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The last few recordings of Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch, Last Date, Last Recordings - are quite a hodgepodge but of high caliber.

Bubba Kadane Big Daddy Kane Herman Cain (Bubba Kadane was in a band called Bedhead)

ha - I have Other Voices, Other Blues but not New Steps, and I haven't listened to OVOB in a million years!

Haven't heard it, but it's very expensive in its original form. The program is a mixture of Wisner's original compositions (sung by Ms. Mendoza) and standards. He went on to be a fairly well-regarded (or at least employed) pop arranger, from what I can tell.

I bet that was recorded at the stone last year - good concert. that Sun Rooms disc is real strong. He's definitely now come into his own as an individual; rounding off some of those attractively sharp edges has not diluted his music in any way.

The Deccas are all superb.

I suppose you'd have to have a pretty good cart/needle setup to avoid jumps.

I stall out after the Circle era. But that stuff and the material that came before it is excellent.

If the CDs are well-produced/manufactured, and seem like some care went into them, I'm all for it. Otherwise... if they're just MP3s of milquetoast free jazz on a disc in a shitty paperboard sleeve, I could care less (hence recent house-cleanings).

"Intervall" is the shit. Listening now successfully. I'll have to track down this seemingly rather elusive LP...

yeah, side two gets particularly heavy !

woo!

I just assumed that those were the same concert, but they're not. Different nights. Aha! Thanks.

It's maybe not the "best" one but it's really, really good and I play it fairly often. Underrated IMO.

Yeah, that one and a couple of the Stockhausen DGG albums were my first thought.

Same here. He was really great and I'm pretty bummed.

I have the Paris concert on an America 3LP set, but if I recall correctly there's a track on Revenge that is not on the Great Paris Concert.

and if you want to hear him on cello, Charles Tyler's Eastern Man Alone (ESP). Now: Kenny Wheeler - Windmill Tilter - (Fontana UK)

Heartbreaking, but he did live an incredible life and we've got so, so much great music. RIP Kenny, and thank you.

Sure, I've definitely heard of him, though have never had the opportunity to acquire his LPs. I see that there's a reasonably affordable posthumous (1980s) compilation that Dragon put out, as well as the Odeon album that Gunnar Lindqvist assembled. Thanks for bringing up this unsung hero of Swedish jazz. Also I see that neither of those LPs will play in my Spotify player. Wonder if it's not licensed outside of Europe?

yeah, the Schema disc is on the wants list (tho I gotta make room here in the Brooklyn hovel!)

Bechdel is wonderful indeed. Never felt like I could "get into" Coleman's music but that doesn't mean he doesn't deserve every accolade and award he receives.

I have a Japanese Toshiba LP pressing of The Golden Eight. Excellent album. Need to dig it out again. (been a while since I was on a CBBB kick, though when it's a kick, it's heavy...)

maybe Nisenson?

Kofsky definitely was a jackass but that book, ridiculous as it could sometimes be, is a fascinating read. Ditto a number of the articles in Jazz & Pop at the time. They do give context, jackassed or otherwise. Especially for those of us who weren't around to experience things first hand. And I do still enjoy LeRoi Jones' / Baraka's critical writings from the period, political in-crowd pandering though it may be (only Guild people he had any interest in were Shepp, Tchicai and Ra). Really wish Anthony would have signed off on that interview we did - it's great, but he's a busy guy and couldn't find time to fact check it. Golia has made 10x the records Tapscott did, probably more. Excellent musician although the recordings don't always get "there." True, nobody really pays any attention to those early Nine Winds LPs, which are quite fine. Also dig his artwork on the cover of Music from Two Basses (he was a visual artist first, then a reed player).