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Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame - (BN UA Mono blue/white)

Any Clifford is good to have around!

Great one that I haven't spun in some time. Will give it a drop when I get home.

Nice piece - thank you. And to have heard the band in the photos... I was there. No shit - that's off the hook! Iverson's on with "Grass Roots." I always really liked that tune a lot, and found it stranger than most people seem to give it credit for.

Great record. Also had it on cassette at one point (dubbed). Would love an orig LP of that one, and I'm not much of a Saturn collector. It's just so cool!

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That's probably the best thing I've ever read about this album, and I think you nailed it as far as its overall mood. Heck, you may have just described Hill's entire musical journey, for that matter! Yes!

Used to race road, through undergrad college, then got out of it upon moving to NYC/Chicago. Trying to spin around again for kicks, without illusions of being a Cat 3 again, but at least getting some fresh air to counteract the bad grad student behavior that I so easily indulge.

HELL YEAH> Yeah, the Estes is pretty sweet...

Damn. RIP.

Anthony Williams - Life Time - (BN NY Stereo) Side 2...

Grachan Moncur III - Some Other Stuff - (BN NY Stereo)

Monos of that title are expensive, routinely. I got my orange/black stereo for $15.

You're talking about stearic acid, which is what keeps the vinyl from sticking to the stampers. In this case, alcohol-based cleansers will not work. You would need something like Disc Doctor, specially formulated to get both regular grit and stearic acid out of the grooves.

I buy anything I see on Delmark - AACM, mainstream jazz, blues... I am still looking for a vinyl copy of the J. B. Hutto date with Kalaparusha, Hawk Squat. Really an excellent label.

Brotzmann Octett The highest I've seen for this title, even if it is the first pre-FMP pressing! I remember when BRO-2 used to go for only around $100 tops!

Reece, when I interviewed him, talked a lot about percussion and its relationship to both the trumpet in particular, and of course to the music in general. Lest one forget he was also a conguero. I need to listen to Tolliver a bit more closely, because I've not thought of him in this respect as an instrumentalist, though his tunes are often very rhythmic, and quite often eliptically so. Raphe Malik - YES. I was thinking recently how the brass music of composer Rhys Chatham sounds like isolated (minimalist) variants on the martial themes of Ayler and Don Cherry. Might be worth a listen for some out there.

The Rileys on CBS don't have electronics. You have to move to the Turtle and Incus for that (and then some...). Shouldn't this be in the recommendations thread?

Rad. Happy Birthday!

Well, count me among the habitually, inexcusably, always late!

I think this'll be a keeper, tho I have yet to hear it...

Looks great. You've heard the early Howard Riley trios on CBS, no?

Only hit $1227 - cheap!

I'd add that if anyone has any idea what was played, whether or not it was recorded, that would also be of interest.

Thanks for the help. Not surprising re: Ra and Carter. Strange that nothing from Ayler or Shepp survives in the vaults, but shit happens. I've been dealing with enough tape issues in audio preservation classes that I guess it shouldn't be a total surprise.