clifford_thornton

love that East NY Ensemble record.

I would assume someone didn't pay for one and it went back out into the store.

yeah I suspected that a lot of shops did get their distro orders filled and are just doing speculator markup bullshit. So lame. as for Dusty, they probably only got a few in. Whenever I try to buy something from them and it's out of stock, I'm automatically put on the notification list. Standard practice as it's been since the '90s.

Various -- Sub Pop 100 -- (Sub Pop, orig) Ut -- Early Live Life -- (Blast First, UK orig) Harry de Wit -- April '79 -- (Bead, UK orig)

Wow.

Please do -- some of this is recollected in The Traveler. Would love to hear him with Tete (and apparently on at least one occasion, Kenny Clarke).

Love this one. Now: Swell Maps -- Jane from Occupied Europe -- (Rough Trade, UK orig) nice follow from Live/Dead.

I like it. Definitely more straight-ahead, but a beauty of a record.

I like that Anima record mentioned above. Saw Limpe Fuchs do a concert of music (on her homemade instruments) in a park here in NY last year. Fun stuff. Very quiet.

well, I guess you could do whatever you want with it as it's a Greek letter.

Isn't it Psi rather than PSI? I don't think it is an acronym.

I think the only Bunky I have is on that Paul Serrano on Riverside (which I love). Probably need to rectify.

yeah I remember hearing about his wife dying in the TWA accident. Heavy stuff. I don't know how close he and his brother were at the end, but I guess Wayne has or had all of Alan's papers, compositions, etc. Too bad they don't enter the book.

Yeah, the studios might be good but the mastering might've been done elsewhere or not at all. I think I have purged almost every Clean Feed release over the years apart from a few of the early Lisbon-specific albums and a couple others I did notes for (the Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Quartet being one standout). The sound and packaging just don't hold any weight for me overall, even if the performances are decent.

True, I am still tall.

correct.

I see my head, bottom left. Boy I was skinny then!

Henry Grimes "The Call" on ESP, 1965 Archie Shepp, "Mama Too Tight" on Impulse, 1966 Charlie Haden "Liberation Music Orchestra" on Impulse, 1970 Gunter Hampel, "Spirits" on Birth, 1971 Gunter Hampel, "Out Of New York" on MPS, 1971 Annette Peacock, "Revenge" on Polydor, 1971 Bobby Naughton, "Understanding" on Otic, 1972 Jeanne Lee, "Conspiracy" on Seeds/Earthforms, 1974 also, was just made aware of this, which is awesome:

okay, I got a little turned around in chronology here -- after Funk Dumpling (early '62) and the World Youth Festival, Perry went into in the Army, where he formed the Uni Trio. He returned to NYC in 1965 and resumed performing and recording at that time. So that explains the break in recording dates for about a year and a half.

let's keep this thread for Perry and if you want to start another thread for additional departures, feel free.

yes, all BYG copies are off center from my experience.

yeah, that was his first as a leader. Perry was also working as a sideman with Bill Dixon, Archie Shepp, the Jazz Composers' Guild Orchestra, and others during this period. He did have a cooperative trio with Bill Folwell and Tom Price called the Uni Trio, which started in Panama (where they were all in military service) and continued back in New York. There will be recordings from that band appearing in the coming year on Triple Point. Another variant had David Izenzon and Randy Kaye, and I've also heard a little of that group. I think it was hard to get record companies interested, but he was certainly making music with people at that time.

Funk Dumpling is one of my favorite jazz albums, period. The Traveler has some great bits about the Brubeck collaborations.

Sad to hear that the great clarinetist Perry Robinson has passed on. Perry stayed at the house I shared with my then-girlfriend when he came through Austin with Burton Greene about ten years ago. It was a gas staying up into the night with him talking about the music and his many travels. He and Burton performed two concerts as a duo and had local musicians sit in as well; I also did an interview that was filmed, though I don't know whatever happened to it (I'd interviewed Burton years before, separately). Saw Perry again a few times since relocating east, the last with Michael Marcus a few months ago -- and at that time Perry was looking quite frail, though he could still play with that magic tone of his. The autobiography he co-wrote with Florence Wetzel, The Traveler, is a great read. Been spending a lot of time with it again lately.

That record was pressed on soft vinyl and housed in heavy paper sleeves. Marked up right out of the box. Ben is thinking about reissuing it and I am hopeful he uses poly-lined inners next time.