clifford_thornton

So the originator of "The Worm" is now worm food? Sorry - had to go there. RIP.

I split my time between Austin and Houston. If things work out I will be back in Austin and would love to hang.

Hopefully my review of the book at AAJ will be running soon. My praise and complaints, fwiw, will be visible there.

Re: McIntyre, I hadn't thought of that but the photos are disarmingly similar.

Damn, dude. You may be the only other person I know who has both Mohawk and Skag Heaven on LP.

Wow, sad news. A unique voice whose work is probably yet to be grasped by those who've heard it. Thanks, Mr. Dickerson, for all you've given us. &RIP.

Thanks for that. A few people there surprised me. Mongezi Feza, whom I only know from his recordings with Dudu Puwana. Dizzy Reece is another. Did they change their style or have I been missing something? MG The Feza is a pretty loose session, or pair of sessions, cut in Sweden during the early '70s. The Reece is driving North African-inspired music with some very heavy soloing by Reece & John Gilmore over the top of it all. A fantastic expat date with Art Taylor really pushing things along.

Just as many inessential, but very good, free jazz records. 1. Ric Colbeck – The Sun Is Coming Up – (Fontana) 2. Ray Russell – Secret Asylum – (Black Lion) 3. Willem Breuker – Litany for the 14th of June 1966 – (Relax/Wergo) 4. Marzette Watts – Marzette Watts Ensemble – (Savoy) 5. Marion Brown – Porto Novo – (Polydor) 6. Kalaparusha – Forces & Feelings – (Delmark) 7. Andrew Cyrille – Junction – (IPS) 8. Arthur Doyle – Alabama Feeling – (Ak-Ba) 9. Alfred Harth – 4 Januar. 1970 – (no label) 10. Huseyin Ertunc – Musiki – (Intex) 11. The Jazz Composers Orchestra – Communication – (Fontana) 12. Byron Allen – Trio – (ESP) 13. James Zitro – Zitro – (ESP) 14. Smiley Winters – Memorial Quartet – (FMO) 15. Wolfgang Dauner – Output – (ECM) 16. Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne – Endangered Species – (Cadence) 17. Muhal Richard Abrams – Afrisong – (Whynot) 18. Steve Lacy – Esthilacos – (Sassetti) 19. Francois Tusques – Intercommunal Music – (Shandar) 20. Joe Giardullo – Gravity – (Breeze) 21. Friedmann Graef – Daily New Paradox – (FMP) 22. Kenny Wheeler – Song For Someone – (Incus) 23. The Tony Oxley/Alan Davie Duo (ADMW) 24. The People Band (Transatlantic) 25. Spontaneous Music Ensemble – Challenge – (Eyemark) 26. Instant Composers’ Pool – Groupcomposing – (ICP) 27. Alan Braufman – Valley of Search – (India Navigation) 28. Richard Landry – Solos – (Chatham Square) 29. William Hooker – Brighter Lights – (Reality Unit Concepts) 30. The Sea Ensemble – Manzara – (Red Record) 31. Sam Rivers – Paragon – (Fluid) 32. Joe McPhee – Underground Railroad – (CJR) 33. Michel Portal – Splendid Yzlment – (CBS/AKT) 34. Alan Shorter – Tes Esat – (America) 35. Michel Pilz – Carpathes – (FMP) 36. Howard Riley – Facets – (Impetus) 37. Wilber Morris – Wilber Force – (DIW) 38. Wally Shoup – The Levitation Shuffle – (Clean Feed) 39. Doppelmoppel – Outside This Area – (Intakt) 40. Bengt Nordstrom – Now’s The Frippe Time – (Dragon) 41. Ascension – LP – (Fusetron) 42. The Music Ensemble – (Roaratorio) 43. Dewey Redman – Look For The Black Star – (Fontana) 44. John Tchicai – Real Tchicai – (Steeplechase) 45. Adam Lane – New Magical Kingdom – (Clean Feed) 46. Vinny Golia – Openhearted – (Nine Winds) 47. Horace Tapscott – The Dark Tree – (Hat Art) 48. Derek Bailey – Aida – (Incus) 49. Kazutoki Umezu – Seikatsu Kojyo Iinkai – (SKI) 50. Mototeru Takagi – Mosura Freight – (Interval) 51. Universal Jazz Symphonette – Sound Craft 75 – (Anima) 52. Khan Jamal – Drumdance to the Motherland – (Dogtown) 53. Sabu Toyozumi – Message to Chicago – (Nadja) 54. Burton Greene/Daoud Amin – Trees – (Button Nose) 55. Marco Eneidi – Vermont Spring 1986 – (Botticelli) 56. Alan Silva – Inner Song – (Center of the World) 57. Frank Wright – Church Number Nine – (Calumet) 58. Bob Feldman – Triplicity – (One Way) 59. Graham Collier – Songs For My Father – (Fontana) 60. In Order To Survive – Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy – (Homestead) 61. Rob Brown – Breath Rhyme – (Silkheart) 62. Mongezi Feza – Free Jam – (Ayler) 63. Selwyn Lissack – Friendship Next of Kin – (Goody) 64. Bobby Few – Lights and Shadows – (Boxholder) 65. Charles Tyler – Live in Europe – (Ak-Ba) 66. New Life Trio – Visions of the Third Eye – (Mustevic) 67. The Thing/School Days – The Music of Norman Howard – (Anagram) 68. The Vandermark Five – The Color of Memory – (Atavistic) 69. G.L. Unit – Orangutang! – (EMI Odeon) 70. Sunny Murray – Charred Earth – (Kharma) 71. Jerome Cooper – The Unpredictability of Predictability – (About Time) 72. Marc Edwards – The Black Queen – (Alpha Phonics) 73. Joel Futterman – Inneraction – (JDF) 74. Bruce Eisenbeil – Carnival Skin – (Nemu) 75. Jason Adasiewicz – Roll Down – (482 Music) 76. Jemeel Moondoc – Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys – (Eremite) 77. Ted Daniel – Sextet – (Ujamaa) 78. Mario Pavone – Shodo – (Alacra) 79. Michael Gregory Jackson – Clarity – (Bija) 80. Antithesis – Antithesis – (Arise) 81. Irene Schweizer – Ramifications – (Ogun) 82. Jimmy Lyons – The Boxed Set – (Ayler) 83. Julius Hemphill/Abdul Wadud – Live In New York – (Red) 84. Jacques Coursil – The Black Suite – (America) 85. Acting Trio – (BYG Actuel) 86. Frank Lowe – The Other Side – (Palm) 87. Baikaida Carroll – Orange Fish Tears – (Palm) 88. Manuel Villaroel – Terremoto – (Futura) 89. Giorgio Gaslini – Nuovi Sentimenti – (Voce del Padrone) 90. Don Cherry – Togetherness – (Durium) 91. Gato Barbieri/Dollar Brand – Hamba Khale – (Togetherness) 92. Hamiet Bluiett – Birthright – (India Navigation) 93. Jack Wright – Free Life, Singing – (Spring Garden) 94. Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones – (America) 95. Now Creative Arts Jazz Ensemble – Now! – (Arhoolie) 96. Dizzy Reece – From In To Out – (Futura) 97. Hans Dulfer – Jazz In Paradiso – (Heavy Soul) 98. Han Bennink – Tempo Comodo – (Data) 99. Mike Osborne – Outback – (Turtle) 100. Cohelmec Ensemble – Hippotigris Zebra-Zebra – (Saravah)

