clifford_thornton

Three albums' worth with Derek Bailey...

I really can't wait to receive this.

Allen, could you clean out your inbox so I can pm you? Got a few questions and I know you read this thread!

...and if you like or already have that, then get Ghetto Music and proceed accordingly.

My last St. Patty's of memory was in 2004, in Minneapolis. I had umpteen pints of stout (Murphy's? Certainly not Guiness - the Bud Light of stout) and several bong hits and that pretty much made me very ill. The rest of the night was spent bent over a plastic tub.

Antithesis - s/t - (Arise) Swiss private jazz LP with Urs Voerkel, Denis Baggi, Herbert Hartmann, etc.

Good question. When I saw him about five or seven years ago, a couple of times, he was very frail but the ideas surely came through. Excellent percussionist and a seemingly kind, gentle soul.

This was my third one and I was unimpressed, even with the things I thought I'd enjoy more. See SXSW bands, sure, but see them when they play in your town or are on tour in some other setting. It's far better.

JR Monterose - In Action - (Studio 4, Japan pressing) w/ the Joe Abodeely Trio.

Meh.

Don't bring me into this - I don't know shit about Chicago, just went to school there is all.

Musidisc/America, from the late '60s and early '70s, sound pretty good - at least the ones I have. Come to think of it, those are mostly Debut/Fantasy titles. The Carrere Prestige vinyls I was unimpressed by and replaced with OJCs or CDs.

Nice to see you posting again, HB. Keep it up.

Les Diaboliques - Irene Schweizer, Maggie Nicols, Joelle Leandre. Irene also had a duo with the Swiss saxophonist Co Streiff that I haven't heard (tho duo may not qualify as a "band").

That sounds about right for locale and time period, when he first came upon the scene. Like I said, I believe he recorded something for ESP in the early '70s that went unreleased.

Shows you what I know! Saw Sticks & Stones once years ago and was very impressed.

Cleve Pozar He's worked with Bill Dixon, Bob James and others. Fantastic musician and these clips - video and audio - are well worth checking out.

Also, there's the impression that both musicians were/are part of the AACM, which is not the case for Mazurek and I don't think is true (?) for Matana Roberts.

Ditto. Matana Roberts now lives in NYC, right?

Never had it - guess that's a hole in my Reverend collection.

Well, Sunny Murray couldn't play time and look how percussion was transformed! In other words, drawing isn't a prerequisite for painting - only paint and canvas. So there you go, Greenbergian I am!

All three were interested in readymades, to varying degrees. All three were also dealing with very personal responses to Pollock. Like Steve Lacy, they (and many of their contemporaries) saw Pollock as "a way to the other side." It's interesting to take someone like Kenneth Noland, whom Greenberg championed, and place him side-by-side with Johns' targets and Stella's stripe paintings and shaped canvases. The tension between recognizable imagery and color-defining-form is pretty fascinating. And Stella, fwiw, was first influenced by his house-painting jobs in New England, dealing with the patterns of wooden siding in barns and houses. You can see the evolution from his 1958 work up through the Benjamin Moore series, though the copper and aluminum works veered somewhat by being shaped.

The CF set has been delayed but only slightly. Should be available next month, I think.

Fair enough. But I don't think artists who practiced work outside his area of interest died on the vine, exactly, without his written support: Rauschenberg, Johns, Warhol, Serra, Hesse, Reinhardt, Stella...

Touchin' on Trane is OOP as an FMP disc, but Jazzwerkstatt has reissued it in the past month or so.