clifford_thornton

If it's the material collected in early quartets - Clouds in my head; Shimri; Green shading into blue - then i've the vinyls. I'd say they were all interesting but maybe not essential. I feel they're let down a little by the writing. The playing is generally very good. I hear a rigidness to the arrangements and perhaps a rhythmic deficit which is inexplicable if you consider Andersen's ability - maybe the drummers? I purchased them primarily to hear Juhanni Aaltonen, sax and flute, a personal favourite whose contributions are very strong. Overall they rarely seem to catch fire and display a certain tentativeness. Compared to the near contemporaneous Garbarek/Stenson dates (also just compiled in a box) then they're less adventurous My favourite of them is Shimri. If you see Lifelines (w. Kenny Wheeler) then grab it, it's everything the quartets aren't and it has Kenny Wheeler which is good enough for anyone, surely Agreed with the points above. I also really like his performance on Nana, with Edward Vesala and Juhani Aaltonen, but that's way earlier.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to swallow hard before pressing the "send payment" button on PayPal, but I'm in for it now!

So I write for a little online magazine called Tiny Mix Tapes. Kind of like a Pitchfork-esque publication, where I review jazz and outsider music. They use a "dot" system (instead of stars) on a 1-5 scale, with five being the highest. Most things that they have heard of or are hyping get 4 or 5 dots, I'll say that off the bat. Most of the things I submit I give between 3.5 and 4.5 dots, with a few submitted as 5s. I rarely review anything I don't like. Unfortunately, rarely do any of my "gushing" reviews or even "very positive" reviews stand with the rating I submit. Usually half and sometimes a whole dot is notched downward, but I haven't complained... until now. Here's part one of my exchange with the editor, and I'm interested to see how he responds. I've had back-and-forth with people on whether or not it's worth giving something a "poor" review. I don't always give perfect marks, obviously, and have ripped things a new asshole on a number of occasions. But if I'm going to submit a review to a more "general" site like TMT, it's usually going to be for a release that I think is really worthy of the attention of a wider audience. Hence the usual positivity. I'd be interested in thoughts from the o-board, though, on whether my bitching is worthwhile, egoist, or something in between.

Vic Ash, Bill Eyden, Harry Klein, etc. Reissue of a Tempo Brit-jazz LP. Looks like my kind of stuff. Images here.

Haven't heard Auld, really, but the name has crossed my path. Hope to have the opportunity to check out the music sometime. Now: Barry Guy - Statements for Double Bass and Violone - (Incus) Have the "original" but was happy to get this one with a hand-drawn cover by Alan Davie from Maya. Basically an unplayed stock Incus LP with a handmade new cover.

Joe Diorio & Steve Bagby - Straight Ahead to the Light - (Spitball) Forgot what a killer guitar-percussion "free rock" LP this was...

What was the rest of the Portal/Rava band like? Just curious.

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Same here. Looking forward to it. Not sure whether to consider unloading my ICP vinyl or not, guess it depends how the set comes together and if it's as high quality as they say (and I hope).

SOLD

On hold for Q.

Promo copy indistinguishable from the regular run. All discs are near-new and little played (some probably not at all), box is fine with very minor scuffing to the bottom edge. The catch: booklet is pretty hammered, as I left it out and something (probably a latte) was spilled next to it. This was most likely my ex-girlfriend's fault a couple years ago. Worse in the back along the leading edge and back cover than elsewhere, although page three has some staining. The front page of the book has some gouges in it. All text legible and honestly, the essay isn't that great anyway though the session photos are pretty cool. I do not know if Mosaic sells a new booklet for this, so it might be worth asking before you commit. Making it sound worse than it probably is, but since it's a collectible item (or will be), I'm mentioning it. I'm asking $70, or about half the new price from the Mosaic website. Shipping to continental US with delivery confirmation included. Paypal only please. I'll ship it this Saturday or AFTER I get back from a weeklong trip the following Saturday.

Thanks! Yeah, pulling a fair amount of chaff that may not be coming with me, esp. in the rock and classical realm. Wish I'd done a smarter CD cull a couple of months ago, but I think it's too late for the o-board to help me now!

Thanks, Rod, I know exactly what you mean. We'll see what ultimately shakes out.

Thanks Peter J! Yeah, Chuck, once I box 'em I may just want to send 'em somewhere for cold storage!

Hey Pete, no those areas I've not ruled out - the apartment search is already freaking me out. Around Prospect Park would be great if we can afford it.

Nice... yeah, mine was a bit more than that, but I got it sealed.

Yeah, trying to pull out some that I haven't spun in ages...

Just saw this today, belatedly, though I guess my hole of moving truck-itis takes 1st place for the summer. ANYway, thanks for keeping this place goin'! Will try to pay attention long enough to send some scratch in next time.

Franz Koglmann/Steve Lacy - Flaps - (Pipe)

Noah Howard - At Judson Hall - (ESP)