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I've seen Alex Coke blow some fine, fine shit since I've been here - he's one that can certainly be called on, though I hear his actual albums aren't all that hot. Tina Marsh seemed more histrionics than anything else to me, but perhaps it wasn't the right setting. Why don't more people talk up Vinny Golia, post- or no-post- ?

Joe Daley - At Newport '63 - (RCA-Victor mono orig) w/ Hal Russell and Russell Thorne

Then: Charlie Mingus - Jazz Composers' Workshop #2 - (Savoy maroon label) w/ Teo Macero, George Barrow, Kenny Clarke, Mal Waldron and Wally Cirillo, among others. Now: Charlie Mingus - Jazz Experiment - (Jazz Tone) w/ Art Farmer, Clem De Rosa, Teo Macero, Jackson Wiley and John LaPorta

How does one search within the WKCR broadcasts to get that nugget? I'd like to hear it.

Gunter Hampel/Jeanne Lee/Perry Robinson - Spirits - (Birth)

Prince Lasha told me he was thought to be a junkie, and they took away his insulin needles because they thought they were for smack, leading to the fiasco that killed him.

I wish I could find it. Only 300$ on Amazon & ebay. You could get all the LPs together for less than $50. The only one of those that I really liked was the Sunny Murray/Roscoe Mitchell split. I think that was Volume 5.

Carlos Barretto - Lokomotiv Carlos Barretto - Radio Song Amado/Zingaro/Filiano - The Space Between Ze Eduardo - A Jazzar no Zeca Paulo/Curado/Pedroso - As Sete Ilhas de Lisboa Bernardo Sassetti - Ascent Bernardo Sassetti - Indigos

That is one of the many avatar creations of AfricaBrass, who used to hang here quite a bit. Wish he'd come back, too! Thanks. Now I kinda wish that there was music to go with that hip cover! The font was nicked from Tyrone Washington's Natural Essence, on Blue Note.

RIP Moose. Hope you are able to find a way to honor him that isn't heartbreaking.

Many of Bley's tapes were torched in an apartment fire in the '70s. Who knows what's left...

I saw him once and was hoping he would be better than he turned out to be... oh well.

In regards to the mention of Michel Graillier, I have but one of his LP's - Ad Lib, on Musica, with Aldo Romano and Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke. It's solid, left-of-mainstream fare with the standout being the title track, a solo piano improvisation. Bernardo Sassetti, from Portugal, is another of the fine younger crop of European pianists. Dig his trio and solo recordings on Clean Feed; they're excellent. Nobody's mentioned the British pianist Howard Riley yet, so I will. Some very inside work and a lot more very outside...

Yeah, that record kicks ass. Clean Feed is a pretty reliable label, imo - especially the early Portuguese improv releases, if you can find 'em.

No-Wave Ornette? Sounds cool to me...

I assume that the high bidders are joking.

David Murray/Johnny Dyani/Andrew Cyrille - 3D Family - (Hat Hut)

I think the Apogee stuff is pretty good, the rest of it... kinda boring to me.

Dickey.

Anyone here familiar with/into Richard Grossman? I've been working on cracking those trio recordings on Hat Hut, slowly, over the past year or so.

I guess this was the week to visit NY, huh.

It's funny, I don't apply the same standards to Bley records that I do by others in the "free" milieu. And I wouldn't argue that Bley, as a musician, has found it necessary to evolve - I see a connection between more recent works and the very stretched-out, 20+ minutes he got from Annette Peacock's languid melodies. However, for my personal tastes, the last few Bley dates that I've heard haven't moved me as much as either his "old" trio sides or his work with Giuffre. Some of that stuff released on Hat Hut is out! Haven't heard Tears, but it's been on my to-hear list.

I'm not sure if this is contrabass or sub-contrabass, but I tend to believe the headlines...

Huh, so it looks like they waited six years to issue it... Sangkt Gerold seems viewed - by some - as a Bley classic (and it's from 2001), but that one I wasn't so into. Though the execution is technically top-notch, I suppose, the tunefulness and the surprises from so many of his earlier recordings are absent for the most part. For me, what's interesting with Bley is to hear how he wanders away from - and back into - a tune. Without significant tunes present, or even sketches of tunes, it's hard to see where he's coming from to feel where he's gone.

Yeah, Collaboration West is quite good. Evolution is another one that's ahead of its time.