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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.

I assume you mean "nobody in their right mind would drop it off to be in the used bins," right?

Bailey/Parker/Braxton - Company 2 - (Incus)

He is a great player, tho admittedly I haven't always been impressed by his bands. The one with the Norbotten Big Band I remember liking a lot, though.

Blues Addicts - s/t - (Shadoks reissue of Spectator orig) rare 1970 Danish Cream knock-off, not bad at all...

Glad I have the Liberty stereo LP!

Mal made that out-of-tune piano sing. He made that wonkiness HIS, and he made it work!

Any thoughts on the new Auricle discs that Hemingway has put out? Duos with Butcher and Lehn?

I'll have to be on the lookout for these.

Interesting point tho his use of craggy extended technique puts him into another camp altogether - sort of hybridized Incus and Takoma if you axe me...

A piano-Finn disc in the style of Flanagan/Monterose would be very hip, by the way. Hope he finds his way back to making recordings again.

New Jim McAuley on Drip is SICK... Tks Nate for hipping me to his work!

I'll have to check this out later when not at work. I go warm and cold with Keith's early work, which is definitely derivative of Bley. But it's not bad and some of it is quite enjoyable. That said (and not to go into too much Jarrett-bashing), I find a lot of his work from the later 1970s and subsequently pretty grating. As for jazz and not-jazz, well, YMMV. I think some of the arguments against early Jarrett, Carla Bley's classic run for Watt, etc., as being "romantic improvisation" and not out of the "jazz tradition" are a little oversimplified. Categories and the words that delimit them are worth having as signposts, but the signs they hold are often merely suggestions and not gospel.

Is Finn on the scene any more? I haven't heard his name in ages. Nate D did a nice interview with him over at Paris Transatlantic. Also listening to a lot of Mary Halvorson these days. I never thought I'd be saying this about a composer of "funny rat" music, but damn!

George Russell - Electric Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature - (Soul Note repress) w/ Rypdal, Garbarek, Schoof, Christensen and Red Mitchell

Ah shit. RIP and thanks for the music and the words.