clifford_thornton

I'm with you.

I have a German International Polydor of it, with a different cover image. Good record, for $20 or any price.

As long as I don't have to hear David Keenan play saxophones... Tiny Meat Trio, or whatever it is.

OK, so it's a Japanese pressing, but if nobody buys this, I'll eat my hat. Jym Young

I had a Chuck Nessa dream recently. I preferred my Halle Berry dream of last night, though.

I understood that it was "live" in the studio, in front of Fontana people and a few select invitees.

Just pretend you didn't see that extra "zero" and it'll be okay...

Two words: Keith Monks.

Big picture = bad, vs. Big picture = good. Small picture = bad, vs. Small picture = good. Depends on who's painting, and where they dip their brushes. Byron Allen is "pretty good," but I'm glad he was there... Explain, though, E, what you mean by the most crucial innovations of the AACM being intellectual/stylistic/idiomatic. I'm not sure yet whether I'd agree with that as not being equally limiting.

"Academic" or no, Roscoe's a complex guy, and his music demands attention and careful consideration. I make no bones that I'm anywhere even near being in his craw, but I enjoy and respect his music immensely. Even though my experience with the Parker/ECM New Series has been kinda lukewarm - or, rather, my perception of it has - I would like to hear this.

Thanks, Chuck. That's helpful. I have the laminated cover with the drawing, but a white ESPM-1006 disc.

Isn't that what Judd is about? Well, that's for another thread...

Yoshi Wada - Off the Wall - (SAJ orig) Damn fine minimal LP... burning it and trading it to a friend. Kinda sad to see it go, but I am getting hooked up, I hope!

A buddy of mine has some Chris McGregor and Sun Ra 8-tracks, which I think is pretty cool. Also, a few cassettes on America!

Allan, that's hardcore.

I like Mengelberg's tune, "Hypochristmutrefuzz," a lot. It was apparently written to trip up Dolphy, because he wasn't a real circular-breathing type of player.

Was just listening the other day to Positions 3-6-9. Thanks for putting that one out!

Yeah, and Prince Lasha made me think about getting a Firebird...

Sun WHO?

Back to regular programming... Lubomyr Melnyk - KMH: Piano Music in the Continuous Mode - (Music Gallery Editions)

I checked out the reunion Sebadoh gig with Eric Gaffney in Austin recently. Strong stuff... that is, when Gaffney was fronting the bit. Lou can suck it. I like Dino, but feel that after Green Mind, shit went in the toilet. Hopefully the bombast and energy can be reclaimed.

Sadly, it's actually a studio record. But yeah, excellent stuff. I'll throw it on later today... that and the ICP variant of that tour, with "Eeko" on side two.

I might be with Paul Secor on this one. I'm not a player, nor is Cuscuna, and who are we to say that anybody - Jemeel Moondoc, Arthur Doyle, Phill Musra, Bob Ralston - are emotionally excessive or screaming pretenders? I'm into this music at this level because I feel things, and I think, and I have an identification with cats who express similar things to what I know/experience/feel. Yes, it is a Crouch-like quote. Is that just part of being a critical child of the late '70s/early '80s? The not naming names thing is pretty unhip, too. Clement Greenberg, in his art criticism of the 1960s, and LeRoi/Amiri Baraka in his writings of that time, certainly named names. Maybe to a fault (did Burton's career suffer? I know Frank Smith's did). But art critics like Michael Fried in the later '60s and into the '70s, only mentioned names when praising. When damning, it was a broad and impersonal swath. Same goes for Crouch and, evidently, Cuscuna (in this case).

Wasn't he playing with cats like Charles Moffett, Don Cherry, Byron Allen and Alan Shorter prior to his commitment to Trane's group? I guess that implies more of a "free-bop" thing, but...