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    Both great and very different from one another. Keep in mind that Bill Dixon adds an entirely different cast to the proceedings, and this date was just a couple of days before he began recording the landmark Intents and Purposes for RCA. Dixon had suggested to Taylor that he use Mike Mantler on trumpet instead, but Cecil was adamant about their collaboration.
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    David Atteberry has given me the assignment of listing my favorite 10 records of 1982. BEFORE YOU GO LIKING THIS POST WILLY-NILLY know that doing so will set into effect a social contract. I will give you a year. You will give the world a list. In 1982 I was five years old and living in Topeka, Kansas, where I was born. I was mostly into trains and bugs (still am), but there was Miles, Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Cage and Braxton on the stereo courtesy of my parents. Today my record collection...

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    How are the Prestige titles? Seen, never bought.
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    Have you tried Waxidermy? I guess you have to have 25 posts there before being able to post in the wanted/sales forum. A friend of mine is selling the Cosmic, but it would be a lot more than $600. Those are definitely "Waxi" records you are looking for, though.
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    No offense, but you can't any more downmarket than Rolling Stone. That's a magazine that exists only to create proposterous "Top 100" lists and to sell perfume to teenage boys. Or fashion. It's truly horrible. On another note - do you also hold other artists politcal beliefs, or actions, against them to this extent? If I was put off by crass things artists do, my life would be so much poorer.... The RS article was thirty years old, and it was a somewhat different magazine then. They've still got some good writers in spite of themselves. Ronstadt comes across as shallow and moronic in the article, rather than having particular "beliefs."
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    Who wants to help me shlep some paintings on Friday from the Williamsburg UPS place to my home? If you have four wheels it would help (hint). Beer will be provided.

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    Yeah, I think Harvey was involved too. I've had both pressings of the Secret Asylum LP - gave the single-sleeve to a friend.
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    All those Philly Jazz LPs should remain in print.
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    My first assignment of my new job was to watch LG's performance at the VMAs... interesting. It's true that she rushed it.

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    I've got an Esquire of that one somewhere in the racks. Time for a search ! Sounds like someone needs a cataloger/organizer. I'll volunteer!
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    Christensen is indeed great. I love that Lacy record and also have it on a nice Japanese press.
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    Reception and impromptu Birthday party for Cooper-Moore with William Parker and Alan Michael (Braufman)!

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    Yeah, EOTH is the only work of hers I've consciously listened to. There's a fascinating Rolling Stone article about her South African sojourn. Let's just say it doesn't paint the greatest picture of her intelligence. Then again, it's accessible from her website.
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    The Zozimos Collective, conducted by Ben Stapp, reminiscent of Carla Bley's Escalator Over The Hill, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and so much more. Thanks for the music!

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    Bored Spies at Cake Shop.

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    It was shocking to wake up today with the news of Marian McPartland's passing. It took me a while to have a clear idea of how hip and forward thinking she was - the concept of Piano Jazz and its execution were really something special, and she really understood the breadth of the music's history. She was also interested in vanguard new voices, and seemed to respect free musicians as well as "traditionalists." She will be missed.

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    She was great. RIP.
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    Well, with this new archivist job I'll be starting shortly, I can buy a new mouse for my desktop. Hell, several mice...

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    Haven't listened to Hill's music in quite a while, though much of it is indelibly stuck in my memory. I'm hot and cold on Moncur but his BN records and sessions with McLean are excellent. I agree that Rivers didn't come into his own until the '70s as a composer, but the BNs are really quite nice and not too simplistic in my opinion. Fuchsia Swing Song is my favorite of those. None of these people have composed "standards" or "new standards" in the way that Monk, Silver, Nichols or Shorter have, but perhaps that's partly because nobody really plays Andrew Hill or Grachan Moncur III (though "Sonny's Back" has appeared a few times).
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    Right.
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    What a drag. RIP, and thanks.
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    Michel Portal - Our Meanings and Our Feelings - (Pathe, FR)
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    Frank Wright - Center of the World - (COTW, orig blank die-cut sleeve) Frank Wright - One For John - (BYG Actuel, FR)
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    Funny, there are actually two pressings of the Secret Asylum LP, one gatefold and one without. That band was also part of the Running Man project with organist/pianist/vocalist Alan Greed, which grew out of the Rock Workshop (still need that LP). Apparently some Running Man material was recorded with Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana, which I'd be curious to hear.
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