Joe

Remember when Steve Albini called Smashing Pumpkins "the grunge Monkees"? Gen X never will escape the shadow cast by the Boomers... unless they choose to. Anyway, I admire these 4 guys for having a pretty healthy attitude overall about success/fame/the machine that is American pop culture. Imagine being defined for the rest of your life by this blip of an experience you had in your 20s... That Tork, Nesmith, Dolenz and Jones all went on to do other things and make their own peace with their complicated legacy says more about who they are than the images of them that are still widely circulated.

You take your avant garde where you find it.

Rhino's CHILDREN OF NUGGETS compilation offers a pretty fine introduction to many of these groups.

Love his tribute to Herbie Nichols on this record. I actually prefer his Prestige material to the Blue Notes -- feel like that's really when he came into his own as a composer. PRIMITIVE MODERN and QUADRAMA are both superb dates.

Great program! Loved being able to hear that Ellington piece.

I would totally have hired Gil Melle to so some VO work.

I. M. Terrell! Other alums include King Curtis, Cornell Dupree and Julius Hemphill. http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/ornette-coleman-and-the-color-of-fort-worth/

Still amazed at how ingenious and downright musical the results of this experiment are. But: http://www.copyhype.com/2011/07/kind-of-bamboozled-why-kind-of-bloop-is-not-a-fair-use/

And Eje Thelin!

yes, its been too long!

Thanks Mike. NEVER seen that Bluebird issue.

I don't believe so, at least domestically. This BMG France reissue probably comes closest. https://www.discogs.com/Jeanne-Lee-With-Ran-Blake-The-Newest-Sound-Around/release/3102306

I believe this set includes material not on the Fresh Sounds release. To quote a certain board member, carpe diem!

Alvin Fielder and Joseph Jarman in rapid succession... January, 2019, you're aren't doing much to impress me so far.

My mother introduced me to Don Shirley's music years ago. Not exactly my thing, but I appreciated the skill displayed. When I saw previews for this film back in September, I knew I had to take her to see it. For what it is -- a Hollywood production -- it is very, very good. Maybe even better than that, partly by virtue of its being somewhat understated in how it handles its "big issues." Mortensen and Ali are pretty much in every scene; they really carry the film with superb performances. Also surprising (to me, anyway) that Peter Farrelly (one of the Farrelly Bros.) helmed the production.