clifford_thornton

Happy Birthday!

Last night we lost the great alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi at age 59. Scrappy and true, his playing moved me so many times on record over the years and I only wish I'd had the chance to see him play in person. Looks like my review of his latest CD, Cosmic Brujo Mutafuka, will be running as a requiem. Here's an interview that Taran Singh did in 2005 with him, which is very informative: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/marco-eneidi-still-here-marco-eneidi-by-taran-singh.php

I'm surprised that felser got a bunch of stuff he wasn't into but I guess it was bound to happen to someone. I don't know whether the mystery lot was a bad idea but I figured at $1.50 or so a disc it was closer to a good idea...

I have no DMMs except for the Dolphy "Other Aspects." Yeah, it's really good. I'd been looking for it for years, just figured it was one that would pop up in person at some point... and it did. Love it.

Thanks - yeah, as I said, not willing to throw him out entirely but also haven't investigated too deeply. I know he knows the music and decided on a commercial path. Hearing or watching footage of him, certainly it's clear that on a certain level he "gets it" and can play.

I did well. Nothing outrageously expensive... sure, those records were there, but there was much to find outside of that. In the jazz realm, best scores were: Giorgio Gaslini - Message - (BASF Italy) Mico Nissim - Glucose Confectionnerie - (Futura FR) Saheb Sarbib - Live in Europe vol. 2 - (Marge FR) (with Muhammad Ali and Joseph Dejean) Allan Praskin - Encounter - (Three Blind Mice, JP) Masahiko Togashi - The Face of Percussion - (Paddle Wheel, JP) Karel Krautgartner - Boleraz - (Amadeo, AUS) really gorgeous clarinet-driven modal/post-bop tunes plus 2 Harry De Wit LPs on Bead, some nice folk and ethnographic recordings, etc., bought about 20 records I think.

Now THAT is a really fair point. Thanks.

haha that's a little beyond my pay grade...

Don Cherry - Don Cherry - (BYG Japan) Hadn't listened to this in many years. Bennink is very well-recorded here.

I wonder if it is just me -- I have never been able to get into Afro-American Sketches, and have had it a couple of times over the years. That Joe Newman record smokes... as do the small group dates with Dolphy (both of which I also sold but you can't keep everything).

I don't have a basement but I can relate!

have the Labor LPs and have not listened to them (or cared to listen to them) in many years. I guess they should go into the sell pile.

I would be amazed if there's much left that shouldn't go into the dumpster. That shop was awful when I lived in Chicago and I can't imagine it's improved in any way. Sorry, but not every piece of potentially salable media gets a home...

Like anything, there's a whole world of experience beyond the obvious cliches.

Sanborn also worked with Prince Lasha and Odean Pope, not to mention being involved with the Night Music television program, which broke a lot of interesting artists to mainstream audiences. I have very little interest in his commercial pap but am not entirely willing to throw him out either.

Yeah, I've known people whose albums he's booted and am not convinced. But most retailers don't care - if it sells, they'll carry it. Now: Roy Harper - Flat Baroque and Berserk - (Harvest, US pressing)

Ah, that's too bad. RIP. Flute Fever is an excellent album.

That's from BE! Jazz, which is actually a grey-label. I'm surprised that Bear Family is selling this.

Those Mangelsdorffs are great in particular, but finding copies that aren't in rough shape has proven difficult.

Derek Bailey - Aida - (Incus, UK)

will try to grab it when either Dusty Groove or Squidco stock it.

jeffcrom knew Smith well and played with him. The LPs I have are quite spare and rather intense, seemingly coming from George Crumb and Henry Cowell as much as a postwar jazz/free music milieu. But that's only a listener's perspective and I'm sure there's much more to him than that.

Archie Shepp - The Magic of Ju-Ju - (Impulse, red/black orig.) never tire of this one...

ah, that's a challenge...

Ah, fascinating! That Kühn on CBS is one I've been trying to find for years. It's quite expensive these days, so increasingly unlikely to end up in the ol' shelves.