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I should get those... man, too much to keep track of, but nothing wrong with a bounty of McPhee!

good to know; I had thought Picasso was the first to be released.

That Golia LP is strong, yes. Maury Coles' Solo Saxophone Record on Onari is another good one. I'm not sure how to categorize overdub fantasias like Mario Schiano and his All-Stars or Rahsaan's Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata, but they are solo records by people who play saxophones!

Agree, that Takagi is superb and very of a piece with solo Joe McPhee. Shoji Ukaji (baritone player) also has an excellent solo CD that is rare but worth hearing or seeking out: https://www.discogs.com/release/1037274-Ukaji-Shoji-Vision

Too bad the Ed Blackwell LP on Sweet Earth never got released. Maybe there's a chance some intrepid label will put the tapes out on CD... Great photo of Marion, by the way.

Birthright, yes! Thank you for the reminder. Oliver Lake's Passing Thru is a favorite as well. The Hemphill solo sets are fascinating, though I'll admit I haven't dug them out in quite some time.

to be honest, I haven't spun it (my original) in quite a few years, so I need to revisit for some audio specifics.

yeah, I need to get that Practitioners material. Solo Lacy is my favorite, too. The Japanese soli are probably the apex for me but that said, there are certainly some Lacy soli that I haven't heard or spent enough time with (especially later).

That was my impression, too (heard but never owned).

It is really good. Nice Japanese Paddle Wheel promo!

indeed!

Oh yes, Kang is fantastic. Have several of his LPs/CDs. Used to have Lone-Lee on vinyl but let it go in a cull... should probably get it back at some point. some of these others I haven't heard... dig KV and remember when Furniture Music came out, but for whatever reason I just never picked it/those up. Baars, again, only had his ensemble music on disc, though I could imagine the solo work would be worth hearing. I've seen him duo with Ig and in various groups within and outside the ICP orbit.

That's sad news. He was a fantastic player.

McPhee's "Tenor" would be near or at the top of the heap. I am a fan of solo saxophone recordings overall and if a saxophonist I like makes a solo record, I'll check it out. Beyond Lacy, Parker, Braxton, Mitchell, and Abe, who are the pantheon, I'd recommend Marion Brown's "Recollections," which I think is even better than his solo on Sweet Earth. The two volumes of David S. Ware solos on AUM Fidelity are quite beautiful as well. Brötzmann's 14 Love Poems is another choice disc. Dickie Landry's Fifteen Saxophones (15 delayed/looped horns) is a favorite; it also includes one alto flute piece and an out-of-this-world solo tenor piece ("Kitchen Solos"). I wrote the notes for its reissue many years ago. Rob Brown's Oceanic on RogueArt is one I need to pick up -- ordered one from a US seller and they sent me a different Rob Brown CD by mistake (which I didn't have either, so I didn't stress the issue). Apparently it is unreal. That free jazz blog list is useful. Butcher, definitely. I like Lol a lot but admit to having spent much more time with his group music. This is also worth checking out... I wish it included *all* of Frippe's Bird Notes recordings but that would've been far too costly to produce and an even more niche interest.

to be fair, I have spent many more hours with Mal's music than Grant's.

bad bar rock with poo

I don't know if I would make this statement today, but when I started to give GG (Grant Green, not GG Allin) a listen, the first comparison that came to mind was a guitar-playing Mal Waldron. I guess it was the emphatic repetition and inherent earthy blues that enveloped even the filigree that struck me as related.

Yikes.

Presumably the finding aid is only local and not integrated with the online catalog. It's possible that physical processing is also largely incomplete.

Thank god for archives and archivists.

beautiful CD.

The only one I have is Inside: The Missing Link, but it's quite good. I have heard varying reports on whether the original JG LP sets (of which I have a few) are in fact authorized by the musicians. I have my doubts. The same goes for the Holy Hill and Born Free vinyl sets. Nevertheless, they're very interesting documents.

I never had any problems with the sound of the original LPs so if they are indeed needle-drops from mint copies they should be okay. That Jackson article is great, yes, been ages since I read it. I guess he lived right around where I am now.

apparently there are recordings but to my knowledge none have been issued. https://www.wm.edu/as/africanastudies/middlepassage/play/playwright/

Yeah, that's a fun one -- haven't dug it out in ages.