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Bassist Dominic Duval, who worked extensively with Joe McPhee and Cecil Taylor, among others, is sadly in his final stages of life after a battle with lymphoma. He is in hospital but the family are taking him to hospice care. There is a gofundme page here if you would like to donate towards making his last weeks more restful. I always liked his playing and this is such a bummer. Update: just got word from the family that he has passed.

RIP.

whole thing should be on YT, as is the live LP from that time.

wow!

I'd be interested in at least seeing the artwork (already have a nice silver and black one). The Treasure Box is a cool idea and the music has quite an impressively colorful sprawl.

I'd start with Frankie Teardrop and go from there.

Yeah, it's somewhat wild to think about the fact that he was nearly 40 when he and Rev (a former student of Lennie Tristano) started Suicide.

Recorded in Sweden in '76 - Hutto on guitar and voice with a Swedish rhythm section. Nice, extra-tinny guitar but there isn't as much "push" as with the Hawks or New Hawks. Amigo pressings are pretty crappy and this one's no exception! https://www.discogs.com/JB-Hutto-Blues-For-Fonessa/release/3026045

Not sure if there are any Suicide fans here, but I love their early music (less familiar with recent stuff he & Rev did). Vega had been ailing for a while so I don't think this was a total surprise, but still sad. http://pitchfork.com/news/66862-suicides-alan-vega-dead-at-78/

J.B. Hutto - Blues for Fontessa - (Amigo, SWE)

He was great. RIP.

Great one. Mine has a somewhat different, rather plain black and white cover with black labels.

Thanks; it's too bad, for historical purposes, that there aren't any extant early Griot Galaxy recordings.

^ Haha, noted. Now: Robert Ruff - Shaza-Ra - (Baystate, JP) solid, loose modal material from this Boston bassist and poet, w/ drummer Syd Smart, reedists Raqib Hassan and William Mathews, and pianist Mwalim Atif (who sounds particularly good).

Johnny Griffin - Foot Patting - (Youngblood, UK) This was issued on Vogue in Germany as Lady Heavy Bottom's Waltz, and is a very groovy session of Clarke-Boland regulars.

The Mobleys are excellent. Also, much enjoyment from the Bill Barrons, Bill Dixons, and lone Savoy releases by Booker Ervin, Marzette Watts, Paul Bley, Marc Levin, Robert F. Pozar, Valdo Williams and Charles Moffett.

huh. not a nom-de-plume for Griot Galaxy saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey?

Roosevelt Sykes - Hard Drivin' Blues - (Delmark) indeed.

Pandit Pran Nath - India's Master Vocalist - (Shandar, FR)

Peter Warren's Bass Is... now there's a special record.

dubstep and bebop both have two syllables.

I clicked the link. Ouch.

Sick. Still looking and looking for that one.

good to hear that the Chicago scene(s) have quite a bit of geniality. I've met a number of nice players here but that seems to be in spite of the fact that the city is pretty crushing and expensive, and most people are inordinately competitive or blasé (or both).

Various - Root Hog or Die: An Alan Lomax Centennial Tribute - (Mississippi/Lomax Archive) LP 3 of 6; this is a tremendous and wide ranging set with a lot of previously unissued material