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Henry Kaiser -- Ice Death -- (Parachute)

rather enjoyable set I must say

The cover photo on Sahara is intense!

black dg, but yeah a 2 LP set.

Shelly Manne & His Men at the Manne Hole (Contemporary, stereo orig)

Seems to be the case. Never saw him live, unfortunately, but he was and is a master.

Consensual relationship with a very young person who was likely manipulated into that relationship... yeah. Gross all around.

yeah, been following it on the socials. He is not looking like a particularly good guy here.

Yes, I agree. He was really breaking out in some interesting new directions at that time, and I think he's still a sonic treasure.

Michael Foster, if you like the skronk.

I don't mind.

I first heard Indian Summer when the CD reissue came out. Loved it, and eventually found the LP version as well.

Anthony Davis -- Of Blues & Dreams -- (Sackville)

Classic. I have a red/black US label with a nice glossy jacket. One of the first Shepps I heard in college, at that time on CD. Must've been incredible to catch that band in the late '60s.

I had that OJC LP and a Jon Eardley one. They are good, though for whatever reason my copies suffered from intense surface noise (not from the 78s). Excellent music, though.

unfamiliar with it but looks like my kinda bag as well, thanks!

very cool.

ah, I was just saying that they signed my MJT+3 on Argo, although two of them are not actually on the record. They were certainly playing with Perkins and Cranshaw's unit.

Night Lady has been out before in a low price Japanese edition; I bought one for my dad from Dusty Groove years ago. Great album. I can't say that I've ever seen that MJT+3 on CD before; have an original pressing as well as a Japanese Cadet LP in the racks. The original is torched but does have what I presume to be real signatures from Richard Abrams, Booker Little, and George Coleman...

Seeds was the original pressing -- that was Mait Edey's label. My understanding is that as Seeds was in the process of folding, Jeanne took the tapes and issued it herself on Earthforms (this was also back in the 1970s). Now, a new "Earthforms" pressing has appeared but I cannot imagine it's connected to her heirs as they have been very protective (and rightly so) when it comes to her material being reissued posthumously.

lovely album. wonder who is behind the recent reissue?

Krzysztof Komeda -- Muzyka Krzysztofa Komedy vol. 1 -- (Poljazz reissue of Muza orig)

still after a clean copy of vol. 3 -- it's always hammered when I see it!

The Austrian Amadeo pressing was the original. Cool stuff.

Turkish free music drummer and pianist (and also visual artist) Hüseyin Ertunç died yesterday at 71 after a lengthy battle with cancer. I was informed by his collaborator in KonstruKt, Umut Çağlar. Ertunç was a fixture in the early '70s Boston scene, playing with John Jamyll Jones' Worlds' Experience Orchestra, Cooper-Moore, Phill Musra, and Michael Cosmic, as well as sorties into New York to work with William Parker. He returned to his native Turkey in the mid-70s and then linked up again with Phill and Michael in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, where they had a short-lived group. Ertunç returned one last time to Turkey in the early/mid-90s, concentrating on visual art and performing/recording with KonstruKt, Okay Temiz, and visiting musicians like Parker, Peter Brötzmann, Marshall Allen, Evan Parker, and others. His 1974 LP Musikî, privately released on Intex Sound, was my introduction to his music as well as that of Musra and Cosmic, and the rest is for me a deep personal well. Though we never met and only communicated through Umut, Ertunç is someone I have long held in very high regard for his individuality and creativity. He will be missed.