clifford_thornton

Wow. What a legacy. RIP.

I didn't get to see them until 2012 though Hamish lives in NYC and plays pretty regularly, is in a few friends' bands, etc.

The Clean - Compilation - (Homestead, US) been a few years since I've had these guys on deck... never disappointing.

Yeah, I like it more now than I used to. Funny how those things happen.

John Surman - Westering Home - (Island, UK)

I like it too. Often his improvisations across instruments were very, pardon the contextual pun above, "fluid" so it seems like no matter what others were doing, it fit in. I think of someone like Daniel Carter who switches between tenor, alto and soprano saxophone, trumpet (on which he has a beautiful sound), and sometimes piano (if one is available). Instruments are tools to express a given set of ideas and if they're used to their expressive potential, who can argue?

yup.

Is Mr. Nessa still an agent for Uptown?

Sad news. RIP.

Andrzej Trzaskowski feat. Ted Curson - Seant - (Muza, stereo orig)

Good guesses but #2 is not Jaume (nor French), and while Rosengren is a favorite of mine he's not on #3. Doran is cool and I need to listen to more of his work, but this isn't him either. But I totally get where you're coming from.

Well, it'll be true eventually...

Yeah, this country is in a terrible place right now. Not even a legit Le Temps Fou can turn that around. Gotta call and write your congresspeople if you live here (not about Marion Brown, but about actual issues).

And a ton of non-Coltrane stuff that's probably going to be really interesting. Maybe even featuring some French musicians...

Yeah, I think it probably is. There were attempts to do the Colbeck a few times including with John Jack's Cadillac label and they never came to fruition, so I assume that Philips/Fontana must be uninterested in licensing it. Only one of the participants, Selwyn Lissack, is still alive and I know for a fact he wants the music out again. I almost wonder whether in situations like that it's better to just boot the damn thing and pay the musicians' estates/hold in escrow. I have a friend who did that with a couple of records he and the artist wanted reissued, but the conglomerates into which the releases passed wouldn't even return phone calls.

Wow. Thanks Larry!

Yeah, I could imagine that -- certainly other interviewees have said as much.

Sweet, thanks guys. Must've been something else.

other than Guy K (brownie), are there any other board members here who witnessed Ayler perform?

I always assumed that The Sun was not an authorized release, even back in the day. Just because it came out in Japan doesn't mean it's legit! Too bad if the CD issue of Le Temps Fou has been cancelled. It's a great album.

I've never had the Khan Jamal on Palm. The challenge with their records is that the pressings can be really shoddy... on musically "quiet" sessions this is a drag.

Yes, Gilson was responsible for the non-Lancaster cuts (he's an interesting character though I hardly think of his music as 'free jazz') and also owned the Palm label, producing records by Lancaster, Frank Lowe, David S. Ware, Manuel Villardel and others.

anything with deathhoax.html is usually not worth citing.

classic.

Amon Düül II - Yeti - (Liberty UK)