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For added context: https://www.amazon.com/Jazz-City-Impact-Cities-Development/dp/0135093724

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Always good to learn more about Tommy T. Thanks!

There's more than a little Threadgill in track 9... but it can't be Threadgill. Could track 8 possibly be from this recording?

Chris Speed, but only occasionally. Though, when he does pick up the instrument, he's very, very good on it. http://chrisspeed.com/the-clarinets-1/

Promo film from 1975 [?]. Audio and video are out of sync, alas, but still some nice sights and sounds from a bygone erahere.

If all of these recordings are of the quality of the Hawkins "Body and Soul"shared via that NYT piece, maybe we really are looking at something like a Holy Grail here... even its its made of bits and not aluminum, vinyl, etc. Though I would expect that, should these digital releases perform well enough, you can expect some Record Store Day iterations of this material.

Sad news. Don Buchla, RIP. I'll miss his mad genius for sure, but it is very heartening to see so many contemporary musicians (and synth makers, like Make Noise) following Don's idiosyncratic circuits. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/music/don-buchla-dead.html

Did Sam and Makanda Ken McIntyre ever record together? My memory says "no." But given their shared Boston roots and respective trajectories as composers and improvisors, I'm kind of wondering, "How in the world didn't they?"

Herb Lovelle was, like, Pretty Purdie before there was Pretty Purdie.

Perhaps some of you have run across this website: http://funklet.com/ In any event, I was intrigued by Lovelle's inclusion on this list, as I've always thought of him as an occasional jazz presence. Anyway, I was curious to learn more about his work in R&B, and come to find that his Wikipedia page is actually a pretty interesting / non-standard affair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Lovelle Check out the "Testimonials" section: "These three testimonials are reports based on extensive interviews with Herb Lovelle, and are put here at the expressed request of the interviewers. They were originally uploaded in Herb's presence after he reviewed the content." Herb Lovelle was a man of many, many talents!

How about a Savoy Gospel set?

I don't recall ever seeing W. A. on those gigs, but, damn, that was a long time ago now. I do remember seeing Shelley Carrol jam with James with one night... he showed up to play in sweatpants!

http://discography.backstrom.se/booker/

Not a name familiar to me! Did you ever check out James' Chumley's gigs? I seem to recall Sunday nights...

Thanks for this; the only film footage I've ever seen of Clay. Used to go see him at Chumley's in Deep Ellum during this era. His bands often included Lyles West (IIRC) on bass and Dwayne Clemons on trumpet. Maybe Jim remembers who his steady drummer was back then [?]. Any way, I consider myself very fortunate to have ever seen the man play at all.

DC's Silkheart date, with the Wilber Morris and the somewhat mysterious Booker T. (Williams, Jr.) on tenor sax (he should also have received a special credit for those sunglasses he's sporting on the cover), is also very much worth hearing.

He also sounds great on these Billy Bang sessions: RAINBOW GLADIATOR and VALVE NO. 10.

Long live Sonny Rollins!

Indeed. Here are the specs for anyone interested in reorganizing this material from the CD issue. https://www.discogs.com/Gene-Ammons-Up-Tight/release/3358795 However you choose to listen, this so sublime Gene Ammons!

I see that, and I hear it. So, Muhal has Fleming roots, eh? Fascination upon fascination. Oh, and I absolutely agree re: Jerry Dodgion. Very fine player deserving of wider recognition. He can be heard to fine effect on Marian McPartland's: PORTRAIT OF.

Much grass!

Word. I understand Fleming is still sort of legendary figure in Chicago, and would sure be interested in learning about his presence on that city's scene. So, that Börje Fredriksson record... I only learned abut it through discussion on this board (but who mentioned it first, Sorry, I can't recall). Really nice stuff, and maybe some of the earliest recorded evidence of a Wayne influence at work in ather tenor player's playing [?].

Lake is a good touchstone for Leeds. I tend to forget about his roots, too, for some reason. I shouldn't! Maybe I juxtaposed the Leeds to Julius by accident... and maybe I didn't. I dare say Niehaus' Contemporary Recordings did not really prepare me for that Mercury date. There's a "fussiness" to some of those arrangements that prevents exactly the sense of "band" that this track possesses, as you note. Regarding the King Fleming recording: not an uninteresting pianist, to be sure, though his playing is less Don Shirley-esque on the earlier Argo's I've heard. But what a solo by Malachi! Chris Speed arrived on the scene about the same time as Chris Potter, as I recall. He's also played with some of the same aggregations as Potter (e.g., in Dave Douglas' bands). I think I'd still rather here Speed -- especially if he is playing clarinet -- than Potter, push / shove. But this record, for me, is all about Jamie Saft, and was my introduction to his work. IMO, A musician worth getting to know better, if you don't.

Indeed, that Prince. The dude had more "secret identities" and weird projects going at once than any other pop musician this side of Will Oldham. I also think Eric Leeds can play more than a little. In fact, the more I listen, the harder I find it to place him within a particular sax lineage. I hear the Gato influence only after many of you mentioned it. Maybe some Grover Washington Jr. It's sort of like he all "playing at the edges" with no center, per se. that sounds like a criticism, but it isn't meant as one. If you don't know the Madhouse stuff, BTW, very much worth checking out: http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_8 & http://www.princevault.com/index.php?title=Album:_16. I wonder if Leon Parker relocated to Europe? The latest items I see in his discography (2009 - 2010) featuring him with what appear to be Italian players. At least we still know where David Sanchez is! As to that Niehaus track: I included it almost solely because Bill Perkins plays such a Bill Perkins-y solo on it. After a little digging, I realized this is the same Benny Golson tune so memorably swung by Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine on HIP SOUL. If its true that Golson himself has never recorded this tune -- and I can find no evidence that he has -- that just adds an odd trivial slant to the whole performance.