clifford_thornton

I was more concerned with Brooks's drumming, which is fantastic, but you are right - Shaw and Coleman are excellent here.

Must've been an off night for her, because she's usually good. I have all of her records, enjoy them, and coincidentally also consider her a friend. I look forward to the new Thurston album, and hey, if they're doing well, great - by that I mean that I don't care if they're selling records at/with/for/by Starbucks. I can still drop the needle on Bad Moon Rising and enjoy it.

Think I'm going to put that one on as well!

Victoria Williams Marc Perlman Ivo Perelman (edit for spelling)

Jimmy Woods - Awakening! - (Contemporary black-label stereo) Recently got this one... sweet!

But she is the most attractive drummer I've ever seen: Thank you... Now that she's single, maybe I'll be moving west...

Thankfully, the Wilburys don't have a "spirit box"...

Damn, Larry, that is a long post! Er... Anyway, glad we're back up. I have stuff to do, so cheers until later! Thanks for all the hard work, too!

Caught them live at a festival over here a few years ago. Interesting, not quite my thing. I've only heard smatterings of their stuff, and this InterFrequences date is the only LP of theirs I have (actually from before they added the "de Lyon" to the name). It's a great mix of Afro-Jazz and rackety clanging.

I thought there was a Japanese CD of Force, but I could be wrong. It's certainly the better of the two you mention. Actually, Force is fantastic.

He's very good on that Zitro record; thanks for filling in why he appeared on some obscure Japanese free records in the '70s. Alex Coke is a fine player in Austin, though CDs don't always do him justice. In the '80s he lived in Amsterdam and worked with Willem Breuker, and he's a smokin' freebop tenorman.

Wren/Wachsmann/Beswick/Mayo - Chamberpot - (Bead) The People Band - s/t - (Transatlantic orig) Some might call it "difficult," but I'm enjoying myself with the volume cranked!

Free Jazz Workshop (de Lyon) - InterFrequences - (ADMI) Pretty heavy privately-produced quintet date with Jean Mereu, Christian Rollet, among others.

I have the Hi4Head disc and didn't think there was a problem...

I am sad to hear he's unwell, and sorry I won't be able to make this gig. He's an excellent composer, player, and was a hell of a scene-maker/idea person.

No kidding. I used to have it on an Up Front LP, but traded it away for something probably equally or less invigorating.

I would love to have seen that. I love Bill Dixon.

I really want that Blackwell & Higgins LP. It hurts my feelings! Jeff Clyne and Ron Herman share bass duties.

Frank Stella by way of Werner X. Uehlinger: "What you (hear) is what you (hear)."

Keshavan Maslak & Charles Moffett - Blaster Master - (Black Saint) apropos of an "ugly cover artwork" thread... smokin' LP though!

This is a kick-ass sax-drums duo record, but eesh, the cover kills me... almost wish I had a white-label test pressing in a blank jacket!

Same here, albeit almost 30 years later. Same here, a few years after Joe.

Yeah, that's kind of a nasty one... I was thinking tonight how dubious most Cadence/CIMP covers are, though they often contain some very fine music. Still, the graphic design/artwork is prone to make one gag. They started early, with that horrid Ahmed Abdullah jacket (CJR 1000) and just kept'a going!

Prayer for Peace is a wonderful record - I have it on a Transatlantic LP. Ditto the Spotlite stuff. There's a lot of SME to be had, and none of it has hit me negatively so far.