clifford_thornton

Feel free to flog me for not having this...

Possibly, but that again is an oversimplification.

Yeah. Improvised music is so easy to play, and experience. Thank God I get my challenges from television.

Similar band to the Curried Jazz LP?

I wasn't all that into the first one when I heard it, years ago, but my tastes are more inclusive now. That Bob Moses private LP, Bittersuite in the Ozone (with Jeanne Lee, Daniel Carter, HoJo and others) is pretty good, actually.

Flaherty: I just got that Beloved Music disc, and look forward to delving into it. Tried to have a "shop" (yes, an actual store) order Cold Bleak Heat for me when it came out, but they couldn't get it. Guess I should go to the source... I have a number of Flaherty's recordings, some on vinyl, and still haven't made up my mind on him. I still keep buying the records, though, so there is an interest. Just don't know what to make of it yet.

Agreed. Tougher life for them than it is for us.

Noah Howard - Space Dimension - (America original) with Frank Wright, Bobby Few, Art Taylor and Muhammad Ali on one track. A great group!

Don't worry, Chuck, Chaney started it... Though for a while I thought it was David Ayers' doing.

Think so! Thanks for the reminder... I have a couple of those Ap-Gu-Ga LPs and they're solid.

Exactly!

Yes, happy birthday! And one of these days hope to hear what you learned from Zitro!

He's great on the few sessions I've heard him on. Will have to seek this Cadence issue out...

Pianist Lowell Davidson, who had a single record on ESP with Graves and Peacock, was an integral part of the Boston scene up through the 80s. Apparently he exacted a pretty strong influence on a number of people working there, including guitarist Joe Morris. In the 70s: saxophonists Michael Cosmic and Phill Musra, and drummer Huseyin Ertunc (of Turkish heritage) had a powerful post-AACM trio that recorded under each of their names, as well as in the World's Experience Orchestra. Trumpeter Mark Harvey is a regular fixture in the Boston scene, and had some pretty engaging small groups in the '70s and '80s, including a rare trio on Bush Records. David Ware and Cooper-Moore studied at Berklee, and their Apogee group began in Boston, with Marc Edwards on drums and occasionally Chris Amberger on bass (great former Oakland-area bassist who played with Smiley Winters). Of course, the history of that group is well-documented. Edit for a few more names: Raphe Malik, Dennis Warren, Billy Elgart, John Voigt, Laurence Cook... will try to think of a few more.

Whoa!

She's gorgeous!

Wish I still did a jazz radio show! Was at WNUR in 2003; KJHK (Univ. Kansas) 2000-1997ish. Those were the days... For sure I would've programmed the Reptet!

Almost over the midweek hump... John Coltrane - Coltrane in Japan (Impulse/Columbia Japan box version)

Funny Rat is kind of hard to navigate. I try to post in there sometimes, but even I don't know what they're talking about most of the time!

What about those great Savoy avant-garde sessions from the late '60s? Marc Levin, Ed Curran, Marzette Watts, Bob Pozar (the Dixons were pre-65, hence I don't mention them) are have superb inside-outside dates for the label. Also, the Charles Moffett and Valdo Williams, which though not produced by Bill Dixon, still fall within the camp somewhat. Great stuff! And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention all those late '60s-early '70s Mal Waldron trios on various obscure European labels, as well as some Japanese titles. Some fairly interchangeable, but as an opus, the material is pretty great. I like Blood and Guts (Futura) quite a bit, especially.

Did anybody mention DeJohnette's Have You Heard? (Milestone or CBS, depending...) session? Well whatever, it's a heavy record for sure - found I preferred it to The DeJohnette Complex anyway, on which Jack mostly plays melodica and electric piano, IIRC. The CBS Japanese gatefold edition is cool, and sounds waaay better than the Milestone - those half-hour sides are helped by serious quality vinyl!

HB! There are still a few of us youngsters left (yourself included)!

That is a true story, though. Milford and Giuseppi came by Mike Snow's loft where the NYAQ were practicing (with Moore and Moses), and apparently Graves asked to sit in and you can imagine where it went from there, sonically. J.C. Moses is an excellent drummer, but the NYAQ wouldn't be what it was without Milford. Of course, J.C. was doing some things post-64 that were really great in the free idiom, but if you think of how he was playing with the NYC5, it wouldn't have fit as well. Don Moore is good, but when you look at the bassists who were in the NYAQ (ironically, they couldn't keep them for very long), Worrell, Swallow, Gomez, and Workman are all quite different players both from one another and from Moore. It would have been cool to see Eddie Gomez with them - he's great with Milford on the Giuseppi and Bley sides.

Though I don't really have time to participate in the BFT, I look forward to seeing what you pick, brownie!

Wow, amazing interview! Thanks!