JSngry

So much talk about "wanting to reach a wider audience", with the implication(?) that at some level it was some sort of "business decision". I'm not convinced. If you were alive (and old/young enough to be a part of the "vibe") then, you can remember how there was this window where it seemed that the notion of "universal brotherhood" was definitely within reach, perhaps just around the corner. Knowing what we know about Ayler's inclinations, I've got no doubt that he too was feeling this sense of possibility in his own outsized way, and willingly made those records in that spirit - not as a "career move", but as a genuinely felt, if possibly "delusional", outreach. Now, we also know that by the time he was making those records that his overall mental condition had changed (I would say "deteriorated", but I think it's more complicated than that), and I think that that's what accounts for the quality of those records. He really was "losing himself" in all kinds of ways, ways that play directly into the whole "messianic" trip, and ways that no doubt felt as inevitable to him as they seemed disturbing to many "on the outside". I think it was Charles Tyler who said that the Aylers had that "old time religion" so deep inside them that it eventually messed them up. I think you can look at the desire/compulsion to preach to the world what you percieve as profoundly overpowering simple truths in what you perceive as profoundly overpowering simple ways has as much to do with the records we're talking about here as anything. That's how I hear them anyway - they're disturbing in a way that the earlier musics aren't, and the most disturbing thing for me is that I can rationally hear the delusionality at work as easily as I can irrationally believe in it. Even as he was irretrievably slipping into another place, Albert Ayler had a seriousass mojo.

The guy had a message he believed in and wanted to reach people with it. Imagine that.

Here's the one I use: http://www.wunderground.com/ You can customize it for your (or any) zip code )or any country). Animated, zoomable NEXRAD radar loops, extrememly localized readings, forecasts, bulletins, etc. For $10 a year, you can make the ads go away too. The only thing missing is live radar, but the loops are updated every 5-6 minutes. Any others?

Rollie Fingers Bill Hand Odd Job

Exactly. Enjoy the fruit salad!

That blurb is kinda blurby...

Yeah, I'd go. I just hope they don't get too literal.

John Phillip Sousa John Phillips Denny Doherty

Polly Darton Pat Playjacks Velma Blank

It's do-able... Warning - Not Work Safe

I just thought that you'd forgotten to shave...

Well, sorta, maybe, I guess. The Ayler gives me goosebumps. That Bird side (just the packaging, not the music), gave me the heebie-jeebies.

That only proves my point!

Personally, for me, it's "Personally" by Z.Z. Hill. "I got somethin' ta' give ya'....that the mailman....CAIN'T deli-va." You may disagree. If so, you are wrong! C'mon, let's duke it out!

Chubby Checker Ward Parkway Cameo

Yep. The title cut alone is worth the price of admission.

Imperfect recording, but damn fine playing by everybody.

Eddie Cantor George Gallup John Scott Trotter

She was a nice girl. Alto player actually, not yet really good, & all the guys made fun of her for wanting to be a player. I've seen a lot of different type bootlegs over the years, and some are certainly "unusual". But that Parktec thing is the only one that's given me the shivers.

Yellheah! Well, sorta. There's sythns & electric bass, and some "contemporary"-ish rhythms. It's still pretty much "jazz" but the influence is definitely there. "Fusion" more like "electric jazz", not like "odd-meter chop spewy". 3 Sides on Soul Note - Dragonfly, Quasar & Liquid Dancers. I like 'em.

Oh...my...god... I have seen that record, and there's something very weird about it. First of all, the picture isn't that cat w/Bird - it's a picture of some mentally ill looking cat who put himself in front of a blow-up of the pic of Bird & Billy Eckstine at Birdland(?) & took a picture of that. In the second place - there is no such place as "Rollo, Tx". In the third place, that note is not by Bird. Definitely not. In the fourth place, Dr. Donkke didn't make these recordings. I'm pretty sure that there is no Dr. Donkke. In the fifth place, I'm told that there's something in the occult that has to do with a donkey hoof, some sort of ritual or something. So, "Claude Donkke" could maybe be read as "clawed donkey". Admittedly, this one is a stretch, but everything else about that record is so creepy that I'm alllowing it. Back in college, I met a chick from California who had this side. She was a bit of a Bird buff, had some otehr boots, but thought this one was a little weird. When I looked at it, the "photo" of Dr. Donkke w/Bird immediately creeped me out - the photo's obviosuly a very cheap forgery, the cat really does look mentally unstable, and the "note from Bird" is desperately poorly written. I got a vibe immediately, and set about finding out of Rollo, Tx really existed. It didn't, So one thing led to another, and I found out about the alleged occult ritual (still not fully buying into that one, but...). Anyway, this is not your typical Bird bootleg. Who in the hell would go to the trouble of creating obviously fake photos & forged letters, none of which even faintly suggested the remotest chance of authenticity? Eitehr somebody with a warped sense of humor or somebody who really was a little bit or more off. The whole thing was just....creepy. Anyway, I gave the chick her record back & told her she could have it because it was weirding me out, Bird or no Bird. True story, I swear.

From the website: So I don't think they were looking to buy land as much as aqcuire it through federal grant.

Butcha' know - Free Fall has Paul Bley on it, and Paul Bley gave Ornette his first break - in Los Angeles, where Bley led a house band for a good while. And that gig led to Ornette's recording debut for - Contemporary. So when you hear Free Fall, you're hearing 2/3 West Coast of some sort.

Good god Aric, if Free Fall freaks you out, you for darn sure don't want to hear the stuff from the 80s that sorta kinda sounds like Weather Report...

I've got no idea. But I figure it's better to have it in some form than to not have it at all. Hey - if a better deal comes along, take it!