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I don't know if I would make this statement today, but when I started to give GG (Grant Green, not GG Allin) a listen, the first comparison that came to mind was a guitar-playing Mal Waldron. I guess it was the emphatic repetition and inherent earthy blues that enveloped even the filigree that struck me as related.

Yikes.

Presumably the finding aid is only local and not integrated with the online catalog. It's possible that physical processing is also largely incomplete.

Thank god for archives and archivists.

beautiful CD.

The only one I have is Inside: The Missing Link, but it's quite good. I have heard varying reports on whether the original JG LP sets (of which I have a few) are in fact authorized by the musicians. I have my doubts. The same goes for the Holy Hill and Born Free vinyl sets. Nevertheless, they're very interesting documents.

I never had any problems with the sound of the original LPs so if they are indeed needle-drops from mint copies they should be okay. That Jackson article is great, yes, been ages since I read it. I guess he lived right around where I am now.

apparently there are recordings but to my knowledge none have been issued. https://www.wm.edu/as/africanastudies/middlepassage/play/playwright/

Yeah, that's a fun one -- haven't dug it out in ages.

Yes, that performance is awesome -- a real classic. I saw him read as part of Equal Interest in at least one Vision Festival, IIRC.

Personally I could never get that into them, but the Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) albums certainly fit the bill. Forgot to mention these upthread: https://www.discogs.com/release/4059278-Nation-Afrikan-Liberation-Art-Ensemble-Featuring-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Don-L-Lee-Rise-Vision-Comin https://www.discogs.com/release/1274063-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Nation-Medasi I thought Rise Vision Comin was the better of the two. Ended up trading them years ago, alas. Joe McPhee's poetry is awesome. I will have to pick up a copy of that CD.

I've heard a few live clips of the Brown-Hampel group not otherwise released, and it would be nice if more could be publicly available. Hopefully that happens.

Faith Ringgold died in April, so that's probably why they chose to use the image. It's quite something.

That's too bad. He could certainly play, though the contexts weren't always my personal bag.

In Sommerhausen is an incredible album.

That’s great!

Kinda weird they're calling it Three For Shepp to Gesprächsfetzen Revisited and not including all four records from that bookended period.

oh, I agree -- the prices he gets are purely the bidders' responsibility. The starting bids usually aren't that high, and there is no reserve to meet. The market is the market. If I could sell LPs for the prices JRC gets, I would be doing the same thing.

yep, Big Black. I understand that he'd record anyone who could pay the fees/time, so I'm sure he would've done it.

This was always my jam from Action Park:

Strong album, Songs About Fucking. There's also this insanity: https://www.discogs.com/release/1800069-Big-Black-Talk-About-Fucking Atomizer was alway my go-to Big Black album.

I should revisit the India Navigation. I wasn't as into it but I think was expecting something it didn't purport to be (i.e., Jihad/Black Dada Nihilismus action). To put it simply, LeRoi with the NYAQ doing BDN was life-changing for me.

Gutted by the news. Was/am a fan of Big Black, R•peman, and Shellac -- Shellac was the only one I caught live back in the day, as I was a bit too young to have seen the earlier two bands. "Two Nuns and a Pack Mule" remains an absolute favorite. The first few Shellac singles are great, and while the albums don't hit as hard, "At Action Park" is quite something.

Colette Magny's series of records for Le Chant Du Monde with collaborators including Barre Phillips, Beb Guérin, François Tusques, Noël McGhie, Workshop de Lyon, and Dharma Quintet would qualify. They're interesting documents and less chanteuse-focused than her earlier work. Jayne Cortez: duo with Richard Davis on Strata-East, "Celebrations and Solitudes," and her later Firespitters group (three LPs with Denardo Coleman, Bern Nix, Jamaladeen Tacuma, et al.) are cornerstones in this area. Also, her performance with Clifford Thornton on side two of his "Communications Network" is worth hearing. K. Curtis Lyle "The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson" on Mbari (feat. Julius Hemphill) is a wonderful recording. Barry Wallenstein's two LPs on AkBa with Cecil McBee, Stanley Cowell, Charles Tyler, et al. are worth checking out. Isolated tracks but LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) with the New York Art Quartet and Sunny Murray are iconic. Maybe "jazz-adjacent" but of interest is The Jihad album "Black and Beautiful," street corner rap/soul with free-ish embellishments, featuring & released by Jones. Hart Leroy Bibbs with Sunny Murray on the Shandar & Pathé LPs is wonderful tool. Sunny's own poetry on "An Even Break," Archie Shepp's poetry, Amos Mor with Muhal Richard Abrams... all important. More recently, Steve Dalachinsky's CDs with Joëlle Léandre, Matt Shipp, and Dave Liebman are all incredible. Amina Baraka & The Red Microphone, a newer CD with Rocco John Iacavone and Ras Moshe Burnett, is good and worth hearing too. If we're talking beats, the Kenneth Patchen Reads with Jazz in Canada LP is fun and interesting. I love Patchen even without the jazz. Mike Pearson reading Patchen with Brötzmann's Chicago Tentet is also awesome: https://www.discogs.com/release/1790932-The-Peter-Brötzmann-Chicago-Tentet-Featuring-Mike-Pearson-Be-Music-Night

For sure -- it's live and later, as I recall. But excellent nonetheless.