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Incredibly deep interview with Shipp by Basquiat scholar and art/cultural critic Carlo McCormick on filmmaker Robert O'Haire's YouTube channel: Enjoy! Clifford

Here you go: https://www.discogs.com/label/26613-Ducretet-Thomson?page=1 Ducretet was a scientific instrumentation company (responsible for early phonographs) and eventually partnered with Thomson, a large French communications corporation tied to GE. It appears to me that Ducretet Thomson, Selmer, and Pathé were linked in the production of phonograph discs. The Selmer version of this 78 is very cool-looking!

Yep. That's where I got the Waldron comparison (and I don't view Mal's playing as "dark" as some people do).

I don't dislike it! It is a good record, but there are others that I prefer. Glad all of this stuff exists and we have the opportunity to revise our opinions with repeated listens (or not).

at this point I can mostly only afford CDs. They too take up a lot of space and I'm not allowed to fill the *entire* house

never had the top one; Nuovi Sentimenti is an all-timer for me. I like Trovesi, but don't have the one pictured. Just when I thought I was mostly done collecting records...

Familiar names = who? On its own, Black Magic Man was never my favorite of the bunch. I like it, but it is not Nation Time; the CvsD box helped solidify the arc of the whole thing for me however. The CjRs, first couple Hats, Byron Morris' first Unity record (the one with Byard Lancaster, Eric Gravatt, and a poem by McPhee on the verso), Brother to Brother, the CvsD archival discs, and the Hat WBAI CD with Morris and Clifford Thornton paint a really interesting picture.

oh! I hadn't heard that Townsend record and did not dig deeper. Assume it's a different person, then.

Right, that McLean record is really good. Is Barbara Simmons the reciter actually the same Barbara Simmons who plays trumpet on an Ed Townsend record for Casablanca? Discogs says so but I am not actually sure.

I should get those... man, too much to keep track of, but nothing wrong with a bounty of McPhee!

good to know; I had thought Picasso was the first to be released.

That Golia LP is strong, yes. Maury Coles' Solo Saxophone Record on Onari is another good one. I'm not sure how to categorize overdub fantasias like Mario Schiano and his All-Stars or Rahsaan's Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata, but they are solo records by people who play saxophones!

Agree, that Takagi is superb and very of a piece with solo Joe McPhee. Shoji Ukaji (baritone player) also has an excellent solo CD that is rare but worth hearing or seeking out: https://www.discogs.com/release/1037274-Ukaji-Shoji-Vision

Too bad the Ed Blackwell LP on Sweet Earth never got released. Maybe there's a chance some intrepid label will put the tapes out on CD... Great photo of Marion, by the way.

Birthright, yes! Thank you for the reminder. Oliver Lake's Passing Thru is a favorite as well. The Hemphill solo sets are fascinating, though I'll admit I haven't dug them out in quite some time.

to be honest, I haven't spun it (my original) in quite a few years, so I need to revisit for some audio specifics.

yeah, I need to get that Practitioners material. Solo Lacy is my favorite, too. The Japanese soli are probably the apex for me but that said, there are certainly some Lacy soli that I haven't heard or spent enough time with (especially later).

That was my impression, too (heard but never owned).

It is really good. Nice Japanese Paddle Wheel promo!

indeed!

Oh yes, Kang is fantastic. Have several of his LPs/CDs. Used to have Lone-Lee on vinyl but let it go in a cull... should probably get it back at some point. some of these others I haven't heard... dig KV and remember when Furniture Music came out, but for whatever reason I just never picked it/those up. Baars, again, only had his ensemble music on disc, though I could imagine the solo work would be worth hearing. I've seen him duo with Ig and in various groups within and outside the ICP orbit.

That's sad news. He was a fantastic player.

McPhee's "Tenor" would be near or at the top of the heap. I am a fan of solo saxophone recordings overall and if a saxophonist I like makes a solo record, I'll check it out. Beyond Lacy, Parker, Braxton, Mitchell, and Abe, who are the pantheon, I'd recommend Marion Brown's "Recollections," which I think is even better than his solo on Sweet Earth. The two volumes of David S. Ware solos on AUM Fidelity are quite beautiful as well. Brötzmann's 14 Love Poems is another choice disc. Dickie Landry's Fifteen Saxophones (15 delayed/looped horns) is a favorite; it also includes one alto flute piece and an out-of-this-world solo tenor piece ("Kitchen Solos"). I wrote the notes for its reissue many years ago. Rob Brown's Oceanic on RogueArt is one I need to pick up -- ordered one from a US seller and they sent me a different Rob Brown CD by mistake (which I didn't have either, so I didn't stress the issue). Apparently it is unreal. That free jazz blog list is useful. Butcher, definitely. I like Lol a lot but admit to having spent much more time with his group music. This is also worth checking out... I wish it included *all* of Frippe's Bird Notes recordings but that would've been far too costly to produce and an even more niche interest.

to be fair, I have spent many more hours with Mal's music than Grant's.

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