clifford_thornton

I've "almost" bought that one several times. Great band, maybe next time I'll pick it up!

Duke Jordan - Flight to Jordan - (BN Toshiba Stereo) "Deacon Joe" is such a great tune...

Joseph Heller Jimmy Doolittle Enola Gay

Bigger Thomas "Clay" Louis Worrell

Warne Marsh - All Music - (Nessa) beautiful record; there's a great thread on it somewhere...

They ain't Bill Dixon glasses, that's for sure...

Martin Davidson's contribution above is particularly great...

I'm not at all impressed with the article/obit up on AAJ by Kurt Gottschalk. What do you think? AAJ Derek Bailey

right, = Elton John. I've never understood precisely WHY he did that, though.

Fuck! RIP

Alan Silva - Inner Song - (Center of the World original) Silva keeping it real on bass, piano and wailing. Great back cover photo of Alan and a few of his (probably many) kids...

uh, Clifford Thornton - Communications Network - (Third World) man, this is a LOT better than I remember it, though still a weird one in the discography. Lakshinarayana Shankar (vln), Sirone (b), Jerome Cooper (d), [me] (el-p, cornet) and Jayne Cortez (poem), Nathan Davis (ss), Jay Hoggard (vib), Andy Gonzalez (b) Jerry Gonzalez, Vincent George, Nicky Marrero (perc.), [me] (cornet)

Though Charles Brackeen was born an Okie, he did play in Texas before moving out West. For whatever reason, I always put him in this category even though he's kinda been all over the place. Here's my two cents, via Prince Lasha: PL: ...Buster Smith was my director, and that’s where I got most of my stamina for playing the saxophone. It was so frightening standing next to him, because it seemed like the sound was coming up through the ground, up through the bottom of the horn and out through the bell. Being a young man, I was standing there [frightened] next to him for a couple of years; prior to that, we had jam sessions every Sunday in Fort Worth with James Clay, David “Fathead” Newman, and Leroy Cooper. AAJ: That’s the Texas sound that you, Ornette, Booker Ervin and others have, where it just feels like it’s coming up through the floor, and at least from my perspective, out through the speakers. It’s a really forceful thing. PL: I did the same experiment with Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Eric [Dolphy], standing next to these men it seemed like it was coming up through the ground, up through the bottom of the horn and out the bell, and that’s one of the most mysterious, magical and frightening [things]. I stood next to ‘Trane that way, and next to Rollins that way (we worked in the Jazz Workshop, went to Boston; we were all over Chicago and at the Plugged Nickel, way before your days). Those are some of the things that used to take place, and this is why I suppose you’d said that about the Texas sound. AAJ: It’s unmistakable for anything else, and it seems like you can tell where somebody is from by how they sound on their horn. PL: Illinois Jacquet was from Texas too. There used to be a great player I traveled with named Scotty, and he could play with one arm tied behind his back — he really could play tenor, and he was from Houston also. Arnett Cobb, all those guys came up out of there.

Right, thanks for the reminder. I saw him lead an orchestra piece dedicated to his time in Vietnam, and featuring Frank Lowe as a main soloist (RIP). Pretty fucking immense shit. Must've been one of Frank's last performances, as it was in 2001.

Thanks for posting that. Now I don't have to go buy the issue!

Wonder why they did that for DJs? I assume these are somehow different than the New York 4200s with Liberty jackets (e.g. Let 'Em Roll, Sweet Honeybee, Unit Structures, Stick-Up)? I have a nice stereo Liberty/RVG of Conquistador ($15), so the mono wouldn't really be an upgrade. Of course, Atomic probably wants $50.

Except Hi Voltage seems to go for quite a bit in that format. Not my favorite Mobley by a long stretch...

Strangely, I like his later, larger works better than the earlier stuff. I never would have expected that I would say I "like" him, but he's now "alright" for me.

Considering that the actual mono takes for this LP are different, and remain unissued, I don't see the real value in having a "Mono" version of this one... Conquistador Granted, I've never seen a mono pressing of it, but really, it doesn't look like anybody's biting.

I could finance grad school... or I could take out student loans! Really, I would rather not do that, but sometimes when I see things going crazy on eBay that I know I don't listen to that much, it's tempting. But never the whole thing... I suppose if I had to, I'd find other ways to hear great music. There are friends, there is the internet, there are the BFTs here (which I keep thinking I'll join in on someday), so it wouldn't be hard to remain inspired beyond looking at a rack of Blue Note and ESP spines.

I thought she was "fine" but nothing special when I heard her. Charles Burnham is very good, though it has been some time since I've seen him play live. Seeing the old Ibarra trio with him and Cooper-Moore was quite an experience - in fact, I think I saw their last show as a group before C-M was fired (or whatever). Did get the pleasure to see Fiddler Williams at a church in Topeka, Kansas many years ago. I was a kid, but even with my feeble mind of the time, he was fantastic. Saw Leroy Jenkins solo (twice) and on occasions with the reunited Revolutionary Ensemble and the Myra Melford-Jarman-Jenkins trio. He is a master! Would like to have been able to see Alan Silva, Michel Samson and Ornette in their violin-playing prime!

Amen on the Bontecou, that was a hell of an exhibition! I wish I had been in Chicago for more than a weekend so I really could have spent some time with it. Being able to go back again and again is certainly the reason why I rate the Gursky (MoMA, '01) and Last Picture Show (WAC, Mpls, 2003) as among the greatest big-exhibition experiences I've had. Looking forward to the Hesse drawings and Stella 1958 paintings at the Menil this spring!

Yeah, there are a few I need to get and just put them off. Now's the time! Kind of scary to see some are sold out!

Wow. That beats those Pretoria Arvanitas LPs by a lot!

Dutch theme continues... Kees Hazevoet - Pleasure One - (Peace original) with Louis Moholo, Arjen Gorter and the great Kris Wanders on alto. Beautiful handmade cover on this one, too!