clifford_thornton

Nato?

Not alphabetical?

Right - but the Arista is the only one w/ Oppens? I'd thought there was another one but...

yep, Arista LP "For Two Pianos" with Rzewski. There may also be another one that I'm forgetting.

Speaking of DA Music... what about Marion Brown Porto Novo? I am very fond of this session with the Dutch rhythm section of Maarten Altena on bass and Han Bennink on drums. I always felt like it was of a piece with Theo Loevendie's great Stairs! album on Artone. The original Polydor cover is cool looking, and certainly the sound is better than on the more-often-referenced Arista-Freedom version. It was on CD at one point in the '90s with grainy artwork.

Bassist is John Williams.

Seems like they saw how well you were doing with it and decided to get a piece of the pie. Probably won't be as well done either. Sorry to hear this. BUT I can't wait for the Daley and even though I have a perfect original LP of the Tapscott, am glad it's coming back to the marketplace. It's a great one. Totally agree. Wonder how easy it would be to pry out of the hands of DA Music/Alan Bates, especially now that those weird bootlegs are floating around...

I have that piece on an Edition RZ LP although I believe it's a different performance. Will have to try and find this. Just checked - looks like it's the same performance. I have that same RZ lp and it's a different performance. The RZ is a live 1973 performance without Kosugi and Ichiyanagi. The TOKK lp is a 1975 studio recording featuring Kosugi on electric violin and Ichiyanagi himself along with the other members. Aha. Well hey, now I can add another thing to the ol' wants list! Sounds cool. The Orchestra set (3LP) is in a box, the quartets are in a gatefold sleeve. Haven't spun either of those in years but I remember them being quite good.

Fair enough. I do like his composing for piano, however.

I have that piece on an Edition RZ LP although I believe it's a different performance. Will have to try and find this. Just checked - looks like it's the same performance.

First thing in this vein that I bought - after hearing/liking Fahey et al., and this certainly dates me to about fourteen or fifteen years ago - was a compilation that Revenant put out called American Primitive Volume 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel. Completely blew my mind. Though certainly far from knowledgable about the subject, I've dilettanted my way through quite a few prewar LP comps and haven't been let down once. You might like Robert Pete Williams, whose guitar playing I have always found somewhat abstract. The Takoma LP is great.

New Burton Greene disc on CIMP with Michael Attias, Reut Regev, Adam Lane and Igal Foni "Burton's Time" is quite good. Recorded in 2011 but it seems to have just arrived on the market.

Yeah, there are a couple of Greene LPs on that label if I recall correctly. Dutch label that also issued records by Fred Leeflang and Herbert Noord. Solid stuff.

good record.

Good record. There's one with Claude Bernard and Itaru Oki called Paris Days that's also really nice. Kako's first jazz records (I think) were with Bob Reid's Emergency, recorded in Paris in the early 70s. One on America and one on Reid's Kwela imprint.

Ah, well the transition from broken beat to Michael Vatcher isn't too hard!

I agree with you. I'd had that thought myself but am just too busy and not tied in enough to do it. Also it seems worth recommending Art Taylor's Notes & Tones, even though the focus is more on his peers in the bop/post-bop world, it's just such an amazing document. And he played some mean free drums with Dizzy Reece and Frank Wright in the '70s.

Mine looks like this: Lovely record. I think the Reverend is the bee's knees.

I'd recommend Valerie Wilmer's "As Serious As Your Life" and John Litweiler's "The Freedom Principle" for starters, as well as his bio on Ornette, Graham Lock's bio on Anthony Braxton, and John Szwed's book on Sun Ra. A.B. Spellman's "Four Lives in the Bebop Business" is also well worth reading. Amiri Baraka's "Black Music" and Frank Kofsky's "Black Nationalism & The Revolution in Music" could follow, although they certainly have their issues. I find them both very interesting (and Baraka's 'fun') but YMMV. Talk to musicians of an older generation when you can. Ask them questions.

yeah, Eremite and AUM are different beasts. You do get the sense of "being there," warts and all.

Not the same music as was released on Fragments. More duos that I'd like to hear, though.

Quite a loss indeed - didn't realize until recently what a diverse artist he was and is.

I have the "Illusionary Seas" double LP 45rpm, and it is clean and smooth and quiet, remarkably so really. Maybe the previous one had some noise, don't know as I don't have it, or maybe she was being facetious. But the larger point about new releases being variable in quality is well-taken. Cien Fuego has been very good, OTO, and I think Trost, also very good, just to mention a few. Bought a Sonore LP and another one on Trost and they were severely scuffed/scratched from the heavy stock inner sleeves. I know a lot of stores don't even do returns on new vinyl anymore because there isn't any point to being liable for manufacturing defects or mishandling in the pressing plant/at the distributor. So I was out $40+. Never bought a Cien Fuego release as I have all that stuff on FMP vinyl. Then again, I've had bad luck with CDs from Clean Feed and Not Two in particular - digital clicks, phantom skipping, all kinds of crap (in multiple CD players) - so the format doesn't really matter. Most of these labels put out too much stuff without paying attention to quality control.

Hah, yes, one of my favorite lines in an interview I conducted was when Hamiet Bluiett said "they need to put the brothel back in it" (emphasis his). I guess he is of a similar mindset.

Only Eno LP I ever owned was Taking Tiger Mountain (US Island), which is great but I let it go to make some shelf space... oh well.