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Perhaps he was under contract to Impulse at the time of its recording (June 17, 1965) and thus Impulse felt it had the rights to release it? This was mere weeks before he went over to Englewood Cliffs to record On Impulse!.

yeah, have the same pressing. Great record!

Damn. The Phil Zone was really something else. Monumental figure, huge ears, and a fascinating life. RIP. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-age-death-b2635863.html

seems to be an abbreviated part of the set, but it is something. Acceptable sound, fierce performance.

Definitely, he always has been. I've never heard the Davis set with Stinson. Diving in now (albeit through computer speakers)

Wow, what an incredible piece of writing.

Gosh, 2005? NYC, Iridium IIRC. Hearing them do "Love & Hate" was something... René was also on the gig; I forget who was in the rhythm section, might've been Leroy Williams on drums.

I know Moncur did have embouchure problems periodically. I've always adored his playing, though. Glad to have seen him with McLean & Hutcherson once, a weighty experience as you can probably imagine.

fine Pearson date for sure.

Side two track titles are quite something.

yeah, it was a really wonderful site and I honed my writing chops there for sure. Dan was very forgiving (and repairing) of my "occasional" word salads. Glad you dug the interview. It remains one of my favorites.

was just coming here to post this as well. She was a badass and a very cool person. RIP.

I have a rip of a Sick Dick cassette with Miller that sounds like AMM. Some of the band's music veered into no wave territory as well. I think Sick Dick had at least a few iterations/aesthetics from what I gather. Ditto Cool & the Clones, depending on who was involved. Borbetomagus were incredible, and the records are uniformly wonderful. I have a particular soft spot for the self-titled black cover album (two were self-titled) and the Zürich double LP, but each one is impressive and nuanced. I had the distinct pleasure of presenting both Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich in separate concerts in the last several years, albeit not Mr. Miller. The documentary on Borbetomagus, A Pollock of Sound, is very well done.

Sorry to read the news that guitarist Donald Miller has passed. Best known for his work in Borbetomagus (who I was lucky enough to see many years ago), he also performed in Cool & the Clones, Sick Dick & the Volkswagens, and as a solo string wrangler, both electric and acoustic. RIP and thanks to him for being there and doing what he did. His recent solo work can be heard here, to brilliant advantage: https://donaldmiller.bandcamp.com/album/transgression

Excellent.

ah, that's too bad -- I've been meaning to catch up on CvsD CDs, as some of the recent ones I haven't bought yet. Think the only Soufflé CD I have is the Perception -- nice session, gatefold digipak looks good. All three proper Perception LPs are really excellent as well.

Yep! I have one of those, as well as a handpainted McPhee and a couple of her small paintings framed.

I was told that Judith Lindbloom was supposed to be the artist for the Ornette LP but her "indisposition" at the time got in the way of her contributing cover art. https://www.judithlindbloom.com/

my guess is that they really do not want to manufacture CDs as not enough of their customers buy them. It's definitely a minimal effort job, whereas the LPs obviously were done with great care (and expense).

yeah, the duo with Cowell is beautiful. I don't have Consequences but the others I know & love. here's the interview I did with Burrell in 2004: https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/burrell.html Few and Cooper-Moore can get very physical indeed, but both have a romantic side for sure. Few spent years leading a trio and singing in Cleveland bars, and his whimsy always comes through. I think of Cooper-Moore and Few as having a direct line to Jaki Byard, and the same could probably be said of Burrell too. Both Burrell and Cooper-Moore were in Boston although I'm not sure that Jaki was living there when either of them were studying in the city.

That album has really grown on me over the years. When I first bought it (Vortex pressing, when it was cheap) I was bummed that it was not the "free jazz" I was hoping for (within the narrowish definition I had). Now I think it is an incredible, honest and creative album that points to a reconciliation between playful, populist groove and avant-garde soul-bearing.

Agree. Thankful to have seen him many times over the decades (and interview him once).

Ah, I thought it was around 77 in toto with the additional tracks.

Dave Burrell's 70s Japanese LPs have been inconsistently out on CD. It would be nice to see a package with all of them in one place: Dreams, Questions & Answers, Only Me, Lush Life, Round Midnight, and Teardrops for Jimmy. Each one is excellent. Black Spring, on Marge, has also seemingly never made it to CD.

oh yeah, that is a nice record that few people seem to know about.