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Favorites from the recent Free America batch? (I'll probably be picking up Phase One shortly.)

Tangent: Yesterday, I was at a café with my wife. We were leisurely drinking coffee, writing some letters, and reading the paper while it rained and rained outside. In walks this very mod-looking, Betty Paige type college girl, replete with the proper tattoos — nothing too unusual for a college town (especially here). I noticed on her shoulder bag a button. It read: READING IS SEXY. First time I'd ever seen anything like that. Made me (quietly) laugh. (OK, back to Mosaics ... )

Agreed. I've e-mailed Cuscuna twice about this very Mosaic Select (I think you gave me the idea, David). He said he'd love to (— though he made no mention about potential licensing troubles) ... but maybe now with the America title out ... chances are less likely? I can't get too greedy. At least we have what we have so far ...

Thoroughly enjoyable. I was afraid of that. The one place in town (brick-and-mortar) that carried hat titles just went under.

... finally put my order in for Way Ahead and New Africa.

The Burrell title grows and grows on you ... glad it made the cut.

Anyone here tried ESP's CD-R system? (And at full price, too!) It's too bad that, in order to get out-of-print ESP titles, the label itself has chosen to fall back on CD-Rs. I'm still looking for Frank Wright's first trio session, and Noah Howard's first quartet session.

Some hatOLOGY titles appear to be making their (actual) final exit from the usual vendors. Prices (e.g. at Squidco and Cadence) have also seen a spike. Would like to see Lacy's Ballets and Tips make it out before the money dries up (again). I never made it to Ellery Eskelin's Forms. How is it?

Ain't that the troof. Turns out I was wrong about Points. It's solo-duo-trio (but no quartet). Here's what Senators sez: Points Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone Steve Potts: soprano saxophone (A1,B1,B2,B3) Kent Carter: bass (A1,A3) Oliver Johnson: drums (A1,A3) A1/ The Mooche (Ellington) 5:00 A2/ Pot-Pourri 3:30 A3/ Stalks 12:30 B1/ Free Point 8:15 B2/ Still Point 5:40 B3/ Moot Point 5:30 Recorded at Studio Résonances in Paris, February 1978. Engineer: Robert Prudon Cover art: Anne-Marie Dufour Photos: Michel Adda. 1978 - Chant Du Monde (France), LDX 74 680 (LP) Must ... hear ... this ... album ... — — I bet brownie's heard it!

Ordered: 2 UMS titles, 2 BYGs. Supposed to not be spending.

Catch, on Horo, is a duo recording with Carter. Points is a quartet with Potts, bass, and drums.

Is Hazevoet primarily a pianist? (On the clarinet: ridiculous good, or ridiculous suck?) And trumpet? I'll probably have to get the thing just to find out ... this series is generally down my alley anyway. The Tom Prehn Kvartet album is one of my faves from this series. Understated avant-garde, if that makes any sense. Very nicely controlled. One FMP title that I'd like to see make this series (and that I've actually written Corbett about) is Rüdiger Carl's Zwei Quintette. I don't even have a listening copy right now — used to, but on a very unfortunate (and hot) day ... the thing got warped out of all control. Anyone here know this side? Has Irène Schweizer on it.

Do the longish tracks sustain interest? I'd be interested in hearing more words on this one ...

According to Mr. Fitzgerald (above), only one Elite has a hidden track. But I'd love more sounds from that album — it's a fine one.

This is a great one. (I think there's a thread on this album somewhere here.) This one will be interesting to check out ~ Musical saw? OK, I'll go there ...

We have threads for the Free America series, the BYG/Actuel series, and the various ESP reissue series ... so I thought this series would fit right in. Just yesterday, I listened to this one straight through: I had forgotten what a terrific session this is — with Brötzmann in one of his earliest Ayler-esque modes. But, more than that, Schlippenbach has a way of changing up the proceedings (blow-out, swing, minimal, etc.) that adds a variety to the session that one doesn't always hear in contemporaneous American recordings of this kind. What are your favorites from this series? (How's the Funky Donkey disc?)

Have you read Jorie's first book? (Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts.) It's actually pretty damn good. I can't get with her work from then on, but that first one, at least for me, is a keeper. Say, you might want to purchase a copy of that anthology!

Me too.

Indeed it is.

... would be nice.

Riding is ("Helen's Burning," "The Map of Places," and "The "World and I"), but Butts isn't. Lorine Niedecker and George Oppen get the fairer chunk of the "Open Form" section (though Creeley, Levertov, and Snyder figure in, as would be expected ... ). Samuel Menashe (who I'm not familiar with) also's there, along with a host of others.

Gotcha. Shows me to trust them AMG suits.

Anyone here heard or have this quartet session from 1978, recorded in Paris?

Amir — not really answering your question, but do you have this one: I always thought the Carter/Bradford sides came from Revelation, but apparently not (at least according to AMG) — they were originally on a label called Jive. At any rate, this is some prime Carter/Bradford material ... and the Tapscott is just as good, if not better. This one is screaming for (re)reissue.

Is Mohawk the Fontana date that Rudy recorded? I know that he did at least one of those NY Art Quartet sessions ... Wouldn't a Mosaic Select be nice?