clifford_thornton

He ain't comin' back.

I remember that too. Used to be in fairly regular contact with Buell and he talked about it to me some, though I don't believe we discussed it in our interview. I didn't "get" Infinity when I first heard it and much preferred "Living Space," for example, without the strings. Now, I'm feeling a little more "like" if not "love" for Alice w/ strings and maybe could handle it. I assume that Alice felt she was carrying on some of the work that Trane had wanted to do w/r/t strings, but I don't know that for sure.

He is clearly not holding a bass in the top picture.

Happy Belated!

I'd like to get the stuff with Ornette as well as the material with John Tchicai and John Stevens. Some of the Plastic Ono Band material is nice as well.

Whatever one thinks of her work/personality, she's quite an interesting figure. Hope she has many more years left in which to F L Y.

Oh jeez.

Other early Impulse orange & blacks I have in stereo are all RVG or VAN GELDER in the dead wax. I do not have Ballads on LP.

Marc Charig, Keith Tippett, Ann Winter - Pipedream - (Ogun)

FYI...

The Ujaama has been reissued on CD and is available from Ted directly. You might try contacting him through MySpace. Tapestry, reissued on Porter Records, is also a hell of a date. It's kind of like running late Lee Morgan through the filter of loft jazz. He was also in a very, very weird free jazz/R&B combo called Brute Force; they have one record on Embryo and Porter will be issuing some live material from the vaults this year. I also highly recommend his work with clarinetist Michael Marcus in Duology - there is a disc on Boxholder that's pretty good and one on Soul Note that is excellent. Finally, if you can find it - and Ted might have copies left - the big band recordings on In The Beginning are mind-melting.

Never seen a CD of this before. I have it on LP. A weird one!

Yeah, dug that one out last night from the racks and enjoyed it very much. I also have his Genuine Tong Funeral w/ the Jazz Composers' Orchestra, really good as well. I have gotten a lot less mileage out of other and subsequent releases.

Wayne Shorter - Moto Grosso Feio - (BN UA orig) w/ McLaughlin, Corea, Holland, Ron Carter, Vitous, and Michelin Prell. Fond of this one.

Gil Cuppini - Quintet - (Deja Vu reissue of Broadway orig) w/ Eraldo Volonte, Oscar Valdembrini, Gianni Basso, Sergio Fanni and Lars Gullin.

Great one, Chuck! Still have my eyes out for a copy of Nature's Consort... Now: Gary Burton - Duster - (RCA Victor stereo orig)

Robbie Basho - Venus in Cancer - (Blue Thumb orig, wlp)

I'd buy this. Never did get Mouth Eating Trees though I've heard it and it is good!

Jeezus, Bright Moments... Jeezus.

This is pretty lame and hopefully they will correct it. I have a Liberty LP but it would be nice, if I were to buy a domestic CD of the music, for it not to be jacked.

Great material, but I'm wondering how "gray" this label is.

Happy Birthday, belatedly. Hope you can bring some Cookers and such down to Austin someday.

RIP. That Afro Jazz LP always got under my skin...

Huh? Oh. . . there was a full blown box set of the material, out of print for some time. But not a Select. Right? Right. Sorry, must've had some of what Michael Phelps had...

Yeah, I often forget how bad NYC USPS service is/was. Kind of a big hassle to send one disc to Canada. Yeah, maybe there was an oversight by not mentioning int'l shipping for small orders. But Peter, posting others' PMs and emails on the site for the sake of an argument - as you did with respect to the Jazzloft thread - isn't all that hip, sorry to say.