Joe

In some ways, as much an article about photographer Ming Smith as it is Sun Ra. But for anyone so inclined... https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/sun-ra-everything-nothing/

Ruminative.

Is tolerance love? In all seriousness, it depends. Just about anything with vibes, we're good. Skronk? No.

Exploratory to the end. There are moments here that are almost "out."

Elmo was heading out as he was heading out, if you know what I mean.

So deep.

Some nice footage of Carlos Ward with Rashied Ali, Dave Burrell, and Sirone, circa 1972.

That is my recollection.

I'd forgotten about those unreleased tracks. They are also listed in the Mosaic booklet of Nichol's complete BN recordings. But I could swear someone on the old BN board debunked their existence?

Or Mike Bloomfield.

Dude could groove. Articulation! The way we would alternately snap notes off, let others ring out/sustain, even flirt with feedback. Not many other jazz guitarists of his generation explored the electric qualities of his instrument like he did.

In the words of Mark E. Smith, I am Damo Suzuki.

Somehow, I am just now learning that you can listen to this interview from the WFMT archives. https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/charles-mingus-discusses-his-book-beneath-underdog 35 minutes of conversation from May 1971.

Was aware of the Judee Sill connection (pun intended) but not the rest of this story. Also, not sure of their availability, but the two volumes of Jazz Corps archival recordings Cadence put out several years back are worth hearing. http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_CJR2.htm.

We're a long way from Tommy Peltier's Jazz Corps here... or are we?

You know what's really strange... I spent part of the morning trying to remember Goold's name, the deal with his Smalls recordings. That is, he came to mind for some reason (maybe I was just thinking about obscure/weird contemporary tenor players) and I finally tracked down his THE FLOWS on Spotify. What's up with that?