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Harry De Wit & Phillip Wachsmann - For Harm - (Bead, UK) excellent violin-piano duos and quartets with Kees van Zelst and Jan Kamphuis (percussion and bass, respectively).

Allan Praskin - Encounter - (Three Blind Mice, JP) fantastic quartet date with Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Yoshio Ikeda and Motohiko Hino. Praskin is also the altoist on James Zitro's ESP record date.

Sad news. Only saw him once, with the Four Beings group (Tchicai, Alschul, Lane) and it was quite a performance. He did indeed "smoke."

They should, a la Cecil Taylor's "Unit Structures," John Patton's "Let 'em Roll" and other hybrid issues from the period.

Eric First, Walks Last.

Ah, I wasn't thinking of the archival stuff. Right.

used to have all three of those and kept zero. Oh well. I think only the Turrentine was M- and to me the music seemed pedestrian (compared to some of the hot early Blue Notes, anyway).

Makes sense. The avant-garde titles consisted of one Simmons, one Smiley Winters 2LP, one Lee Cronbach (Luna), one Jerry Hahn, and Now! which was a small orchestra directed by pianist/percussionist and arranger David Young. I'm glad these albums exist, because I get the feeling that if Arhoolie hadn't documented them, nobody would have.

Does anyone know the source behind the small clutch of Bay Area jazz records that Arhoolie released? While excellent, they always seemed like catalog outlier to me.

I have a Japanese LP copy of Brown Sugar but admittedly haven't played or thought about it in years.

desert island record for me, assuming there's a turntable, speakers, and somewhere to plug in...

(1976)

Okay, all are spoken for. Thanks!

Five lots down, two remain. Thanks guys.

Okay, two down and five lots to go. I think that some of the remainder will be a little more weird-leaning free improv and whatnot.

Okay, relyles is down. six more.

Ok, so I've got some stacks of discs here, primarily good to quite good stuff. Some even "great." Rather than going through them all I'm going to do SEVEN ten-disc mystery lots for $15 shipped to a US address. One per person. Trust me, there will be no "turds" in these lots. Some lots will be more "avant-garde" and some a little more palatable, so let me know which you prefer (and the emphasis in these stacks seems to be on more, rather than less "out"). Nothing in bad condition. My fingers are crossed that you won't encounter a duplicate of something you already have but this is not guaranteed. Post here to reserve a spot and PM with your name and address. Paypal only please. They'll go out shortly! Seventy CDs - first seven gets 'em. There'll be another one of these again in about a month or so...

ooh, nice - thanks! great set!

nice - my folks went on my behalf to that gig as well and got a signed poster for me. caught them the other night at the Vanguard and the gig was superb. would like to have caught Burrell/Swell last night in Houston also... never seen the duo play, but the record they did for NoBusiness is really excellent.

Giorgio Gaslini - Message - (BASF, IT orig) w/ Rutherford, Rava, Bedori, Urbani a.o.

RIP. Only saw him once, in duo with Fred Van Hove, but he and they were fantastic. Listening to "Round About Mittweida" on LP right now.

So I guess Braxton is moving to Portland, then?

is this on Serie.WOC ? I think that is legit. I have an Overseas Japan pressing of this one, an excellent date indeed.

sweet! my parents went on my behalf. Wish I could've been there.