clifford_thornton

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.

Sorry Clem, we really did think it was you. I did like the aliases idea for a minute there.

It's utterly fantastic.

What about jive lazz?

Seen several offered without.

Really? I've never had the US Verve issue so that's interesting to me.

As HG mentioned, Alan Shorter (during the Creed Taylor years). Haden and I talked a bit about it, but neither he nor I knew the circumstances of the record's actual release on Verve (as in "why them"). I have it on a UK Polydor issue, fwiw, that for some reason mentions that as its first release, a "curiosity for discographers."

As I've said elsewhere, I think y'all are getting yr undies in a bunch a little too much over Chauncey/Clem/BB's posts. But... I'll still keep my neither here nor there stance on KB and the fact that I enjoyed the one track posted from Soul Call.

Any relation to Gilius van Bergeyk, saxophonist?

Yeah, gotta watch those chavvy sorts...

Yeah, please do. If there's one thing you'll notice, we're a bunch of guys sitting around in front of computers all day goofing around. Don't take any of it personally.

I've met Tchicai on a few occasions and he's about two inches shorter than me, I would say. Sweet guy and a great player.

Maybe he should use his own name for the label - like "Chuck Records" or something.