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Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu - New York Live! - (Cadence)

Oh right, Intoxica, I think I popped in there a few years ago and they didn't have much.

I know! I have the Dark album on CD. It's not bad.

Yeah, that would have been a good deal.

Thoughts? Well done reissue, strong record.

Yeah, I've seen the LP on offer before at a hefty price. I'd be curious to hear it. Shihab and Rosengren together would be interesting, conceivably...

I don't know his work but had guessed he was Stacy Peralta's kid. What a tragic loss.

The Calvin Keys Shawn-neeq was also recently reissued on LP by Tompkins Square. From what I'm told - and it's a little unclear to me - in the recent sale of the masters as a lot, individual tapes could also be purchased. The label purchased the Keys tape and cleared its reissue with Mr. Keys himself, with a new contract drawn up for this reissue. I would assume that Snow Dog has undergone a similar process.

Zodiac is great. I used to have a battered LP copy of it, but sold that for a few hundred bucks. Still have my eyes out for a clean one, or if it ever makes it to CD... I'd say this one is even stronger, but not easy to find (I work off an LP copy from its initial release). Yeah, that one is quite strong too. There's also a nice record by that group on Ogun. I'm pretty sure neither of those two made it to CD, but I could be wrong.

Yeah, that's a strong one. A Scandinavian version of The Trio (Surman/Phillips/Martin), in a way.

Hans Dulfer - El Saxofon - (Catfish)

Ah yes, Tippett's Blueprint (really an Ovary Lodge record) would decidedly fit.

That "one fell swoop" Horo catalog is pretty cool. I would consider doing such a thing in today's dollars, although not every Horo would be my cup of tea and often the pressings are turd-like. Wish I had Lacy's Eronel!

I have probably mentioned this before, but when I bought this LP (Nessa edition) early in college, I came home on a break from work and put it on to check it out. My break lasted two hours as I put it on start-to-finish twice. It was so wonderful I couldn't leave the room.

Bobby Naughton's music of the 1970s; Leo Smith - Kabell, Nessa, and ECM recordings; Marc Levin "The Dragon Suite" on Savoy; Masahiko Togashi "Spiritual Nature" & "Guild for Human Music" (it's been a while since I gave the latter a spin, but I remember it being very spare); Joe Giardullo's ensemble work, to name a few. Of course, just because something is spare or quiet doesn't mean it's not intense, powerful, and emotionally deep.

Hard to say; seems like a cash grab at this stage, but obviously not a bright idea to mess around with teenage/underage horndogs either.

A classic; I've got it in the Dutch Fontana version (b&w photo, yellow & green printing). Wish I had the Debut!

Damn. RIP, and thanks.

Nedly Elstak/Glenn Spearman/Louis Armfield/Harry Piller - Incident - (Coreco)

Frank Rosaly - Centering & Displacement - (Utech)

I'm just going on Sunny's spelling of it to me...

Luqman Lateef - an obscure fellow, only know him from passing mention in interviews and this live Sunny Murray performance.

Yeah, true re: Wright but he had a naturally "funky" side that I never heard (please correct me if I'm wrong!) in Ayler's music. Not really. I can't imagine "Church Number Nine" coming from the Ayler camp, for example.

Yes on Battered Ornaments! It's interesting that you bring up Wright's later straight-ahead/blues numbers, which are disheveled but ultimately quite strong dates in my opinion. I think like Ayler, Wright's primary desire was to communicate a range of emotions to a lot of people. In Europe, for a certain amount of time, he got that - the Center of the World group and Unity (with Jack Gregg in for Silva, IIRC) were quite well-regarded on the festival circuit. The groups he led with Georges Arvanitas and Eddie Jefferson (among others) were a merger of his innate Wright-ness and a post-bop sensibility that was just as rousing as the more "free" ensembles. If you want to talk about really hit-or-miss weirdness, check out Wright's LPs with the German artist/amateur musician A.R. Penck. They are gloriously messy combinations of free music, rock, and R&B influences, unhinged fun but probably not for everybody.