B. Clugston

I really feel for the family. 10 years without justice or closure and now this.

He explains that in Graham Lock's book "Forces and Motion." Don't have it in front of me, but I think it was something to do with tranquilizers.

This one didn't seem right from the get-go. A sad example of incompetent investigators. Maybe they'll link him to 9/11 plots next.

Here's an obit: http://calyx.club.fr/mus/pyle_pip.html Pip Pyle played with Gong in 1971 plus some later incarnations in the 1990s.

The ones I have are the Feb. 5, 1968 concert on Moon and a Rome concert on Nippon Crown. The set list for the latter (as it appears on the CD cover) is "Lonely Woman," "Mousieur Le Prince," "Forgotten Children" and "Buddah Blues." My CD says the latter is from 1967, but I believe it was recorded Feb. 8, 1968. Both were re-released as The Love Revolution.

The version of "New York" was played by the quartet plus one at the Carnegie Hall concert in June. For a sample, go to http://destination-out.com/ and scroll way down....

There's two boots - one poorly recorded with the "Dancing in Your Head" theme ("Tutti); the other in much better sound and includes "Lonely Woman" and a track where Ornette plays a double reed instrument (Yusef Lateef he ain't). Both were recently reissued as a 2 CD set on one of those hazy European labels. Interestingly, Ornette's new group has revived a song that appeared on the same boot as "Tutti," a song called "New York."

Lonehill is releasing the Complete Pluto, but it doesn't include Charon.

ugh, right, blocked that one out of my head. it's two CDs, one CD of sextet collaboration, one CD with the two trio sets from FOTC. it was released against Keith Rowe's wishes, FWIW. How is it? I seem to recall there wasn't a lot of positive buzz about it.

In case it hasn't been mentioned, there's also a more recent AMM meets MEV CD.

I went with low expectations (due to the hype), but actually enjoyed it. A lot of people are making this out to be a masterpiece. I suppose it is if you thought Under Siege was high art. It's very entertaining, but nothing profound.

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky (sometimes spelled Gayvoronsky) is a great trumpeter from Russia. He plays a rotary trumpet and is best known for duos with bassist Vladimir Volkov and more recently the accordionist Evelyn Petrova. And then there's Kenny Wheeler.

I only have Spacecraft/Unfied Patchwork Theory. The former is from the early days and it hurts listening to Ivan Vandor squalling on the alto sax. The latter is from 1990 or so and includes Steve Lacy and Garrett List and is quite good. Allan Bryant has released some archival stuff, but I haven't heard it. There's a couple of BYGs: The Sound Pool and Leave the City. Alvin Curran on Leave the City (quoted in The Wire): "Oh my god, that's a false MEV. Those are some French kids who robbed the name. They were once with us, they were a bunch of hippies from Paris, they took the name and turned this thing out. It was horrible. It's a bunch of hippies playing flutes. Sorry about that.

Really? I thought Miles dug Jimi. Me too. I thought the "hillbilly" tag was more affectionate than a put down.

A great song from an underappreciated album. That was Chick's first solo with the quintet. Dave Holland also debuted. They also recorded Frelon Brun at the session.

Long-range sensors have picked up an upcoming Leo Records release in September. It consists of four compositions from last year's Ulrichsberg concerts. My guess is it's from the big ensemble concert.

I'll second that. Smoker is a fabulous player.

I don't have cable and don't miss it. More channels than ever, and even less to watch. If there's a show I like, I wait until it comes out on DVD so I can watch it in sequence without commercials, re-runs or pre-emptions for some airhead talent contest.

Not bad list. I'd certainly agree with the first three. The rest is a bit heavy on the adventurous, but usually these lists are so predictable or banal. Hot Rats is an oddity. It's not a bad album, but I could name 100 jazz records that are better. Sam Rivers' Contours wouldn't be my first pick. I wouldn't replace Sidewinder with Search For the New Land. They both should be on there. No problems seeing Zorn and Naked City. Fun album.

I think that some folks are more Motown and others are more Stax (I'm definitely the later!). Also, a few years back, I heard something on our local jazz station that sounded like On The Corner outtakes or something! Instead of calling the station, I began a hunt for this item... then, I thought that they had gotten hold of some promo for an upcoming set that I didn't know about, and so the searching went on. I've heard OTC sooooooooo many times, that it was clearly some version of one of the cuts, but I could never come up with anything. Still don't know, but maybe there's a Laswell reworking out there somewhere? If this box is anything like I heard...well, hell, I'd buy anything on Miles anyway... Laswell's Panthalassa has a version of "Black Satin," though it sounds pretty much the same. There's also a previously unreleased song from the sessions featuring John McLaughlin, but it doesn't sound like the On the Corner stuff. "Black Satin" also gets the remix treatment on Panthalassa: The Remixes. "Black Satin" reappears again on the 1972 live album. Henry Kaiser's Yo Miles! recordings can sometimees sound like the real thing during the guitar solos.

I'll second that emotion. Let it be noted, though, that the Montreux box features several worthy lineups that never got "officially" recorded otherwise. Agreed. I quite enjoyed the set with Robben Ford on guitar, despite the mushy synths. But frankly I don't think I've ever played a couple of the later dics.

One of Sun Ra's Horo recordings is discussed here, including samples: http://www.destination-out.com/

While the quartets would fit nicely on a Select, there's a lot more great music that isn't in quartet format: the duos with Muhal Richard Abrams, Braxton and George Lewis with a chamber orchestra, the Creative Music Orchestra date, For Trio with Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman on one side and Henry Threadgill and Douglas Ewart on the other, the solo album, For Two Pianos with Frederic Rzewski and Ursula Oppens, a sax quartet, etc. etc. But don't hold your breath on seeing this any time soon. BMG is run by goofballs. Best case scenario we will get "Braxton for Lovers."

This just as easily go in the political forum...but if you do not like the current regime in the U.S., you got to watch the Joe Dantes-directed "Homecoming" in the Masters of Horror anthology series. It's freaking hilarious! It's basically about soldiers from the current conflict who return from the dead with a message for the president. Lots of commentary about Iraq, counting ballots in Ohio and Florida and right-wing pundits. If you dislike the Bush crew and love B-grade horror, this is a riot.

The RVG of The Sermon was my first Jimmy Smith purchase. Liked it so much, I got House Party. I was sure pissed to find out about those dropped tracks.