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I was listening to this the other day. It's surprisingly good: up there with all three players' best. I must say that I hate the cover art though.

A big plug for The Quest by Mal Waldron. Booker with Eric Dolphy.

There is one really good historic thread on this forum giving an overview of the development of jazz organ from novelty to deadly serious. I'll see if I can dig it out later.

Now playing: Synovial Joints (Pi, 2015) by Steve Coleman and the Council of Balance Impressive that such a large big band still sounds so open. Now moved on to: Arni Cheatham's Thing (1972)

Agreed. What I find so impressive is that for once it is a populist / crossover approach that works. It has breathed such a life into the London scene.

Thanks for the link to this.

I meant... musically.

How did you find this one? It's just out, I think.

Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra - Visions (Steeplechase, 1979). Devin Grey - Dirigo Rataplan (Rataplan, 2018).

Great album. Those late McLeans are some of his best.

On the subject of the Butcher/ Lehn/ Shipp Tangle record, there's a new duo album on RogueArt between Shipp and Evan Parker called Leonine Aspects which I have been enjoying and would recommend. It's not a million miles away from the interplay between Shipp and Butcher. I'm not that familiar with Parker in this sort of setting, but his approach is similar to Butcher's, and less like his own solo or group work, to my ears. I think it works well. Nice work coming out on RogueArt at the moment.

Unleashed by Tiger Trio (Myra Melford, Joelle Leander and Nicole Mitchell) (RogueArt, 2016). Highly recommended for those who know and like the players.

I feel this one gets unfairly overlooked, probably because it's cover makes it look like a B sides collection. It's one of my absolute favourites.

Not sure at all, but a 1972 release still shrink wrapped seems reasonably unlikely. The other possibility is that it is some sort of bootleg.

I haven't seen any news of a formal release, and there's nothing on Discogs, but I bought it first hand from a shop at the end of last year somehow. It is marked as being Cadet. It is definitely not used and sounds decent (not superb).

The Trovesi Damiani Quartet's Roccellanea (Ismez, 1984) Good stuff.

Thanks

I've just discovered this old thread whilst wondering exactly the same thing as the OP. Abrams is also on the even more commercial That Is Why You're Overweight, although he's less of a presence there than on Instant Death. For added AACM points, that album, once it's worked through its funk and comedy tracks, has a track of near unaccompanied solo saxophone by Eddie Harris towards the end. It's an odd thing to find on what's otherwise a funk record. Does anyone know of any examples of Harris playing free on record, with this group or otherwise?

It always makes me happy when this thread comes back to life. Not so much my wallet.

There's one video that I've seen on Twitter of him berating a student who was dismissive of Sun Ra (or thought that Sun Ra's dress distracted from the music, or something). It's out there somewhere. I'll see if I can dig it out later.

Ha ha ha. No idea. Just before our most recent lockdown, a bargain addict friend of mine bought a whole lot of old stereo- and hi-fi-testing vinyl from a North London record shop. All of the records are just recordings of bells and recording tones that pan from speaker to speaker. They were commercial releases, apparently. Probably a lot cheaper than Tone Poets.

What is this one? Great cover.

Just depressing.

I convinced my wife to let me give our eldest the middle name “Roscoe” after Roscoe Mitchell. She gamely allowed it. She keeps introducing him as “named after the jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell”, to universally blank looks. I assume that’s because Mitchell is better known as a composer of work outside the jazz idiom. That said, he got off better than my own oldest friend, who ended up with the middle name “Zawinul”. That’s great! I didn’t know that.

The Steve Hoffman guys are on their way.