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Wow, I thought Wino just dropped a speedball... jeez, what was she thinking? Suicide?

Have it, haven't spun it yet.

I know, but the sentiment was based on how much they "elevated" a session by their presence. Hard to judge...

...Ernie Henry, John Jenkins, C Sharpe... Anyway, sure, I don't know if Ambrose Jackson elevated any proceedings either, but he's for whatever reason a comforting character. Maybe Spaulding's that - for me - on many occasions, but hopefully more than that, too. I think he smokes on those Freddie Hubbard BNs (not as into the Atlantics, more 'cause of the music as a whole). Sure, it might've been a different story if John Gilmore or Wayne Shorter or Andrew White was in the picture instead, but we deal with what we've got. Nothing wrong with hoping for more (and I do, often), but you can't redo those sessions, either.

I just like him for who he is, nothing more and nothing less... not gonna belabor anybody else's disinterest in his work; I enjoy it as I do Carlos Ward, Dudu Pukwana, (some) Oliver Lake, Arthur Jones, Ronnie Beer, Claude Bernard, Claude Lawrence, Antonio Grippi, Frank Strozier, Byard Lancaster, Byron Allen, Tony Ortega, Gary Bartz... whom am I forgetting?

From the title of this thread, I wasn't sure whether he was referring to Arista-Freedom or just plain Freedom...

The recordings from the Up Over Jazz Cafe are also fine, on his Speetones label. I wrote the notes for volume two. Second for the Marge. Here's his website: Speetones Saw him uptown the other night and he sounded good. He's a really swell guy, too. James Spaulding interview at AAJ

Right next to what's left of the 99 copies of the original 10" Michael Garrick 'Moonscape' and straggler Charles Mingus Label UCLA 2LP sets. Those are far rarer than True Blue. Ditto Howard Riley's Discussions on Opportunity (the orig, that is) and hell, even the first two BRO records are pretty scarce... lotta things are pretty scarce these days, even with the proliferation of "rare" records on the internets. But hey, that's for another already-beat-to-death thread.

I'm too lazy to look up when "Disorder" by Joy Division was recorded, but that's another one I've always enjoyed. You know, I work in the art library at UT, and some of my coworkers - students - were born in the late 1980s. Not their fault, but some of them totally get wrapped up in nostalgia for something they never experienced. "I love the 80s!!!!" is kinda hard to do when you didn't live through it. Hell, I lived through all of it then, as a kid, and didn't give much of a shit about any of it. I was too busy with budding peach fuzz and playing in the woods by the time Bush Sr. was elected. It's like me being "nostalgic" for early Aerosmith or, better yet, punk, which would've "broke" when I was barely walking... Rant over.

Somebody's on the right track... Maybe add "Death Valley '69" by SY and we're more than "halfway to a threeway."

Damn. I'll see what I can find out. Would like to hear the new one also.

Yeah, from '73 onwards...

A fine one!!!

The Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising - (Homestead orig)

Green River - Come On Down - (Homestead)

I'm looking forward...

Cool, thanks for the rec's...

Indeed, just spun The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie this afternoon. Old Moers Almanac later tonight; would like to get a copy of Neuph also.

Fucking shit shit! I'm shocked. He is a favorite of mine, and a swell guy to boot. I had the honor of interviewing him last summer for All About Jazz, and he was really a wealth of ideas. Solo recordings, SME, Iskra 1903/1912, the Tony Oxley unit, his work with Julie Tippetts, John Edwards, Klaus Koch and many others leaves a fantastic legacy. I only wish that he could have had some more years to build on it. Rest in peace, Paul. Thanks for the music and the conversation. Paul Rutherford

Big Black - Atomizer - (Classics ... er, I mean, T&G repress)

Same here.

Bitch Magnet - Ben Hur (Glitterhouse pressing)

Yeah, that's a classic! Borges and the mazes of the mind...

Don't have that soundtrack but I have at least one Geeshie Wiley cut somewhere... thanks for the reminder.

Haven't heard those - will have to keep an eye out. Claude Lawrence is on the Sirone Live LP (along with Denis), but gets far too little solo space.