clifford_thornton

Too bad I'm in the States; I'd be interested but the shipping would be very expensive! Sounds like your father was a neat guy.

Seems like you play that one a lot, brownie!

It is a nice record. And thanks to our own Chris Albertson for making it happen.

Oh, I was referring to the hand-numbered issue of Spiritual Unity, with a brown cover and black silkscreen. I don't know how many of that edition made it out of NY.

It's really good.

Numbered issue?

I'll be there!

Thanks!

Ne Plus Ultra is the shit. Indeed, Chewy is right - now I just have to get the Wave LP to complement it.

Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons - The Cry! - (Contemporary black label)

Yeah, I have it too but hadn't heard it in a while.

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...