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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").

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.

I am not going to doubt you there, Chuck. Hence...

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.

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!

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.

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.

Never seen 4198 with a deepgroove!