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Everything posted by clifford_thornton
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The band on Soul Eyes is sick; must be pretty early in Ntshoko's discography, no? Keep eyeing Rules of Freedom, one of these days will be eyeing it with my wallet. Anything from the late '60s with Art Taylor has got to be heavy... Also, his new one is nice - The Other Side of Morning - and it's available from Mr. Davis directly from the website, I believe. Here's an interview done over at AAJ, which doesn't spend enough time on the early shit, but which is still fairly informative: Nathan Davis on AAJ
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Agreed, very enticing!
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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Donald Byrd - Byrd's Eye View - (Transition Japanese pressing) the Doug Watkins thread made me dig this one out again, and so glad I did! Reminds me that I need to get a copy of the Watkins at Large LP, or at least the Japanese pressing... -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Steve Lacy - Disposability (VIK Japanese reissue) sweet trio with Kent Carter and Al Romano from '65... -
Now I'm curious about those Melis LPs...
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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Rolf and Joachim Kuhn - Impressions of NY - (Impulse orange and black stereo) pretty much one of the under-heralded classics of '60s improvised music... -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Jiri Stivin & Rudolf Dasek - System Tandem - (Japo) great winds/guitar duo from two Czech masters. It's not a format that I would have thought to yield such amazing improvisations, but this record is smokin'! They have another duo set by the same title, albeit live, on Supraphon. -
From what I remember - REMEMBER - the Dex BNs that I was referring to had less bite than I like with my easy swing. I like a gruff, tarnished tenor sound like Ike Quebec or Hal Singer (a recent discovery) when the tempos are medium-to-slow. When the tempos are high, I like the "dogs barking" of Trane, Gilmore, Cliff Jordan, Griff, etc. Then there's Newk, who doesn't really fit in anywhere here, but I like him. Maybe I was looking for something else in Dex rather than just looking at Dex, but now my curiosity has piqued my own self-criticism, so it looks like I know where my money should go (and not "my mouth").
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Our Man in Paris is nice, true, it was more the Clark/Higgins/Dex stuff I was fading. Which is funny, because I usually like Sonny Clark quite a bit, not to mention Higgins. Definitely due for a re-listen to those, as well as more of the later stuff that I'm especially curious about that material.
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I am not going to doubt you there, Chuck. Hence...
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I haven't got into the BNs so much, but do enjoy the couple of his recordings I am more closely familiar with - one with Booker Ervin on Prestige, the other with Jackie Mc on Steeplechase, The Meeting. A Day in Copenhagen looks good - with Slide and Dizzy, can you go wrong? - but I admit to being very bored by Go and A Swingin' Affair, which has prevented much further investigation. The tone and phrasing on the two sideman gigs I mention are more striking to me, grittier and maybe more hard-earned than on the BNs. Would it be fair to say that the '70s Dexter might be more estimable? How would people here say they differ? I'm not feeling like scrolling through the whole thread to get some opinions... There's one I'm curious about, mainly from the Bennink-fanatic perspective, but the double LP on Catfish from Amsterdam's Paradiso looks pretty cool. Any thoughts? I think it was reissued on Affinity but can't recall. Finally, I think you can totally hear drugs in somebody's playing. Not everybody, but there are some who really sound affected. Alan Shorter is a big one for me - he always sounds zonked, especially later in his brief career. Doesn't stop my enjoyment of the albums, but his playing is pretty nodded-out on a lot of post-Orgasm sessions.
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Drummer with anthrax
clifford_thornton replied to Spontooneous's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Same here! He was pretty great, as was that band, back in the day! How's Benante these days, anyway? -
I'd like to see a nice coffee-table book of Val Wilmer's photos of musicians. Or, a Guy Kopelowicz one, in a pinch!
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I also remember it wasn't too long ago that those Horos went for $300-$400 on eBay, so $100 isn't too bad. I've never really been that interested in them, but if I saw them sitting in a shop for less than $50, I'd buy 'em.
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I like early- to mid-60s Ra the best, and the ESP vol. 3 is great, especially for that long first track. Excellent! A lot of people fade the ESPs, but not me... As for Saturns, I like Cosmic Tones and Strange Strings quite a bit (at least from the mid-60s output), but my Ra stash is pretty small. Thanks for the photos, btw, they are gorgeous.
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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Never seen 4198 with a deepgroove! -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
I dunno, did it have a 2 cm patch of sticker residue in the top right quadrant, with a small nick in the jacket? M- vinyl? Could have crossed the Atlantic... -
Those are very good dates, as are the duets with Tony Oxley. I've not heard much "bad" Dixon, though there are some less interesting titles for sure. Odyssey is a motherfucker, though!
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Nice mention of Takayanagi. I've wanted to hear those Axis: Another Revolvable Thing records, but alas, my wallet can't hang with their going rate...
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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Vincent le Masne & Bertrand Porquet - Guitares Derive - (Shandar) great minimalist guitar duets, in the vein of Steve Reich. -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Hans Dulfer and Soulbrass, Inc. - Live at the Bohemia Jazzclub - (Stichting) sounds like the Ike Quebec-Freddie Roach group on acid... with Herbert Noord (org), Henk van Es (bari) Arjen Gorter (b) Rob Kattenburg (d) and Steve Boston (conga) -
Jimmy Smith: playing Coltrane before Coltrane
clifford_thornton replied to Soul Stream's topic in Artists
The only organist I really listen to is Larry Young. Sorry to Jim, and everybody else! -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
clifford_thornton replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Frank Lowe - The Flam - (Black Saint) had forgotten what an interesting date in Lowe's catalog this is, and what a great bassist Alex Blake is. The record was found for $1 in Connecticut nearly a decade ago... -
Wow!
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Jimmy Smith: playing Coltrane before Coltrane
clifford_thornton replied to Soul Stream's topic in Artists
I sold all my Jimmy Smith records some time ago, but wouldn't mind having a nice deepgroove of The Sermon. As for cross-pollination, that's how all of it happens! I'm not at all surprised, especially as much of a listener as Trane was, and vice-versa would make some sense too.