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Probably won't happen, but I hope I'm wrong! Of course, a person could use that link above to have it on CD®. No, wait! It's a download! Along with School Days from 1963, Sortie might be Lacy's best from the 60's. It's indeed a shame it's not better known. If I could write a check for, say, $15.99 to Irène Aëbi to have this as an actual CD, I'd do it in a heartbeat. She's sitting on so much un-reissued stuff that it's probably overwhelming. And FWIW, I would rather see the UMS Lacy archive delve into weird '60s groups than live extras from the Saravah period, as good as that shit is. I used to have doubles of Sortie, but traded one for Groupcomposing and a couple of Surman records... thought it was a deal at the time!

Noah Howard - Black Ark - (Freedom Polydor orig)

I had the India Navigation LP at one point (the Munoz, not the Pharoah), and didn't feel the vibrations. But hey, I got a thick skull.

Sortie is dope. It was issued on GTA and reissued on International Polydor (with a different cover). Both are not "cheap" by any means, which I would say demands a proper CD reissue!

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...