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It is an amazing set, but that figure seems quite high. $680 more than I paid, anyway...

They've had that thing on the wall since I moved to Chicago, in 2001! I got my green-top (Madison address) Bowie for $12 in 1998.

My Hank tastes were stoked by A Caddy For Daddy today, and I set aside a copy of Reach Out! at the record store. Had to put a bunch on hold today - lots of good used BNs and Time jazz dates!

For me, the best Howard dates are the two on Freedom, Black Ark and Live at the Village Vanguard. Of course, the stuff with Frank Wright isn't bad either... I'd also like to hear the Live in Torino on Altsax (tho co-released with some obscure Euro imprint). Assume it's got the nice modal/out vibe of his best work. Wonder where the original Patterns session came from - the band is so weird it's hard to figure. I mean, Mengelberg, Bennink, Boston and Schoonhoven isn't that strange a combo (if it were a Dulfer date, anyway...) but to throw Noah and Earl in there makes it super odd. I think I'm going to put it on right now, as a matter of fact - it's been years since I jammed the thing.

I've had a couple of ratty copies and remember it being solid, though haven't scored a clean one yet to give it its due!

I found that Harlem Banjo LP in a bookshop a couple of years ago, and it's really good. Thanks for the reminder of this cool session; may play it when I get home from work!

Prefer the Spiderman franchise by a mile to this one...

Oh, I only have the LP, which lacks the McGregor material. With the original Altsax, I always feel like Hans Dulfer and Groentjie should be around to spice it up a bit!

Yeah, Ubu, that's what I was thinking of. Better contact my NDR sources and see if I can come up with it!

Seems about the time he passed away, I think... Could be, however. Earl's middle name was "Goggles."

I suspect there was WAAY more recorded than is on the LP - it was an NDR broadcast, after all! Wasn't this an FMP CD at some point? I have an old FMP CD catalog that lists it as "forthcoming." Not a bad record, but no Berlin Djungle!

I've been far more impressed by the band on Patterns than the actual music...

I need to pull this one out again... long time no listen!

Aside from various BYGs and an America or two, there's: Friendship Next of Kin - Facets of the Universe (Goody) Universal Jazz Symphonette - Sound Craft '75 (Anima), orchestral blowout conducted by Earl The Freestyle Band - s/t (Adeyeme) trio with Earl on electric bass and piano, Henry Warner on clarinet and alto clarinet, and Ade Yeme on congas. Weird record, but cool as hell! Noah Howard - Live at the Village Vanguard (Freedom) Noah Howard - Patterns (Altsax) I'll dig through the mental reserves and see what else is out there, too...

I wish somebody would release the hordes of private tapes from the '70s he must have in his collection...

HBLC!!!

Bew-uhl is how he said it to me! Cool dude, and pretty far out...

I thought "Los Olivdados" was a Shepp tune, from Fire Music.

Shellac - At Action Park or the Uranus EP. :tup

Ummm... I think I need this, as a collector of all things Earl Freeman. By the way, ep1str0phy's review of the Isipingo at AAJ is nice!

I love the cover on that one. It's usually around $30-$40, which is too much.

Is it the Dawn or the Pye reissue? Great record... I thought it did have its own Akarma CD issue.

I've also heard of, rather than an oven, leaving it in between the glass pieces out on the patio. How long should one leave it, and does one keep it in its paper sleeve while doing this or not?

I think it was Deep. The piles of art books didn't seem to squash 'em enough. I mean, they play through, but they thunk lightly and look horrible... How much would a couple of pieces of tempered glass cost anyway? I'll test it on a factory-warped BYG.