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Nice. Was rockin' the Rain Parade (from our side of the pond) yesterday myself.

Frank Smith (ts) is on one track of the Greene. The second date includes material recorded at Town Hall on May 1, 1965 with Reggie Johnson in for Gomez on bass. A short piano improvisation and the tune "Wretched Saturday" were leftovers from the first date and take up side two of the record. Interestingly, the plates for 1st stereo pressings have only one track on side two, monos have both tracks. Also, later stereo pressings are corrected (but wretched-sounding). Typical ESP confusion!

Sorry, brain fart. Thanks.

Hey - I was just thinking of this today. Who pressed up the UK versions of Delmark titles in the late '60s/early '70s? I have a couple of discs in US sleeves (N. Kimball address) with a two-tone blue textured label and a small deep groove around the spindle hole. On the outer area of the label it reads "Made in England" and "Unauthorised lending, copying..." but again, the jackets are paste-on domestic heavy cardboard with Chicago addresses. Chuck? Anyone?

Was.

Alipio C. Neto, Matt Bauder, Aram Shelton, the list could go on. Malaby is "all right." There are also players and composers who have also been working steadily over the past 40-plus years who should be getting more and more intelligent press than they do. I have a strong affection for Giuseppi's music.

History in this music is a tough thing, especially as those in the "avant-garde" were denied a palpable sense of history or relevance in the jazz press until very, very recently. So it's with that side of things in mind that I can't bemoan the "return" of Giuseppi Logan (as well as the fact that I've long really loved his music). The current players on the scene who are doing work deserve attention NOW, especially in THIS music. Giuseppi didn't get a whole lot of it then, I presume, but the best way to rectify that could be to give young avant-garde players outside of the hype-machine their due... rather than overdoing the "making up for lost time" bit. Otherwise the cycle will continue and we could be kicking ourselves in forty years for dropping the ball on a neat 30-year-old musician.

I really enjoy Logan's ESP sides and his contributions to Rudd's Impulse record. I don't think he was a fraud. Great player with some interesting things to say. Call me a devil's advocate, but I'm getting a little tired of people "on the scene" patting their own backs and bringing someone "back" from obscurity to do a few feeble concerts. I'll be glad if that ISN'T the case this time, but I have my doubts.

Johnny Griffin - Introducing - (BN UA mono blue/white)

Good point. Why hasn't BN been doing MP3s at this level themselves? Forgive me if I'm dredging up something already answered (and I don't completely buy the "CD-Rs for people afraid of downloading" bit).

Thanks! Will do - it's on sale at the Jazz Loft.

How is that 1979 quartet on Hat with Ray Anderson, Thurman Barker and (I think) John Lindberg?

Probably multiples of Romance and Revolution!

Was just going to post this myself. I had not been aware that he was so ill, and our thoughts are with him. Hope he gets the donor and treatment that he needs.

Well, I can tell you already, not having received these new copies, that the sessions themselves are fantastic. The Murray is well-recorded and compositionally interesting, held together a lot more than the BYG records of the same era. This was a "working" band and it shows. The quintet track with Alan Silva and Becky Friend (fl) is amazing. Solidarity Unit is an early BAG record, but the open spaces and "textural" use of little instruments is filled in and any "opening up" is in a very raw (like a wound) sort of way. Richard Martin's guitar skitters over the top of the proceedings like a hypercharged, bluesier Ray Russell or some such. So there you go! Michael King of Reel Recordings fame has remastered them and they're pressed on heavy, quiet vinyl so I assume the reissues will sound a bit better than the OG copies, neither of which were pressed to today's SAWANO-style standards.

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Kabalaba - (AECO)

PM sent on the Amalgam, Lowther, 2 disc Morgan and the Ra Pathways...

Pharoah Sanders - Village of the Pharoahs - (Impulse)

Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy - (Impulse orig) w/ Frank Lowe, Reggie Workman, Leroy Jenkins, Ben Riley, etc.

Ben Webster - Did You Call? - (Nessa) w/ Tete Montoliu, Peeter Wyboris, Eric Peter

I'm all for getting baked and listening to cassettes. Bring it on!

I really hate flipping through the "F" section of jazz LPs and finding his discs stuffed in between Fourmenonly and Don Friedman...

I myself do not understand why he's not doing CD's of them. I have OG copies but will report on sonic differences if anyone cares...

Original creosote pressing ? (or whatever they used - acetate?) Polystyrene Yup. Got $1000 from a Japanese dealer and was happy to see it go. So, Transition's originals are a truly 'awful sounding' collector's items. Definitely not my stuff. My Transitions are all Japanese. I did borrow a copy of the Cecil from a friend once just to try out an OG and it was clicky but not any worse than your average budget pressing.

Mal Waldron - Left Alone - (Bethlehem, CBS Japan issue)