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Would love to see a folio of all the different cover paintings that one has. Couldn't find an image that even looked close to my copy. Yeah, mine is pink, purple and blue with bits of newspaper painted over on it. Pretty nice. Now: Lee Konitz - Jazz a Juan - (Steeplechase) w/ Solal, Humair, NHOP

Yeah, I like that record. Got it for about $15, I think. Don't have the other volume, but the Horo and the Fluid are also "nice."

Would love to see a folio of all the different cover paintings that one has.

Nice to have your thoughts, Ron! Hope you enjoy this set. It was fun to make.

Hopefully the duo recordings with Bill Dixon will see the light of day.

Yeah, The River is a beautiful album. Orange Fish Tears, too. I'm surprised that the Ran Blake and Karl Berger titles weren't reissued as OJCs; I assume all the Milestone Konitz titles were.

I've just got the solo stuff but would like to get this one. The band kills.

I bought it from Dusty when the reissue / comp came out. I assume it was around 16-18 bucks.

A boot can still have love infused. Sweet find.

There apparently is more music from the sessions, so I don't know how it'll ultimately shake out.

Earthy, open, gorgeous, driving, funky, humorous, sharp, intense, painful, lyrical, manly, womanly, beautiful.

OK, I'm listening to this reissue LP now after a long and boring day at work, so my judgment might be clouded. BUT... He's certainly got that Rollins/Ayler/Shepp thing going on in terms of tone and little phrase bubbles, but his rhythm and ideation isn't all that confident. He sounds like Marzette Watts before he got his shit more together (which probably isn't saying much). The rhythm section pretty consistently keeps a very, very conservative backing groove the entire time, which isn't all that easy I suppose given Gore's very isolated sense of where he is in the tune/improvisation. They tend to drop the time at some of Gore's more unpredictable flourishes. The best thing about the music is Lamont Hampton's conga playing; he's pretty strong - worked with Noah Howard some in the 70s. The acoustic piano is pretty out of tune (venue) and there's a long bass solo on the third track where it seems like the cat completely forgets where he is. The best track is the first piece on the flip where they're playing a little more open and there's less of a chance to fuck things up, but they're still out of tune. So, pretty amateur shit that on a better day might have its charm - might be fun to put on in a nuJazz DJ set to mess with people - but I can't say it's something you need to rush out and buy. There must be some redeeming quality that made me keep it for two years after buying it, but...

The Austin metro area has well over 1 million residents. Not too shabby.

That Lacy is a fine one! I didn't know you worked with Michael J. Smith - fine player, that Geomusic stuff is really intense. Shit, I owe you a couple of Lacy CDs don't I? Yeah, Michael lived in Atlanta for a year around the turn of the 1990's. We did some recording that Michael never released, but I put out a couple of tracks on a CD of mine. He got pretty discouraged (understandably) with the Atlanta music scene and went back to Sweden. But in that year, he was quite a figure around here - he'd wear colored jumpsuits with white boots and drive around in a Delorean. Why does that outfit not surprise me... he seems like a pretty far-out dude.

Cecil & Ben Young were working on this, I think. If it is with Ben, it'll be great.

Yeah, gonna try and make one of these when I'm in town.

That Lacy is a fine one! I didn't know you worked with Michael J. Smith - fine player, that Geomusic stuff is really intense. Shit, I owe you a couple of Lacy CDs don't I?

Man, I haven't pulled out that Talismen collection in a while. I remember liking it quite a bit, but specifics are foggy. WIll get back to you unless someone chimes in with something better.

Cool, good to know.

Click the link to the Popsike auction - that's what it looks like, on the front anyway. I wish my copy had come with the poster but at least it's otherwise in good nick. Really fine record. Mbari was Julius' label - also issued a double LP of overdubbed reed music, Blue Boye, as well as an LP of the poetry of K. Curtis Lyle called The Collected Poem for Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Lose the flavor savor?

Weird, this is one I never knew about. Color me intrigued.

0698 - $6.98 suggested retail price. The catalog number on that reissue is Arista-Freedom 1028 (originally Mbari MPC 501). Check this copy that came with a poster! Btw, curious why you're going with the Arista artwork rather than the Mbari - the jacket on the Mbari is very nice-looking.

Bump. No takers for the remainder of the lot?

Welcome! Bush Baby is a real fine one; I don't know who is handling the Adelphi catalog but they did some real nice jazz & blues titles back in the 70s. Don't know the Gibbs LP, but I can tell you that a legit Ichnos reissue (vinyl only) is in the planning stages - or at least it was last year when I talked to the gentleman who bought the tapes.