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No problem with this Shepp, but I think they could've done a service and reissued Ju-Ju domestically...

I love Bobby Few.

Wouldn't doubt the latter point. But who knows who threw the licks out there in the first place...

Tooting my own horn on Bobby Few here; please excuse, or peruse: Bobby Few at AAJ

One never knows. I'm on the fence about the whole DMG thing. I mean, Mommy sent me a copy of Le Temps Fou that is a rip. I would never in a million years be able to afford that LP. However, ethically what DMG (and some others) are doing is weak. Nevertheless, few labels really "paid out" in the first place - BYG, Alan Bates or whomever. So whether they would have got royalties from these sessions to begin with seems fairly moot.

I really like Black Ark a lot - funnily enough, there is a Japanese CD of it, but it's OOP and for some reason, rather expensive... more than the LP, in fact! Scorpio was also on a Japanese CD through P-Vine, also now OOP. An excellent date that should not be missed. I really am surprised that the Free America series did not reissue the Arthur Jones or the Noah Howard, which would have fit nicely on one disc with Uhuru na Umoja. Will have to read this AAJ review of the Wright - I guess it's not for everybody, but it is a very fine performance. Edit: wow, just read that. I find it interesting that people utterly slam things that they may not quite get. If it were me and I detested the music that much, I'd pass it along to another reviewer who might see something I missed. But whatever.

The Village Gate material is pretty hip, too, also on Atlantic.

Yeah on Parlan. I haven't really had this experience too much with jazz records of the past couple of years, but things that I've had for some years and which I still count as absolutely unreal (and that I came to with little expectation): Hans Dulfer's Ritmo-Natural LPs on Catfish - Candy Clouds, The Morning After the Third, and El Saxofon (w/ Frank Wright) - don't think music like this exists anywhere else; free-Afro-Latin-psychedelic jams that I really can't put my finger on, and nor could I live without. I had no idea what to expect with the first purchase, and the others did not let down! They certainly need a reissue! John Tchicai & Cadentia Nova Danica (Polydor) - again, I had no idea what I was getting into with this record, but it is so utterly unique that I can't imagine my life pre-CND. Ric Colbeck - The Sun Is Coming Up (Fontana) didn't think he was all that hot with Noah Howard, so this one came as a real surprise. Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (Blue Note) - somehow, I thought this had the potential to be weak. Boy was I wrong. Howard Riley - The Day Will Come - (CBS) - I bought it on a lark because a friend said I would like it. Well, it might be one of the best inside-outside piano trios I've ever heard. His other records are great, too, but this is a mother... I had similar experiences approaching the music of Graham Collier and Ray Russell, both people whose records I bought without any preconception other than curiosity, and was summarily blown away. I mean, there are a lot of good, obscure jazz records out there. However, the thing about uniqueness is what really gets me going. If it doesn't sound like anything else... that's when my expectations are exceeded.

I missed this one several times, ebay, private auctions, ecc.. Do you think I have to give it another chance? Yes. It is heavy.

Next up: For Example: Workshop Freie Musik 1969-1978 (FMP 3LPs box) Record #2: Different Groups Schlippenbach Trio Brotz/Van Hove/Bennink + Mangelsdorff Frank Wright Quartet Schweizer-Carl Quartet My flat-mate is out of town so the volume goes up!

Burton Greene Trio - On Tour - (ESP orig) Very hip, melodic free piano-trio music from Burton, Shelly Rusten and Steve Tintweiss. This and the Columbia are my favorites of his (ah yes, and the duos with Daoud Amin)...

I only watched the first two seasons (on DVD), and thought things were getting a bit lame midway thru season two. I loved season one, though - totally great. Thing is, it's gonna be hard to get through 3-6 by the time 7 comes around!

Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex - (SST pressing) The world does indeed look red...

How true, indeed.

Have to get this. Looks awesome. My Kagel fanatacism holds mostly to the late '60s work up through the '70s; Peter B did tell me he performed a piece of Kagel's but could not recall which work it was. I think he had a good time with it, but recalled not being really in the same vein as some of the other musicians/artists present.

Bill Cole, Sam Rivers, Warren Smith - The First Cycle - (Music from Dartmouth)

Wow. RIP And 2007 looks to be another tough one of musicians' passings...

RIP indeed. Though my experience with his playing is limited, heard many kind words from his peers. He will be missed.

I was having dinner last night at a local beer + burger joint (with the Crescent girl) and there was a lone guy answering every Jeapordy question loudly to himself. Not unlike your BN # recitation, I presume, or mine for ESP!

I used to have it on LP and was not impressed. Maybe another go-round would change things, but I think I'll skip the download method.

Thanks - I knew you'd know, probably without even looking!

"HBMF" usually translates to something different, but...

Yeah, those Japanese Riversides aren't too hot. Have had superb luck with the BNs (King & Toshiba), which almost make the Classic reissues - at least some of them - sort of superfluous. Then again, Japanese pressings of things like Hank (where's Michel with those catalog #'s?) are still big-ticket, for whatever reason.

He ain't gonna be buying no Classic reissues...

Sidewinder needs to get over here; he has quite a few of these, I think.