clifford_thornton

Yes, that jibes with what my friend said it translated to years ago. It would be nice to have the Cherrys on a physical CD (along with the Lacy Trio tracks, which I’ve never heard). But paying through the nose for a comp LP isn’t that enticing these days.

Yes, that roundtable and performance was a very important piece of the new jazz puzzle in Germany at the time. A friend had it on a reference DVD which is the first place I saw it.

the tracks presumably came from Neneh.

totally agreed on all counts. Didn’t sound quite like “Confirmation” to me; they should have done more research. I thought the clip was fine, not earth-shaking but not bad either. Glad it is being issued in CD format as well as LP (I’m not sold on Resonance LPs personally).

aha, yes, presumably a better pressing than the old Milestones...

haven’t dug that one out in many years. Your cover is a lot cleaner looking than mine!

Their first recording features Allen Lowe, and is also wonderful...

very strange...

If the Brötzmann tracks are what I think they are, they’re certainly good but you could live without them on vinyl.

I wish I’d seen Marion Brown. Interviewed him but never saw him play live, alas. Ted Curson, Dizzy Reece, Finn von Eyben, Kent Carter, Steve Potts, and Kees Hazevoet are, I believe, the only other musicians I interviewed without seeing them in concert.

Color me surprised that Zev made a mistake 😂

wait, I thought this was a thread about artists we didn’t see!

👍👍

oh yeah, his records are excellent. Never had the opportunity of course... having access to a time machine would be great — so many musicians I’d like to have seen, though of course I’d very likely not be among the living right now if I had. I was late to a gig with Peter Kowald but luckily caught the last few minutes (Kowald, Ali, Tsahar) and was able to have a nice chat with the man. Sad that he died so young! I’d wrongly assumed there’d be another chance down the road.

Mal, Lester Bowie, Sam Rivers, Elvin, Max, Roy, Motian spring to mind. Max canceled a gig I had tickets to and the decline in his health had presumably started. Roy and Paul were just on account of my own error. Mal, Sam, Elvin, and Lester just did not happen for whatever reason. I'm pretty lucky to have seen a lot of greats given that I'm relatively young in age.