I would say everything of Dulfer's up to and including Maine is great, but the early ones are expensive.
Loevendie, it's all awesome. Stairs! is rad, sort of like Giuffre collided with Marion Brown's Porto Novo.
Right, we got a little off topic here -- the ESP stuff is from Montmartre, same band and tour but different venue. I have the ESPs somewhere and the sound is decent. My understanding is they were licensed from the Cherry estate and therefore legal.
don't have it but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it were lifted from another bootleg...
it should be the same set as on the Free Factory CD, right?
https://www.discogs.com/Don-Cherry-Quintets-Featuring-Archie-Shepp-Gato-Barbieri-Copenhagen-1963-Hilversum-1966/release/3404680
Yeah, couldn't remember and often too lazy to look things up. I have the Philips Henderson record. It's good, but my recollection of Habiliment is that it's better... and neither have "Dancing Mist," so...
There is a version of "Dancing Mist" that was either an extra cut from the Habiliment session or the one on Philips.
and if anyone wants to sell me a NM Habiliment, I'm still looking!
My favorite aspects of the record are when it sounds like Central and West African percussion music with post-Coltrane flourishes. Definitely fits into the Kahil El'Zabar universe (although for whatever reason, seeing Kahil live has been way more impactful than any of the recordings). The keyboard aspects set this apart but it is still quite ritualistic/Ancient to the Future overall.
I have listened to an original copy of this record and the reissue sounds punchier/richer.