clifford_thornton

Don't know that album. How is it? It's good, very open-form. Henri Texier and Daniel Humair round out the group. CAM = Gigi Campi.

Lee Konitz & Martial Solal - European Episode - (CAM, Japanese pressing)

Shepp - The Way Ahead - (Impulse orig)

Triple Trip Touch - Endless Jazz - (Penck) C Sharpe, Denis Charles, Lisle Ellis, AR Penck and the Wollny brothers getting unruly.

I really like that Carisi track. All I'd heard was off of "Into the Hot," so this is a clearer & non-relative picture of some of what he was up to. It's hard for me to characterize my feelings about pre-1950s music other than that I enjoyed everything you put on the BFT on its own terms, and through (especially) Allen Lowe's project(s), my definition of jazz as a music has been broadened (i.e., improvisation as we normally think of it doesn't have to be part of the equation). Is that 90s track British? Reminds me of Alan Skidmore, though less Trane-y in the initial tenor sound, or Paul Dunmall - though only in parts. There's also something New York-ish about it, but it doesn't sound specifically like any of those guys. I'm stumped, especially because it sounds like something I would own & listen to though clearly I don't.

Joe McPhee - Alto - (Roaratorio) #14/26 with hand painted covers by Judith Lindbloom. Nice set, too.

Yeah, it's not bad. I have another on Supraphon (there are apparently several), Motus, which is decent. Jiri Stivin knocks me out. Carry on...

Welcome and do stick around. It looks like you might have stepped into a firepit, but fear not!

I'll start cleaning out my garage this afternoon. We'll see about the job. I'll be along as Allen's Personal Assistant.

Pullen, Hopkins and Battle - hard to go wrong riding that kind of carpet.

Somebody said that about Ornette too, am I right? Of course, they were missing Ornette's point entirely...

Well, Hodges' nickname WAS "Rabbit"... though the cover is bizarre. Not all Futura covers are THAT stupid. I have it on a Musica issue with an abstract rendering of saxophone keys. It was NM at $20.

I think the pre-Wynton jazz hype machine, as I understand it, seemed a little more sensible for figures like Braxton or Blythe (who ended up on larger labels). Just my own opinion. I guess what I refer to has a little more traction the way Tom puts it.

I'd like to see the documentary, even if I find Sunny's playing of recent years a little less engaging. But then again, when you've gone as far as you can with one thing...

And this isn't the only one!

Stanley Clarke is on Stanley Cowell's Illusion Suite, which is a fine early ECM title.

Having never seen him play (he was making records before I was born), I can only vouch for experiencing things like "Morning Prayer" and "Chico," which are strong discs, nothing more and nothing less. It seems like the hype machine was behind him in a way that he couldn't quite match.

I have a few things on India Navigation and that's about it. Enjoy his playing on those older sides but it's rarely mind-altering (for me).

I'd heard the name but never consciously checked out any of his music. It's pretty swell, at least judging by this track.

on that post.

I really like the Moncur & Tolliver sets as well.

Lucky dog. It is also the title of a great Barouh film shot in Brazil. Ah, good to know. I watch so little film it's criminal.

Dang - the only trumpeters I can think of that Joe recorded with in the 70s are Hubbard and Woody Shaw. It doesn't sound like Woody to me, but then again I've probably listened less to him than some others on the board.

I'm going with my less-obscure guess on #8 and say that it's Freddie Hubbard. If Henderson & Clarke are in the mix, it could be something like this, though the date is a little later.

Yeah, thought it might be Frisell, but I don't know that kind of music very well.