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BIG BALLS!

I'd also love to hear tapes - if they exist - of the apparently somewhat frequent sittings-in of Brotz with the Center of the World group.

Ah yes, that one is hot! Wish I owned the DVD of it. I feel like there must be a decent audio of that whole performance... somewhere.

I remember that gig! Very good indeed...

Nice, I didn't know about this. Will be putting it on my list.

My dad drives a Civic Hybrid and it's really nice, very roomy. My girlfriend drives a Prius, which is tiny (I'm 6'6") but seems to be going strong after four years and is rarely in the shop.

Separated by format: Morning Glory/For Adolphe Sax Machine Gun Nipples Balls Elements Couscouss de la Mauresque The End Brotzmann (FMP / aka 0130) Solo Eine Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln Schwarzwaldfahrt Open, but Hardly Touched Alarm Pica Pica Fourteen Love Poems Berlin Djungle Stone Water The Ink is Gone Still Quite Popular... Never too Late but Always too Early Guts More Nipples Fuck de Boere Brotzmann/Waits Live at the Bottle Tales out of Time Signs Images American Landscapes 1 & 2 Be Music, Night probably a few more I am forgetting, as well as about 5 or 6 live bootlegs and a fair amount of "sideman" appearances. Love his work, probably always will.

That's the original artwork. The other players are Daryl Runswick, bass; Gary Windo, ts/bcl/fl; and Harry Beckett, tp/flh. It was on Black Lion in Germany as a single-sleeve (with no notes!) and in the UK on Intercord, gatefold with nice notes and personnel (same front/back goofball image).

Angle has Barry Guy on bass, Alan Jackson on drums, and on one track, Barbara Thompson on flute. Sort of like a more "composerly" approach to what Bley was doing at the time. Excellent date. The Ricotti has Chris Spedding on guitar (on fine form), Brian Spring on drums and Chris Laurence on bass. Gary Burton isn't a bad comparison, but this is certainly more ragged around the edges. I like it a lot.

But does he have BIG FOOD?

Anybody figure out what the spammer's ebay handle is? Or if he has more turducken?

On deck: Incredible String Band - s/t - (Elektra US pressing) Leo Kottke - Circle 'Round the Sun - (Symposium) Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava - (ESP orig)

FOOD BRAIN!

Indeed! Now spinning: Archie Shepp - Coral Rock - (America orig) w/ Bowie, Few, Ali, Thornton, Alan Shorter, Bob Reid et al. The title track is a killer, but Shepp's piano theatrics on "I Should Care" are pretty engaging also.

I'll be bidding on the rarely-offered "250 Grandma Collection" LP's

Really? I think he's better-recorded on the ICA record, but have no problems with his playing.

Jean-Philippe Blin - What Matter Now? - (Futura orig) w/ Jean-Francois Mechali (bass) and Jean-Jacques Schnell (drums) Not the most inspired piano-trio record in my collection, but not bad and the admitted Futura label fetishism hasn't killed me yet!

I should say that Circling In has some tracks with Vitous and Haynes, so it's not entirely Circle material. Still, a little of this and a little of that could make a nice two or three CD set.

Theo Loevendie - Kwartet - (Universe) w/ Hans Dulfer, Arjen Gorter and Martin van Duynhoven

Rites and Rituals is bananas. I have the Live at the ICA LP he did for UK Victor and Secret Asylum (Black Lion) which are out and even-more-out, respectively. The latter has a mind-melting trio with drummer Alan Rushton and bassist Daryl Runswick...

Sad news. His recordings for the Charlie Parker and Strata-East labels are not to be missed. Unfortunately, I stupidly skipped out on a gig he was playing in Topeka when I lived in Lawrence. RIP.

There were two DLP sets under the name Circulus and Circling In, both of which feature either the complete band or aggregations of Corea with Braxton, Holland and/or Altschul. There's also a Corea/Holland/Altschul trio LP on BN from the early 1970s.

Well, at least the BN Circle material would be do-able. The rest is on CBS Sony Japan and ECM. Wahoo was on CD in Japan recently, and I don't think it was all that pricey.

Willem Breuker - Litany for the 14th of June, 1966 - (Wergo) w/ Hans Dulfer, Kees Hazevoet, Arjen Gorter, Pierre Courbois, Misha Mengelberg, etc.