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Ok, so if it was a quartet, nobody else to remember. Tom Varner (or maybe John Clark?), Newton, Byard Lancaster (who was playing bass clarinet with no bell!), and Jenkins. Thanks for finding that! Clifford had a really good reed, it sounds like! They recorded it well too! Cause for celebration in an of itself!

Looking at that and seeing the left half advertising the G. Gordon Liddy vs. Abbie Hoffman "great debate", my hunch is that it was put up by UNM. .ight have even been their billboard. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=daily_lobo_1982 Hey, Leroy Jenkins on a billboard in Albuquerque. Works for me!

I totally get Ike's reaction!

Maybe you and Ms. TTK can get a bit together to do at parties?

Found this online. This would have been the year of that concert. Either 1982 or 1983. Yeah, a billboard!!!

No, this would have been ca. 1984 And come to think of it, maybe it was Taos?

I don't think I should. This is from 2019. What's the post-Covid landscape looking like for the event? That's all I want to know.

He began withdrawing in the early-mid 1980s. Played a gig in Albuquerque with a Leroy Jenkins group (that I was lucky enough to attend, also in the group were Byard Lancaster, Tom Varner, and I forget who and what else, it was a chamber group) and fell in love with New Mexico and/or a woman. That led to him setting up some kind of flute institute in Santa Fe, after which one thing led to another, or so it seems. In and out of New Mexico and less and less engaged with the whole visibility thing. That's roughly how I remember it. Don't quote me, though. Definitely Santa Fe, though. That happened, and seemed to be some kind of a life pivot. He's every bit the conventional virtuoso that Hubert Laws is, with the added attraction (for me) of a total command of the Dolphy via Gazelloni range of "extended techniques". The issue of the tone of most jazz flutists is a point of spiky contention with a lot of "classical" flutists, which is a real drag of a conversation to have (I have learned not to have it at all!). The only ones who get a pass are Dolphy, Tabackin, and Newton. To that end, sometimes I find it a bit easy to be lulled away from paying attention to the content of his playing, which is always a huge mistake, because he's usually a very meaty player. That "classical" tone is a decoy (as it can be with Laws), and the flurries of notes are so effortlessly executed that they can seem to be just rote exercises. They're not! Anyway... I would like to hear what he's doing these days, regardless of idiom. A player of that caliber...

Nope. Scanned both links for "Poutine Cook-off" and nothing there.

I see nothing about the Poutine Cook-off. Does that mean it's been cancelled this year?

When is this year's Poutine Cook-off?

There's a lot of James Newton records I have yet to hear. This was one of them. Nothing revelatory, but still really good. Are people forgetting about James Newton these days? Is so, in favor of who(m?)?

They were rare in the US as well, so they were equally welcome here!

Yeah, Ike should be remembered poorly as a human, but positively as a musical power. Hardly anything new there, unfortunately.

Self-medicating.

Wake & Bake!!!

or if you prefer... She had GREAT pitch.

Lando Stiggers - In The Pit Of My Stomach

I'm thinking that $25/hr in 1973 was not bad money? 170.81/hr in today's money. Around $1200.00 for a day's work.

Has there been a full, legit, collation of all of Coleman's Ronnie Scott's recordings? What's the deal there? This Pye record seems to have never gotten past it's first release, and in certain circles is the stuff of well-deserved legend for Coleman's inexhaustibly tasty tenor athleticism.

Books, eh...but Dan Morgenstern did a series of liner notes that ended up saying the world about who/what Coleman Hawkins really was.

A world of experience and wisdom. RIP to somebody who was always there.

Merritt played the Ampeg Baby Bass, which was an electric standup bass Still popular in Latin circles!

What can you say?