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Weird, but in a good way.

And its mate...

More great Sunny...

And who can forget...

I've always been rather fond of this one...

Overpriced!

The tension created from a meeting between the expected and the unexpected. To me, that's what drives the music.

I have no problem with "Footprints," but maybe I've heard it less often than some folks. Or I'm just naive.

One of those cases where I've seen the LPs more than the CDs, but I remember seeing them "somewhere" at "some time."

What I was hoping for in Oregon I got in an Italian ensemble called Aktuala. I don't know a whole lot about the characters participating in the group, but the vibe is a cross-pollination of Indian and North African music, modal atmospherics, and free improvisation. I have the first two LPs on Bla-Bla, which I believe were also reissued on CD (gonna pull a Clem and not look it up). The first is self-titled and the second is La Terra.

Agreed. Also university libraries and archives, the NYPL, etc. could be of some help. Found this pretty quickly: Harlem Renaissance Bibliography

Don't have much to add that hasn't already been said. RIP and thanks for providing an outlet for so much great music!

I forgot Glen Moore was in that band. He's great in a bass quartet with Peter Warren on Enja, Bass Is, that also features contributions from Surman, Corea and Stu Martin among others. I was hoping Oregon would be a bit more psychedelically "open" than it actually was (at least to these ears), but maybe it's time for another listen.

That McLean AdLIb went for almost $5G. WTF?

No, the JR shit is stone cold hip...

It has been a bit, but I remember liking the Lutoslawski a lot. For some time, it was hard for me to appreciate SQ's, until my friend suggested that it was like a classical version of a working band. That helped, even in my naivete.

Happy Birthday Jim! Believe it or not, you are keeping me on my toes!

Wow. This is sad news, and I can only echo other members' sentiments. I always enjoyed reading his thoughts, though never spoke with him on a personal level. Obviously a strong soldier. May he rest in peace.

KVRX Austin on Monday night. Next week is my last week. Used Signals, "Witches and Devils" and the Mats Gustafsson LP.

I was just listening to him on Blown Bone... sad news indeed! Thanks for the music, Mr. Davern, and RIP.

It's not like we're asking the popular consciousness to drop everything and listen to John Tchicai (though it might be nice if they did!), but even the jazz/other music public doesn't seem to get tied up in music - and I mean really tied up - rather being unequivocally accepting or mildly dismissive. I'm guilty of it too sometimes, though I still feel like a nutjob doing an entire radio program on the onetime Ayler trumpeter Norman Howard (which went very well, thank you!).

Some free jazz records, some punk/indie records... you know the drill.

I'm not sure if I'm on the right track; I was merely posing something that maybe someone more "eloquent" than me (Sangry?) could tackle. This kind of dovetails with the whole "overrated/underrated" business that I really couldn't get myself into. Is it just that we're to blase to recognize something as estimable or total dreck, unless it happened twenty or more years before we were born? I don't know.

I'm trying to think whether we have critical flashpoints now - (fucking) Jandek being a good example, maybe someone like Arthur Doyle also, though neither appear in the "jazz" rags and who knows what to call Signal to Wire. I mean, the Bagatellen crew (full disclosure here: I post there occasionally) gets its undies in a bunch on Bill Dixon and Jon Abbey Music, but... I think Dixon's music is some of the most beautiful music made (with a few clinkers), but I dunno if the "establishment" has caught up to him as much as it has even Silva (5-stars for Skilfulness?). I mean, as one who writes about music (or makes a valiant effort to), I haven't felt like I've seen any flashpoints. I have come across a lot of records I enjoy, and a bunch I could give a shit about. In an age of creative oversaturation, there are fewer flashpoints, I think. And it may be harder to see some of them for what they are.

I KNOW you be havin' a good time in SF...