clifford_thornton

Yeah, I've found good records in Santa Fe. Recall a trip when I was just getting into jazz in the late 90s and finding a store with BYGs, Shandars, India Navigation, all sorts of stuff. Everything was cheap and I bought anything that looked remotely interesting. I believe that is where I first heard Bill Dixon's music, on a BYG reissue of the Savoy split 7-tette/NY Contemporary Five album.

Yeah, they're legit. Tip-on Strata-East jacket, white (not two-color) Dolphy Series labels, 463 West St. address. To be fair, these have been seen over the years in NYC and Chicago, and the only ones I saw in Texas were trashed copies.

I'd love to see a really nice Strata-East series of reissues but I guess since most of the music reverted to the artists after the label folded, it's really up to estates (and pirate labels) to make a lot of this stuff available again. The Brother Ahh is really good, as is the Jayne Cortez. And the Descendants of Mike & Phoebe. And the John Gordons. Hell, most of the catalog is cool (if not always desert-island material). And yeah, In The World is not a rare LP. Have had no trouble finding sealed ones, even in 2017. They must've manufactured at least a few thousand copies.

Jim French -- If Looks Could Kill -- (Metalanguage)

I thought Atlantic coined the term free jazz.

Greetings all, I'm honored and beyond psyched that, after ten or more years trying to make something happen with Phill Musra, his debut recording and that of his late twin brother Michael Cosmic are now properly being reissued on LP by Los Angeles' Now-Again Records. We have worked from the original master tapes for these and associated other archival fragments, and I've also contributed liner notes to the project. There will be a 3LP deluxe version for subscribers and a 2LP standard version available in stores/through Dusty Groove/etc. Should be hitting the shelves by October-ish. http://www.nowagainrecords.com/lp-7-in-now-again-reserve/ If you have difficulty finding a copy to purchase, let me know and I can help sort you.

Huh. I should make myself a Wikipedia entry too if she can do it so easily.

Just noticed, though I've been buying Strata-East LPs for years, that they at some point in the mid-70s occupied an office at 156 5th Ave., which was also a building that ESP-Disk' occupied in the 1960s. Any other conspicuous record label addresses occupied by two or more interesting labels at different times that you are aware of?

Color cover is a second issue from what I understand.

indeed it is. Now, Peter Kowald -- Quintet -- (FMP, Ger)

Interesting, okay -- yeah I just caught a few seconds of it and hadn't gone back to give it a spin. Thanks.

yeah, I need to go back and give that one a concentrated spin.

ah, interesting, thanks -- so it's most likely a George Bohanon session under Myrick's name.

Yes.

Fascinating 1965 interview with Don Byas. Thanks to user "caravan" for the link. Heavy. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc983758/m1/#track/1

Huh. Missed the original thread but I too found a sealed original some time ago. It's a really nice record. Recommended.

Just picked up a beautiful French Vogue LP edition of this for ten bucks today. Superb.

Michael Naura -- Vanessa -- (ECM, GER)

bummer! sad to hear that news.

"the choice of performers that are really able to intermingle all of these elements" seems like a large part of this gambit to me also. Bill Dixon related to me a story of workshopping a piece with the Jazz Composers' Orchestra (I think this is also in Dixonia), where all these top JCO players were unable to get through the material correctly but Bill's right-hand saxophonist, Stephen Horenstein, who was then an unknown in NYC creative music circles, was able to navigate the charts and play his solos with the integrity and purity that the music required. Bill also related to me that he felt his early work relied too much on written notes and very didactic situations, and it wasn't until he wrote less and let the musicians do what they did, that he felt his pieces did exactly what he wanted. That said, hearing Metamorphoses 1962-1966 and the pieces for the Orchestra of the University of the Streets (the latter were partly graphically scored), there's a very healthy and flexible conversation going on within arched structures.

Syd Barrett -- Barrett -- (Harvest, UK EMI 70s pressing)

wow, wish I could read French !

yep, the whole band is wonderful.

to the point of the original list, such as one might try to define it, I would think of that music as inside-outside. Most of the records Paul mentioned I have and can vouch that they fit this description in varying ways. more: Bill Dixon-Archie Shepp -- Quartet -- (Savoy) Bill Dixon 7-tette/The New York Contemporary Five -- (Savoy) Don Friedman -- Metamorphosis -- (Prestige) Grachan Moncur III -- New Africa -- (BYG) Peter Lemer -- Local Colour -- (ESP)

ha! now, Nathan Davis -- Rules of Freedom -- (Polydor, GER)