clifford_thornton

Thanks to all ! Porcy, my budget is 100-200 Euros, a little more if needed. = $5,000 US

Corea/Holland/Altschul - ARC - (ECM German orig)

Dang, both your on-deck choice and your new avatar are getting under my skin!

Again, I am stumped.

We already have an AOTW thread going for this time period. Next time, you might want to check with member JohnS for future AOTW thread ideas. That way things don't get too random around here.

Great post/thread idea. I like and appreciate all of the genres you mention, though am most familiar with no wave. I'm kind of with you on some counts regarding contemporary jazz and improvisation. Of course, I have a soft spot for lengthy Cecil and Coltrane solos, but the things I've been most attracted to in recent years are twittery collective improvisation and raging Euro-thrash din, or the Tristano-ites. There's a nice little project called Two Bands And A Legend that features The Thing (Gustafsson/Haker Flaten/Nilssen-Love), Joe McPhee and the Norwegian punk band Cato Salsa Experience. Mostly short songs, not so much "spastic" and more of a 60s-garage-revival hybridized with post-FMP freedom. It may be a parenthetical aside at this point in the music's history (and will probably always be), but it works in practice as well as idea. For a time, I was convinced that the music I really wanted to hear hadn't been made, though I always sought to find what it was. My search isn't as obsessively urgent as it used to be (based mostly on pocketbook constraints), in some ways it is still true. I haven't yet found the combination of jazz/open improvisation/folk/ragas/post-punk that I'm looking for, but have come close on a few occasions. If Daevid Allen and Arto Lindsay co-conducted the People Band, that would be up there...

I haven't heard Naked City in years. I suspect it wouldn't sound as "avant-garde" to my ears now as it used to. Seemed to be going for a Ruins/Magma-on-crack thing if I recall correctly.

Got a Goldring on my Music Hall. Like it. Had a Pearl and liked that too; not sure which model.

I saw him once and thought him very good at what he does (the NPR-Americana thing). That said, it's not really my thing, though I can appreciate why a lot of people like it. When he was in Paul Motian's band, it was a different story - that's where my personal preference would lie.

Bank of America are my bank, and they're a pain in the ass.

I vote for Steven Jesse Bernstien's "Prison."

And I'll add that "the other one" is quite the looker - my favorite role of hers was Antonioni's The Passenger.

It's the bank's fault, and the bank should have to come up with it. They're fucking killing with profits and these mistakes aren't all that common, so the banks need to pony up. So what if investment bankers' salaries are smaller because the corporate bank fucked up and misplaced $25,000?

"It's your money, you earned it."

You want help? Go fuck an alligator. Not really a wise post. I mean that this guy really need a psychiatrist, not an alligator. I don't see any rational reasons to inflict to this guy a trial and news exposure, for a dead deer? C'mon. Indeed, a very sick kid. It's too bad.

Dang, where have those years gone???

Hell, I've been listening to jazz for nearly thirty years now and I still don't pretend to know shit about it! I'm with you! Someday hope to have half as much knowledge, experience and good grace as Sangry, Nessa, brownie, Christiern, Larry Kart, Litweiler and a host of others here. I don't think coming in here swinging your dick around is really the way to go about joining a community. We all say stupid shit sometimes, and when I look back over posts from years back (or even worse, articles I've written from years back), sometimes I get a little green in the face. But hopefully, we learn from this experience. We all enjoy this music, which is why we're here, but thinking about it - even when there's no music on the stereo - is what separates the experienced from the inexperienced. Having all of Wynton's usable contributions (and then some), or anyone else's for that matter, isn't necessarily the path to get you there, though it is part of it.

I thought they reissued that Ornette album, To Whom Who Keeps A Record, within the past several months.

Holy Shit.

I had a couple of GRP reissues back when they came out - they were clicky (repeating tics) and generally crappy pressings compared to what I "upgraded" to, which were used earlier Impulse vinyl.

Except for all-you-can-eat corndog night , neither can I . Wonder how their smell abatement program is going.... If there's corndogs and Threadgill in Ames, I may make the drive up!

Thanks for the reminder. I've been curious about these but they've not turned up in the vinyl bins... yet.