clifford_thornton

Ah. Thought that was what you meant. I've heard some stories too.

Re: the Mobley 1568, 500 copies isn't that rare in eBay terms anyway.

Nor was the reserve met on Dusk Fire, at over $650!

"bombed out" meaning?

Walt Dickerson - Impressions of a Patch of Blue - (MGM orig) Familiar platter on this board, I am sure! Great band - Bob Cunningham, Roger Blank and, oh yeah, whatsisname on piano/harpsichord.

I think they're a great combo, esp. if you mean by "aggressiveness" an aggressive flow of ideas, which Howard definitely brought out in the Reverend. On deck: Frank Wright - Your Prayer - (ESP orig; this one's for Songer!) Ted Daniel - Sextet - (Ujamaa orig)

Noah Howard - Space Dimension - (America) w/ Wright, Few, Ali and Art Taylor!

Case in point: nearly all of the America LP jackets (tho the Shorter and Emergency are pretty damn ruff).

AFAIK, the first gig was at the 2001 Vision Festival. Not sure what's happened for them since then, but I was at that one and it was pretty great. The only problem was that they did an encore - a shorter set would have given me all I needed. Any more and it got a little tired... I'm all for a blowout, but it would've also been nice to hear them play some "tunes."

Yeah, tell me about it. It's one of my favorite Marion sides, precisely because it's totally unhinged... Bennink is like a scrap-heap being thrown down the White House stairs! Considering that it's the same vintage as both New Acoustic Swing Duo and the Loevendie/Altena/Engels trio Stairs! (Artone [& Bennink got his bag more from Johnny Engels early on, then incorporated Milford]), the shit that MMH unleash is not surprising, and quite welcome. Strange that the CD issue pairs it with only half of the Creative Improvisation Ensemble LP. I especially like the original Porto Novo cover:

Marion Brown - Porto Novo - (Freedom/King, with the original jacket's photo) Maarten Altena, Han Bennink in 1967...

I saw that band several years ago. Serious business.

I see this from the Firehouse 12 Website: Wednesdays: Pabst Blue Ribbon bottles $1.50 Not exactly highway robbery, mind you!

Schlippenbach Trio - Pakistani Pomade - (FMP) I especially like how the opening track, "Sun-Luck-Night-Rain," is printed on the label as "Sun-Luck-Night-Train." Bottoms up...

Corsano's also playing with Ben Chasny. The Roaratorio LP is good; the Drag City stuff, well, not so good...

Tampa Red - 1935-1942 - (Old Tramp) Excellent collection!

Young's Oatmeal Stout. Decent.

's a good'un...

Yeah, he's about as hip as they come...

PL: "Prior to that departure, Miles Davis was appearing at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, and they had a concert in Oakland for the police ball. He had John Coltrane with him, and there was a reviewer named Russell Wilson who gave John bad write-ups all over San Francisco. They were doing this concert and I arrived early, and John’s horn wasn’t working. Simmons and I were backstage, and I said “give me the horn, man.” I worked on it for about twelve or fourteen minutes and I fixed the leaks and all that. Coltrane said “I just got it from the music store down on 47th before I got here.” There was something they didn’t do to it, and I fixed all the discrepancies on the horn, gave it back to him, and John went out and played so much beautiful music while this little ugly motherfucker with brown suede shoes was looking at me [Miles]. I was looking at him because I’m pretty too, and he was happy that John was playing so much. He was wondering who I was! John and I became lifelong friends after that." From the interview I did with him at AAJ (I knew there was bound to be something in there...).

If it doesn't pick the dirt up off the carpet well enough to satisfy your fastidious taste, perhaps you need more static electricity. There are cloths that will do that for you. I think velvet is supposed to be good. MG For some reason, I suspected my early/mid- '90s art-punk references would fall flat...

I see what you're saying, EP. I haven't heard that Taylor rec in YEARS, probably sold it with a bunch of other Hat LPs about five years ago. Wish I'd kept more of them! I am a "big fan" of Jerome Cooper, but was never sure he worked with Cecil that well. But again, it's been a while.

I have that material; remember it being pretty strong. Ronnie Ross is on it also. I believe it is he playing bass clarinet. Atilla Zoller is on guitar for several tracks.

There ain't a lotta Milford in Schlingerland... S-A has taken the pulsing sound-fields of Murray, and applied it more directly to the bass-drum and the toms, in my estimation. Therefore, he gets a more particular density (or expansion/contraction of such) than the (in some ways) lighter approach of Murray. It's pretty neat.

For a second, I misread "John Butler Trio" as "John Butcher Trio..."