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ooh, looking forward to spending some time with that one. Choice band.

haven't read it, won't read it. Heroin and opioid addiction is everywhere, and have been everywhere for a long time, but its effect on Black music and Black art get the most lip service. Pretty easy to see why.

William Walker! But yes, a welcome listen around these parts for sure.

Yeah, though I doubt it would be of a releasable quality.

The fall season of "So, What Do You Think?" is upon us at Tubby's in Kingston, New York. Ten days from now, on Sunday, September 29, we are pleased to present an evening concert consisting of two trios that range from the far-flung burgs of New Paltz, Kingston, Peekskill, and New York City. Headlining the evening will be drummer Chris Bowman's Manix with guitarist John Bruschini and trumpeter John Mulkerin. An electric convergence of Downtown NYC post-no wave, free funk, and related structures, the trio's individual collaborators have included Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Bley, Annette Peacock, George Garzone, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, James Chance, Luther Thomas, Charles "Bobo" Shaw, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Butch Morris, and Makanda Ken McIntyre –– some of the deepest figures in modern creative music, and that depth will be carried through to Tubby's. Bowman is also a drum shop owner in New Paltz, and in 2023 provided "So, What Do You Think?" with a set of congas that were imbued with a lot of history and fire. Manix in a quartet version can be heard here: https://bruschinimulkerinbowmanpeskoff.bandcamp.com/album/manix Bruschini's solo music can be heard to recent advantage here: https://johnbruschini.bandcamp.com/album/cecil-ensorcelled-2 The opening salvos of the evening will come from trombonist Joe Fiedler and his trio with longtime collaborators guitarist Pete McCann (Dave Liebman, Lee Konitz, Maria Schneider) and drummer Michael Sarin (Dave Douglas, Myra Melford, Mario Pavone). These three, augmented by saxophonist Jeff Lederer and bassist Rob Jost, recorded Like, Strange in 2017 and they'll be going into the studio again before the year's end. Fiedler is a trombonist, composer, and arranger who has had an extensive career in both avant-garde jazz and Latin music circles, as well as being the musical director for Sesame Street since ~2009. He has worked with, among others, Anthony Braxton, Maria Schneider, Andrew Hill, Sakoto Fujii, and Cecil Taylor, in addition to an extensive study and arrangement of trombonist and multiphonic pioneer Albert Mangelsdorff's music. His quartet Big Sackbut (consisting of three trombones and tuba) has reimagined the small brass ensemble for contemporary ears pitched toward rousing interplay. The Fiedler-McCann-Sarin trio is certainly something to look forward to. Tickets can be purchased in advance at this link for $10 (plus a small service fee) or at the door for $15.

True!

no idea. I would think they would've been cataloged when Cuscuna was doing his research, but I don't know.

Sweet album. I saw Bang and Lowe with the Vietnam large ensemble at the Vision Festival in 2001. I might've seen Bang one other time, but that occasion certainly sticks out.

Yeah, correct. But Ornette brought only one tape to ESP, not both (or all three, who knows?), so what was on that reel was what they released. Stollman was acting as Ornette's lawyer/representative at that time, and I think the LP release was in lieu of payment for services rendered to Coleman. Probably made more money with the record than he would've gotten in legal fees anyway.

Yeah, Ornette brought the tape to Stollman to have distortion removed from "Sadness," and Stollman put it out (fixed), thus quashing the Blue Note. That is the story I was told by Stollman, anyway.

Oh, great news! Thanks for that. They're actually Plastylite test pressings rather than acetates, and they did get to the stage of nearly being released until the ESP fiasco scuttled it.

According to Al Fielder (RIP), Arthur was playing a heck of a lot of golf down in Florida!

he probably fell off the flat earth.

the "other" John Edwards, I guess

Ah wow, one of the last of the great modern jazz era drummers. RIP.

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Stevie Wonder performing for the Ken Gibson campaign in Newark: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.79.1.79.1a

NYU has Bill Dixon's archive. It would be great if they were able to create something down the road, once things are processed and programming can materialize. But as the maestro often said, you can't wait for someone else to do these things, and Mr. Zappa is doing the work.

Looks wonderfully fascinating! https://october-revolution.org/ presented by Stanley Jason Zappa (who sometimes posts here, or did, I think?) and Black Editions, who have done some mighty fine LPs of new and archival improvised music. If anyone from this board goes to the concerts/panels, please let us know your impressions.

Hah, oh well, it happens... can't do much about people of a certain generation who spend a ton of time on Facebook and the website formerly known as Twitter. She and I may not agree on much outside of music but I do like her piano playing. I should check in on yr IG as I don't always see who's followed me. Me too, that Levitts record is weird but cool.

I don't do Facebook. No politics on this board but I'm pretty far left of the dial, so take that as you will. back to the original title of the thread, I'd ask him about Al Levitt.

sure, there are grey areas and incomplete stories around sexual violence and I would never argue with that. But I find it hard to doubt the basic framework in a story of someone who was assaulted. And yeah, Getz & Grimes' closeness has been documented -- they left for California together in 1966 -- so maybe he wrote it down somewhere. and not to pile upon Hubbard, but at the very least his drinking and cocaine use, and penchant for being rather 'out of it', are fairly well-established. Not that alcoholism/cocaine use equal sexual abuser, but people hopped up on shit do some very uncool things.

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It's really good. Did the pr text for it and interviewed the trio. would love to see Weird of Mouth live for sure...