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Badfoot Brown is good...

Street Singer (BN King) has elements of this album plus some other tracks which IRCC completes the session with Brooks. On the whole I think Street Singer seems to hold together better than Jackie's Bag. Agreed, though "Quadrangle" is an interesting tune. New Soil was the first Jackie I heard and it still excites. "Minor Apprehension" is a wonderful thing.

Yeah, I remember that one - it's a pretty harsh toke.

I know some of it is in Bill's archives.

Really wish that the Bill Dixon 2LP had come out, though apparently Bill canceled the project as the money wasn't right. They would have been recordings from Bill's tapes, including (IIRC) the concert from Four Days in December. Great band/s with Rashied Ali, Reggie Johnson, Robin Kenyatta, maybe Gary Porter on trombone (?)... I've heard bits and pieces of this stuff and it's heavy!

Was sorry to miss that. Lots of great stuff to spend time and money on! I know the free axis a bit better than the straight ahead scene.

Never had that one but all the "Jazz Life" Fontanas I have seen were manufactured by Philips in the Netherlands. Post-Rolling-cover, I'd guess? Both UK and Dutch had the Jazz Life cover. Röling design only appeared much later on the Japanese issues, assume it was like Back to the Tracks in this respect. Same with Blood (Bley).

Curiously, those six were never issued by DA Music on CD before, whereas titles like Touching, Anatomy of a South African Village, and Nefertiti were.

Same here - have the 65 version on a Wergo LP. Now: Charles McPherson - From This Moment On - (Prestige, Blue label)

same here. Wonderful date.

yeah i've heard that too. actually I vote for Michael Imperioli, the guy who played Christopher Moltisanti on the Sopranos (Tony Soprano's junkie nephew - great actor).

Totally. Very fluid dude. And we know, or at least I think we do, that he tried some things with Rashied Ali and Norman Connors, more open, and he was not personally satisfied by their approach, and how those drummers shaped his music. Cf. Roy Haynes, Tony Williams, Jack De Johnette...

got all this stuff on wax - glad someone grabbed it. Such amazing music.

I like it! Super Nova is good too. A rolling stone gathers no moss, y'know.

Etcetera is a good record - I've never been blown away by it, but it's strong. I have a clean Iska cover but the LP, though it looks nice, sounds terrible. Must've been a bad pressing. Neat album, as is Moto Grosso Feio.

Bump. East-West Collective "Humeurs" (RogueArt) Didier Petit, Larry Ochs, Sylvain Kassap, Miya Masaoka, Xu Fengxia free to a US address! GONE

Derek Bailey, Incus 2 Henry Kaiser on Balance Point Acoustics

Steve Buscemi? Christopher Walken? Nick Nolte?

Good one.

same here. The Incus Music Improvisation Company is much rawer than the ECM (not surprisingly). Wonder whose promo it was? They wrote my name on the box logo. No name on mine. Guess they knew I wouldn't sell mine, #Clifford.

Reports from those close to the source are that the reedist Will Connell, who worked with William Parker, Jason Hwang and his own groups, passed away today at the age of 76, after an accident in his home last night. He was set to have a residency at the stone next month, which from what I'm told will now be a celebration of his life and a requiem for his sudden departure. Sad news. Some words on Will and the band Commitment, which he co-founded, are here. I'd hoped to interview him for the NYC Jazz Record earlier this fall but whether for his reasons or the paper's, it got scuttled. No time like the present to talk to musicians you want to learn from.

Wonder whose promo it was? They wrote my name on the box logo.

Don Cherry, François Tusques, Béb Guerin, J-F Jenny-Clarke - La Maison Fille du Soliel - (Finders' Keepers reissue) This is very nice; I would like to hear the whole performance, however, rather than the issued excerpts (on a 45 single). The original is tres rare.

No, Carter wasn't involved with MEV. Pretty antithetical to his aesthetic.

Never grabbed that Ictus LP for whatever reason; I bet it's interesting. Of course Lacy's Threads also features him, along with Frederic Rzewski. MEV is one of my favorite weirdo groups. "Friday" is particularly fine.