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Polvo - Celebrate the New Dark Age - (Merge 12") Never had the 45s box (impossible to get where I was) and this is way nicer-looking than the CD packaging!

How is this? I've never got around to listening to it. Strong, better than I remembered. It's not as chockablock as the Black Saint, which is my favorite of their records. I would like to get the duo LP with David Ware but it rarely comes up.

Welcome. I got a "new" copy of that LP and the pressing noise was louder than the music. Too bad.

Bill Dixon once said this to me about "imitators" of Charlie Parker and their addiction to heroin: "did they think that Charlie Parker wanted to live like Charlie Parker?"

Beaver Harris 360 Degree Music Experience - From Rag Time to No Time - (360 Records) Haven't spun this one in almost a decade!

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff - (BN NY stereo)

Derek Bailey & Steve Lacy - Company 4 - (Incus)

Thanks to Chuck for clearing that up. Bernard had said something to the effect that the recordings were in "bad sound" and that he had Richard Alderson clean up what he could in order to issue on ESP, as Blue Note wasn't moving on it. But clearly it's not that simple. I didn't realize that test pressings of the BNs were even made.

Hmm. Not sure, as I have Dancing in Your Head on vinyl.

Now I'm pretty sure that I haven't - in recent memory at least - run across that particular Stan T. title.

From what I understand - and somebody may know more about this - the recordings were badly marred by distortion and the only salvageable (then) material was issued via ESP. I don't know the state of the tapes now or whether any more salvageable music has been found from that concert. Ornette has never been one for going back into his archives. Who knows whether that will change.

Paul Rutherford - Neuph - (Sweet Folk & Country)

It's a good'n. Not quite 'there' in terms of where they were trying to go, but a cool notch in the McGregor discographical axis. Putting that alongside the Gwigwi is kind of a shock.

Happy Belated, my friend.

I know somebody 'round here has a spare of the ICP date...

That was the band Buell had told me about. I think Gayle sat in from time to time. Wish that had been recorded!

I've thought about picking up that Jessica reissue from time to time, but never pulled the trigger. OG LPs of that are 'spensive!

In Buffalo, right? Buell told me that was some serious shit... I guess Andrew White had something to do with bringing Charles Gayle into the music at the time.

I need to get the Cuneiform disc with Ray Russell. I imagine it's pretty wild. The Rendell/Carr material is, of course, my preferred outlet for Carr's work.

Yes! I have a great 4tet with Hugh Schick, tpt and Vinnie Colaiuta, dr. Heavy shit!

Happy Birthday to Buell and hopes for many more productive years.

Hey Al, happy birthday. Hope it's excellent!

It's really good. Grimes is miked well, so it seems, as is pianist Austin Crowe. Dickerson kind of skates atop the surge. Now: Makaya Ntshoko - Makaya & The Tsotsis - (Enja) strong date w/ Heinz Sauer, Bob Degen and Isla Eckinger.

Walt Dickerson - Jazz Impressions of Lawrence of Arabia - (Dauntless stereo orig)

Most of my Incus recs I got from a guy who decided, for whatever reason, to burn all his vinyl to CD and sell the originals. He had loads of DGG avant-garde titles, Harry Bertoia, Incus & FMPs. He'd acquired a lot of the stuff sealed in the 1980s.