clifford_thornton

huh.

Arbete och Fritid - Arbete och Fritid - (MNW)

François Tusques - Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra v. 4: Hommage a Jo Maka - (Vendemiaire)

Haven't spun that Lacy in a while but remember liking it a lot.

Masters of Unorthodox Jazz - Overground - (Barabbas, recent seemingly-authorized reissue) rugged Austrian free music session - the privately-pressed original is obscenely rare.

The Esquire pressing of this looks super sexy. Always loved the artwork and the session, uneven as it might be in spots, still holds for me.

Couldn't resist getting one of those some years ago even though I already had the regular Incus pressing. Picked up one with an Alan Davie print.

Ha, that reminds me of some of the pieces in An Anthology, which I was just going through the other night. Every problem in this community is likely a fwp. Sigh.

yeah, but how does one know "brilliant" if there isn't any "decent/solid" to compare it to?

Electrum is okay - wouldn't throw down a lot of money on it but it's a decent, not-uninteresting record.

Samara Lubelski - The Fleeting Skies - (De Stijl, US)

yup. Now: Phil Pearlman - The Beat of the Earth - (Artistic Statement, new reissue/boot)

that Mobley is obliterated. Did you buy it?

ah, ok. So the Jasmines are needle-drops as well?

Wow, thanks - don't think I've ever seen this before.

I haven't spun this one in ages. Need to dig it out again!

It is a palette cleanser and hey, you wouldn't be the first to notice a connection between Bailey and Fahey (I'd say Henry Kaiser found it in the 1970s).

no tapes?

Phil Yost - Touchwood's Dream - (North Star, US orig)

agreed.

Perhaps that's true - they look unplayed and all come from different collections. I mean, they're not BYG-bad but noticeably a little noisy. I'm not sweating it too much though, just one of the perils of buying used LPs... and I consider myself lucky to be able to hear this music, far away from Germany, in 2015.

John Coltrane - Africa/Brass - (Impulse, Japanese stereo)

yeah, that was pulled because Meinert himself was working with my friend to get the record out properly, which did happen. I'd surely love to see a nice collection of the FMO/MJQK material - including some of the unissued and compilation tracks that are floating around out there. I have the LPs but a nice CD set is always a good thing, if done properly.

Thanks. The Wilen estate is pretty pissed about Zodiac. Thelin's estate and Dragon, who license his music, didn't approve the reissue of the Metronome LP. I know a few more stories from friends who've been undermined in their legitimate efforts to reissue titles by his activities, which were to merely 'get stuff out' quickly and ask questions later. So I'm not too excited about this label but am glad that at least the Campi estate approved the Hipp box.

various - Movement Soul - (ESP original stereo, US) heavy compilation of field recordings from the freedom movement in the American South - a recent purchase and one I hadn't listened to before.