clifford_thornton

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...

I would be surprised to see a review of Machine Gun in Downbeat at the time - it came out first on the tiny BRO private label, and was reissued by FMP in the early/mid '70s, probably not to much stateside notice. But then, I wasn't there, so I could be wrong. Litweiler took note in his Freedom Principle, which was published in the '80s. As for Berendt and the European jazz press, well - the music was treated somewhat differently there than here. Somewhat.

Right. I wouldn't argue that the Ric Colbeck record is a historical "best" but it's certainly one of my ten favorite jazz records.

Wow, I actually thought Tyner was older than that... Anyway, here's to many more. It was a pleasure seeing him in Austin recently.

I hear what you're saying. I suppose I'm in the "under 30" for a month or so longer, as it is. That said, though I do have a 6-eye of KOB, it's not among my desert island discs. I have 3 out of those 10 listed, and have listened to a bit of a 4th.

I wouldn't buy from someone I didn't trust, and this looks a little sketchy in the grading department...

Yeah, an interesting and honest list to be sure. No "hipster" about it - mine would include some oddball ringers and no KOB!

I believe this is Walter Perkins' last recording: Bob Feldman - Triplicity

Yeah, Sel is in on it and they had it remastered and there's an extra track or two on the final edition.

Sel at Paris Transatlantic

Amazing LP, and good to see that this long-awaited reissue is finally out. I didn't think it was all that valuable a record, though, in terms of "eBay wallet damage."

Ditto.

Livin' Not much is "unequivocally" good, but my bias leans toward family, health, music, art, books, a double short Americano with the right amount of crema, and a few other things...

Another great Wilber Morris Trio is the one with Charles Tyler & Denis Charles on Blue Regard called "Collective Improvisations". Thanks! Don't have that one...

I think Aggie's mind was in the gutter for a sec! Valerie has some great stories, and I know what you mean (and that you weren't insinuating any crap)... There is a KD festival in Austin that happens on his birthday. Sadly, I was too busy to make it this time around. Maybe next year!

I can't keep it all straight... that whiskey last night didn't help, either.

The ESP CD licensing fiasco was/is pretty astounding. Stollman talks about it a bit here: Stollman at AAJ I'm not surprised the Abraxas were needle-drops; to my ears, the Calibres I've heard have sounded fine. Of course, the new ESP reissues are great, though much of what they are concentrating on is archival/new material.

OK, I'll give it a shot... Sonny Clark - Leapin & Lopin Jackie McLean - Destination Out Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul Tina Brooks - Minor Move Dizzy Reece - Blues in Trinity Cecil Taylor - Conquistador Bud Powell - Volume 1 Andrew Hill - Black Fire Horace Parlan - Up & Down Jordan/Gilmore - Blowing In from Chicago

Strange there isn't a single CD issue of Prophecy. All I can think of is that 2CD set with all the Cellar material that somebody issued in the mid-90s (can't remember and don't feel like looking it up), and you have half of that on HG. I like Prophecy pretty well; have had it on ESP vinyl for years and it definitely feels different than Spiritual Unity - more open and bled-out, if you catch my drift. Edit: didn't see you got a CD of it. Is this the combined session with "Bells" or some bootleg insanity that I was unaware of?

I didn't know you were part of the whole rap debacle of the late '80s/early 90s...

It's worth it; if you get it from ESP (or on the old Abraxas CD), you also get "Bells," which is a motherfucker...

Bedhead - What Fun Life Was - (Trance Syndicate) Bitchin' full-length debut by one of Texas' finer mid-90s rock bands.