Nice piece - I'm better acquainted with his earlier work. Some years ago what was then called All About Jazz New York did a piece on him that I thought was good. Maybe Andrey Henkin was the interviewer?
I think it was in 2005. Would have been rad to see him in the early '90s or even before that!
Now:
Come - Don't Ask, Don't Tell - (Beggars' Banquet UK orig)
yeah, he did produce and or manage quite an amazing array of bands. Softs in the very early, Daevid Allen years as I understood it (I'm much more of a Dean-era fan).
I'm hearing from a number of reputable (albeit non-familial) sources that the producer Giorgio Gomelsky (John McLaughlin, SME, Gong, Blossom Toes, Vangelis, etc.) has passed away. I hope it's not true but if so, quite a significant loss.
Fund artists and small labels to do whatever they want. Donate a ton of money to the IJS and other jazz collecting archives. Give the Jazz Foundation of America money. Of course I haven't bought a ticket because the concept of playing the lottery bothers me.
Nice set of tunes there - I have a Fresh Sound reissue of the Marable that was probably about $5 or $6. My copy of the McLean is a very, very thin matte sleeve with a flipback and I always assumed that was first, but who knows. Heavy stuff regardless.