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  1. Looks like the jackass who set his high bid at a grand wasn't expecting someone to snipe $933.33! Ouch!
  2. The tonearm/cartridge on my Music Hall mmf-5 really hates microscopic goo and sometimes sticks for no visually discernable reason. It REALLY bites, though I'm at a loss on quite how to fix it. This is my second mmf-5, different problems than the first, but that's for another thread.
  3. Babbington was great with the Softs and Keith Tippett, and it's good to hear he's still active. I'm quite a fan of Jeff Clyne, with Chris Laurence coming in shortly thereafter. Barry Guy is, of course, in a class all by himself... so as for Britain's number one bassist, that's an argument I'll stay out of, though Clyne is up there for me.
  4. I thought Wynton got it from Stanley Crouch, who'd transcribed it for percussion... Had the pleasure of seeing Thompson play with Fred Anderson and Kidd Jordan at the Velvet Lounge some years back - a fantastic gig - though I haven't investigated any of his CDs. Will have to keep it in mind, though. Zane Massey is always a nice name to have around also.
  5. I wouldn't know where to start, other than Alan Bates or his estate, for this stuff. Some has been kept in print via Black Lion; others saw CD and LP reissue in Japan in the '80s/'90s but I think those Japanese Fontana CDs are pretty scarce. Urge is a stunning session - a bit looser than Tears for Dolphy, but excellent regardless. Ervin gets into some serious heel-digging shit.
  6. Ease It! is a very good record indeed. Sunny Murray was working gigs with Rocky pre-Cecil; apparently he was Sunny's entree into a number of bebop gigs during that period. Sunny says that Rocky was an influence on Sam Rivers, though I've never heard anything from Sam's camp to suggest this.
  7. I would spend tons of $$ at Disk Union - my friend bought a serious stack of rare Japanese LPs there when he was in Tokyo last. For jazz LPs and so forth, internet retailers, weird dealer/auction lists and eBay are where I go. I still buy a fair amount of old underground rock/punk records, usually re-purchasing things I wore out from high school, and for that the local record shops do me right. End of an Ear, here in Austin, has been good about ordering and keeping in stock the more obscure rock titles.
  8. It's been a while since the dropsies were in effect though it's bound to happen someday soon. I trust my roommate not to get shitfaced and jam the Dutch free jazz, though I know she loves that Hans Dulfer... guess I could say the same for myself, though, on all counts!
  9. Alan Sondheim - Ritual All 7-70 - (ESP original) Wild free improv from Providence, RI. Sondheim, a conceptual artist, poet, and instrument collector, is a pretty interesting character and the three Ritual 7-70 LPs are all excellent.
  10. That album cover brings back memories--it was my rooming house room at 25 West 82nd Street until 1963, when I moved to my present apartment. I spent a lot of time in that window, looking up and down the street! Wow, great reminiscence! Thanks for that!
  11. All those NYCF recs are serious business... Cherry was too junked-out to make the date, from what Tchicai told me. Seemed to be a recurring problem... I am a big fan of Tchicai's Cadentia Nova Danica records as well, though more than one girlfriend has been rather turned off by Afrodisiaca! It's strange that Storyville left off "Cisum" - that tune is totally kick-ass! Edit: guess I already mentioned CND. But so what? Great LPs!
  12. I slept on a $20 copy of the Polydor on Gemm. I was thinking about buying it for months until someone else did... fwiw, it routinely hedges $100 on eBay, even in the second pressing.
  13. DMG!!! Pepi Lemer gets under my skin - just her very existence as a sideperson gets me fired up!
  14. That trio on Horo looks intriguing; for whatever reason I never picked it up. Probably because it's a Horo and I rarely have kept any title on that label for very long.
  15. I hear you - I know we've been over these same damn records and players a million times... I like talking about 'em, but at the same time, I wouldn't mind hearing about something/someone else for once (say, Arthur Doyle)!
  16. I stand by the Shepp, Thornton, Wright and Emergency as among the best music of the period. The Emergency is particularly unique... they have another LP on Kwela that I'd like to get at some point, just haven't had the patience to deal with FuckBay on it. I know a lot of people don't agree with me on this, but the Rudd is a beautiful date - as are all of his records from the 60s. I'm less convinced by some of his mid-70s material, though Blown Bone is fantastic. In fact, I was surprised that I like that one as much as I do... Can't follow whatsisname on Perelman, though I'm sure he's heard more of him than I have. Shepp ca. 69-70 is a mixed bag, but there are some strong ones. "Touareg" from Blase is a motherfucker - over the years of spinning it, the nuances of that performance have really crept out.
  17. I've always been curious about that record - it looks fantastic. Peter Lemer is on it. It was originally on Marmalade and reissued on LP by Polydor.
  18. Claude Delcloo, despite making maybe a few decent recordings with Arthur Jones and Jacques Coursil, is generally a poser...
  19. Boy, I'd hate to see your reaction to Sunny Murray! ← no like sunny murray. i find him more "swooshy" and bennink more "chattery", which is what is annoying. also bennink seems "gimmicky" which makes me lose respect for him wheras murray seems sort of melodic. Having seen Bennink live, it gave me a better understanding of what he does. He was quite possibly the best drummer I have seen live. Bennink is one of the best drummers the music has ever had, able to take it "out" and swing like there's no tomorrow. But I realize this is an opinion, and he certainly can distract/overpower. So can Milford, so can PLovens, apparently so can Tom Rainey. I have a bad memory for drummers I don't like; not that I love all of 'em, but it's easier to forget the existence of those I don't care for. That said, Bu is not at the top of my list, though that's more for what I've perceived as a repititious approach aesthetically than anything he's doing or not doing. And besides, who the fuck am I to judge Art Blakey?
  20. Thanks for the reminder on the Vmark - I think I'd rather have that deal!
  21. The Fontana catalog is superb, both the Roling series and some of their other jazz releases. They've been good on Tubby Hayes so hopefully things like the Brown, NYAQ and Jazz Realities will be commercially available again (not to mention Ric Colbeck!)... also, the pressings were spotty on the originals, so a CD treatment might do them some good.
  22. Meg White ain't THAT bad either!
  23. Much more familiar with his work in the late '60s/early '70s, essentially pre-Colosseum. I like him with the pianists, and he's solid on the Jack Bruce Things We Like LP. Maybe he took a turn for the worse later.
  24. Really? I thought he was great on a gig some months back with Tony Malaby and Brian Allen.
  25. Yeah, it's absolutely disgusting... Hell, the Brown was on CD a few years ago in Japan!
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