clifford_thornton

I came to Ayler and free music/jazz from punk and noise-rock, so of course the sound of "Bells" just blew me away on first hearing. It took years to even attempt to put together what this music really is, and I'm still slowly chipping away at it. Certainly a lot of musicians were finding artistic necessity in the same catalytic well, and psychedelic rock, free jazz and new music drew from it equally.

Now yer talkin'.

Terry Riley - In C - (CBS France)

Used it once but it was pretty accurate.

You might be thinking of Hugh Schick. yeah, that disc is good. With Vinnie Colaiuta on drums.

Stollman didn't likely ship the package. He has other staff who may or may not know what they are doing...

Charles Evans is a wonderful player, studied with Dave Liebman.

I also don't put Cippolina into the same category as Hendrix. Much more of a slow-burning type of player. QMS were a great band. Recognize Kruth's name from my STN days but can't remember any of his writing.

Happy Birthday FotB!

Happy Birthday Late!

Trompeta Toccata? Yes, HB AH!

I could have written my press quote better; then again, I wrote it a long time ago.

Indeed - from Peter Ind and Lee Konitz to Charlie Nothing...

I just have the first LP but it's cool. Borden is still living in Ithaca I think.

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yeah, I'd like to see one before I put down $25. I'm not sure that the QC on self-released LPs is as exacting as it is for, say, an Eremite or Three Lobed release. I've run into a lot of piss-poor pressings on new releases, and at this point things like getting and listening to test pressings and seeing a mockup of the artwork should be a no-brainer. Not so. I remember talking to Mary H. about one of her LP releases through Firehouse 12 and she said she liked the "crackle" of the vinyl. Get a new, sealed copy and lo and behold it's pressed with quite a bit of surface noise, visible marks in the vinyl, etc.

Haven't heard any of his recent music, to be honest. I like a lot of his 60s/70s output.

Coming later this year on New Atlantis, a small label out of Ohio run by guitarist Edward Ricart.

Holland has been resident in the US since the '70s, but I'm not sure if he's a citizen or a resident alien.

I need to get this before it is gone.

Mono only, from Dixon's tapes. The sessions were self-financed and he licensed (or as he put it, "leased") the tapes to Savoy. Sadly this record has never seen an authorized reissue since. The story is in Dixonia; I'll dig it out and transcribe later if anyone is interested. Most of Bill's early sessions on tape were lost in the late '60s because of a storage locker mishap (I believe while Bill was in Wisconsin). A few reference copies exist and I've been lucky to hear some of those early bands with Tchicai, Giuseppi Logan, Rashied Ali et al. Hopefully some of it sees the proper light of day. There is still quite an archive up in Bennington. IIRC the dates Bill produced in the late '60s for Savoy - Marzette Watts, Bob (Cleve) Pozar, Marc Levin, Ed Curran - are stereo, though not particularly well-recorded.

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I'm a little lukewarm on the idea of Simmons or Grimes but YMMV.

I think you mean the acting version of "musician's musician." So, "actor's actor." RIP.

Jaki Liebezeit is another story - he was a jazz drummer in Cologne in the '60s and worked in Manfred Schoof's quintet (until Sven-Åke Johansson took over) among other groups. He could really cook and was very inventive. And if anyone wants to sell me some mint Can LPs, get in touch... Guru Guru's rhythm section (Uli Trepte, bass and Mani Neumeier, drums) were part of pianist Irène Schweizer's trio in the mid-60s as well, before Krautrock took over, though at least at the outset Guru Guru were more of a "free rock" band, so the connection seems more logical. Christian Burchard, while less of a powerhouse than the above players, also worked with Mal Waldron, Charlie Mariano and other modern jazz greats, both in Embryo and in other contexts.