Dave,” which closes Agharta and Pangaea and is on the latter part of Side 2 of Dark Magus. Confusingly, the more mainstream “Minnie” from 1975 is also known as “Mr. Foster.” “Hip Skip” and “What They Do” are from 1974 and include Dominique Gaumont on guitar. The former song features Pete Cosey on drums and was performed on a few live bootlegs from this period; the latter is a great stop-start guitar-fueled rave-up not unlike the “Turnaroundphrase” finale on Dark Magus.

Just got it. Nice looking package. The track "Chieftain" is the same tune that opens the In Concert at the Philharamonic Hall album. In case this hasn't been mentioned yet, there's interviews with Pete Cosey, Michael Henderson and Dave LIebman at www.miles-davis.com/onthecorner.

I've got quite a lot of music by that gentleman. Modern composers (Feldman, Kagel, Ligeti) are the second largest part of my collection behind jazz. The two non-jazz genres I've really been into lately are baroque and black metal. I probably own less than 10 "rock" CDs.

Jarrett is becoming so known for this now that I think I'd be disappointed if I went to one of his gigs and he didn't pull a hissy fit.

I would guess because 'Red China Blues' is considered more an 'outside' project. It's not Miles' band or anything, he just happens to be playing on it. And it sucks.

My favourite of the Patton/Dunn/Baron group. But I've found this gets diminishing returns after a few spins. Still, it's a lot of fun if you like this kind of stuff.

How is the 2-CD version of House of Saints? I got the original version and quite like it, particularly the closing number.

Thanks for the support! This thread is now officially *buzzing*!! Until it gets RVGed, there won't be much buzz in these parts.

Good to see The Longest Night coming out at last. It's a 2 CD set.

No kidding. Something similar happened on a Patton thread a few months back.

Hey! Maybe Vince W noticed these mistakes and is trying to get them corrected before putting the box out! heh, heh...

I hope they are not printed in yellow text on orange background, as in one of the previous Miles box sets (don't remember which one) That would be the In a Silent Way box. As for the content of this box, there's this from www.miles-beyond.com: "In addition, the liner notes for the boxed set are very sketchy and incomplete. For instance, there's hardly any track by track discussion, as was found on previous boxed sets. Instead there's the briefest of introductions by Bob Belden, an essay by Tom Terrell that's high on impressionistic word play but low on factual information on the music, and an entertaining and informatve essay by Paul Buckmaster, that captures the spirit of the early June 1972 sessions well, but obviously says nothing about the sessions that came afterwards, as he wasn't involved. There are also a few errors in the liner notes and discography."

Not a well-documented player away from the AEoC. The only leader date I have of his is Together Alone, the duos with Braxton, which I recommend.

Talk about a lightning rod.

No wonder people are buying fewer CDs.

I'd go see them even if John Tesh was the pianist.

Jazz Impressions Of Japan !

From Jazz Loft: "We just received notice from the distributor that Sony has again delayed the release of Miles Davis "Complete On The Corner Sessions" boxed set until the first week in October. In typical Sony fashion, they are keeping the September 28th street date so that the set qualifies for this years Grammy Awards. Please be aware that the actual release date is now October 5th. We will, of course, honor all orders at the pre-sale prices. Your cards have been charged and we will fill all orders as soon as Sony actually releases the set."

Because so much of his work is OOP, Osborne is a great blindfold test stumper. Amongst the in-print stuff, great place to hear him is on the live Harry Miller Isipingo disc.

I really like Hatto’s organ trio albums. She did some mean versions of “Wealthy Street,” “Greaze Monkey” and “Brother Ray.”

A great player whose standing isn't what it should be, partly due to his long illness. RIP. Got to listen to his excellent duets with Stan Tracey as a memorial.

Glue leeched all over Disc 1 of my "Complete" Bitches Brew as well. But I prefer listening to Bitches Brew on vinyl.

"Wiggle Waggle" -- what a great opener. I've always really enjoyed this album.