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Frank Lowe - Black Beings - (ESP original) fairly rough pressing, but the music comes through it somehow!

That looks cool. The only Lindberg session I've had is the trio with Lyons and Sunny on Hat Hut. Nothing against him - good bass player - but I always wished that LP was a duo.

Happy Birthday!

I read it that way too, just now, so I think it's our eyes - and the fact that she's a little "macha." Get Gemma Ward in here, quick!

That Gokudo site is cool. That Hutch cover is kinda nuts.

I actually didn't know he was still alive up to this point... Sad news, in any event.

They also have a duo on Boxholder which is pretty good, Toronto 1997. I have a session on Alacra (M. Pavone's label) called The Bell of the Heart, which I thought would be better than it is (too precious for my tastes), but the band is kind of interesting in a Connecticut underground sort of way.

Really? Huh. I picture fold-downs as something occuring later than '62-'64. Guess not. Want to elaborate, Chuck?

The Montmartre disc is pretty heavy. Used to have an original flipback LP of it, but the cover was jacked so it became expendable. Probably should have kept it, though...

I have that old BN twofer as well as an original Roulette of Uhuru Afrika, the latter seems a bit out of place in his discography if I'm not mistaken (conceptually). Probably need to bust out Little Niles for another listen!

Where is this from?

One of my exes took a couple of Revenants, including the Charlie Feathers set...

Funny, I was looking at a Milford Graves discography and saw that Sonny Morgan played on all those Montego Joe records, too. Sonny's fine with Milford on their ESP (1015 - the "Nothing" record), and he's also on Kenny Barron's Peruvian Blue (which I like a lot). However, was unaware that he was recorded so much.

Real big on Donald Garrett, so this has potential. I hadn't picked it up for the main reason that some of Jarman's other records from the period - including that trio with Dyani - really don't do it for me. Dyani I usually love as well, but that Black Saint trio record sucks.

That's interesting, didn't know about the death of Esoldun-INA. I've seen those records around, though not the Coltrane ALS. As per the original post, Impulse monos sound phenomenal. I think it's a greater difference than with Blue Notes, though I could be mis-hearing.

Good to know - I often forget those little round things exist!

Intersection without superimposition. Parallel. Considering what I think of with records like Smokestack, it does make sense.

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

Agreed, very enticing!

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...

Steve Lacy - Disposability (VIK Japanese reissue) sweet trio with Kent Carter and Al Romano from '65...

Now I'm curious about those Melis LPs...

Rolf and Joachim Kuhn - Impressions of NY - (Impulse orange and black stereo) pretty much one of the under-heralded classics of '60s improvised music...

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").