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I interviewed him earlier this year and it was quite interesting - I wrote a short article on him for the NYC Jazz Record and had hoped to have the full transcript up this summer with his blessing. Time got away from me and now he's gone. I'm not sure whether to go ahead and try to publish the text or not.

That film is really nice. Agreed about the group with Shipp BUT the new disc w/ Cooper-Moore, Parker & Muhammad Ali is incredible.

Yeah, that particular comments thread is ridiculous.

This is terrible news.

yeah, no shit - would love to go!

Why are you calling me out? What is your aggression towards me? I can't spend ALL my time on the o-board. Anyway: If it is being run as a club, it's a club. The behavior is out of control and I know the victim personally.

Haha... I take it as good-natured ribbing.

Without buying the DVD, I'd like to find out who was playing the week of 1/8/77. I bet there was some serious Alphabet City punk going on...

IIRC, the (Of Chicago) was put on flyers for an early gig in France and the name stuck. The Nessas were licensed from Pathe - there's a thread about this somewhere around here.

Rashied Ali - Quintet - (Survival) Rashied Ali - New Directions in Modern Music - (Survival)

It's still working on my old blog post about it. Looks like it was on DailyMotion rather than YouTube.

The "Pay to Play" thing is a little too grass-roots if you ask me... Albeit not uncommon I guess...

To be clear, the drummer was punched out by an unruly club-owner. I'd say the fault goes with the assault(er). The University of the Streets is a NYC organization that has done music programs with the underserved and underrecognized since the late 1960s. However, it seems like the promoters are behaving pretty horribly towards the musicians.

From facebook, apparently a vocal disagreement with a pay-to-play clause (possibly obscured in the contract?) got a drummer punched in the face by the promoter's son... stitches and bruises later, he seems to be okay but the question of hostility at this particular club has been raised. I suggest that the word be put out about both this policy - $50 if the door minimum isn't made - as well as abusive behavior on the part of the club owners at the University of the Streets. Not cool.

PM sent!

A few things are still left - bump for the late morning crowd.

Barre Phillips - Basse Barre - (Futura)

Bump! If someone wants to take all the PosiTones in one fell discounted swoop, be my guest. Please.

PM Coming!

The bands make them look quite interesting.

Cool, thanks.

I tried to bring this up a while back and it didn't seem to garner much interest then. Glad it's getting its legs now, because it's a subject that I am interested in.

Outing the living is one thing, but Allen is right with regards to history. Because being comfortable/open about one's own sexuality (if it's not hetero-normative) is still a challenge to many, coming out has broader implications than one's own small sphere.

Yeah for some reason I've never bothered to buy that on LP - dunno why, considering it was such a priority to get the related Graham Collier discography on vinyl! How is the pressing on the Beckett? Some of those Philips jazz titles have been a bit "crackly" in my experience, even when ostensibly mint-.