clifford_thornton

yep, I have that material. But one can always want more!

I wish there was more hearable from Jazz Realities and the Guild-era Jazz Composers' Orchestra.

Tootie invited Mtume to contribute these compositions to the date. The original release was on O'Be and was a gatefold. Mtume was involved with the US Organization, which (in part) led to the title, essay, and recitation on the LP.

I like that one.

Might be a nice place to pick up original Takt pressings...

For me, the live concert stuff is where it's at, especially in the '70s/'80s. A lot of unruliness there, but with a measured/careful hand directing it, and a hell of a lot of fun. I think irony's a bit played out sometimes, but when you hear certain people do it right, it's compelling. Not surprised Bryars likes Bley. He's brilliant, creative, and quite funny too.

He's incredible. I don't have that one, but I have a few others that are total rippers.

I'd like to buy a collection in order to feed the habit... seems like the ideal scenario. I have certainly pointed store owners to collections that would have cost more cash than I had on hand. Of course it has gotten more challenging now that everyone has access to Discogs, Popsike/Gripsweat, etc.. Still, being able to make several hundred or a few grand and put that towards something I was more interested in... sounds fun.

My recollection is that his name was pronounced "Kinney Durham." That could have led to some spelling variance.

This is really cool and well done!

rad -- I haven't seen him since pre-COVID but every time I did, he was awesome. Also a fun guy to interview.

I've always heard it as Ronnie among musicians, though you are correct the album credits don't bear that out. He's been teaching for a number of years.

Cecil and his brother Ronnie (saxophonist).

yeah, late 90s/early 00s -- at least that's when I got turned on to them and bought all their Elektra records. I still rate aspects of many of the records but don't need to keep them in the racks. Those Vanguard Chicago Blues comps are super.

I used to have a kind of noisy sounding Jasmine copy of Blue Bogey. Wouldn't mind getting a nicer-sounding reissue. Very good player. He's on at least one weird German fusion LP released via Ring in the '70s that I have yet to hear.

Ha! I used to really like them but purged all those records maybe a decade ago.

Sad to say that the great Pittsburgh-born drummer Allen Blairman has passed at 81: https://jazzpages.de/allen-blairman-rip-1940-2022-2205011/ I've really been enjoying going through the Fondation Maeght Ayler recordings in their entirety and his playing on them is fantastic. He will be missed.

I want that fourth booster (I'm 45, no major underlying conditions).

I no longer have the space constraints I did in a Brooklyn apartment but honestly, if I feel like I need to limit myself to one representative recording by an artist who has done multiple works, I might as well just not have any by that person. At least not in physical formats.

I purged all my ESP cover variations when I moved back east. I probably still have some dupes -- I know I have Edition I and Edition II of Ascension filed, and those aren't dupes. And certain favorite CDs with extra material along with the LPs of same (Machine Gun for example).

Same. And filed stuff that is not filed. I have various artists mixed in by title, as though the title of the record was the artist name, rather than having a various artists section. So like the Complete Keynote Collection is filed in jazz "K." It's easy for me because I know what I have and where it is. For someone else... it might be a challenge. I have Mosaics, ESPs, and Actuels filed by catalog number in a separate section in the non-jazz record room (I have two rooms for records). I used to separate out my Blue Notes as well but they have been interfiled, primarily because a lot of them are 70s pressings or Japanese. Yet my ICP releases (have all the vinyl except for the flexi-disc set) are filed as Instant Composers Pool amid jazz artists/groups "I" and not by artist -- Breuker, Bennink, Lacy, etc.. All of my ethnographic and related field recordings (hundreds of them) are filed by region/tribe and then kind of "best I can" within that, moving from Americas eastward through Africa and Europe to Asia and ending with Korea.

Sad news from the land of krautrock, kosmische, experimental, new age, and drone music: electronic composer and drummer Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers) has died at age 74. He pretty much changed the world when it comes to electronic semi-popular music, along with Florian Schneider of course.

I don't believe so? No.1 I think became Amplitude, which he recorded with Lyons, Silva, and Cyrille.

correct. Jazz Realities was a great band -- the Fontana LP is incredible, and the tour material that was taped (some with Brötzmann & Kowald) is really fun.