clifford_thornton

How do you mean fragile? I've got some experience with early Sonet pressings and they're very heavy, thick vinyl. The late '60s issues are thinner but, you know, not any less robust than other vinyl of the time.

Didn't even know there was a Japanese pressing of this one. Saw an OG Deram several years ago in a shop at $200, thought about it but that seemed a little steep. I've been happy with the Vocalion CD of the material, though it is enjoyable enough to want spinning on the TT.

I have a French stereo and also a Japanese mono copy. Both are very very good fidelity vinyl, but not on Prestige, both on America records ( 30 AM 003-004-005 ) Thank you. What label is the French stereo pressing on? The French pressing is on America Records, a subsidiary of Musidisc. My copy sounds quite good, and it's pretty affordable ($20-$30).

Sad news - a giant in certain sectors of the music, to say the least. But I still haven't seen anything official (familial) re: his passing.

It might be for sale, haven't decided yet.

Euro editions of Chambers' Music are Sonet (SWE) later Storyville (DK) Imperial-EMI (NL) Polydor (FR) - under Coltrane's name none of these should be styrene-like, I wouldn't think. It never came out on Transition - it was on Jazz West, later Imperial and Score.

The two Rites Quartet albums with Marty Ehrlich, Things Have Got to Change (2009) and Frog Leg Logic (2011), feature excellent playing from Zollar. Ah yes; I'd forgotten about those Ehrlich dates. They are both quite fine. Yeah, I thought Zollar was the best part of those dates. Saw the band live once and wasn't feeling it. Oh well, shit happens.

Nestor Figueras/David Toop/Paul Burwell - Cholagogues - (Bead)

I would say no.

Some of those HMV Coltrane LPs have gotten pretty hard to find. I had a chance to buy a bunch of them in clean nick years ago for $20 or so apiece and I didn't pull the trigger, mostly because I had various ratty US Impulse copies at the time, which I didn't understand needed to be upgraded. Oh well. I also wouldn't mind HMV copies of the Mingus Impulses as for whatever reason I've not yet found satisfactory (condition) US pressings.

I'm not sure if quality vinyl and good pressings are always connected. Re: pressings, the best luck I've had on vintage US pressings has been Columbia and RCA-Victor. Everything else has been pretty inconsistent - including such sacred cows as Blue Note, Impulse!, and Prestige. European pressings are pretty wildly erratic but Teldec, German Polydor/DGG, Vogue, Transatlantic and Esquire are pretty good. Japanese pressings aren't always high quality. I've had some really crappy Victors, for example.

Continuing the reverb... Brother Ahh - Sound Awareness - (Strata-East)

Killer album. Love that silver 21e series.

Médico Doktor Vibes - Liter Thru Dorker Vibes - (Companion reish) Guyanese-American lo-fi/homemade Suicide moves. Fascinating.

Albert Ayler - In Greenwich Village - (Impulse, mono)

The Just Music LP was released privately and rereleased by ECM as #1002.

I am amazed that Fox News didn't question the beers' credentials or bias toward hops.

Good luck!

I may incur wrath from certain board members when I say it, but: Now THAT is a rare pressing. The cover looks wonderful.

Shame. RIP.

Solid lime-green label would be an original (whatever that means) stereo pressing. So consider this fodder for the "great finds" thread. I felt pretty excited by a super-clean black label mono in the field years ago for $30, if that says anything.

Yeah, I think I pulled mine for $9.99 on eBay.

Haven't spun that Sunny Murray LP in ages. Now: John & Alice Coltrane - Cosmic Music - (Impulse red/black stereo)