clifford_thornton

Brigitte Fontaine avec AEC - Comme a la Radio (Saravah) Now: Daevid Allen/Gilli Smyth/Gong - Magick Brother (BYG orig)

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I don't think their QC is all that hot, but you have to consider the source as well. For example, most Actuels sounded like shit in the first place, so Get Back isn't necessarily at fault there. Pressings of LPs, now I can say that that's where QC really comes into play with Get Back.

I agree - that's an excellent date by all involved. Mine has a different jacket, with a photo of Curson, subtitled "Fontana - The Jazz Life." There were some other cool records in this series, by Howard McGhee, Bud Powell and Paul Bley.

I'll add that I didn't mean to derail this into a Brotzmann thread...

Peter Brotzmann & Walter Perkins - The Ink is Gone - (BRO/Eremite) Stunning duo!

That is very true, evident to me first from the time I interviewed him. Listening to The Ink is Gone right now (duo w/ Walter Perkins, RIP). The take of "Master of a Small House" is excellent, and that tune is always an indication of Brotz's compassion/pity/pathos, whatever you want to call it.

I think Brotzmann is in a class by himself. Hell, Stone/Water has some very Ellingtonian arrangements, and the Brotz/Miller/Moholo trio (as the Brotz/Parker/Drake) have sure taken a path far from the Ayler tree. When you get Bennink and Van Hove in the mix, it's yet another story altogether - theatrical, sure, but more on the neo-dada trip, with a little Roland Kirk or Jaki Byard thrown in for good measure. Yeah, Flaherty too is in a class by himself. I would like to hear that Orange LP, which is very rare and supposedly his first appearance on wax.

Can't imagine it sucks, what with Redman and (iirc) Blackwell in the mix. I guess the sound could be off, though. I don't know the source of this, but I did notice that Get Back also put out the Gaslight '62 Dolphy, originally issued on Ingo.

Next: Nessa and Thornton go to the movies!

Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath (Douglas orig) finally got this one - too bad it's poorly recorded. It would go from good to great with a little better miking! Archie Shepp - Four for Trane (Impulse white-label mono) one of the first jazz records I ever bought... love that "Rufus!"

I think it also has a lot to do with Corsano's involvement with Sunburned Hand of the Man. I avoid that band like the plague, ever since seeing them a couple of - no, wait, three!?! - times in the past several years. I did not know Corsano ever played with them.

A fine one!

Coltrane - the blue album - (Impulse orange/black stereo)

That's one of my favorites by this group - adding Nate Morgan on piano and Ndugu Chancler on drums!

I'm gonna have to disagree with any claims to the effect that Brotz lacks compassion. I'm also gonna have to disagree with putting Brotz and Flaherty in the same barrel. Flaherty's popularity seems to be less among free-jazz heads and more among the "New Weird America" folk/skronk set, for some reason. That has a lot to do with the Yod catch-all business. Corsano's great. My friend Rachel used to date him back when they were teenagers.

And that, in itself, is impressive!

I haven't heard Kent do anything that WASN'T impressive...

Consider it an achievement that you shelled out for it. I have no doubt that quite a bit of what's included on those records is very good--but talk about steep. I find it ironic that the box is still the cheapest way to hear a lot of those albums. One of my favorite LA record shops was carrying an Ictus for $50 (unfortunately for me, it was the last one--the shop owner said a "couple of Japanese guys came in and bought up all the weird jazz--dropped about $300."). Dude, you only need like the first few LPs! That would set you back about the same - $100!

I want that one.

Fuck that...

I have that buried somewhere...

To continue the derailment, I had that 10" posthumous release on T&G, and thought it was pretty good. No singing, and singing now bothers me way more than it did then - at least on those kinds of records. Stranger things have happened than a 10" on Jennifer Hartman, but I've never seen it - that's all I'm saying. My last copy of Tweez was a T&G repress, and I wasn't feeling it anymore... Then again, I always get reamed for liking Rodan, and I really do like Rodan a lot. Still.

Giorgio Gaslini - Nuovi Sentimenti - (EMI reissue of VDP orig) with Lacy, Cherry, Rava, Gato, Romano, Jenny-Clarke, Kent Carter, Franco Tonani and Gianni Bedori. Hard to fuck with that lineup... Now: Steve Lacy Sextet - Scraps - (Saravah orig, autographed!) "Ladies" is insane (and aren't they?!)...

Only saw Spider John once when I was up there, as part of some anti-whatever (meta-hipster) festival. Good shit indeed, though it was kind of a blur. If I were still in MSP, I'd be there!