clifford_thornton

wow. HOWever, I know I'm not wrong in saying that Be! haven't exactly earned any friends in the licensing department, if you catch my drift...

I agree with you, David. I listen to someone like John Dikeman, good player who's clearly done a lot of listening to Wright and Brötzmann, whom I also love, not to mention Vandermark, and it just doesn't hit for me. Michael Foster is another, perhaps less nuanced example among the younger set. Going from zero to nutting in .02 seconds and holding it there for 20+ minutes in 2015 isn't what I want to hear, unless it's from someone who can really make that mean something. Usually that person has been making musical constructions and expressions for far longer than Foster, Dikeman or whomever has been alive. Being a thirty-year-old jazz musician in 2015 also means something different than it did in 1965 or 1975, I'm guessing. The statements one makes carry different weight.

Really looking forward to checking out the Stella retro - his work up through the early/mid 70s I absolutely love. I think the last show I caught was Jurgen Teller at Zwirner maybe a week ago? His photographs mark a tense, quiet relationship between the personal and the political.

That Lacy "Eronel" LP is really nice.

Yeah, I agree with that sentiment.

Hopefully for less than $987...

Saw that band live - it was interesting. Just got the disc but haven't spun it yet. The new Shipp trio disc is lovely, but then again I haven't heard a Shipp CD that isn't just that.

I like Monk's Casino a lot, but not for the same reason I like Monk a lot. I'd like to get that Dolphy tribute disc at some point - looks nice.

Indeed - barnstorming, even. now: Howard Riley Trio - Discussions - (Opportunity, Sawano-Japan reissue)

Right, guess I implied that rather than outright saying it. Pretty rotten scene.

I understand that there are a fair number of musicians who haven't been happy with Jazzwerkstatt (or his other labels) over the years. Maybe that's changed. Several titles ended up with Blobel when Helma Schleiss started running FMP. She was originally supposed to assist with distribution and instead set up a separate production-distribution company under the FMP name, eventually trying to wrest the catalog from Jost Gebers, the label's founder. Legal battles ensued and I believe he got an injunction/cease-and-desist. Anything that Blobel has from FMP is probably what she sold him, likely without the musicians' cooperation.

Pretty sure Blobel and everything associated with him is pretty sketchy. He may be licensing some things from Gebers but I'd be surprised...

yeah, I would like to get that duo. It'd be great if someday all the Schoof Quintett records with AvS were reissued.

Oleo, My Funny Valentine, Nature Boy, and one that is escaping me right now.

yeah someone must've found a couple boxes of them in a warehouse or something.

Smoke is good. So titled because of what was going down before, during, and after the session...

a/l/l was a short-lived FMP subsidiary and their discs are hard to find. I'm not surprised we haven't talked about it much if at all. Maybe it was mentioned in the Funny Rat thread.

It's a split LP from 1970 - part of that series "The Best Players in Japan." I'd never seen a copy before and the personnel aren't listed on the record. The Mine side is quartet so my guess is that Masahiro Kikuchi, Yoshiro Suzuki and Hiroshi Murakami are the rhythm section.

Sadao Watanabe & Kosuke Mine - Alto Sax Vol. 1 - (Toshiba, JP) Kosuke side - quite excellent.

Nick Brignola/Pepper Adams - Baritone Madness - (Beehive) dunno what Iverson's problem is.

still could happen.

I wouldn't pan it - definitely solid, but not a record I return to all that much. Maybe tonight will be the night!

The Lasha was supposed to happen as a legit 2 CD set of all the Birdseye recordings, but the reissuing label ran out of money. Too bad.

Universe had some interesting releases. I'd forgotten that the De Graaff-Vennik Quartet had a record on that label too.

The only Vennik-de Graaff LP I have is Minor Moods from Past and Present, which I think is the first one. Nice hand-screened thin cover with mimeographed inserts. I'd like to get that one on BASF as well, but it's tough to find in clean condition.