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Great, great album. Traded a nice Sun Ra record for an original some years back. Probably a lopsided trade in their favor but I prefer the Bull Trout.

Great record. I have the old JVC issue from the 80s (not the original Victor, alas). Cornpipe Dance is wonderful but the whole album "shreds."

yeah. The Walking Woman was modeled after her, from what I understand. I'm a huge fan of Snow. Her world and his actually line up pretty well in terms of linguistic/imagistic collage.

Sexism + Ra's inherent strangeness = friction

I believe it's also in Wilmer and in Dixonia.

It's been documented in a few places, happy to dig that up.

WPI jazz history zoom -- definitely worth getting on the list for that. They play all kinds of unissued material (and some issued). https://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/index.php

I love that one. Have been after an original for many years -- no luck -- but the reissue sounds just peachy to my ears.

The NYT obit is pretty strong. Nate Chinen got it pretty well, though there's a lot more to the Jazz Composers Guild (no mention of Dixon & Taylor?). One reason among many that it dissolved was Sun Ra's opposition to a woman being in the Guild. But that's maybe a discussion for another day and another article. Glad to have recently heard the early trio music with Bill Folwell and Steve Swallow. She was always an innovator even when she may not have thought so!

Seeing the unfortunate news that Carla Bley has passed. I know her health had not been good in recent years. Glad to have seen her direct a later iteration of the Liberation Music Orchestra... a concept which is always needed. One of my favorite composers, especially considering her early works (but not limited to those). RIP.

I saw him with Fred on a number of occasions. He also taught at SAIC (film department I believe), where I was doing graduate school. Excellent musician and a nice man.

Concerning. I do believe some artists and labels will be pulling content from the platform though I assume it will still exist. Reminds me that I need to download much of what I've purchased digitally through Bandcamp. I am less and less satisfied with the platform overall but part of it is because of the absolute deluge of emails.

Rad! Looking forward to hearing the CD, and wish I could be there.

Excellent album. His record for Takt/Japanese Columbia is also wonderful.

Wonderful album indeed. Love that trio. I feel like Tes Esat, if viewed in the context of Dyani, is one of the bassist/multi-instrumentalist's greatest recordings. When I first heard it decades ago, I was blown away by Gary Windo. At this point, revisiting it recently after hearing a lot of music in between, it's Dyani who steals the show.

He's definitely had a lot of work done.

Should be done by 10! And the music room is separate from the bar area. Tubby's only opens on Sundays for performances so there won't be any spillover crowd.

"Burrito Supreme" was the refrain as I remember it, but there are a bunch of variations.

yes, i am in that boat.

Yes! Thanks!

Incredible. Never seen this one before.

Ah -- yeah, this one is pretty much alto-itis. But it's good. Yamame is an excellent album with an even more excellent cover image -- definitely not so indicative of the territory Miyazawa got into in the late '60s/early '70s, but still a strong Japanese modern jazz effort and his tenor playing is unmistakable.

I think most of what Moosicus releases is from NDR. The Browns are great and as far as I know they haven't been reissued (there are a couple of different 70s pressing variations, however).

Awesome, Steve -- yeah, I can't imagine there'll be too many more opportunities to see Mr. Watts play stateside. Please come out if you can.

I took History of Modern Japan in college -- taught by westerners of course, as this was the 1990s in the Northwest -- and one point repeatedly made was the idea of "borrowing" in Japanese culture, or taking something and making it one's own. I think this occurs in every culture to varying degrees but it was interesting to kick around in a sophomore seminar.