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right, those are strong too (they were not issued at the time).

Re: Michael Foster, this one is just now released and is very, very good: https://tornlight.bandcamp.com/album/solfege

He is now!

Agree. All those 60s/70s Goykovich sessions are superb. RTB, Philips, Ensayo, MPS/Session, Vista...

We had cat/house-sitters last week and the dude of the couple is very into music, nice person. I instructed him on the LP organization system and made sure he was good at taking care of records. So far only one random misfiling; there might be more, but I'm not too worried. Most notably he came away fascinated by Steve Lacy's "Stalks" LP.

I think Bates bought the Jazz Line/Jazztime catalog in the 1960s. Some of these were reissued on Fontana/Polydor in the UK, Holland, and Germany in the late '60s. Pearson's great Angel Eyes had its first issue as a UK Polydor LP but was recorded for Jazz Line. The Willie Wilson initially came out as a Freddie Hubbard LP on Fontana, and was issued under Pearson's name in the US by Prestige. I find this all quite fascinating. Muzak must have a pretty good licensing deal with DA Music (which holds all of the Bates productions).

Might be facing spine-inward on the shelf. That's happened to me before, for whatever reason (refiling after a few beers?).

wow, that is really kind. Speaks volumes (pun not intended).

The vocal tracks are quite a turnoff to me. But maybe I'll try again. I recall when it was a fairly cheap record in the used bins and I never bothered with it... now, of course, it's quite expensive and I wouldn't mind having a few copies to sell!

Every one of the Fontana/Freedom/Polydor LPs that Alan Bates had his hand in is worth owning and listening to. Can't speak for the Steve Kuhn on Buddha, however -- different thing entirely.

Children of the Sun's "Ofamfa" is a great, great album, perhaps my favorite of the Universal Justice/BAG releases.

Absolutely true on the vulnerability aspect. As Burton told me, she was so fragile and the New York (free) jazz scene did not treat fragile people well.

ditto.

The Cadentia Nova Danica record is wonderful in my opinion. There isn't a whole lot out there like it. My holy grail is the collaborative session of CND and Musica Elettronica Viva. Tchicai had clean master tapes and was getting them digitized when I interviewed him, but his untimely death put the kibosh on a release. Hopefully someday...

Sad to report that vocalist and sometime pianist Patty Waters has died at 78. The family announced it on social media yesterday, though it looks like she passed in late June. Her ESP records and vocal contributions to the Marzette Watts Savoy LP, as well as the You Thrill Me archival release, are all incredible. She was an influence on Diamanda Galas, Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon, and certainly others in the underground. I've spent less time with her comeback CDs; her voice seemed to struggle (and we know it's not a forgiving instrument) but she was still out there doing it, and that's something. Spoke to her a couple of times on the phone twenty or so years ago but she was reluctant to do an interview. I'm told that later on she became more comfortable with the idea, so I guess I was just too early. She was very sweet but at the time still kind of shell-shocked from an uneasy life in and outside of music – that's how it seemed, anyway. RIP, Patty, and thank you. There's nothing else out there like this: and this is just beautiful (rec. 1969, not '66):

oral history of Mr. Newhart himself, yeah, not the show -- sorry.

He was great. RIP. In library science grad school, one of my projects was to index and encode a video oral history of Newhart for a comedy oral history project. That was quite fascinating. Even his timing in an oral history was funny!

his situation seems to be a tough one. I hope he's able to handle it well. Getting older is not a picnic sometimes.

Both of those Goykovich albums are killer. Swinging Macedonia is a hard hitting classic -- have that on a UK Lansdowne LP. Is Muzak just a licensing label? Seems like they're getting material from ENJA, DA Music, and who knows where else.

I have no problem with these choices at all.

if one doesn't have these yet, one should pick them up. I am "ride or die" for the Jym Young and the Tchicai is a longtime favorite as well.

Very sad to read this news. She was amazing & I had a fun experience interviewing her by phone many years ago. Sweet person. RIP.

Armonicord is killer! Picked it up semi-randomly at La Dame Blanche in Paris around 23 years ago (only knew a couple of musicians on the record) and was blown away. The recent archival CD on NoBusiness (featuring a similar lineup) is also splendid.

yeah, I would believe that to be true.

Right. Cooper-Moore related a story of how David S. Ware didn't listen to "jazz" though he apparently listened to a lot of Beyoncé. Whether anything specific from Beyoncé's music factored into his own sound I am a bit doubtful, though of course she does have the gospel projection thing. A fair amount of composers and improvisers also don't listen to much or any music outside of what's in their heads or made up the foundation of their practice -- Andrew Hill apparently stopped consciously listening to any music for years, I've read. For me as a listener it goes the other way, in that learning how to pay close attention to music has allowed me to hear things in an artist that I might not otherwise hear, though that can also be a negative -- the hype on brat is crazy right now, but I tried listening and feel like it's utterly empty compared to Charli XCX's earlier work.