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Thanks for posting these! I always found this part of Lee's career fascinating...one of the great 'what if's' for me.

A girlfriend I had back in high school had an uncle who was a roadie and she used to get all kinds of backstage passes (mostly used) and memorabilia from him. When she moved she gave me some of this stuff, of which there was a back stage pass from the Powerslave tour and one of Dave Murray's wristbands. Saw them on the Somewhere in Time tour back in '87. By then the whole Eddie thing was becoming pretty tiresome for me, especially by the time when the end of the show came 'round, a 40 foot tall Eddie comes piling out from behind the drumset. Album-wise, ironically, I'm partial to Powerslave, but I cared for Piece of Mind the least. I always thought that album was a bit overrated. The first couple of albums are boss though where they had a grittier, punkier sound.

Wow! Thanks for posting this! Never heard Bill Evans speak for that matter!

Wow! I just caught these articles; they were already tucked down from the top posts. This is way cool! Thanks

Yeah, keep'em coming, this is cool stuff! I agree, Woody nailed it except for the Art Farmer, which I further agree could be easily missed because Art did some records that do have a 'plusher sound'. An example, maybe, is Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra on Mercury (VEE) where the arrangements make Farmer sound much cooler. Even on Mulligan's Night Lights too perhaps.

Have a good one!

Just saw this news this morning. That's nuts. What a terrible accident.

What's her name? Shhhhh. Don't tell the wife

Yeah, thanks for posting all of these Down Beat articles. Cool stuff!

Interesting, I didn't think about it that way. I think that's why I found this article intriguing because of the very fact that there was so little new Hill out there, if any (could Lift Every Voice be his last release when this article came out?) Hence the sour tone.

Tonight (tomorrow morning) will be some new dish in Ireland!

Shame on you. Hey, when you're there, you're family

Yeah, when I read that, I nearly fell out of my chair, especially since Grant worked with Bobby on several occasions!

Nice! Thanks for posting this! I find interesting where Hill says that we was not "satisfied with his colleague's approach to music on the group level" because everyone was playing for themselves. I would've never thought that when it came to his musical soulmates, Richard Davis and Joe Henderson!

Interestingly enough, just considering the span between the albums being advertised, its roughly two years apart: 66, 68, 71? So lock, stock and barrel, it seems that BN must've thought that Bobby's whole output, roughly speaking, was worth mentioning....interesting! Just my feeble analysis -_-

Three fine albums if I may add. thanks for posting

Have good vacation Mr. and Mrs. Bright Moments! Mr. and Mrs. Holy Ghost will be on vacation for a week in Ireland starting tomorrow, with the kids

Thanks for bumping this thread up. I was just getting ready to spin some Parker today; Lifting the Sanctions, in fact! The first time I heard of William Parker was when I read that he donatated one of his basses to Henry Grimes. That intrigued me enough to explore his music. The first disk I picked up was In Order to Survive on Black Saint, which left quite an impression on me. Since then, I've acquired about a dozen recordings of his along with quite a few sideman appearances. I really like him in Brotz's Die Like a Dog Quartet (really like Kondo too) and especially the Little Birds Have Fast Hearts disks. I was amazed at how straighforward Luc's Lantern was-to the point where my wife was even enjoying it (as she usually refers to avant garde music as an orchestra warming up). The Peach Orchard, Lifting the Sanctions, Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy and Through Acceptance of the Mystery Peace are some of my favorite sessions, where I think Rob Brown and Cooper-Moore are key players on some of these disks. I do dig the Little Huey-Raincoat on the River date but have not heard any other dates from this ensemble. I also like the series that he did for Eremite with Alan Silva, with the All Star Game being my favorite out of the three. On a related note, does anyone know who the artist is who did the covers for Lifting the Sanctions, In Order to Survive and Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy? I think he may have done Charles Gayle's More Live too. From what I've gathered from the Lifting the Sacntions cd, the artist paints while William Parker was performing live, but does not seem to indicate a name. I guess what I'm getting at is that I REALLY like his artwork!

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No problem! This shall be a cool addition to the Lörrach/Paris disc! Absolutely! Decided to spin Lorr/Paris this morning and I forgot how good the sound is!

read my post above yours - I wondered about it too and looked around... and now being on my own computer, I see that the Stockholm portion indeed is part of the Ayler tree (CDR4): Donald Ayler-tp; Albert Ayler-ts; Michel Sampson-vln; Bill Folwell-b; Beaver Harris-d. Koncerthus, Stockholm, Sweden, 661110. 5. Truth is marching in [Ayler] (8:43) 6. Omega is the alpha [Ayler] (9:59) 7. Our prayer [D. Ayler] (7:49) I'll get any official release of this, of course! It's great to have most of the tree in official versions by now! I don't know how I missed that. Thanks for the info

Is it really? Thanks for the heads up! I know a store that has it in stock-I'll have it by Thursday

Thanks for starting this thread Clifford. Didn't know a whole lot about Gayle's bag except for the only disk I own of his, Kingdom Come, which maybe wasn't the best place to start. I also didn't really care for his piano playing on that disk, but it had Wm Parker and Sunny Murray on it and that was the original reason why I bought it in the first place as I was not entirely familiar with his name at the time. I enjoyed his music more when he was playing sax-that's when his music bacame more intense! Had no idea about the clown routine! It seems though, that Touchin' on Trane is the one to get, which will be added to my long lists of cds to get

So is the Ayler disk "new" or that has that material been issued elsewhere? Regardless, I don't have it (I think) and it appears to be the same band on the Lorrach/Paris disk, which is one of my favorite lineups. Thanks in advance. HG