clifford_thornton

Sad news. RIP and thanks for your work and your sound.

I'd be into hearing that one, though I've never been a follower of Matt Wilson's work.

Yeah, that happened sometimes when they were using leftover labels in transitional periods. I can't remember when BN moved from W. 63rd to W. 61st - sometime around what, '62 or '63? Labels don't always denote original - I have seen W 63rd labels on non-Van Gelder (Liberty-era) vinyl.

Yeah, from what I understand, some folks have heard of him.

I'm starting to turn around on these Andorran labels, etc. If the major labels or the labels that own the material aren't doing anything at all, or are fucking up the releases, might as well let somebody else do it.

Is the opening side of the LP off-vertical, as if the guillotine was cutting the thing at wrong angle? Every one of this title I've ever seen has had that ! Mine's in storage, else I'd check the labels. It's mono and sounds like a bat out of hell!

Looks like one of those weird Xian private releases. Church hymns, I suspect.

You can't pay royalties if the records don't sell or if the distributor don't pay you/give you sales records.

Coffee black as oil, with a layer of silt on top.

Or Lester Bowie's atheistic LP on Muse, Rope-A-Pope.

I believe there will be some unissued material in the Braxton set as well. Can't wait.

Maybe take a nod from Ribot and do Albert Ayler tunes?

Good way of putting it, Jim, though I admit I'm not always in the "fan" camp re: Oliver Nelson. That said, I don't need the obvious to surprise me, either. Afro/American Sketches wasn't really what I was expecting, which might've been less programmatic than what I get from the music. But some of those early Prestige small group sides are really nice.

Love Mal, like Murray sometimes.

HB EKE BBB!

Looks decent. Better review in the NY'er than I think Ratliff and Chinen put together.

The Francois Tusques/Sunny Murray material needs a reissue - hell, it'd fit on one disc! That Guitars Derive is really nice, too, in the pantheon of obscure minimal-music recordings. The Dashiell Hedayat/Gong thing was also put out on CD. But without the nice, textured cover of the orig.

And the Ragnar Grippe.

RIP. I have a lot of 'em, but they're all in storage boxes and can't be played right now.

Probably more than a thousand pressed. I feel like I've seen it a number of times on offer over the past few years.

Andrew Hill - One For One - (BN twofer) "Pax" session, sides three and four.

Sunny Murray - Charred Earth - (Kharma)

Attila Zoller - The Horizon Beyond - (Emarcy stereo orig) w/ Don Friedman, Barre Phillips and Daniel Humair.

My copy of The Missing Link still has feathers in the jacket.