clifford_thornton

Kevin, you're probably thinking of Debut. Mingus started issuing music on Jazz Workshop (Mingus/JWS) after the dissolution of Candid.

He was back on Columbia again in 1972, so there were technically four Mingus Columbia LPs.

Levers -- Alone -- (Bead, UK orig)

Malcolm Goldstein -- Vision Soundings -- (MG private release) log percussion side first (B) makes the obsessive violin wrangling (A) go down a bit easier.

I think it's a fine gesture; "Noddin' Ya Head Blues" is pretty fun.

I'd throw in Joe Masters' Jazz Mass on Columbia (although probably a bit bigger chorus) and the World's Experience Orchestra "Beginning of a New Birth" LP that Now-Again reissued (legit, from the original private pressing) a couple of years ago.

I think so, and it is true. Streaming content on a private/protected server seems to be the way to go, if they can get around copyright issues.

Bummer. Too bad they cannot sell the materials.

Matthew Shipp and Mal Waldron

John Coltrane -- Infinity -- (Impulse, WLP) I like this one now more than I used to.

Godz -- Godz 2 -- (ESP Disk)

Could the whiteness on the surface be oxidization? Seems to be a habit with some older/cheapo Prestige pressings.

I have had a couple of copies of that DGG box over the years and tend to agree. Wired is probably the best in there. Glad to see Iskra 1903 represented but feel that the Incus set and of course the Wachsmann era far eclipse what's in these grooves. I used to be way into New Phonic Art and the aggressiveness of this particular album but the one I return to -- if any -- is the Wergo, or for that matter, Kagel's Exotica LP.

Nice!

Shepp sounds good -- at least he was in fine form when I saw him a couple of years ago. Wonder if they'll bring out any of the old Shepp-Burrell chestnuts like "Blues for Donald Duck," "Hipnosis," and "Sonny's Back?" I suppose those are all Grachan tunes, right? I saw Keir in duo with Shayna Dulberger once, and that was quite strong, so I think you're in for a treat.

There will be perfect synchronicity when Allen is booked to play the Vision Festival in 2019.

to be fair he did say "Almost nobody," not "nobody."

I really liked the one on Porter and that group Pretty Monsters that she's in is also very enjoyable.

The lineup is absurdly tantalizing. Glad it'll be at Roulette as we can at least hope for decent sound.

Thanks -- will have to check it out. I do like Gullin though some of it is a little 'soft' for my Americanized ears. I guess it's the same problem I have with some (not all) Mulligan. I like punchy arrangements and husky baritone playing. But then again I've heard Mats Gustafsson play Gullin live and that well-placed caress can be just as hardcore as anything else.

Yeah, she's very good -- I'm trying to remember the small group I saw her with at Andrew Drury's Soup & Sound; Harris wasn't in it, that's for sure. Katherine Young is another fantastic young bassoonist who has work with Braxton and others. Her solo music is amazing, although it falls more into the contemporary composition/structured sound art realm.

In red.

Agreed. Fascinating foil for Jimmy but underestimated on her own/outside of that orbit.

**** 4 stars in next month's Down Beat! That makes me unbelievably happy.

yes to all of these. I have a private recording of Karen Borca with Irène Schweizer, Wm. Parker, and Andrew Cyrille that is absolutely burning. Would love to have actually been at the show!