clifford_thornton

Bummer! RIP

I'm with you... these are expensive high end reissues so the market isn't necessarily for "new discoveries" but rather audiophile folks. Have and cherish my pre-Fantasy LPs, which sound great and look just fine.

yes indeed.

correct. Polydor Blood (Paul Bley in Haarlem) is a different beast.

HELL YES

Damn, so sorry to hear about this. My condolences.

nice one. I have the Japanese issue on Victor.

I thought this might be of interest to some of you here... we just got the finished/edited video back over the holidays. Mods, if you want to move this to another subforum, that's fine -- wasn't sure where it fit best. -- In November 2019 I put together a recording session and small private rehearsal/concert at Brooklyn's Scholes Street Studio for my dad's 75th birthday, featuring him on piano (and compositions) joined by esteemed bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Andrew Drury. He has been performing and writing music for decades but this was his first time working in New York with "city cats." I'd been listening to Ken and Andrew separately for years, but seeing them link up in alto saxophonist Alan Braufman's group (with Cooper-Moore, piano and James Brandon Lewis, tenor saxophone) sealed the deal. Before November 9, my dad hadn't played with either musician and the resulting trio was a rousing success. It was my hope that this event would spur another concert or two in New York in 2020 -- a festival was sketched out, among other things. COVID-19 had other plans, of course. Nevertheless we were able to get the recordings remastered by Ryan Edwards for eventual CD release, and videographer/engineer (and venue co-owner) René Pierre Allain edited and synced the video so that visual documentation of this momentous concert is now available for anyone to watch. Initially we were not sure whether to have it filmed but I am very glad that we did. Part one of the concert is here and part two is here. The music was performed as one continuous set but I elected to split it so that it could be viewed in chunks. A few tracks have been edited out as we were unable to get a satisfactory master take. As for the CD, whether we do it ourselves or an interested label wants to get in touch (hint hint!), the wait won't be too long. And hopefully we can get my dad back to New York for another performance in the future, once things are a little less hairy. Enjoy!

yep.

I need to reread that. I felt like short shrift was given on certain dates but again, rivet counter here...

I don't think any book about a record label is going to cover everything rivet counters like ourselves want... be it BN, Impulse, ESP, or whatever. At the end of the day a sellable volume won't be complete.

I have an original and it's a wonderful album. If you can spring for a high quality reissue, do so.

oh dang, I don't have that one. I'll have to get a copy somehow.

Very, very sad news. I interviewed him over email in advance of his NYC visit some years ago to play solo and duo w/ Lou Grassi. He was a kind man, not to mention absolutely brilliant. The only other time I saw FvH was in duo with Hannes Bauer in the early 00s at one of the Vision Festivals. Pretty heavy.

The Richard Cook BN book is pretty decent but not perfect.

Haven't had any issues with the rhythmic aspects that make it impossible to listen to the music. Some drummers are better than others of course, and there are really wonderful drummers in Japanese jazz, both of the free and less free variety -- George Otsuka, George Kawaguchi, Motohiko Hino, Masahiko Togashi, Takeshi Inomata, Sabu Toyozumi, Takeo Moriyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Shota Koyama... just to name a few from the glory days of Japanese creative music. The J-Jazz comps are neat. I don't own any but I like the idea of them and the guys assembling these albums are very knowledgable and have incredible collections. The only downside is that the cost of obtaining original full LPs keeps going up, up, and away as more people learn about them.

nice haul. I've never bought a collection. It's something that would be interesting to do, mostly in order to generate cash for my own specific/other areas of concentration.

RIP. What an icon and what a voice.

yeah, and he was all over Steely Dan's Katy Lied.

yeah, guess I associated Brecker more with pop than with real straight-ahead playing, even though that's patently inaccurate. Randy shows up everywhere though... I have him on Bob Moses' Bittersuite in the Ozone, a couple of Duke Pearson records, and Everything Is Everything "Just Flash in the Cosmic Pan." Probably other albums too.

Hopefully a Deviants LP

Allen, so glad you've gotten through the bulk of this -- and that you're going beyond just taking it day by day. I will figure a way to be at one of these April gigs for sure!

Right, Mtume was involved with the Us Organization and worked on the Ken Gibson campaign in addition to being around for activities at The East, which was community-centered (not only music but a school and food co-op). So I would assume that buying in was a big part of this. Sadly part three of our interviews, where I wanted to dig in further on this, was scuttled for health reasons. More research to do.

yeah, Reggie was a big part of this too.

yeah, I felt kinda weird to be asked to work on this project because I don't know that area of music AT ALL and can't speak much to Mtume's legacy in disco or R&B. Agreed that his conga touch was light -- he told me he was more heavily influenced by Tony Williams and Elvin at that time than traditional Afro-Cuban music.