clifford_thornton

Super well-said, Colin - thanks. I don't know much about Ran's music but often feel like I should investigate it more.

and the rest of it, well...

I have a folded-down mono NY pressing that sounds perfectly good to my ears. It was not expensive ($25?) and is in excellent condition.

Yeah, looks like a late 70s pressing. The Japanese pressing on King/Trio uses the same cover. I have slightly earlier issues with nice gatefold covers on Polydor/Freedom. The first pressing was An Evening with Ornette Coleman on International Polydor (Germany), which was housed in an attractive boxed set with a booklet. That came out in 1967 or '68.

Michael Cosmic... also a reed player but I dig his piano workouts on Peace In The World.

Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan: Land of the Blacks Live at the East - (Strata East)

Ron is right, I forgot to delete that one from the list! I will throw something else in the same vein in as a replacement to keep that number at sixteen.

Yeah, I need to get the other ones. There's one with Keith Tippett too. The duo with Cognard is real nice. Some guys want to know if their girlfriend is "on the pill" and some want to know if she is "on to Pilz." Sorry, couldn't resist. Haha, she was neither! (TMI)

Yes. I want to visit with a completely empty credit card someday. I'd say the same about Disk Union but they are cash only!

Yeah, that's a good one! Looking forward to seeing Brö/Parker/Drake at Vision next week. The Austin audience always kills it, in the best way possible. That recent book of interviews between Gerard Rouy and PB is well worth checking out, by the way.

Not totally obscure, but I've really enjoyed seeing Frank Carlberg around town. Very much out of the Paul Bley orbit but with his own thing going on. He has several records out (which I've only heard snippets of), but never seems to get mentioned in the contemporary pantheon. Anyway, wonderful player.

$20 gets the rest of it, shipped.

Still need to get a truly mint sounding Celeste. Had Jamabiko but it had some scuffs (free copy!), think I sold it to someone for $20. Records I used to have > Records I own Carpathes is pretty excellent though I admit I haven't listened to it in years. It really pissed off a (now ex-) girlfriend!

Have this one somewhere, I think... Lady of the Mirrors is great, but I've never found a copy that isn't scuffed/beat to hell. Need to get a sealed one I guess.

Yes, you are absolutely right. This is also like half the Clean Feed discography at this point... which is why I don't deal with any of it anymore. Not that it's bad, it's just... better left for someone else to listen to and figure out. And this is about 10x better than most of it. I wish I'd kept those Redman/Jarrett joints but honestly there's only so much shelf space. The first track on Where Fortune Smiles (Surman/McLaughlin/Berger/Holland/Martin) sounds like something the V5 woulda played when Jeb Bishop's guitar was still part of the palette.

I am pretty sure that both of Cooper's About Time LPs are still in print. You should contact ATR (board member) for details. The other one is with Jason Hwang, Wm Parker, Joseph Jarman and Thurman Barker and is called Outer and Interactions.

Haven't played it in a while, but I remember it as a good one. Every once in a while I play it, like it, but never feel really moved by it. Best is when Oliver Lake gets on the alto. It's a live recording, and it seems from the hesitant applause, that the audience didn't really know how to respond to it either. That in itself doesn't always mean much, but it reflected my own reaction. Jerome Cooper is a wonderful musician, albeit not always reflected by recordings. His solo LP on About Time, The Unpredictability of Predictability, is incredible and the solo LP on Anima is pretty strong too. I've always had a soft spot for Positions 3-6-9 on Kharma, with Kalaparusha and Frank Lowe, which almost sounds like ethnographic field recordings from a New York loft! The Revolutionary Ensemble were cool though I'm not sure that the records always captured what it was they were doing. Some of them sound a little dry, though in my estimation The Psyche is absurdly great... one of THE records of the era.

New Acoustic Swing Duo - Sendai Sjors and Sendai Sjimme - (Jazz & NOW, JP)

You know the drill. PM, first come first served. Depending on my work schedule tomorrow, I may be a little slow in responding after 9:30 AM Eastern Time. Mostly unused recent promos and spare copies of things that I do not have space for. Some older stuff thrown in on good measure. Discs are $5 apiece unless noted. Shipping is free within the US and I generally avoid jewel cases, though I think most of these have digipaks. Paypal is strongly preferred. GONE

those are good ones!

I believe this was based on a well-regarded French Surrealist book's cover design (ca. 1940s), which I recently saw in a personal library. Looking back now it seems like the Lacy jacket just straightened out the letters' placement. There is definitely something of a Surrealist element in a lot of those early Hat Hut cover designs, which was lost when they went to ECM-style photographs for their CD art.

Some really nice stuff here. I have much of it myself, but can vouch for the seller's quality and service. Don't be shy! Also $9 a disc is a pretty good deal. I paid double that for some of these.

Lotta cool stuff on this label. Recommended.

I only remember the not-so-nice musicians, everybody else has been super cool.

That Favre Wergo is great. The pressing on the Levin is pretty piss-poor. It is a good record, however. Mine was Bill Dixon's copy, gifted from Marc to Bill with a beautiful inscription.