clifford_thornton

As far as issued recordings go, my namesake (Clifford Thornton), Alan Shorter, Bill Dixon, Kees Hazevoet, and Ric Colbeck, and almost complete on Frank Wright (just a couple of Penck CDs I need to get). Fairly close on Burton Greene, Charles Gayle and Glenn Spearman. I think I have several holes with Sunny Murray to plug but I'll get to them eventually. Ayler is nearly done although I think I'm missing a couple of bootlegs. Lacy has a few LP holes but the CD era is a bit less "complete" (this is an issue w/ Cecil as well -- all the LPs, but later CDs not nearly enough). Thankfully and hopefully there's time to do this -- I never think of it as a particular project, but something that just happens over time.

It's just a sprinkle. A tinkle, perhaps.

Damn, that's terrible.

Saw him do a solo concert recently in upstate New York, the day after Gary Peacock died -- tremendous!!!

Dusty Groove will be selling it.

yeah, he was. Worked with Karl Berger, Sunny Murray, Grachan Moncur III et al. in the mid-60s.

Gripped.

Brilliant musician indeed, sad to see him go. Have a number of his improv LPs, all excellent, as well as his work with Brötzmann a.o.. But I need to get that Fred Anderson disc!

ditto. I went to my share of packed rock/punk shows, all in smaller venues, but that takes the cake.

at least with hardcore and no-wave, most of the best stuff is confined to 7" or 45 rpm 12" formats. Goes by in a flash.

sometimes you can have both. I think my ears are better attuned to the nuances in a lot of the music of my youth (and I'm talking high school or earlier) and I am able to hear and appreciate a lot more of what that music consists of as a result of spending countless hours with jazz, blues, free music, western composers, and so much more. So when I throw on some punk thing I played to death as a teenager, it now resonates with me both nostalgically and musically/culturally.

Early Def Leppard were pretty sweet. Though as a kid I became more aware of them from Hysteria, which I bought on cassette when it came out, The first few LPs are actually quite choice (and I still ride for the crazy studio production excesses of Hysteria). When Steve Clark died, even though I wasn't into their music anymore from a deep listening perspective, it was still a major bummer. the EVH loss is palpable for me on a similar level, though I suppose EVH is a more consummate musician if we're comparing the two. Still, while I haven't been invested in listening to Van Halen in decades, I have a lot of respect for his great accomplishments in the music. As I've gotten older it's become a lot easier for me to appreciate talented players/singers/producers/whatever across genres, even if on a given day my listening is more "weird" on the whole.

I only think of one ValerieB and she is, was, and always will be here!

I assume you mean the other Valerie B... not the one from this board.

I was gonna say when I saw this on instagram that they surely had to have played together before. Would have been nice had Wilen made it to Scandinavia to play with Tete a few years later as well...

Same.

Sad to report that saxophonist, composer, and visual artist Jon Gibson passed this weekend at 80 after a long illness. In addition to recordings he released on the Chatham Square label, he worked for many years in the Philip Glass Ensemble, was in the New Music Ensemble at UC Davis in the 60s, worked with Lucinda Childs and Robert Wilson, Arthur Russell, and Dickie Landry. He was the real deal and a fixture at Lower East Side bar Max Fish until late last year... may he rest in peace.

yeah, unimaginable weights that people shoulder. Being in a large city makes it seem "easy" but having grown up in a small town in Kansas, well, for a number of my peers it clearly wasn't. Respect and strength to anyone who's been put through the ringer as a result of wanting to be who they are.

Those FB posts are great. I'm not on FB anymore, so thanks for sharing them.

I was about to say! Not even close.

I didn't know that either. Sad news.

HA! Jackie is an old friend and a hell of a human being. Great to see this! She works really hard and has grown a lot as a musician and composer in the years that I've known her.

This concert is bananas: https://www.discogs.com/Van-Halen-Die-Laughing/release/4002271

Excellent musician and too young to go. RIP.