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Everything posted by clifford_thornton
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Just get Chuck, Clem, youmustbe and chewy in there and see how long the newbies last!
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I'd agree on disc 2 of the Collier, but disc 1 blows my mind... I've been pretty impressed with Cuneiform. They have an aesthetic and stick to it, and I can't say I haven't learned a lot from their liner writers, in addition to the music they've put out. Now, if they could just do a BOB live box set... I generally like UMS too, though "unheard" is often pretty debatable - some of those aren't in the least bit rare, though I suppose they weren't on CD before. I'm wracking my brain trying to think of a reissue in Cuneiform's catalog comparable to the circle-jerk that is Starship Beer, however... Corbs will never be able to live that one down, as much as I like the guy.
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Lived there for three years. Now I'm down here for grad school. So, I'm at the opposite of Nord!
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V-mark's Free Jazz Classics sessions are great, and he can play the shit out of some Newk, Shepp, Kirk, Bley (&c.) tunes... but I bet a lot of people wouldn't agree. The Americas are both great, and I agree on the short songs. They're very focused, and A.T. plays his ass off!
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SGUD Missile fires again! a new big band CD coming!
clifford_thornton replied to SGUD missile's topic in New Releases
Ohhh yeeahh... Been a long time since I've had one of those. Used to be the drink of choice when I was an undergrad. -
Sorry bro, can't follow you there either!
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Ouch. I can't say I've heard him enough (or at all) to make an opinion. Eddie Jefferson is good, though!
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No irony, just honest down-home funky free-blues. Excellent date. Few is on it and plays piano - it's the original quartet of Wright, Howard, Few and Ali.
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That's it. Strangely enough, I'd always thought it was called "Unity." That's how it was presented to me, anyway... I prefer the stuff with Noah Howard but the Center of the World band is "good." The whooping and hollering I was referring to was Adieu, Little Man, which is retarded but also very enjoyable.
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Or Shudan Sokai - Sono Zenya: Live at Hachioji Alone, which would eat Funny Rat for breakfast! japanimprov.com gets my vote for the hippest, weirdest Japanese improv CD site. I do wish for more discographical data, but what can you do?
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LF: Carlos Ward - "Lito" (w/ Woody Shaw)
clifford_thornton replied to Rooster_Ties's topic in Offering and Looking For...
Actually, the cover pic you posted is the one only used for the cd. The lp cover is completely different. It's a must have IMO. I have only seen it once and I snapped it up quick. I think I paid something like 2.99 for the lp. Uh, my copy of the LP has that very cover and I've never seen it with anything else. I don't know how many times Leo pressed it, but I'm surprised that it was enough times to change up. Could you post the alternate artwork? -
Forgot about those... that was a weird band, with Thurman Barker and Leroy Jenkins, right?
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Japan Free This site is fun. The CD shop gets a lot of my attention as of late, especially the Japanese indie stuff. I'm looking forward to getting a few more things by Moto Takagi, who is a pretty firey player and integral to the scene.
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It's good, a little nutso with lots of whooping and hollering. What is now an ESP has been floating around in bootleg trading circles for a while. I have a rip from cassette and it's great, high fidelity stuff. The Schlippenbach Quartett played one of their best recorded performances at Moers that day also.
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Lito is the shit - the first side is smokin'! He's also very strong (albeit in a formative stage) with Karl Berger on that ESP you posted the image of a while back. Ward played with Coltrane a few times, and worked with Sunny Murray briefly in the '60s. I have an interview that I'm hoping to transcribe soon, that gives the details of his life story from Panama to Switzerland and beyond. Very interesting, warm, and friendly cat - and a real talker!
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Do you mean "least-well-documented" in terms of as a leader? He certainly plays on more AEC albums than not. I thought he was based in Chicago from the '70s on, which makes it all the more telling that his appearances on NYC records are so many. At this point, I find it hard to imagine him playing with Steve Lacy, which is where the AEC got him from...
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Your Favorite Cereal
clifford_thornton replied to Soul Stream's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Grape Nuts with a dash of honey. Mmm! -
I'd really like to hear that duo with Yamazaki - that cat is a HELL of a drummer. Abe's guitar playing is very interesting, indeed, though not well-documented. The shit on/with Overhang Party is waaay bent...
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I have that on LP. It's not bad, though Sirone takes over the date, at what I believe to be the expense of potentially fine playing by Charles and altoist Claude Lawrence. Artistry, on Of The Cosmos records (one of two titles on that label), is a much better date IMO and really deserves to be reissued. Sirone is joned there by Don Moye, James Newton and cellist Bernard Fennell. It's a gorgeous record of unique ensemble color and heavy swing. Newton is on FIRE.
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Scorpio is a bootleg label. So it's safe to assume that the recent crop of Muse titles is a result of their work? I thought they had something to do with the Strata-East reissues, too, though the two of those I own sound quite good.
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Haven't heard it... I did get a vinyl copy of Kidd's record on Prescription (I think it was Fielder who put up the money for the "label"), No Compromise!, which is quite good in a freebop sort of way. Fewer multiphonics than he's known for presently. It is on CD as well, I see. Recently picked up the John Blum (pno) Astrogeny Quartet on Eremite, with Parker, Denis Charles and an altoist by the name of Antonio Grippi. Very heavy stuff...
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I don't really spend my days "thinking" about Pharoah, but I do like a lot of the records. He seemed like a pretty engaging hybrid of influences during the run of mid-60s dates, such as the ESP and his work with Don Cherry et al. Again, I do like those records as well. As far as going in a certain direction with "out" tenor playing, I'd say that he certainly was a starting point for more feral honkers like Arthur Doyle, and his music was certainly influential, even if only through a "vibe" or a way to incorporate "modal," vamp-heavy tunes with very free playing. For example, the late '60s/early '70s Noah Howard records on Freedom share a lot with Pharoah's aesthetic, though of course Noah's got his own thing entirely (and which I've been guilty of finding cipher-ish also). Roger Blank and JC Moses are good analogs - very fleet post-Philly Joe stylists for the free set. God love 'em both.
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SGUD Missile fires again! a new big band CD coming!
clifford_thornton replied to SGUD missile's topic in New Releases
TMW? IT SGOOD 2 SEE THGE CAPSLOKC IS STIL ON 4 U CHEWY!!!!