clifford_thornton

Happy birthday! I'm about half done with a bag of listening "thanks" for your hip ears and good cheer on this board.

Good choice! Great variety of tunes on that one.

Fahey - The New Possibility - (Takoma orig, nice textured sleeve)

But not in the sequel, "porcy's analyst" ...

Once the myth of Santa was revealed to me and my sister, my parents changed the name "Santa" on the gifts to whatever pets we had at the moment. My rabbit got me a lot of nice stuff over the years!

Glad somebody around here gets my jokes!

There are good album covers and then there are the rest. It's not going to keep me from buying something if it looks dumb, as long as the music is interesting. FWIW: I'm surprised some of those cheapo America jackets aren't somehow making their way in here... and despite Carol Goss's video synthesizing street-cred, most IAI releases' artwork bug the shit out of me.

I'd buy a vinyl copy. Hand-numbered and silkscreened, perhaps?

Did not know that he was using a plunger! Maybe it's just his hand over the bell. But it sure sounds like a plunger effect was intended. And I can't think of any other examples. Anybody? Well whatever he's doing, it sounds good to me. Supposedly, Alan Shorter didn't own a mute and used a kleenex box on at least one session.

If you're speaking of the Tolliver lp, I just picked it up for $6.00! if not, nevermind. Seems about right for the Arista pressing. The last time I saw the original Polydor, it was "add a zero to the $10 price..." Does the Polydor have better sound or does it fetch that price because it's the original release?? Probably the latter, though I am not sure. It's scarce in any event. I'll add that when I upgraded from the Dave Burrell Arista to the Douglas original (w/o extra tracks, mind you), the sound was fuller and more dynamic than the Arista-Freedom. With respect to the Cecil Nefertiti twofer, I have a 70s Fantasy blue-label issue and the Dutch Fontana. The Fontana sounds fantastic; the fantasy less so. The quality of the vinyl is pretty different between those two.

If you're speaking of the Tolliver lp, I just picked it up for $6.00! if not, nevermind. Seems about right for the Arista pressing. The last time I saw the original Polydor, it was "add a zero to the $10 price..."

I really, really fucked up not buying the International Polydor issue of that thing for $10 in about 1997. I haven't seen it for that price since! Great record, of course...

Cafe Wha?

Tetuzi Akiyama & Jeffrey Allport - s/t - (Simple Geometry)

I'll have to go check my King to see if they fucked it up too... Sidewinder, how's your w. 63rd?

Joel Dorn did some producing of jazz artists like Yusef Lateef and Byard Lancaster... Richard Cook's BN biography is a nice read.

Would make sense about Clark. I remember doing a double-take upon looking at the personnel when I got it.

Which, I might add, is f'in fantastic...

Giorgio Buratti - A Smooth Day - (Durium) w/ Byard, Richmond, Bobby Jones and Eddie Preston. But it don't sound like Mingus...

Obviously they can't hold her up -

My mono of A-95 was $30 a few years ago, in very nice shape (just a little yellowing on the back of the gatefold). Keep in mind that there are a few pressings of the Bob James on ESP. My red-label mono (Folkways style jacket) was about $30, but I'm sure it could be had either for less or more, depending on the day and the pressing. It's a fantastic session.

Welcome, moonshine - a poster after my own heart, in both name and musical tastes. BAM put out some really nice ethnic records as well as some fine electronic/musique concrete LPs in the mid-60s. Most of the titles on this label are very scarce.

Philly Joe Jones - Trailways Express - (Black Lion) Fantastic set, IMHO, but one of those I often forget I own. With Ronnie Scott, Kenny Wheeler, Harold McNair, John Hart, etc.

I read the Marco Eneidi and Marc Edwards interviews Taran did for AAJ. Needless to say, he's got it.