Joe

Hi all. Some advance note on next month's BFT: content will be available via my Bandcamp site, https://slowstudies.bandcamp.com/. If you are interested in participating in BFT 149, please PM me here and I will provide instructions on how to access the audio files. Bandcamp supports both streaming and downloads. Thanks, and looking forward to 31 days of hot opinions, wild guesses, and whatever else these 15 tracks inspire. 08/04/16: STREAMING BACKUP OPTION: http://slowstudies.net/bft149/

Just beginning to dig into this release, and it is pretty fascinating. It features no Ellington or Strayhorn compositions, BUT, as the liner notes make clear, two of the the Praker originals here were commissioned by Ellington about the time of Strayhorn's death (and were apparently accorded a very favorable reception) but never recorded. Colorful, tightly arranged but somehow freewheeling and rhythmically complex music that I'm guessing the Duke of The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse would have appreciated.

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A set that some listeners may find to be too clever for its own good -- me, I like hearing Monk on prepared piano -- but John Stetch earns points fro trying to really engage with the music and find new ways to explore it.

Maybe my favorite baritone sax player period. Was just listening to his Red Records release (REFLECTIONS) earlier this week and saying to myself, "I guess I've short-changed him as a tenor player all this time." He'll be missed.

Ken Berry Larry Storch Prof. Irwin Corey

That Art & Lee LP is something special indeed. Ditto the Atlas LP with Shelly Manne, Bob Cooper, Pete Jolly and Bill Watrous in the Frank Rosolino role.

Sad, sad, sad to learn this. Mr. Friedman was a wonderfully muscular but lyrical player. Thank goodness he was able to play until the very end of his life.

"Betty Davis’ funk albums from 1973-1975 were reissued in recent years by Light in the Attic. But before those records were made, Betty and her then-husband Miles Davis recorded sessions at Columbia’s 52nd Street Studios on May 14 and 20, 1969. Miles and Teo Macero produced the sessions, which featured Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Mitch Mitchell (the Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer), and others. They covered Cream and Creedence Clearwater and recorded originals by Betty, but the songs were never released. Those sessions have now been unearthed and remastered, and are released today as The Columbia Years 1968-1969, via Light in the Attic." http://pitchfork.com/news/66427-lost-betty-davis-1969-sessions-with-miles-davis-released/ http://lightintheattic.net/releases/2429-the-columbia-years-1968-1969

Moby Grape Grape Ape Monsieur Mallah

Gang of Four Four Freshmen Young Fresh Fellows

Re: the Patti Bown recordings, there's also the October 17 and 18 1961 sessions all present but still not fully collated on the UP TIGHT! CD reissue. I believe said disc combines the Lps UP TIGHT and BOSS SOUL in their original running orders, alternating the Bown tracks with those featuring Walter Bishop Jr. on piano.

on all of these dates. Spaulding's tone by this time is not quite what it was as documented by RVG in the 60's; more grit and growl, and there are fewer ventures into Dolphy-inspired intervallic risk. But he's never less than solid and subtly adventurous in his playing.

Doctor Moreau The Abominable Dr. Phibes Mr. Pibb

My entry point for Elvin's BNs were the LIVE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE dates. Steve Grossman, Dave Liebman, Gene Perla. Not a bad place to start, still, IMO, but I now found more rewarding listening in POLY-CURRENTS and COALITION.

Thanks for this. I'd not realized all these tracks had made it to CD.

Buck Dharma Buckethead Charlie Bucket

Wayland Flowers Madam Achmed the Dead Terrorist

Seconded.

IIRC, there is a film / video component to The Dead Texan project. Apologies if she has been mentioned on this thread already (and if so, another ), but some of the more interesting electronic music being made right now is courtesy of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

You can't go wrong with his early 60s sessions with Bobby Jasper, Rene Thomas and Daniel Humair. Some of his finer late-period playing can be found on PEACE (Enja). With Buster Williams, Joe Chambers and David Friedman.

Cesar Romero Victor Buono Yoko Ono

SWEET SPACE was paired with UNTITLED GIFT on a CD reissue by 8the Harmonic Breakdown in 2004. OOP now I'm afraid, but used copies are floating around out there in the 2nd-hand market. https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Bang-Sweet-SpaceUntitled-Gift/release/4593175

Cloudy Jane Crazy Jane Hanoi Jane