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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.

That's a fine one indeed! Candy Clouds is also a great record, and El Saxofon is just retarded...

And, apropos of the other thread, Funky Donkey does NOT have a "dorky" jacket. It's heavy!

Right - the South Africans would definitely fit in here. I'll leave it up to the experts, but indeed, In The Townships is a fine LP, and MRA from the 1st BoB LP is a rumpshaker indeed...

Then: Barbara Donald & Unity - Olympia Live - (Cadence) Now: Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising - (Homestead orig/silver label)