clifford_thornton

"Great" record. A real favorite. John Jack (Cadillac Records) produced it, rather than Alan Bates, so it's unconnected to the whole grip of mid-60s sessions (which I assume Bates just leased to Fontana).

I definitely agree with you there. A matrvellous LP and that rhythm section A pity that rhythm section never recorded on their own at subject time for ECM ....... You can get close with this one...

All those Dixon-produced Savoy LPs are great. I am of the understanding that licensing these would be pretty tough. A friend who runs a very above-board label was trying to reissue the Marzette Watts and gave up. Columbia Japan didn't seem particularly interested in back-catalog obscurities or going through the nominal amount of work to get them reissued by someone else.

That is the only Schlippenbach group LP I've never had. Actually had bad luck trying to buy a copy - including one copy broken in the mail - so I may have to just sit this one out!

Confabulation, Conniption, Crappie Fishing in America...

The second side is extraordinary. I used to have a few copies of that LP - I'd find it for like $5 and buy it and nobody wanted it!

As I'm sure Colin is aware (but others may not be), Ideal Bread will be releasing a 2-disc set on Cuneiform later this spring called "Beating The Teens," which is comprised of their takes on each of the tunes in the Scratching the Seventies boxed set. Great band if you haven't heard them.

Ah, see, I would've assumed the turquoise was first. Both copies I've had were black text on a white label, but had the original cover design. I've seen the turquoise label on Incus 1, 2, and 3/4: The black label was used on Incus 5-11. The white label (non-beveled) on 12-32, and the beveled white label came around in 1980 with Incus 33. At least this is my understanding.

$64.95 seems totally reasonable. Spent a fair amount more than that accumulating the LPs before the set came out! They're absolutely great, indispensable, etc.

I really feel like they should have a student and/or musician level of membership, allowing for membership at reduced rates. It would really encourage the dissemination of the work and philosophy at a price point that hungry minds could afford. I definitely have some frustrations with the Foundation, but I won't air them here.

There was a lot of great and surprising music on that Nonesuch Explorer series. Agreed. The gamelan titles are particularly heavy, though.

I just got mine and am looking forward to diving in with both feet.

I'll be at the Roulette gigs for sure. Braxton on boxed sets seems to be something along the lines of "if the idea is good, it bears repeating." And that the repeating of an idea will help it sink in a bit better. I think that his music does require complete investment and total experience; immersion is something that shouldn't take just an hour of one day before you move on - it should be many hours over many decades, and in no particular order.

Those are on my list.

To very roughly paraphrase JFK's witticism on Thomas Jefferson, one might say that a Bennink solo album is like another musician's big band. Fairly little drumming on this one - it's full of Chinese violin madness, throat singing, broken trumpet wrangling and what sounds like a very mangled tenor saxophone at one point. It's pretty wasted.

Noland was born in North Carolina - a Black Mountain College student - and lived for quite a while in DC. He was/is a great painter. Did the set design for Futurities as well (which I recall was never presented as envisioned).

Han Bennink - Solo - (ICP, NL)

Sad news. Fun House is pretty great.

LOTS of Japanese bootlegs out there. I'd say that's especially true of "psych" albums, but I'm sure it's true of jazz titles too. Of course, Alan Bates licensing them to Nippon Phonogram in the 80s may not have been entirely above-board in the first place. I am told that their ESP reissues were certainly far from legitimate, though they look and sound nice. Stollman's claims being what they are, the mileage is variable...

Wow - great player. I give thanks that he did what he did. RIP.

Damn you! finally decided it was time to jump for a copy. Fabulous record Ugh I used to own a mint copy of that...found it for $4 back in the mid-90s! Around that time I didn't have that much money to spend on records so could not resist flipping it for a few hundred back then to spend on other records One I've never owned because I don't want to pay $200-$250 for it. I like but don't love it.

Prices on the first two Muntu LPs are insane lately - don't know why, they're strong but not impossible to find - but it's all worth digging into. The Cadence is easy to obtain and cheap/still in print, and the Soul Notes are also generally cheap and in as-new if not "new" condition. The Eremite CDs are all killer, too. I like the Poljazz pretty well but the pressing is turd-like (unsurprisingly).

All I had access to was my LP copy; good to know something more definitive was out there. Alternate takes!

me neither. more for us.