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    Apparently worked here and there with Bill Laswell, Badal Roy, Akira Sakata, Melvin Gibbs, and in solo contexts, though he didn't record too much. He's on that Miles from India thing.
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    He was 68. RIP. I need to investigate his work more deeply, but enjoy hearing him on those mid-70s Miles records.
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    Picked this LP up for around $12 a while back and hadn't had the opportunity to listen to it until this weekend. It's a doozy, naturally - the several other Yamashita Trio LPs I have are also pretty great, but adding a brass/wind ensemble gives it a crushingly heavy Mike Mantler vibe that is highly enjoyable. http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2011/08/yosuke-yamashita-trio-with-brass-12.html

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    Really? Cool!
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    Eddie Gale - This is Hot! - (Sagittarius A-Star) 2002 performance at Yoshi's with Prince Lasha and John Gruntfest, pretty solid.
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    Mine started out kinda weird. I grew up with jazz around the house - my dad's an avocational pianist - but it never really took. It wasn't until college that I got into it, and was curiously flipping through the bins. I picked out Coltrane's Expression and Ayler's Bells & Prophecy, both on Base LPs. Never heard anything like it before and that stuff changed my life. Sun Ship, ALS, Spiritual Unity, Dolphy and Taylor quickly followed. And then more straight-ahead stuff came later.
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    Classic Ra! Now spinning: Tchicai/Geerken/Moye - West Africa Tour - (Sagittarius A-Star) Great 4LP box, and considering these recordings were made on a Sony Walkman, they sound pretty good.
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    :tup
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    So apparently there exists a 7" EP from 1964 with Francois Tusques, Beb Guerin, and Don Cherry called "La Maison Fille." Anyone out there ever seen/heard this? Internet's not helping much beyond a cover scan.

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    I really hope this band records at some point. Wish I were in NY State for this. BeanRunner Music
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    Ornette's was red seal, Bill's was black label (jazz & pop). Bill wanted it to be a red seal, but it didn't come out that way. As Chuck mentioned, it probably was more visible at the time as a result. The Ornette is pretty boring IMO.
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    They're printing 1000 of each McPhee title, so you should be able to get one pretty easily.
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    No Lex for you?!?
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    Sweet.
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    A man with good taste!
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    Yeah, that could be interesting. I'd like to hear Joe McPhee's Gardens of Harlem revisitation and Anti-House.
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    Yeah, every time I see the name I think the same thing, Chuck. Never knew the bassist personally but his playing is/was great.
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    There are a few things on that list I'd like to see, but for the most part it seems like stuff I can conjure what the experience would be like without ever having to hear it.
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    I like the early stuff for sure, and Odessa is a classic. Sad to see him gone.
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    Apologies for posting before lunch.
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    George Russell is someone whom I'd really like to read a good bio of. I have the Decca vinyl but would jump at a Select.
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    Having an archive doesn't mean that the public has a right to hear/experience all the material. One has to separate the need for preservation of the cultural record from some sort of hypothetical unlimited public access.
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    Same here.
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