clifford_thornton

May there be an entire Messthetics comp devoted to you, Rod!

I feel like I mentioned this before somewhere, but his playing behind Archie Shepp and Lars Gullin on The House I Live In (Steeplechase, rec. 1963) is really great. Archie and Gullin are in fine form, too!

Don't click the link, CT! Tempting, but... I'll pass.

Happy Birthday! Glad to be a part of the community YOU'RE in, Paul. Hope it was a fantastic day.

Ju Suk Reet Meat!

Actually, yes, you do. It is true. Or, be prepared to deal with some serious boys' club slagging.

White Light White Heat! I find Nico grating (save Marble Index) and the banana record is pretty much a skip-around record for me. The VU collection I can also get behind, less so the self-titled LP (tho I know many who swear by it). And I'm not even going to discuss Loaded.

Don't know them. Eric's Trip were a noisy folk-pop band named, obviously, after the SY song. They have a few albums on Sub Pop and scattered EPs also. I think the most enjoyable in their discography is Love Tara. Can't seem to find my burn of the BSS You Forgot It In People, but safe to say it's sprawling indie-rock, melodic and anthemic and rather varied in members and instrumentation. My recollection is that they are somewhat schizophrenic and at times half-assed, but the ambition and possibility shined through.

Me too. The original pops up on eBay every now and then, but it's usually out of my price range.

Looks like a great gig, thanks for posting. Now if anybody has a spare Rein de Graaff on BIM/BASF, you can send it my way!

Good live show I must admit, whatever one thinks of their track record in the studio. If I'm not mistaken Jason Zumpano (of the band Zumpano) was in the mix. They also were pretty good and probably did the 60s harmonizing pop thing nearly as well as Sloan (if a bit more raggedy).

Always wondered how you pronounced that guy's name...

Trotsky Icepick, maybe...

Bulleit for me.

Kalaparusha - Ram's Run - (Cadence Jazz) w/ Julius Hemphill, Malachi Thompson and J.R. Mitchell.

Septet Matchi-Oul - Terremoto - (Futura) w/ Manuel Villaroel, Sonny Grey, William Treve, Jef Sicard, Gerard Coppere, Francois and Jean-Louis Mechali.

Free Jazz Workshop - Inter Frequences - (ADMI)

Richard Landry - Solos - (Chatham Square) w/ Richard Peck, Alan Braufman, David Lee Jr., Rusty Gilder, etc.

This is where you need to be: NYPL Jazz Oral History Project Edit to add some are just clips and aren't all the way streamed, but others, like the Art Taylor and Nat Adderly, are the full deal.

Want it.

Not that the three have much to do with one another other than geography, but have you listened to either Eric's Trip or Broken Social Scene? I wasn't that into One Chord to Another, but maybe should give it another try.

Interesting statements about Peacock's approach; I probably agree. He was a perfect complement to Sunny Murray in the Ayler unit, playing vast flurries of notes and constant, disassociated melody in a field not unlike Murray's field of cracked-glass cymbal work.

Ah, Dynaflex. Thick vinyl, orange label but no Dynaflex logo noted.

Mike Nesmith - Magnetic South - (RCA-Victor orig)