[Paul Bley]

On 3/31/2018 at 9:25 AM, sidewinder said:

Out of curiosity just checked that Jazz Centre Society booklet from 1971 and the gig at Hampstead Country Club in London had Annette Peacock on vocals/electric piano, Daryll Runswick on bass and Robert Wyatt on drums. Tunes performed included ‘Mr Joy’ and ‘Touching’ and this was the first of a number of appearances for the JCS over the following years I believe. Review was by Richard Williams.

Very late to the conversation but just found this.  I was at this gig largely because of the Wyatt connection.  Bley had an enormous synthesizer set up with wires all over the place, and Annette was altering her voice through another mass of wires and microphones.  The whole thing had a considerable impact on my 18 year old brain - particularly 'Touching' which was extraordinary.

[Don Pullen-Milford Graves at Yale: Big Bucks]

On 7/25/2023 at 5:49 PM, Mark Stryker said:

This copy with a hand-painted cover is up to $6,100 in bidding at Carolina Soul. Anybody know how many of these were pressed or anything about the cover? I'm curious as to why the insane bidding...

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204404362114?mkevt=1&mkpid=2&emsid=e90001.m43.l1123&plmtId=700008&mesgId=3024&mkcid=8&ch=osgood&bu=44356787009&trkId=0a776638-7c2c-4019-9dd8-e32ef66cf5b9&cnvId=700003&recoId=204404362114&recoPos=1

About time I actually posted something after months of lurking.

I have a copy of the standard issue (without the handpainted cover) that I think is worth around $750.  I used to run a record mail order in the UK in the mid 70s to early 80s and even by then both versions were impossible to find, although we could get sometimes get copies the second volume - Nommo.  My memory is a bit fuzzy but I think there were only a few hundred pressed of the Yale concert.