Joe

What, no love for The Big Smooth?

Have you heard Nick Hennies or Sandy Ewan's solo material? Worth looking into; definitely more in the "free improv" vein. Tide's in. http://puzzle.suchfun.net/nicholas_hennies/ http://www.surefiredistribution.com/cgi-bi...mp;location=usa

Fischer is an interesting pianist at this stage of his career, for sure. But what great bass-drums teams on those recordings: Gary Peacock and Gene Stone [hear Don Ellis' ESSENCE for more]; Ralph Pena and Larry Bunker; and Albert Stinson and Colin Bailey.

Ditto. 6 - 5 minutes to go, score tied at 79, Mavs have the penalty, both Zo and Shaq are out of the game, and what do Dirk, Jet et al. do? Settle for jump shots. Vomit.

I'm just praying Riles keeps Antoine Walker in the starting line-up... like Manu and Tim Thomas earlier in these here playoffs, 'Toine could end up being the Mavs' series MVP.

Or the return of... http://oldcomputers.net/ts1000.html

Calo Scott. Not many appearances on record, but a player whose work merits close attention. Gato Barbieri: IN SEARCH OF THE MYSTERY [ESP]

Whatever happened to Ronnell Bright?

Is a San Antonio hangover comparable to Montezuma's Revenge? Avery's going to have to show me is really does know how to make adjustments now. Kenny Smith nailed it in the pre-game yakfest: the Suns' pick-and-roll just killed the Mavs. (No Howard hurt muchly too). But I'm not worried...

Duncan is a great player and teammate, and I'd have him on any team of mine w/o a moment's hesitation, but the man has a turtlehead. It's Tony Parker whose ass I would like to stick a broomstick up. Motherfukkin' snideass little bitch. I reserve my sports hatred (which is not like real hatred or anything) for Manu Ginobili. I'm guessing there are some folks in San Antonio who aren't too happy with him and his toreador antics either now that this series is in the books.

Jeff Palmer / George Garzone / Richard Poole: OPPOSITE VOLTAGE

It wouldn't be the NBA Playoffs without some serious conspiracy theorizing. Anticipating a Game 7 down in the Hill Country.

Please allow me a litle local pride... The Theater Fire

Gotta give it up for Sparkplug. Been muchly digging on his contributions to Lonnie Smith's THINK! (esp. "Son Of Ice Bag") lately. Any more details on the soon-to-be Savant release?

How about Peter Warren on those Jack DeJohnette Special Edition records? And another vote for the Diedre Murray / Fred Hopkins recordings.

Dusted Magazine review (by Derek Taylor)

Actually, that's an actor (Ko /Kou / Machizo Machida) portraying Abe. Keiji Haino, of course, plays his own oh-so-black self.

One of Japan's pioneering "free" musicians. The great bulk of his discography is posthumous, IIRC. Not well-represented in my collection, but I do have the DIW LAST DATE, which features Abe's work on both guitar and harmonica and is consequently somewhat less intense than, say, his collaborations with guitarist / feedback sculptor Masayuki Takayanagi (I've heard but do not own). Also, check out the film ENDLESS WALTZ (clip available here).

It would be nice to have UNDERWEAR (1971, with Arild Andersen and Jon Christensen) back in circulation. And, while it does not contain anything like Don Cherry's finest work, I've always liked Stenson's contributions to this session:

Bloom had not quite fully blossomed yet, but the 1982 Enja date MIGHTY LIGHTS (w/ Hersch, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell) is worth hearing.

I can't quite articulate why, but this recording has never really clicked for me. I feel there's a certain disconnect between the soloists and the rhythm section, and Tucker seems really out-of-sorts to me. Its almost as if the musicians are having some difficulty really hearing each other. Its often edge-of-my-seat stuff, but not so much "edge-of-my-seat-engrossing" as "edge-of-my-seat-becuase-I-can't-get-comfortable-and-I-might-need-to-move-to-the-next-room-at-any-moment". Maybe the band needed more rehearsal time? Maybe its just lazy or tacky listening on my part. Like Hill's own POINT OF DEPARTURE (hmmm, similiarly configured, "all-star" band), CONFLICT is a recording I much more easily "respect" than "enjoy". Yet, like POINT OF DEPARTURE, its a recording I won't give up on. I have to say I prefer Woods' work (both as composer and soloist) on AWAKENING!!! and (as soloist only)on Joe Gordon's excellent LOOKIN' GOOD. A somewhat fugitive figure, Woods. I wonder what happened to him.

Hot diggidy! http://www.harkitrecords.com/titles.html#1

Among Abrams' more "abstract" recordings, IMO, but the title track is one of the most flat-out joyous things in his discography.

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Thanks for the heads-up. http://www.cryptogramophone.com/