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Fontana Discog Andrey Henkin and I collaborated on it.

Never bought it. Always thought it seemed like a stupid idea.

I'm trying to get one too, for review at AAJ. Really looking forward to (and almost sweating over) this'n. I've never been able to make peace with either line of thinking, fwiw.

This is the one I have, and it gets under my skin...

obvs you got a new blog. Now I have it saved.

Exactly, and "song" does not equal "record" either". "Record" = song + performance + arrangement + production America has mostly been a singles-oriented musical culture even before recording began (sheet music used to be the big thing). OK, I think I get it. As in, Herbie didn't have a "song" off of the "album."

Dunno. Welcome, though!

What is the difference between "Album of the Year" and "Record of the Year?"

TTK, have you read "Avant-Garde & Kitcsh" by Clement Greenberg? It is a great critical essay on modern art and culture, and is probably one of the best treatises on high/low culture ever written. The standard meaning of "kitsch" is the one he's using, although the detail with which he defines the term and its societal ramifications is pretty deep.

Asshole seller, foolish bidders.

Indeed, I forgot that one - and I even own it!

Chant du Monde may now be in EMI's control, but I'm not sure it was at the time.

Alan Shorter - Verve, America. Charles Moffett - one for Savoy, one for his own CMR label. Marzette Watts - ESP, Savoy. Until you get to the Universal and Label Bleu years (1990s), I believe Michel Portal label-hopped with every release. Kees Hazevoet - Peace, KGB, Snipe. Marc Levin - Savoy (reissued as a BYG), Enja, and a self-released thing that I am entirely forgetting the name of. Sirone - Of The Cosmos, Serious Music (now reissued on Atavistic). Revolutionary Ensemble - ESP, India Navigation, RE: Recordings, Horizon, Enja/Inner City, Pi.

I started similarly to you, porcy. Now he is near the top of my list, quite easily.

The tune you put up is very strong - listening to it now. You have an excellent collection, Alan, it's quite obvious!

You know, for whatever reason Ornette still feels so fresh and rebellious and electric to me. Very timeless music. I envy those who get to hear it for the first time. I agree with both sentiments. He certainly is something else.

That sounds familiar - I may have had that at one point. Who is on it?

Great sounding stuff. Thanks.

The CD reissue contains a cover image from a later vinyl edition.

Unless I'm missing something, Peter Brotzmann would qualify. Freddie Redd Sunny Murray (not counting his aborted Columbia record or the Impulse sideman dates) Dizzy Reece

Yeah, I seemed to have let those Steeplechase sides slip away into the ether of trades/sales. Oh well...

There is a ton of Lacy to go through, but some of the solo works are a lot more "instantaneous" than deliberately process-oriented. I think the solo on Emanem is a good example of that - very wooly session, if you axe me. Obviously, Lacy had a very clear idea of things he was trying to work through, quite often, but there's a ring of what Paul Rutherford said to me in interview: Even playing tunes, there's so much freedom in what Lacy was doing. (And I dig Giuffre, but am not expert enough to offer much to the discourse here.)

Prince Lasha - Recommended. I dig Prince Lasha. Sangrey is biased because he played with Prince Lasha. Not true, unfortunately. Never even met the man. The Gonsalez/Lasha stuff happened when I was living elsewhere. Really? I could swear you were credited alongside Lasha on one of the Daagnim sessions (and one that, sadly, I don't own). Must've combined it from multiple sessions and I missed that.

Very interesting. Now that I have two versions of the song in my head, I suppose that you are right about that. I don't have the CD, just the ESP vinyl, so can't confirm.