clifford_thornton

Concerts vs. Concert recordings - all seems to me like good old Bob Smithson, the whole site/non-site dialectic. As in, the work as it "occurs" experienced live has a set of rules that are entirely its own, and a recording of such a work has a completely different context and rules, essentially making each of them two different works. Like how an Ansel Adams photograph of the Rockies and actually being at or in that same geographical spot in Real Time/Experience are entirely different things. Funny to be invoking Adams here with AMM and Bob Smithson, but whatever...

Always dig your posts! Happy Birthday!

Thanks for the info! Forgot about that two-fer...

Noah Howard - Quartet - (ESP original stereo) not really my favorite Howard date, but Colbeck shines and the rhythm section is very nice, Scotty Holt on bass (Jackie Mc associate) and Dave Grant on drums. Sort of meandering musically, but what can ya do?

Aw, I like 'em!

That is a VERY uncommon side. In fact, the only time I've seen it on vinyl was a Manhattan DMM pressing - which has led me to believe that it, like Happy Frame of Mind or Dimensions and Extensions, was not issued back in the day. Anyone care to confirm?

To continue in the Ornette mode: Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite - (CBS Sony Japan pressing) too bad this music wasn't used in the original Rooks film. Might have made the film more memorable!

I see we're getting at the same type of joke here - the surrealist type!

Ornette Coleman - In Europe, volume 2 - (Polydor Freedom gatefold) second half of the watershed London trio concert, which sounds great even though from what I've read, the concert sounded like a snowball-effect of headaches. I do really like these Polydor Freedom series LPs - much nicer sound and presentation than their American counterparts.

And here's another I like quite a bit: Q: How many people with ADD does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Wanna go ride bikes?

My favorite joke since I was young: Q: What's the difference between a dog? A: One of its legs is both the same!

I dunno, Alan Silva's arco solo at the beginning of "Unit Structures" would make a killer sample!

Clifford Thornton - Freedom & Unity - (Third World original) great '67 session with Karl Berger, Joe McPhee, Jimmy Garrison, Don Moore, and the brothers Edward and Harold Avent. Too bad this copy is so ratty (most copies I've run into are beat to shit)... if anybody wants to unload an M-, I'd be glad to oblige!

I agree with you on that! The Americas are pretty mellow, but the BYG, ESPs and Calumet are all heavy! Never felt like the Center of the World records lived up to their potential, however...

Church Number Nine Shit, I paid a fifth of what this went for and felt I was "going for it!" Great Frank Wright session, but jeez, this is bananas...

Joe McPhee - Black Magic Man - (Hat Hut) great and lo-fi live date with Mike Kull, Ernest Bostic, Tyrone Crabb and Bruce Thompson. McPhee's doing his screaming and hollering thing on side two right now... nice!

"Sexual Partners" can mean one night, or even two hours, right? The numbers seem plausible to me; I think a lot of ladies downplay their own nature as cads.

I had represses of Idle Moments and The Latin Bit, and traded them both away... I'd like to have The Latin Bit back, though.

...exchange rates notwithstanding, The Crypt is a motherfucker. I have it on a double LP, but you get more music with the CDs. Like, way more. To Hear and Back Again and At the Roundhouse, both Gare-Prevost duos, are pretty amazing sets, though not quite the same as the 'usual' AMM fare.

Also, I don't know that you can tell from his playing - he seems in similar league with Mal Waldron, Hasaan and Valdo Williams in terms of left-hand technique. Granted, Parlan's phrasing is really bizarre sometimes, maybe moreso than these three, but nevertheless...

I think I'd read that somewhere... Up and Down is a motherfucker!

RIP. So many greats have flown out the past few years, it's staggering.

Gotta love those one-name percussionists (Djibrill, Robidoo, Groentjie et al)...

Jack Wright - Free Life, Singing - (Spring Garden) alternately beautiful and warped alto solos (and a couple duos with drummer Marv Frank) from this free improvisation troubador.

Cool! Congrats! I won't lay claim to "SO" yet, but we did go out for sushi and drinks, etc., great time. Plus, she played me some unreleased steel-string guitar music of a friend of hers that was like early, "good" Will Ackerman. The chick's got serious taste!