clifford_thornton

Petrusich is cool. I'd take her writing over that of Howard Reich any day of the week. I'm not yet sure how I feel about the renaming of the bridge though I did get a morbid chuckle out of one wag's comment that they should also rename the East River after Albert Ayler...

Hasn't Blue Note been at sea for quite a few years now?

Though it'll leave a couple of hangnails, I'm prepared to do 6 CDs for $10 shipped on the rest. Any takers?

yeah, guess I wasn't really referring to Hargrove in my post. In New York, heroin and cocaine are both very, very easy to get and the former is quite cheap. I am casually offered coke rather often, to this day, as a middle aged man who goes to bars and/or concerts several times a week. It's part of life in this scene whether or not one partakes (never been offered heroin and have zero interest). So I could see how someone like Hargrove could get caught up in using without being otherwise a dubious individual and once on the regular with that stuff, the long game of fucking up gets very short indeed. On the other side of that these days myself, hopefully, but just to say Hargrove's issues are believable and not necessarily a personal slight.

Alcohol is a far greater concern re: people getting behind the wheel than heroin, I'd agree. That said opioid addiction is a huge, huge problem in this country (in addition to prescription medicines) and for the most part unchecked. Cocaine is a shitty drug but fairly expensive and far from an epidemic. It does indeed make one feel invincible or at least "really, really good" for a little while... and mixed with alcohol (which it often is, at least in my experience) quite dangerous.

ah -- haven't checked those. There is also a Japanese pressing on CBS.

I think it is, yes, and one of the better-pressed Futura LPs.

Yeah, Gonsalves has a number of dates I really like. Gettin' Together on Jazzland is strong, and Boom-Jackie-Boom-Chick on Vocalion is a scorcher. There's also a date he did with Tubby Hayes on Columbia UK, and Gonsalves-Ashby had a small UK group session with Ellingtonians that I've yet to hear ("Tenor Stuff," a Landsdowne LP). Ray Nance appeared on Ahmed Abdul-Malik's "Spellbound," an excellent date released by Status in the mid-60s (though I think it was recorded earlier).

The Opening is amazing. No reason not to buy it if you see it.

Ah, too bad. RIP.

yeah, read his wiki yesterday. Cool as all get out.

ah right, yes I have some excellent Herwin collections as well. Notable as well for the font, which spells something else when cross-eyed.

thanks. A number of the covers look quite similar but I suppose they probably had the same graphic designer for some albums. I did order the Barbecue Bob LP for a reasonable-seeming price; his 12-string playing certainly was an influence on Mr. Fahey.

Ha - Lloyd N. Ferguson is resting easy now that it went to a good home. My copy is a pretty hot-sounding (maybe too hot?) Toshiba.

I would grab that Barbecue Bob in .05 seconds if I saw it in a bin. Assume Mamlish and Yazoo were somehow connected?

wow -- would love to have heard that!

agreed, it's truly an amazing album. found an OG stereo for cheap years ago.

ah shit. RIP.

ah, I was told it was MP3-only or whatever (when I reviewed it). That's good to see.

Yeah, I really like this one as well -- glad it's (and he's) here. I believe it is a digital-only release. At least that's how it was presented to me in the Universal/Impulse promo packet.

How's he doing these days? I heard he has Parkinson's but beyond that, few reports.

High Tide - Sea Shanties - (Liberty, JP)

yes, I have this and it's quite excellent. Disc one has studio-level sound while disc two is pretty rough. Idrees is spectacular as well.

ooh, his homepage features a Roy Harper "Lifemask" reissue! Now there's something that needs to be out properly again...