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Would have liked to have seen that group live. Cooper-Moore's history with Ware is long, going back to the early 70s when they formed Apogee with Marc Edwards and Chris Amberger. Muhammad is such a beautiful drummer and a fun cat to talk to. Never had any patience for the electronica/hip-hop/jazz hybrids on Thirsty Ear but... I've probably listened to dumber music in my life! RIP DSW

Yeah, I like that one a lot! Live at the East is very good as well. Black Unity is wonderful too. And Jewels of Thought gets into some pretty bonkers stuff. Tauhid is beautiful but oddly not my go-to Pharoah (which, if anyone cares, is the Strata-East).

One of the best of its kind, for sure. I've had several copies over the years. Blew my mind when I first heard it in 1998, over thirty years after it was first released. Such a fresh and inviting album!

Still on the lookout for a copy. $1000+ is fairly normal for a nice copy of it these days and I know a couple of people who've paid way more! Funny to revisit as I'm now well-acquainted with Mr. Downes' music, which is very fine!

Thembi is cool but the pieces are too damn short. I assume they are edited. Pharoah and company usually need some stretching room.

Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm - (MPS, Ger) haven't given this one a listen in ages. Still strong!

Yeah, for sure. I was going to add in a video of that Armonicord stuff but YT wouldn't do its thing in my post [this is not a sex thing, nor robbery related].

Jouck Minor also played some pretty heavy baritone with Michel Portal and Eje Thelin. He belts out some fierce stuff on the Armonicord LP with Jean Querlier (need to dig that out again).

Henk Van Es is pretty ripping on some early 70s recordings with Herbert Noord, Hans Dulfer, et al. Joop Mastenbroek SLAYS on Theo Loevendie's Mandela LP (even better on the circulating Antibes concert)

Has Nick Brignola been mentioned? I like that album he did on Priam.

I've never felt The Thing translated as well on record as they do live. The exception would be the Two Bands and a Legend CDs, which merge Gustafsson/Flaten/Nilssen-Love with Joe McPhee and the garage rock trio Cato Salsa Experience. The full-length is particularly engaging.

Yeah ! Still in the market for one of these.

I like his playing with Archie Shepp on that Dragon LP they recorded together (1963, released in the '80s). There's a nice live date on Columbia from '69 with Bernt Rosengren's band, aptly titled Live!. It's got a tougher and rather jovial feel, not surprisingly.

Alice Coltrane - Divine Songs - (Tummy Tapes reissue)

Kenny G and Louis Armstrong

Jackie McLean and Grachan Moncur III Albert Ayler and Don Cherry Attila Zoller and Don Friedman

I suppose not being around at the time it's hard for me to gauge, but you're right, it's fair to assume that the impact was pretty sizable on other musicians at the time. Certainly the modal thing began happening in earnest around that time.

which group? I'm not into Paradoxical Frog, I like Anti-House. Would like to hear the 4tet with Baars and Henneman. YMMV.

it's been pushed back to December.

wonder if they're holding it back to improve things or if it's still on track for the end of this month?

I mean, Kind of Blue is an amazing jazz record. Everything 'clicks' and it's very well recorded. The tunes are beautiful. For sure, there was no attempt or foreknowledge to make an "iconic" recording, just a need to document a band and a record's worth of ideas in Columbia's studios. Now, when you think about it that way, copying it note for note is more than a little strange, but I believe it's more a statement on the marketing of the music as well as how impossible it has for the jazz world to get beyond that "icon." I was at an Ideal Bread gig last week and the between-sets music was KoB... or at least I think so. It could have been MOPDTK!

Fair point, but that track you first posted doesn't exude Space Age Bachelor Pad Music to the extent that a lot of prime lounge does. Certainly TTK's world more than mine, but that's my two cents. Nick Cave is fascinating at his best, and some of that gothic country is rad, but it seems worlds apart from the vibe the op is looking for.

Happy Birthday Daniel!

I've not heard This That, but would like to.

Things We Like is an excellent LP.