Joe

Charles Brackeen!

No endorsement of the author's positions intended here*, just posting this for anyone interested in reading "critical opinions" about this release (and Trane in general). https://www.weeklystandard.com/dominic-green/john-coltrane-and-the-end-of-jazz * "The story goes that Coltrane was using LSD after 1965. If so, then the overreach and incoherence of his final music, and his mingling with admiring but inferior talents like Alice Coltrane, the Yoko Ono of jazz, suggest that Coltrane might be the sixties’ first and foremost acid casualty, flailing out rather than flaming out, the peak of his late style already behind him." WTF/GTFO

I try to keep it diverse! The Tom Johnson is a new discovery.

Thanks Mike. Was not familiar with that Ray Russell recording. Nice!

Another question: "Footprints" seemed to very quickly become a standard part of other bands' books. But, outside of Wayne and Miles, who was the first musician to record a version of the tune? This one by Herbie Mann is pretty early, but how early, I wonder...

I wish there were recorded evidence of their "playing outside" together (as Kuhn claims they were wont to do). Based on Pete LaRoca's BASRA, I can hear how Kuhn might have functioned in Coltrane's band. Then again, 1960 Trane is not 1964 Trane.

But did Trane like Steve Kuhn?

This is a great record. As is this one.

Strange line-up; strangely likable results.

Saw Maria perform years ago at Austin's No Idea Festival. Cool to see what's she up to these days.

Ray Warleigh, REVERIE.

"Cecil Taylor (1929-2018), Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka" -- https://newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/cecil-taylor-1929-2018-frank-ohara-amiri-baraka/

Flow is Everything: Composer Henry Threadgill Dishes the 'Dirt' and More on The Checkout “Like a film, like a play, even a so-called static work of art, it has to move,” Threadgill says. “What advances the action? Everything has to advance to the next action. Every act has something in it that advances to the next moment.” http://wbgo.org/post/flow-everything-composer-henry-threadgill-dishes-dirt-and-more-checkout#stream/0

Surprising to me that we've not yet mentioned Joel Forrester's work, with and without The Microscopic Septet. Some of the reference points are pre-bop, but if you're looking for something equal parts Raymond Scott and Thelonious Monk...

Re: Taylor's poetry, check out Fred Moten's work... http://www.ubu.com/papers/moten.html Also: http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_p_moten.html

Patti Bown can also be heard on this somewhat obscure James Moody date (from which I pulled a track for a BFT some time back): https://www.discogs.com/James-Moody-Running-The-Gamut-/release/6727055 (See also: https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/james-moody-thad-jones-albums/5396-the-legendary-1963-64-sessions-2-lps-on-1-cd.html) Not to mention...

Some of my favorite Ammons. On CD, she can be heard with him here: here: and here:

Along those same lines: the Hancock / Workman / Chambers dynamic on ADAM'S APPLE