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I've always liked this Marzette Watts cover a lot, though the music shows its seams...

Yeah, Pleasure One is a good record but that cover really fucks with me (esp. in 12" format ) ....

Right, thanks. That's the album with the orange cover, I should have known. I'm quite fond of that session. My Toshiba vinyl has more of a red cover, though not "deep" red. I can't see it moving units quickly, but maybe I underestimate the jazz public...

Speaking of the brothers Bennink, I've never understood why Kees Hazevoet's Unlawful Noise (KGB, reissued by Atavistic) doesn't get more love. Both Benninks, Brotzmann and Haazz backed by Dyani and Moholo?!? I mean, it is a totally wild session, but it is musical!

Yep - I counted that among the reed arsenal, but you're right, it/they could use some specificity!

Agreed and yes, I have... dude can swing branches in the air and it sounds f'in hip! His brother Peter is more of a "strict" reed-player and I enjoy his work as well.

Enjoyed it when I had it, but my copy wasn't in that great condition and since has left the building... I too remember Benson sounding quite nice on it.

I was thinking the same thing... meanwhile: Ronnie Scott & The Band - Live at Ronnie Scott's (CBS Realm mono orig) great session!

I assume you're talking about the Mike White album with Lasha on it? Never bought it, though I've been intrigued upon seeing it...

I would've got it - that would be hip!

Not to derail this into another "type" of thread, but I think that playing very free music, in the sense of not constructing obvious parameters, still had positive sway in the post-BYG age. For example, though the (loft-era) Umezu surely swings and is based on a loose head-solos format, it still has the rambunctious, raw energy of something you might hear on a late '60s Af-Am free jazz record (ditto his more unruly side on Des-Chonboo). Then again, you have people like Clifford Thornton and Joe McPhee whose music from the late '60s/early '70s seems very clearly constructed - so the pendulum swings both ways, often concurrently. As for Echo, I enjoy it, though the tune "Peace" gets more spins from me.

Well, I have the original LP of it and it, too, sounds pretty much like doo. But despite that fact, it's still a great record!

Spent very little time with WBK records, though here and there what I've heard has been interesting. My interest in Breuker tends toward the small groups - such as with Leo Cuypers, Gunter Hampel (ca. late '60s), and his phenomenal work in a duo with Han Bennink. The Dutch musical theatre interest stems from not only fluxus (Mengelberg was loosely associated) but Dutch dada/neo-dada tendencies going back to at least de Stijl artists like Theo van Doersburg, who professed the ideal of a merger between art and life. Certainly something that hasn't been extensively talked about w/r/t Dutch jazz; I don't remember Whitehead's book getting into Dutch arts in general, though it has been years since I read it.

I've always dug Super Nova, so I guess it's weird that I don't have this. Should be cheap enough, though, so next time I see it...

So this was unissued as an LP, I assume...

I've always really liked that one. Much better than whipped cream.

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was all from the vol. 1 session; didn't realize one was a Saturn outtake.

Don't forget that original LP copies of My Point of View featured "Gracham" Moncur III on trombone...

Though spinning a CD now, my last vinyl listen was: High Rise - High Rise 2 (Squealer reissue of the PSF original) Heavy!

No JOS No Horace Silver 1 Blakey (not a Messengers, though)

I missed the last COO gig - trombonist Brian Allen was the guest; he's quite good. There's some "quiet" improv stuff going on down here, which I'm not too into, though some hip gigs have happened with ICP, The Thing, Tony Malaby (w/ Allen and Tom Rainey) and a choice few others. I think Tristan Honsinger might be coming down to play solo sometime this winter - should be interesting! Haven't checked out John Martyn yet, though I've been admonished elsewhere for not having any of his records. Danny Thompson and all that Pentangle stuff I really get into (yep, track A1 on the self-titled 1st LP is what hooked me on their thing), though I sort of lose steam after about three or four records - same w/ ISB (different ilk), Fairport, etc. Abbey, chill.

Yes. The lengthy first piece I like a lot; the rest of it not quite as interesting.