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Yeah, most don't keep the original BN catalog number. I find that sad. What am I going to do with 29138 in between 4159 and 4163?

The first Monk I heard was my dad's copy of Criss-Cross, which when it was (finally) handed down to me, proved to be a rather beat original. I loved Monk right away, though perhaps for the "wrong" reasons at the time. I heard more corners then, whereas now the edges are, if not smoothed, so absolutely natural and swinging that it's hard to believe it's the same music I first perked my ears at. But my expectations were surely exceeded back then, for sure. And strangely, my dad still finds Monk very corner-y and cerebral...

Nice little listening session earlier... Amalgam - Prayer for Peace - (Transatlantic) Peter Lemer - Local Colour - (ESP orig) The Trio - Conflagration - (Dawn) Kees Hazevoet - Pleasure One - (Peace) Back from a late meal and it's a little hard to decide on the proper comedown... Bert Jansch - Lucky Thirteen - (Vanguard), a little "Needle of Death" perhaps!

I think the last Goldmine price guide reflected this somewhat. IIRC, some of the Trane Impulses were listed at $100 for a NM original!

I threw on a bit of the Sound Pool in the break room at work. A co-worker said "I feel like I'm being beckoned by the light." In context, it was pretty fucking funny. I like MEV but have yet to hear a recording that "works" for me. "Spacecraft," from the split w/ AMM, is the closest I've come.

I like her playing... reminded me a bit of Arthur Jones when I saw her. If she had a short skirt AND a Mickey Mouse watch, now that would be some serious business!

Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Face to Face - (Emanem orig) Stevens/Watts duo, a great little session and a shitty pressing...

I thought that at one point there was a Japanese CD of this. I generally have got the most mileage out of the title track, by Hugh Steinmetz, but side two is also pretty great. "Afrodisiaca" in itself is a mind-fuck. Hopefully Tchicai is able to salvage the tapes of CND jamming with MEV in the late '60s... now THAT has got to be insane!

Yeah, that is a great disc. Pretty fucked, though of course Dixon's Odyssey started it all. (or the Collection did, whatever...)

Lungfish - Necrophones - (Dischord) Love this band... probably not the right vinyl forum, though!

Nice find!

Probably true - I was thinking the other day in terms of phrasing and was, to a degree, corrected w/r/t Coltrane & sound & recent-ish tenor players.

I like this part the best: "clark terry & that fucking leafblower again-- goddamnit!" Speaking of which, where is Clementine?

Sad but true... Such is the price an obsessive geek pays to survive!

Skin flute.

The jewelcase edition of the Japanese import is available at a very low price these days. Hmm. When I've seen it, it's been in the $30-$40 range. More than what I paid for my vinyl copy, in fact.

Hip shit... Klaus Kugel -­ drums, percussions Hilliard Greene - double bass Bruce Eisenbeil - acoustic and electric guitars Peter Evans - trumpet, piccolo trumpet, slide trumpet Perry Robinson - clarinets CD "CARNIVAL SKIN" (nemu 003) released 2006 on Nemu Records

... Aric, hopefully this is all in good fun. We will stop if you want... Guy Yeah, those are classic chewy, though the whole contemporaryladySF thing was an absolute killer classic! Clem cracks me up, too.

Mommy, How's the sound on the Boheme rip? Did they clean it up? The BYG doesn't sound all that hot - or at least my copy. Contradiction duly noted.

He did some fine playing with Don Cherry, Bill Dixon and the JCO, especially on bass trombone. He'll be missed. RIP.

Terry Riley - Persian Surgery Dervishes - (Shandar) classic!

Robert F. Pozar - Good Golly Miss Nancy - (Savoy) Hip Dixon-produced date w/ Zwerin, Garrison and Cathy Norris on cello.

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...