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Ahmed Abdul-Malik - East Meets West - (RCA-Victor stereo)

Paul Rutherford was also a leap year baby.

Probably - images appear to be those from the Impulse cover shoot. Cool, thanks for posting...

And got your recommended minimum exercise requirement by having to get up every 10 minutes. Postscript - there was an earthquake tremor about 30 minutes after I played this for the last time. Doesn't bear thinking about. Oh, right, I saw that on the news this morning. Yikes!

I don't know. I do know that there has historically been some connection between ESP and Art Yard.

Happy Birthday Noj, from Droffilc.

The Zitro is one of my favorite ESP sessions. Hope it gets some much-deserved press.

No, not at all. Just getting a feel for the place. A little to the left. No. No, over ...yeah, that's it. Ooohhh...

What happened to Larry Coryell?

I think the BYG sounds a little better to my recollection - if memory serves, the Red was murkier by a hair.

Thanks, Chuck.

Don't have Oblique for some reason... I've probably spent the most time with Stick-Up, and have only recently warmed to Dialogue, despite the fact that it was the first Hutch LP that I picked up.

Yeah, I have both editions and it's hard to tell which was first; I am not sure when Red came on the scene, but assumed it was in the mid-70s. The session was recorded at the RCA Italiana studios, not that that precludes a label affiliation.

Of course, that latter portion was left out of Stopping Time. Pardon the furthering of this digression, but you might be interested to read my Altschul interview at AAJ.

Ah. Can I have some of that popcorn?

Dang. Knew it had to be around here somewhere, but my search results came up nil.

Ouch.

I couldn't find anything on the board that had already alerted us to the passing of Henri Chopin, an interesting figure in the intermedia arts world. I just found out today. RIP.

Yeah, when I mentioned to Altschul that the Bley Trio was one of the "most recorded" American bands in Europe at the time, he seemed kinda surprised by that assertion. I believe there was one on GTA that went unissued, or perhaps was the source of the Actuel session - things get a little confusing the more the tapes change hands...

I remember they were available through online lists, at least. A friend of mine bought both of them. The McGregor is good!

Thanks for posting. I remember when this went down but had left Chicago by that point.

Well, is she?

Albert Ayler - Love Cry - (Impulse orig stereo)

And it looks like they restored the original cover too! Sorry, I'm not one for Ornette's paintings... Not even the Empty Foxhole? That painting is cool! It's just a detail of something larger and probably not as cool. Don't get me wrong, I love abstract/modernist painting, but I see this as a diversifying of talents that should have stayed in the musical realm... just my .02, of course.