clifford_thornton

someone please grab the Dixon.

Wow.

Two basses on "Capricorn Moon" (quintet), "27 Cooper Square" and "Exhibition" each have one bassist (quartet). I haven't listened to that LP in years but it is also one of the greatest jazz records ever made.

Now: Keiki Midorkikawa - Grune Revolution - (Offbeat, JP) duos with Takayanagi and Satoh

Yeah, that's a good one - very different from their debut.

The Can - Monster Movie - (Liberty, GER)

Yeah, that Gilson number on Futura is pretty interesting although I don't really put it in with other Shihab LPs.

he's not mean!

Same here, just got a promo of it but haven't listened yet. Looks to be heavy.

Oh right. I believe that a significant number of the discs were defective somehow - wrong music, maybe? Can't remember.

Will definitely hit the Roulette show though I would assume it'll be packed as hell.

Agreed about the Graz set - it's unlistenable. I really like the set from Arnhem in '67 with Bennink and Ruud Jacobs. Some of my favorite 60s Rollins, for sure.

Wow - sad news. Didn't see this last month.

I always have my eyes out for the CD of this one. Pretty tough going, though ... I've often wondered what this sounds like - any clues/comparisons gratefully accepted Gave it another listen to fix its character better. The obvious analogue would be to the David Murray Octet, but this ensemble (septet) has a much looser vibe that DM's, even though a couple of the personnel are held in common. Billy Bang doesn't dominate his group. There is much more of an ensemble feel. Songs are mostly taken at a medium tempo, with different members taking solo turns. The music is a bit more melodic than one might expect. The last song "Music for the Love of It" (seems applicable here) reminded me, and sounds a bit like, Art Ensemble of Chicago doing ""Odwalla" at the end of their shows. That should give you a sense of the ensemble sound. The recording acoustic is a bit flat. Loeb Student Center, at NYU, where I spent a good bit of time as an undergrad, is probably not ideal, although a fair number of performances of avant music were recorded there. This is a live performance but one is only occasionally aware of that. It's a very good album, don't think one would get tired of repeated listens. Thank you for such an in depth reply. Leeway. That's just what I needed to know and will definitely now stay on my 'want list' to appear in this thread at some point in the future with my name attached. It's a good record but I don't return to it a ton - actually more impressed by The Group of a few years later. I didn't realize Sweet Space was on CD.

Scorpio.

I'm interviewing him this week & looking forward to it. I've certainly come around. Don't know about him being "better" than Frank Wright, Glenn Spearman, Doyle or Ware (tho yes, Ware could be cold and chops-y, the earlier and later work is what I get behind most), but he's fantastic. Each of those players is or was a very special musician.

What others have said. I like Sahib's Jazz Party on Fontana/Debut, which was reissued as Conversations on Polydor (via Alan Bates I think). Companionship is pretty excellent as far as the CBBB-related dates go. That Danish Radio Jazzgroup LP is very nice too.

Be careful with La Vie de Boheme - black label first pressings have a "stick" or a "locked groove" in the drum solo on side two. I've had three or four copies and have checked others and it's endemic. Orange label second pressings and Japanese pressings don't have this issue, apparently. The Arthur Jones and Jacques Coursil "Black Suite" were also released concurrently by America Records with much better sound. I get spares of Actuel titles from time to time, so I'll let you know if I get one that you want.

Good 'un.

John Park - If Winter Comes... - (Jazz Mark) finally procured a copy of this wonderful LP, very lyrical alto & tenor playing from this former Kenton section man.

"The House That Trane Didn't Build"

I dig Frippe. Hoping for that Blue Tower Frippe solos box to materialize.

I wasn't that into the book, though not for reasons of jealousy.

For a split second there I thought this was another very imaginative project by Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love Or Boston saxophonist Arni Cheatham...

There are several discs by Austrian trumpeter-composer Franz Koglmann that eschew drums, definitely in a chamber-jazz context, although a little freer than some. Koglmann studied/worked with Bill Dixon and Steve Lacy in the '70s. The Message (ICP 009) is an interesting date from Willem Breuker (with Willem Van Manen, Maarten Altena and Peter Bennink). Music for a small-scale "opera."