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Def. one of my favorite Delmark covers.

Jeez, I thought 2009 was pretty good for recorded jazz...

I haven't seen that since dorm-rat and pot-smoking days (mid-90s).

Wow. Heavy piece. I remember watching Siskel & Ebert as a young'un. Here is an interesting side-story.

otoh, what steady gigs usually do for people who don't really have all that much to say is to broaden their ways to say it. I don't know of any "process" that will make somebody interesting, perceptive, original, whatever. Either you are or you aren't. Them that are usually/eventually find ways to protect & nurture it as best they can under any given set of circumstances. Them that aren't find ways to avoid confronting it, including avoiding silence (at many different levels). Keep in mind, also, that this music is now taught in colleges and with Master's level coursework/education, producing nice little leader-packages ready to record for Fresh Sound New Talent or any other series of labels. There isn't quite the "university" of going through other players' bands for months and years, with the held-over runs at the Five Spot and the Vanguard (or wherever) to aid in that definition of a musical personality. And that's just it - personality is what is often lacking through this new process. It's a different reality. But that's not to say that with some time and some settling, that reality will produce equally interesting players and performance structures. They might just look a bit different. Of the "new guard," I'm consistently nodding in utmost respect for Talibam!, Mary Halvorson, Weasel Walter, Aram Shelton, Jason Adasiewicz, Rob Mazurek, Nate Wooley, Mike Reed, and Rodrigo Amado.

Cool - have never scored vinyls of those, so this will be welcome!

I know. Clichy just reminds me of a Henry Miller book.

No, not really. I mean, health care & the economy? Who cares?

Yeah, that one gets WAY under my skin. Ditto the Ian Carr/Jeff Clyne Springboard LP, which I have been trying to source for years...

Imp. Glory (Clichy) was always my favorite.

I'd like to hear that Liebman CD on Jazz-Werkstatt.

Yeah, the internet has been a boon. I mean, I'd heard a little bit about certain jazz musicians, free jazzers, etc., but finding those on vinyl in the KC area as a late-teenager was nigh impossible.

I have a couple of BN LPs bought overseas with French "BIEM" import stamps on the labels. Don't know about 45 P/S discs but Paris Jazz Corner sometimes has stuff like that. In fact, I've seen a couple of late '50s/early '60s Donald Byrd French BN 45s. Here's an oddball: Grant Green

Still need that Dragon CD, too.

Amen.

Le Bonheur is great as well.

I have had good luck with her other Saravah LPs from the 1970s as well. Interesting figure in music, as well as her co-conspirators Areski Belkacem and Jacques Higelin.

AR Penck - Going Through - (Penck) w/ Frank Lowe, Jeanne Lee, Denis Charles, Wm. Parker and Billy Bang.

Foolishly high price for that mediocre LP. Should be $40 at most!

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I only know of Comme a la Radio, which is great.

Wow. Good luck with it. FWIW, I would say 4 or 1 would be the right answer.

Not everybody is into Moondoc - and admittedly I'm not always, all the time - but I always trust him as a player (still) and that goes a long way. The trio set is really nice, too.

Cool, thanks for the update. I have a couple of Wave LPs and without Ind, clearly a significant chunk of the Tristano school's music wouldn't have seen the light of day commercially.

Old dudes!