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Milford Graves and Don Pullen - Nommo - (SRP), healing forces of collision and cohesion...

Brandon Burke has that LP, and has spoken very highly of it as well. I think he got it very, very cheap if I remember correctly!

The album is "It's About Time", and it smokes! That's it, thanks. I'll try to pick it up next time I see it. Nothing like having a few oddballs among all the 'free music.'

Huh. If it weren't in GBP I might pull the trigger on a couple of those!

Yeah, Orgasm is a motherfucker - I have it on a UK Polydor version from the late '60s/early '70s, titled Parabolic, and the liner notes strangely state that it is the first issue anywhere of the material. Very odd. This is corroborated with the liner notes to Tes Esat, which talk about a date (for Verve) lying in the can. Anyhoo, I'd like to hear some of Gato's early work from Rome, with Giorgio Azzolini and that crowd. I'm willing to bet it's straighter material, but the reports are strong on those records.

Awesome! Tip o' the hat to ya, Cap'n!

I've heard good things about an LP he cut for RCA-Victor, but outside of Brubeck-Desmond haven't heard much. I always liked his playing on those records; Bru is kinda cloying for my tastes, but Desmond and Morello are often interesting together. If I'm not mistaken, there is at least one Desmond-Mulligan LP on Verve that has Morello on it; it's a nice West Coast pianoless quartet date that really opened my ears to Desmond, especially.

Yeah, agreed - the Nova builds nicely, but TCB is phenomenal. I bet he was great with Elvin, too. My favorite Skid performance is a live boot (probably being passed around the internet by now) from Frankfurt in 1972 with the Griffiths-Taylor-Laurence-Levin quintet. Very strong stuff, but it would have been even greater to see! Now spinning: Jarman-Moye Egwu-Anwu (India Navigation) featuring some drum patterns that, now that I think of it, sort of remind me of Hank Drake.

Funny, I've never really given any time to their recordings from later years, as much as the 70s material is a gas to listen to. It's something about being without Feza and Dudu that just doesn't make it the same - maybe why those later Blue Notes recordings are in another area entirely. For Mongezi is heavy, but also rather directionless, for example. Then again, I guess it was edited down from a long concert, but still...

Yeah, joyful it always is - they are a gas to listen to. Most of the live stuff is way, way freer than anything on the Neon (or even the Victor LP cut a year later), but those Cuneiforms are amazing discs. I listen to them far more than any of the LPs. The Brotherhood are still quite underrated, which is strange considering how the internet has made finding that music much easier. I would think cats would have jumped all over the shit at this point... they had a pretty strong following among European audiences in the 70s, if I am not mistaken. Seems like you couldn't put on a festival without that band showing up!

Actually, French pianist Francois Tusques is working on a series of visual diagrams of Monk's music. It's referred to in a recent AAJ article on Francois, worth a look if yr interested. I have seen the diagrams and they are absolutely beautiful. Also, graphic scores - though really telling you more about the composed angle than the improvised - are often wonderful visual ways of conceptualizing a piece. In jazz, if you look at the scores of Cecil's music, or for that matter Alexander von Schlippenbach's Globe Unity diagrams, it is really beautiful stuff.

Damn, I wish I had that on LP! You can send it to this address: 29xx W. Dallas Houston, TX xxxxx

Great record - just have to find the box it's still packed in! Yes, it is the first "official" BOB record, though was preceded by The Chris McGregor Group - Very Urgent (Polydor, 1968), with Feza, Dudu, Ronnie Beer, Dyani and Moholo, and before that, a record on Gallo Africa, the name of which escapes me. But for fuck's sake, "MRA" absolutely slays!

Cecil Taylor Jazz Unit - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come - Dutch Fontana pressing, with Marte Roling cover art Now, side 2 of Marion Brown - Juba-Lee - Dutch Fontana original, and a classic of fire music!

I saw "Cunning Stunts" listed earlier, so I left the Cows off. "Sexy Pee Story" is another great Cows record, if that counts. Yeah, they do, amen. If we wanted to trail off into weird titles, "8-Way Santa" is kinda mind-melting. I hope I'm remembering that right, it has been awhile...

As Brandon will attest: TUBER!

Wow, that cover is amazing. Almost looks like a late FMP or something.

And a really great band, too!

I suppose you left the Cows off that list, though the name might not instill too many raised eyebrows...

Yeah, my WLP of the Hasaan LP doesn't sound so hot, even though it looks clean. And yes, I realized the folly of my reasoning for the earlier post after a few moments, but hey, might as well add to the discussion!

I often feel the same way. Two is just not always enough. Why have two when there's the possibility of three. Folks spend way too much time thinking about 4' 33" when there's other issues to explore. Word. Make 'em squeal like Alan Silva's bass, is all I have to say on it.

I often feel the same way. Two is just not always enough.

6'6" though the rest of it is subjective! Thanks, Patricia!

My mom works for the Rothko Chapel. She's pretty fired up on Feldman, and hopefully they'll get their shit together and have the piece performed publicly for the first time in a while. Happy Birthday Morty! And thanks, 7/4, for posting those wonderful photos. But who is that guy from Sunburned Hand of the Man standing with him?