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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...

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.

Keep those '60s gig lineups coming - they are the stuff us young'uns' dreams are made of!

TMW? IT SGOOD 2 SEE THGE CAPSLOKC IS STIL ON 4 U CHEWY!!!!

Well, E and AK, are you up for keeping it up? I know PLM is around here somewhere, too. I wonder if Chaney and DD went over to Bagatellen, the usual source for EAI and improv banter...

There's a copy of the Maupin LP in a shop for like $12; guess I'm getting it! I wonder what his career trajectory would've been like if he'd cut an album as a leader around the time he was working with Marion Brown and Sunny Murray...

Damn, dude, you're worse than me!

Yes, this is the track from "Shape of jazz to come". Not the same tune as the Horace Silver tune from "Song for my father". MG What the fuck is this? dont fuck with me Ornette, dude. Chill.

I agree on Clem's props for Mal... I may get this set, as I have only a few scattered Trane non-Miles Prestiges.

Then again, I suppose there were a number of early BNs that weren't reissued until King came along...

I stick with my King, Toshiba, Liberty and lower-tier NY USA pressings. They've been issued so many times that for me, it's not worth it to maintain an all-original setup. When you're talking things that were only issued in one form, or at least very few, then I get interested...

Yeah, why wasn't the Alan Shorter kept in print...? If their leasing of the Giuffre's to ECM (or did they sell them outright?) is any indication, I agree that the only hope for interesting Verve/Impulse sides to see the light of day again is through leasing them out.

Spun Brilliant Corners last night (Riverside stereo black label), will be hitting on more Monk and Lacy today...

Amen. He's a favorite of mine. I have most of the Saravah recordings, save Roba (which I really want), and enjoy them. Dreams is not my preferred jam of the bunch, though. That would be Scraps. Or would it be Lapis? Dang, I just can't decide... The only Lacy record I've heard that I've really not enjoyed was the duo with Michael Smith on IAI. Snoozer.

Agreed on Takayanagi's New Direction Unit. The Axis: Another Revolvable Thing set is also stunning; it's from around the same time. The "Mass Projection" track on volume one is sick - I didn't realize that something could take "Echo"-style density as its starting point, and get denser and freer every couple of minutes... mind-melting. Takayanagi's also good on Masahiko Togashi's We Now Create, a rare Japanese Victor session from '69 that was recently reissued. Yoshizawa and Mototeru Takagi (tenor, cornpipe) also make appearances. Apparently that Eclipse session, first on an Iskra LP, was slated to be Takayanagi's ESP debut. Unfortunately ESP didn't have the bread to put it out at the time, and shut down shortly thereafter. I too have been scratching the surface on some of this material as of late; Abe's the next major project, though I do have a couple of Overhang Party records (Abe/Sabu Toyozumi duo) that are really great.

It's Nona Howard, a French hippie chick, and that record ain't so hot - mainly because it's not the "real" MEV but a French psych group called Spacecraft, posing as MEV. Just 'cause they jammed with the real thing don't mean they ARE the real thing...

I don't know about Sunday mornings (rarely do I get up early on that "sacred" day), but this morning I listened to AMM music from The Crypt, 1968...

Marzette Watts (tenor) featuring vocalist Patty Waters on a truly lyrical version of the song, from the Marzette Watts Ensemble Savoy LP, produced by Bill Dixon in 1969. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

Awesome...

Jackie Mc - Action - (BN Liberty Stereo)

I've met Guy - he's a funny little dude!

Yeah, I just have that on a twofer, but it's great!

I would like to get a few of the McLeans in this form, too. Now THAT's a cat who will never be overrated in my eyes!

Awesome!

What, 'Dance With Death'? Oops, I sometimes let my feelings of Hill's overratedness slip out... sorry! I wish I had some other King LPs to balance it out, but I keep getting outbid on Poppin'.