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Vincent Le Masne & Bertrand Porquet - Guitars Derive - (Shandar)

Welcome. Hope you can stick around.

John Carter - Echoes from Rudolph's - (Ibedon) w/ Stanley Carter, Chris Carter, William Jeffrey and Melba Joyce

I had this to say in Paris Transatlantic in 2007. Maybe I'm remembering it more fondly than it seemed at the time, but:

These are prime cuts. Also pianist Burton Greene will be playing duos with clarinetist Perry Robinson for two nights, April 23 and 24th. Details to follow as soon as I get more of them.

Trio Camara - s/t - (Saravah, reissue)

rob are you referring to Peace Treaty or If? If. Peace Treaty is brilliant hard bop.

Way to go... that's a beautiful cover for a great record. Now: Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords - (Impulse orig)

Masayoshi Urabe & Chie Mukai - Dual Anarchism - (Siwa)

I want a copy without ringwear.

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.