Yeah, he did. I've also read a fair amount on it in my archival coursework.

I mean, Four For Trane is an excellent, excellent record. But hardly indicative of a lot of Shepp's work, even from the Sixties.

Right, in the 70s they switched to cellulose for the binding agent, which degrades and peels from the base layer. That's "sticky shed."

MPS had a lot of great sessions, but very few are seeing the light of day. I mean, in terms of how German and other European jazz outside the FMP scene was documented, esp. 1965-1975, it's a pretty essential label. Where are Gunter Hampel, Manfred Schoof, et al.? (speaking of which, those Wergo Jazz dates need to be reissued!)

Are we referring to white Americans or shall we include white Europeans, South Africans, etc.?

Barge, his homage to Guernica, is another one that I like.

That Jackie is pretty damn good. I mean, no point in swinging our dicks around about how many on the list we have. I feel no great loss not having some of these, and others I'll get to when I get to. If you want to come as close to understanding what this music is about, it's going to take more than 100 records for sure. Me, I'm still scratching the surface of the area that I'm most enthusiastic about.

Uh, as long as they're stored properly you shouldn't have any problem. SH is pretty damn near right. Of course, it depends on the material that makes up the tape - I believe that cellulose-based tape has a more pronounced degradation rate (naturally).

I mean, what the fuck. I couldn't even compile a best of 2007 list. There were a number of really good/great records last year, but nothing inspiring a list for me. Plus, some of the best ones I didn't even hear until December/January/February and I'm sure there are still more fantastic dates from last year that I have YET to hear. I don't think I could even give you a "top ten" of all time. I could list ten records I really like and a few that "should be" cornerstones of this music, but... does anyone really care? Not to mention that a few of what I deem "essential" aren't even in-print on CD or never were in that format.

Probably nothing. I don't have that much on the list, really, when I think about it. No Allen Lowe on there, either.

No AACM.

I don't understand why they're not reissuing better stuff from the catalog. Sorry.

Good deal - thanks!

The cardboard assemblages from the '70s are my favorites.

I hope you are joking and know who George E. Lewis (trombonist) is...

Keep in mind that that shit is over forty years old, great as it is. He had an amazing run in the '60s and some solid stuff in the '70s, but what we're talking about is more recent. It is erratic, indeed, though there are moments of brilliance. Murray is erratic and occasionally really, really brilliant as well, but he doesn't have the historical buoyance that Shepp does (for better or worse).

Alan Shorter - Tes Esat - (America) w/ Windo, Dyani and Rene Augustus on drums.