Joe

Moby Grape Grape Ape Monsieur Mallah

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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.

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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

Robin Harris Bebe Don Beebe

Any opinions of the Nelson / Lou Donaldson collaboration recorded for Argo (ROUGH HOUSE BLUES)?

Yes, the recent Steve Jansen release, SLOPE, is very fine indeed. He has a new one out, apparently: TENDER EXTINCTION. http://www.stevejansen.com/ Trivia everyone here may already know: Jansen is Sylvian's biological brother, real name Stephen Batt. Sylvian was born David Batt.

I highly recommend RAIN TREE CROW, a "reunion" LP of sorts that was advertised as the product of improvisation within the studio. Not sure how much truth there is in this advertising, but the results are often memorable in a late-period Talk Talk kinda way. Also worth hearing: Sylvian's 90s collaborations with Robert Fripp.

Perry White J. Jonah Jameson Roger Ailes

Junior Cook Steve Potts Jimmy Witherspoon

There's also that Newman record on Mercury (AT COUNT BASIE'S) that features Nelson on the front line. So this was more or less or very briefly a working band [?]

William Frederick Kohler Willie Masters Brackett Omensetter

VALVE NO. 10 with Frank Lowe is a favorite. Really, all of his Soul Note recordings are worth a listen; after VALVE NO. 10 I'd single out RAINBOW GLADIATOR with Charles Tyler, the Stuff Smith tribute with Sun Ra and John Ore, and the LIVE AT CARLOS I date.

Vis-a-vis Nelson's approach to improvisation, that NOCTURNE date is very revealing, IMO. The title track is "through-composed," Strayhorn meets Debussy, and is as much a study of articulation, subtle timbral variation and vibrato as it is anything else. Probably a little less of that Trane influence / processing going on here as well. Check out the "build" on Nelson's solo on "Azur Te"...