clifford_thornton

Yeah, it is. Right now: William Hooker - Is Eternal Life - (Reality Unit Concepts) wiiiild set w/ David Murray, David Ware, Mark Miller, Hasaan Dawkins and Les Goodson. The solo shit is from some proto-Cooper-Moore (&Milford) shaman bag, hackle-raising to be sure.

I dunno, the interesting thing about hearing Cecil do "This Nearly Was Mine" or "What's New," or Dolphy do "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" is the way they implied or played around the theme in oblique reference whilst using the thematic or chordal structure as a basis for improvising in terms way-out. Stating the obvious is not necessarily the way to go, y'know?

I'm not reading this whole thread, sorry, but did anyone stop to think that one's brain/mind is not fully formed enough at age thirteen to make critical judgments of taste (or that much else), and that said rejection of top-40 tunes occurs a few years later precisely because critical thinking development has finally begun to occur?

Wait, are we splitting hairs on an $8 LP???

Mine has pale blue labels that say EK 004 as the only catalog information.

Peter Warren - Bass Is - (Enja German orig) cool LP, one side a bass quartet with Dave Holland, Glen Moore and Jaime Faunt, the other side adding Barry Altschul, Stu Martin and Steve Hauss on drums, John Surman on baritone and Chick Corea on piano clusters/guts.

What one do you need?

I had a nice black-label Jazzland of that that I traded to someone. Regretted it since...

Goldmine or no, it was misgraded. I wouldn't sweat the Goldmine issue at all and just tell him you weren't satisfied. If he's not too big an asshole, he should refund your money. On the feedback issue, I never ask for it but am happy to receive it. I leave feedback in every instance that was positive, and don't fool with negs save on one totally retarded situation.

Mine's on Ekapa... never saw a Vol.2 of this one, strangely.

I really enjoy the RCA, Riverside and New Jazz LPs (wasn't there a third on Prestige with a green cover?)... will have to listen to the archived show online if I can.

Really enjoying his playing ca. '61 with Bud Powell on the recent/expanded ESP-Disk' CD:

Ed Curran - Elysa - (Savoy orig) Obscure Dixon-produced side as the one and only appearance of this reedman on wax. Also features Marc Levin, Bob Pozar and bassist Kyoshi Tokunaga.

The Tommy Flanders record is really quite good; much prefer it to those Blues Project sides anyway. Still need to get the Danny Kalb/Stefan Grossman duo on Cotillion...

A good source of BFT tracks: Paul Motian Trio - Dance - (ECM wlp) Great '78 date with David Izenzon and Charles Brackeen...

Hit-or-miss, like anybody else. I used to have the early Delmarks and at least one Black Saint, all of which I sold (the Delmarks needed condition upgrades that never actually happened). I've retained the double-vinyl duo with Don Moye on India Navigation, which I like.

And one I've always been fond of, Impressions of New York by Rolf & Joachim Kuhn.

Yeah, the dude was trying to spin some yarn about how BYG and America were the same label when I was in there once... obviously they should just stick to Tzadik.

So either they copied the stampers or plated 'em up here, right? (Apologies in advance to Chuck if I'm butchering the process)

Sure it's not "frumpy mama?" Nice to see you back. Manny's gonna by YOU lunch, I guess...

Jimmy Giuffre - The Easy Way - (Verve cheapo French reissue) great session, w/ Ray Brown & Jim Hall.

I think mine was $3.99!

The single-sleeve (and single LP) Japanese editions are pretty sweet-looking. Even those hover around like $40.

Lungfish - Rainbows from Atoms - (Dischord)

The Coctails - Here Now Today - (Hi-Ball orig)