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My favorite joke since I was young: Q: What's the difference between a dog? A: One of its legs is both the same!

I dunno, Alan Silva's arco solo at the beginning of "Unit Structures" would make a killer sample!

Clifford Thornton - Freedom & Unity - (Third World original) great '67 session with Karl Berger, Joe McPhee, Jimmy Garrison, Don Moore, and the brothers Edward and Harold Avent. Too bad this copy is so ratty (most copies I've run into are beat to shit)... if anybody wants to unload an M-, I'd be glad to oblige!

I agree with you on that! The Americas are pretty mellow, but the BYG, ESPs and Calumet are all heavy! Never felt like the Center of the World records lived up to their potential, however...

Church Number Nine Shit, I paid a fifth of what this went for and felt I was "going for it!" Great Frank Wright session, but jeez, this is bananas...

Joe McPhee - Black Magic Man - (Hat Hut) great and lo-fi live date with Mike Kull, Ernest Bostic, Tyrone Crabb and Bruce Thompson. McPhee's doing his screaming and hollering thing on side two right now... nice!

"Sexual Partners" can mean one night, or even two hours, right? The numbers seem plausible to me; I think a lot of ladies downplay their own nature as cads.

I had represses of Idle Moments and The Latin Bit, and traded them both away... I'd like to have The Latin Bit back, though.

...exchange rates notwithstanding, The Crypt is a motherfucker. I have it on a double LP, but you get more music with the CDs. Like, way more. To Hear and Back Again and At the Roundhouse, both Gare-Prevost duos, are pretty amazing sets, though not quite the same as the 'usual' AMM fare.

Also, I don't know that you can tell from his playing - he seems in similar league with Mal Waldron, Hasaan and Valdo Williams in terms of left-hand technique. Granted, Parlan's phrasing is really bizarre sometimes, maybe moreso than these three, but nevertheless...

I think I'd read that somewhere... Up and Down is a motherfucker!

RIP. So many greats have flown out the past few years, it's staggering.

Gotta love those one-name percussionists (Djibrill, Robidoo, Groentjie et al)...

Jack Wright - Free Life, Singing - (Spring Garden) alternately beautiful and warped alto solos (and a couple duos with drummer Marv Frank) from this free improvisation troubador.

Cool! Congrats! I won't lay claim to "SO" yet, but we did go out for sushi and drinks, etc., great time. Plus, she played me some unreleased steel-string guitar music of a friend of hers that was like early, "good" Will Ackerman. The chick's got serious taste!

Looks like I get to add a lost Dusty order to the bill! Eight days and no show, which isn't totally awol, except somehow they combined my shipping address and one of a recent gift order into some total gobbledygook - good thing I asked for them to email me "where" they shipped it to. Duh... Guess I won't be getting that Hal Singer CD after all.

Kaoru Abe and Sabu Toyozumi Overhang Party - Senzei - (Qbico, with a handmade cover) a seriously great alto/drums duo set, and though Abe is pretty well documented, it isn't always in such classic sparring settings as this one.

I hear ya - we can dream, can't we? It would be great to see Grimes play some bebop - I almost prefer him in that context (save with Cecil).

Saw 'em live a couple of years back in Minneapolis and they were absolutely great. Unfortunately I was stuck watching the Shins right afterwards, and they were a drag.

That makes sense - I wouldn't think Crouch, Rivers and Chadbourne would be in the same room in any other context than a loft gig.

Well, yes, of course - but in terms of audiences actually getting a jazz record and thinking they were getting one, I guess that was my point. But then you're right, it is sort of like comparing steak and oranges...

Hamiet Bluiett's euphemism for Ornette and Don (and Bird and Dizzy) was "like two dogs barking." Whenever he heard "two dogs barking," it meant something good was happening in the music.

A lot of people do coke, some even into older age. Marion Brown was on it in the '80s and '90s, which contributed to some of his health problems. Frank Wright is rumored to have died as a result of a coke-induced heart attack. There are also those people who use it for a while and then kick after it's served its purpose, so there ya go.

Yeah, too bad Grimes isn't doing any straight-ahead gigs. Maybe it's something to do with the green bass juju...

So chris o, a question: don't you think G moves units to those who would have been into Stan Getz or the Three Sounds? I may be wrong about that line of thinking, but it makes sense to me. I mean, I hear your point, but good jazz records have been "easy listening" in the past. Then again, I list Cecil Taylor's Nefertiti as among my favorite bebop records, so what do I know about "mainstream" tastes...