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I have the Mosaic LPs too. All boxed sets are inconvenient

ordered these from Nimbus-West. Dusty usually ships out before the label does for some reason.

Huh. I run into them in shops from time to time, but certainly more (Moer) on the east coast than when I lived in TX or the midwest.

great back cover on that one

Wish I kept that list, although it would have started in 1987 and really picked up in earnest around 1994 when I had a drivers license and access to a car.

Ah, thanks, yeah I had no idea about the 700 series.

Yeah, Document, RST, all that stuff is mind-blowing. Then again most of what I've taken note of is prewar. I'd also add June Appal and Takoma to the list. Oh, and Flyright and Trix should be in here too.

yeah, when I was reviewing them.

Never for recordings — even when writing about them — but certainly for live concerts.

I knew of the Italian bootleg LP but had never seen evidence of an Atlantic test pressing. That's pretty cool.

Gross.

Birds of Underground is good too.

agree! And yeah, Concord really stinks.

The Black Mystery School essay is wonderful, yes!

Right. And Mal definitely played the blues also.

To me that has always felt like Mangeldorff's jewel on record. There are also a bunch of live recordings from that band circulating (i.e., not released commercially) that are well worth hearing. Superb!

I believe it to be correct, at least in the improvised music idiom. Lacy's solo LPs/recitals were directly inspired by Braxton, as I understand it. Parker, McPhee, Mitchell, Abe, Hemphill, Lake, Brown... all of those came later. The Hawkins soli were released on shellac 10"s and I'd call those EPs at most, not albums. The Hawkins on Asch is essential material, IMO.

yeah, I have a mono pressing of that LP (wasn't chasing after the mono, just what landed in front of me). It's a very good date.

that's very cool!

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...