clifford_thornton

yeah, seen that before. Hilarious.

Adjacent are collectors who don't seem to know or care to know anything about the music and its context.

agreed, fantastic album. I have my father's copy bought new in the late 60s. It still has the Bob Hyatt's Stereo Center (Rochester, NY) price code sticker affixed.

I will definitely be scooping this up. It is sure to be an education.

yeah, that is excellent. I've seen that band (or a version of it) live, and was blown away.

Excellent session, sound quality is fine.

There's some sort of poster or flyer with the 200 copy version as per 'scogs, though that could've just been with the copy someone uploaded.

I have the second 70s pressing, not silkscreened but early labels. No poster. It is a fascinating album.

do they cover the Jazz Composers' Orchestra concert?

weird re: Tolliver reissue! That Rouse is such a great album. Back in the day I thought it was too "funky" but at this point in time I am quite a fan.

I've instructed my wife to sell it all through a reputable shop... of course I am youngish now but who knows what can happen. I have told her to consign if she can, as that would bring her top dollar. Then again if I make it another 40 years or so, it is highly unlikely that I'll still have a massive collection and it will have been sold/consigned long before.

Can't wait.

I'll grab it, sure. Probably CD/digital. Archival to me means that the group/project is no longer active, which would be accurate for this release.

potential, at least for Coltrane, Chambers, and Philly Joe. I never really felt Garland was all that interesting but it has been years since I listened to him with any level of concentration. My piano sense has gotten better over time, and I might hear him differently now.

Juini Booth, yeah. Saw him a couple times in the early 00s, great player and could probably (weed) smoke any of us under the table.

That's too bad. He's a great pianist.

The Japanese is definitely not first. Discogs is wrong. If anything they were roughly simultaneous. Producer Pierre Berjot (Musidisc-America-Carson-Calumet) licensed Church Number Nine and the AEC's Chi-Congo to Odeon in the early 70s. The French original of Chi-Congo was on Decca, though that seems to have been a Berjot deal as well. The mystery is the additional track on the Japanese pressing. My guess is Toshiba-EMI felt they could include more music and keep the pressing integrity, and ran off the entire session tape onto disc, whereas Berjot lopped off about ten minutes for the French market.

I have that recording as well, most excellent!

that's not too bad. I'd let the lamination be. If it was coming off in sheets I'd finish the job. Incredible LP, too. Got mine maybe 25 years ago now, and the labels are solid red with black print. The sleeve has a flipback construction. I think the red label is "first" but they pressed so few of them I'd imagine the design switched mid-run.

speed correction would not surprise me, actually.

maybe we are in the era of LESS is MORE ! I like the door squeak myself. I also like the Pierre Henry door squeak.

Karl Berger has said that he and Ingrid were with him at the hospital where he died. Berger has repeated the "junkie" story and if he was there, it must have a kernel of truth. My understanding is that they at first didn't realize what was going on and by the time they figured it out, it was too late. Prince Lasha told me that Dolphy was drinking watered down honey constantly.

Saw him at a gig in the audience maybe 12 years ago, but never experienced his music live. Definitely an original. RIP. This one, to me, is superb and eclipses BUY and the No New York tracks: https://jameschancethecontortions.bandcamp.com/album/white-cannibal

I've actually never had the Montreux date on LP. Will probably download legally somewhere, curious.

I would start with Challenge or Karyobin, or maybe Oliv & Familie Sequence. Bobby Bradford with John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (a 2CD set released by Nessa), is another excellent example. Biosystem is superb but my feeling is that those recordings still somewhat tethered to a jazz or "free jazz" feel might be a better place to start with the sound world of John Stevens and company.