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Yeah, it originally appeared on Calig with the following front cover (the Trio jacket is an image from the back that has been tinted). As far as licensing goes, I believe that Trio would have gotten the rights from Berger. No other Calig jazz LPs have Japanese pressings that I've seen, but Trio issued other Berger-related sessions dating to that time period (Muun Music Universe, Kalaparusha/Karl Berger LP). Interestingly, this Calig date came out on CD via Enja, which also released an excellent '70s Karl Berger session called With Silence.

Right, Burn, Baby, Burn includes ESP 1073 and unmastered sessions/rehearsals. I don't have the ESP CD handy (just kept a burn of Burn, Baby, Burn) but recall some of the takes were edited and the timings are pretty off from the cassette rip. A couple of titles were changed, too. "Divine Tiding" = NXJX, for example. I believe "Soul Brother Genius" is titled Sound from There on the CD. Etc. Wish I had the cassette issue; I'd pay big bucks if one is for sale!

Nick Brignola - This is It! - (Priam) Just picked this album up. Excellent.

Mike Westbrook's Metropolis - (RCA Neon)

Beautiful.

I used to have it on LP and let it go for some reason (surprising because I've held onto all my other Byard-leader recs). Maybe I should try again.

Huh.

Different music than In Action?

bobdjukic is the king of eBay comedy.

Correction w/ Mats Gustafsson - Shift - (No Business)

Paul Flaherty, Froc, Bill Walach - Trinity Symphony - (no label) early '80s Connecticut weirdness.

According to facebook, the great reedman/saxophonist Bert Wilson died last night at his home in Olympia, WA. He had been wheelchair-bound from youth due to complications from polio, and was a fixture on the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest jazz scenes from the 1960s onward. He played with Sonny Simmons, Barbara Donald, Smiley Winters, Ed Kelly, James Zitro and many others, and released music on his own imprints Au Roar and Dr. Wheelz' Archives. There's an illuminating interview here; he and I had communicated about doing an oral history but it never materialized due to time constraints on my side. Now he's gone and I am pretty bummed. Rest in Peace, Bert, and thank you.

William Ackerman - It Takes a Year - (Windham Hill)

Chuck Johnson - Crows in the Basilica - (Three Lobed)

AEC - People in Sorrow - (Nessa)

Varese - Deserts / Hyperprism / Integrales / Density 21.5 - (EMI Perspectives Musicales, FR)

Damn. RIP.

Many happy returns, Durium!

nice!

First tried in high school, only an occasional puff as I was heavily into athletics until my mid-twenties. In graduate school I smoked about a pack a day for some crazy reason and quit immediately upon finishing grad school in 2007.