clifford_thornton

Depends on whether you're Dolphy or Coltrane (as per your post above).

I always thought Mulgrew was a little more :bwallace2: , y'know?

That Clifford fella is everywhere!

I'll take the one on the right...

Then you just have to find a $10 empty jacket... I do want that record, but like most things from the early KW discography, it is prohibitively expensive vis-a-vis its supposed 'rarity.'

Amen. RIP to one of the greats. Did Gene Wilder die too, or is Chuck referring to somebody or something else?

I think many, if not all, of the Byg reissues (of US titles) were dubbed from vinyl. I know the Delmarks they reissued were on the market before Delmark could send them the tapes. I meant Ramblin', not Footloose (for the 'record').

That Manhattan I just drank tasted like frog's legs. A few more and we'll see what olfactory conflation I can get!

For December: Patty Waters complete recordings (liners by yours truly, in addition to Mr. Stollman) and Ayler Slugs' Saloon 2CD (with notes by John Kruth). Archival photos and clean mastering, both in my hands as I type.

Yeah, I hope it's not true too, but he has been ailing for some time and in quite a bit of pain.

I like it.

It could be that, or it could be taken directly from an LP. Maybe jlhoots' copy was from a cleaner LP! I would like to get this music - never got around to buying the vinyl, which has a pretty silly looking cover if you ask me. The Ornette and Denardo photo is from the same session as Ornette at Twelve, right?

Haven't seen you in awhile, eh? Maybe you've been leading up to the ceremonies...

Expensive 2nd pressing, indeed... Ayler ESP

Heard from a friend: "I overheard these white-hats talking and 'Blue Train' came on. One of them said 'I know who this is - it's Dave Drewbek." Long may "Dru" live!

Well, that did seem a little high - maybe twice what those Aylers usually go for. The copy of "Spiritual Unity" with the book is actually a 2nd pressing, and definitely went for too much. The first has a solid blood-red cover with black graphics and liner notes on the back, with a book and signed by the musicians. Now THAT is rare. I believe a lot of these are doubles from his collection; others he hasn't listened to since the '60s... so I guess it's more like 'why not?'

In the young'uns bunch! But at 28, I find myself still old enough to know better in most situations.

Heliocentric v. 3 is pretty good - especially the first long track. I reviewed it for Paris Transatlantic some months back; here's the link: Ra and Ayler on PT

There are some beautiful records on that list, for sure... Albert Ayler on Debut? Frippe and Don Cherry on Bird Notes? Unity Trio on Salaam? All of those I would love to get, but of course for a hell of a lot cheaper!

This may sound kind of crazy, especially coming from a self-professed Lacy-phile, but I hadn't heard Reflections in years. Finally picked up a JP vinyl copy the other day to "try it again," and it is so great. Especially great because I know what came after, and how important Monk was to both Steve and Mal - as a bridge to serious sonic expansion and investigation. I hadn't heard it since owning a CD copy briefly about ten years ago; at that time, I was itching for something else and didn't keep it. Just thought I'd share.

John Tchicai is one of my favorites - especially his post-NY stuff from the late 60s into the 70s - but I have heard his new one is kinda boring. Haven't picked up much recent Tchicai except for the stuff with Adam Lane or Mat Marucci, and he's very strong with them. Saw JT do some solo stuff recently and it was real good, but the gigs he was on with Lane, Altschul and Paul Smoker a few years back were phenomenal... Supposedly he has retrieved some reel-to-reels of his Cadentia Nova Danica group playing with Musica Elettronica Viva in the late '60s - that should be really far out stuff, indeed.

Ah, how did that "i" get in there? Probably because most people I know who even have any idea who he is pronounce it with a long "A" sound... It took me long enough to figure out that drummer Cees See was pronounced with a hard "C," analogous to the "K" in, well, "Kees" (yeah, they sound the same). Why didn't he just stick with the easy spelling? Or was he trying to distance himself from Haazz?

I've always preferred the sound of the LPs to McMaster or RVG editions, though the TOCJs for some reason I like quite a bit. Unit Structures is a fold-down, but it sounds very nice and full to me in mono. Especially the title track - Silva and Grimes are very well-captured.

Freddie Hubbard Breaking Point (craptastic UA with stains on the cover) Next up - if I can find it in the moving boxes, maybe I'll spin Compulsion (Liberty Stereo, perfect copy).

I think I paid $40 for mine, and it was well worth it. Still, the McMaster is useless so hopefully they do some sort of reasonably solid domestic re-release of that one. As for the Rivers stuff, I have all of 'em on LP so I couldn't remember how they were reissued.