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I have a rip of a Sick Dick cassette with Miller that sounds like AMM. Some of the band's music veered into no wave territory as well. I think Sick Dick had at least a few iterations/aesthetics from what I gather. Ditto Cool & the Clones, depending on who was involved. Borbetomagus were incredible, and the records are uniformly wonderful. I have a particular soft spot for the self-titled black cover album (two were self-titled) and the Zürich double LP, but each one is impressive and nuanced. I had the distinct pleasure of presenting both Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich in separate concerts in the last several years, albeit not Mr. Miller. The documentary on Borbetomagus, A Pollock of Sound, is very well done.

Sorry to read the news that guitarist Donald Miller has passed. Best known for his work in Borbetomagus (who I was lucky enough to see many years ago), he also performed in Cool & the Clones, Sick Dick & the Volkswagens, and as a solo string wrangler, both electric and acoustic. RIP and thanks to him for being there and doing what he did. His recent solo work can be heard here, to brilliant advantage: https://donaldmiller.bandcamp.com/album/transgression

Excellent.

ah, that's too bad -- I've been meaning to catch up on CvsD CDs, as some of the recent ones I haven't bought yet. Think the only Soufflé CD I have is the Perception -- nice session, gatefold digipak looks good. All three proper Perception LPs are really excellent as well.

Yep! I have one of those, as well as a handpainted McPhee and a couple of her small paintings framed.

I was told that Judith Lindbloom was supposed to be the artist for the Ornette LP but her "indisposition" at the time got in the way of her contributing cover art. https://www.judithlindbloom.com/

my guess is that they really do not want to manufacture CDs as not enough of their customers buy them. It's definitely a minimal effort job, whereas the LPs obviously were done with great care (and expense).

yeah, the duo with Cowell is beautiful. I don't have Consequences but the others I know & love. here's the interview I did with Burrell in 2004: https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/burrell.html Few and Cooper-Moore can get very physical indeed, but both have a romantic side for sure. Few spent years leading a trio and singing in Cleveland bars, and his whimsy always comes through. I think of Cooper-Moore and Few as having a direct line to Jaki Byard, and the same could probably be said of Burrell too. Both Burrell and Cooper-Moore were in Boston although I'm not sure that Jaki was living there when either of them were studying in the city.

That album has really grown on me over the years. When I first bought it (Vortex pressing, when it was cheap) I was bummed that it was not the "free jazz" I was hoping for (within the narrowish definition I had). Now I think it is an incredible, honest and creative album that points to a reconciliation between playful, populist groove and avant-garde soul-bearing.

Agree. Thankful to have seen him many times over the decades (and interview him once).

Ah, I thought it was around 77 in toto with the additional tracks.

Dave Burrell's 70s Japanese LPs have been inconsistently out on CD. It would be nice to see a package with all of them in one place: Dreams, Questions & Answers, Only Me, Lush Life, Round Midnight, and Teardrops for Jimmy. Each one is excellent. Black Spring, on Marge, has also seemingly never made it to CD.

oh yeah, that is a nice record that few people seem to know about.

I mean, this kind of dovetails with another recent thread, the subject being what to do (or what to tell others to do) with all this crap when you are no longer alive. Definitely don't want to have it all buried in my tomb. I would, however, be all right having a sarcophagus of my cat next to mine. We could enjoy the afterlife.

That's unfortunate. Both LPs as originally issued would fit on a single CD with much extra room. I'd gather that the 9 minutes of additional music would also be easy enough to squeeze on without trimming.

Good one/bad one 😆 I am getting increasingly tired of having all this stuff. didn't start buying LPs until college in the 1990s, mostly in the punk/indie realm, and began more actively collecting when I got interested in jazz as a college radio DJ midway through undergrad. Varying levels of being able to afford/find stuff I wanted, tapping out now at 6600 LPs and about 3500 CDs. No room for much more, and could stand to whittle it down a bit. I don't know that at this point in life I need a sound library in the way that I thought about it for the last 25 years.

wonder if the Chambers session was even a complete date? i.e., 3 tracks and maybe some false starts/unusable takes.

Have the LT cover of Sonic Boom too. It is a very good record at least.

yeah, just enough to hear it once, probably.

I assume that at some point it'll get posted to YouTube so we can hear it. I don't need to suffer through Chris Botti covering Lee in order to hear this material.

Ira Sullivan and Nicky Hill? I'm in. Oh wait, it's only available in a boxed set with stuff I either have or don't want? Annoying.

wonderful album, too

Rib Crib takes the cake for me as far as those Palms. just finished: Karin Krog: Different Days, Different Ways (Philips, JP orig) Swell album, builds on some of the music she did as part of the 1969 Baden-Baden New Jazz Meeting.

Never really liked that session but part of that is surely the fact that the original Palm pressing is fairly noisy. With cleaned up audio my opinion might change.

hopefully Dan is doing okay; I recall that he was in Florida. heck, I'd love to hear the Migliori just to know what it sounds like. Was Kevin Baconahan able to make contact with Baker?