clifford_thornton

I have the LP, but as it was originally issued as Sun Records SEB-004 (FR). Quite good!

Share your love for the Reverend Frank Wright, saxophonist and leader of some fantastic (and frantic) post-Ayler ensembles in the 1970s. Born July 9, 1935 in Grenada, Mississippi, he moved to Cleveland and met Albert Ayler, who encouraged him to go to New York in the mid-60s. He was apparently asked to record with Coltrane on Ascension, but was still getting his chops together at the time. Recordings for ESP followed, as did a lengthy sojourn in Europe before he returned to New York in the 1980s. He died on the bandstand of a heart attack in Germany, in 1990.

Well, I'd rather listen to that than Pat Metheney.

So let me know when you have the LPs of the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble Heliopolis, Michael Cosmic Peace in the World, and the Black Unity Trio on offer.

No, he was selling "in." Belying my age, the first George Benson I recall hearing was a CD - when those were new - of Soda Fountain Shuffle. Ugh. My dad had White Rabbit in his LP collection, but the only Benson record I ever owned was the Prestige disc with Jack McDuff.

Ah yes. Like many California-based artists (Ed Ruscha, for example), the pun on the popular icon was paramount. Hip, if you will.

But it's ART!!

Joe Henderson - Page One and Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch were the first two BNs I got, on vinyl no less.

Clem: this'n?

Breakaway

So,,,,,,,,you only read the last post in a thread. Yes, and didn't Warne record with Lew Tabackin for the label?

I actually did see that Cage Wergo set in a store. It was about seven or eight years ago, I suspect, considering the store.

It's not bad. Curious band. Was originally recorded for the French label Carson.

Rudolph Grey - Mask of Light - (New Alliance/Ecstatic Peace) w/ Rashied Ali, Jim Sauter and Alan Licht. A little "nacht musik."

Oh, did it now?

I don't know why I never got into Reese that much. YMMV I guess. Sabu Toyozumi did some really nice arrangements of "People In Sorrow." It's a fantastic symphony; that thematic line is such a killer in the bluesy pathos it exudes. I remember when I bought it, I was about 19 or 20 and came home for a break from work. I put it on and didn't go back to work that day, just kept listening to it. Those were the days...

Aren't they all?

Have most of the early stuff, save Go Home, and can say with a (historicized) certainty that the Nessas and the first two entries in the BYG/Actuel catalog are extra fine. I still spin Les Stances and Message to our Folks quite regularly, years on.

Get back to driving.

Hoboken Saturday Night is a minor classic - not sure whether that's an oxymoron. Bought it when it was issued and have enjoyed it since then. Yes, it's real good as is the first one.

She's great. The duo with Weasel Walter is very much worth checking out. And yes, CM, the Braxton/Morris duo is something really special. I haven't listened to a ton of Morris' records but the ones I've heard, I've thought were good. Regardless, in this setting he is very, very open and their give-and-take is surprisingly subtle. The first and fourth discs really set my hair on end. If you really want my opinion, you'll have to check out Paris Transatlantic in late August.

LP on Columbia from I think the late '60s or early '70s (not sure when recorded) that has Papa Jo exploring various parts of the kit and discussing them, from what I'm told not unlike the Baby Dodds in some respects. I'd like to get a copy. The Dodds, of course, is a hell of a record.

As ever, Jim, you hit the nail on the head and put eloquently why I can enjoy Spaulding and Mathews, and appreciate KB. Side note that maybe gives too much away: Spaulding played me "Happy Birthday" on flute over the phone one year when I was spending my birthday alone in the frozen north.

Happy Birthday! May be up in MPLS in the fall for a visit, will keep ya posted.