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This piece by Jim Feast, inspired by my book (& other things) is up on Jazz Right Now; I recall him working on it in late 2023/early 2024, but not being able to find a home for it. Honored & glad it eventually found space at JRN: https://www.jazzrightnow.com/thoughts-on-clifford-allens-singularity-codex-matthew-shipp-on-rogueart/ (& yes, I still have a handful if anyone is interested)

Too bad. The Harder They Come is an awesome movie.

Toshiko Akiyoshi Quartet -- Toshiko in Japan -- Liberty Japanese orig

yeah, I pronounce(d) it the second way. the first, I guess, is more correct according to that site (and sounds pretty good). I was kind of surprised that, in Danish, Bent Axen is pronounced just like it looks!

I'd like to know about that as well, though I expect it is nice. DeFever is certainly a well-regarded mastering engineer (& musician).

I've heard good things about her, so oughta do myself the favor of giving her a listen.

yeah, I like that too -- have the original LP, but not heard the remaster (I don't think).

Very nice! I saw him a few years later with his working quartet. Now: Association P.C. - Rock Around the Cock - MPS German original

Haven’t read Cole’s Miles but I did read his Coltrane bio. Bill Cole is also a very interesting musician! Saw his Untempered Ensemble a couple of times.

Yeah, I have that Jackie. Cool artwork indeed.

I imagine the British jazz reissue programme cued up to the "Bring out your dead" sequence in The Holy Grail...

I got pretty annoyed with Iverson's list as it touched on anything after about 1959. It *seemed* fine where earlier recordings are concerned.

I can't really give details but as far as I know all the basic work is done and it is awaiting manufacture. It's done with the cooperation of Tyler's (rather confusing) estate.

Yep. A reissue is coming, from the tapes.

I've been revisiting Alvin Fielder's A Measure of Vision (Dennis González, Chris Parker, Aaron González, Stefan González) recently and think it's one of the label's finest.

what he said.

other than the Grant, I have all those that you've posted on LP. Excellent.

Judging from the labels on the verso, I see only a few that are super expensive, and all of those have been reissued (Ra, Pullen-Graves, Black Unity Trio, and Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble). Cautiously hoping that it won’t be all flexing…

The only way to give these albums proper “period” artwork is to build a time machine, go back, and have them issued in the 1960s. Failing that… we get what we get! FWIW, the Japan-only designs that King used on some titles are pretty appealing. Not all LT’s had concurrent Japanese versions, however. And some of those Kings did not appear in the US until much later.

Ha, I had no idea!

Brötzmann did release an LP titled 14 Love Poems (inspired by Kenneth Patchen), which is quite excellent.

the cover photo on the Mother Ship CD is all right; I have the 1980 LT version which is a bit less inspiring. Neither match what a 1960s design could have looked like.

Huh! I have the 1982 LP set, interesting music that I haven't dug out in too long. What are the legal troubles that have buried it since, I wonder?

Given its appeal to fans of Strata-East and related, it seems ridiculous not to release the unissued Tyrone Washington album at this point. It is a really good date, too...