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I remembered he sounded pretty good on the Levitts LP. Thanks for the reminder.

Fascinating. Thanks.

It'll go there - still three days left. I'm curious about that Dexter/Griffin LP on Joker that they've got. Never seen it.

Raymond Boni - L'oiseau, L'arbe, Le Beton - (Futura) Great solo damaged-guitar recording and not at all in the Derek Bailey vein. Fractured but heartfelt Herbie Nichols covers, on guitar: Duck Baker - Spinning Song - (Tzadik/Avant) Barre Phillips - Journal Violone - (Opus One) beautiful solo bass recording, the first solo bass album, and quite compositional in scope (though apparently it was edited down from several hours of playing by composer Max Schubel). Only comparable solo-bass record is, IMHO, Inland Fish, by Motoharu Yoshizawa. Bill Dixon - Odyssey - (Archive Edition) Solo trumpet boxed set now very OOP, which is too bad. Mind-melting. Peter Evans' solo discs on psi are pretty hot as far as post-Dixon solo trumpet dates go. I second McPhee's Tenor. Lacy solo is a fascinating world as well, though I personally get more out of his small-group recordings. Cleve Pozar - Solo Percussion - (CSP) Pierre Favre - Drum Conversation - (Calig) and Abanaba - (Futura) Andrew Cyrille - What About? - (BYG) All excellent and very different ideas of what a solo percussion record should be about. I haven't heard Cyrille's Ictus LP but I understand it's real good. Would also like to hear the solo Toshi Tsuchitori record. The first half of Roscoe Mitchell's Congliptious (Nessa) presents early solos by Malachi, Lester and Roscoe. Excellent. Nonaah (Nessa) and The Natural and the Spiritual (AECO) include great later solo works by Roscoe and Malachi, respectively.

I will be buying that.

That's Pharoah on the bottom, not Trane.

I think he will podium.

HG, I believe that you're right - Desmond and Brubeck.

Years ago I spoke to someone "in the know" and he said it isn't surprising there isn't more material the way Alan Douglas ran his sessions. Prince Lasha wasn't particularly a fan of Alan Douglas. Money and publishing were among the concerns.

Restless licensed the material from Douglas, I assume. They were a legit label that originally issued the Flaming Lips' catalog back in the day, along with other punk/indie acts. I don't know how they chose to reissue Dolphy, but someone there must've been a fan. IIRC, there was some crossover with Celluloid, which had the rights to Conversations at the time (late 80s).

Seconded.

Understood. I do want to chime in and say that abuse does not have to be a precursor to working in the sex industry. And that, according to Ms. Grey, the Tyra interview was pretty well-staged by the producers, so that very little of what she actually had to say was aired. So I take the woman for her word - call me a sucka.

Yeah, I did some research including reading & listening to some interviews. Certainly in control of her business - no doubt that she's doing what she wants, how she wants. I'm sure there's more hardcore stuff out there, but I can't imagine what it is.

I'm sure you are right about that re: the industry. Not being a connoisseur of pornography, only a casual and occasional observer, I expected it to be serious business - I mean, I know what "hardcore porn" is. But this took it to another level for me. The gagging/barfing noises didn't help.

Cool. I like his playing with Bob Moses.

I googled Sasha Grey to get a clearer picture of what the deal was. I'd only heard of her/seen photos. I have to say, watching 9 minutes of hardcore Sasha (over lunch and at home) was actually physically nauseating. And I consider myself both a sexual "liberal" and one who is supportive of personal rights, both in the viewing and making of pornography. So, I'm glad for her that she's able to do well financially and creatively with it, and yea she is very cute & looks like a normal girl. But that type of thing is too relentless/intense even for me.

I was planning on seeing that but got busy and skipped out on movies in June. Now it's gone from Austin theaters.

Sasha Grey. Indeed. She's got a noise-music LP coming out, I think, also.

Hey, I haven't seen Play Misty for Me either. Every Which Way But Loose, now THERE'S a film. But hey, I like Paul Flaherty, so count me ignorant too.

$5 can't be beat.

I only have Awakening but I like it quite a bit. The format-hound in me has been looking for Conflict and the Joe Gordon for some time on LP, with no dice. The realist in me is calling the format-hound an idiot.

Oooh I don't have that Bevan disc... another one to look for.

Band and "o" logo works for me. Most of my t-shirts are black but the ones I really like are brown, green, purple... got a nice faded Sun Ra one in brown and black. Anyway.

I still think they had a pretty good band name.

The one with Geri Allen is the better of the two. It's really strong. I have long been a Schweizer nut, but for me Berne Concert doesn't gel. That said, there are some beautiful duets with her and Cyrille, and her and Workman, on the record. Better put: