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The plates were switched on the second pressing of the LP, so that track one (A) is on side B and vice versa (i.e., deadwax lists ESPS-1044-B for the side-long A side piece). I believe that they took the CD from a second pressing of the LP and mis-tracked it accordingly. The Get Back LP reish also follows suit in this error.

I haven't engaged his more recent material as much as the raw, early stuff... The Aristas should be Mosaic'ed; I sold mine years ago and wouldn't mind just having it all at the press of a button (this is the digital-age, alter ego CT talking). Those duets with Max Roach are pretty nice, particularly the Hat Hut set.

I used to have that one on LP and didn't like it much, but just was handed the new 2CD set with extra tracks and am enjoying it quite a bit now. Funny how time and distance change one's opinion.

That's an interesting comparison, Late, though I'd almost want to think of someone like Ayler as the true "Art Informel" of jazz. After all, Dubuffet could really paint just like Ayler and Cherry could play bebop in the league of Bird and Miles. Very cool observation -- thanks!

Strangely, I've seen Lex/NY USA combinations on more than one occasion.

I like that one a lot, too. Manuel Villaroel is the pianist; he's on a few other Palms and has his own record on Futura -- also great.

Not only is Epic home to Good Charlotte, but also Curtis Fuller and Tubby Hayes. Put that one in yer pipe and smoke it!

Brownie, If you run into Tusques again soon and he's interested in doing interviews with someone in the states, I'd love to do it. I write for AAJ and Paris Transatlantic. PM me if you can! Regards, Clifford

Ubu, If you're into Lowe, you should pick up "Duo Exchange" with Rashied Ali if you haven't already done so. Knitting Factory reissued it on CD, and it's about as prime as one can get for tenor-drums duets. "Black Beings" is pretty good too, but not up to this level.

Other than the MPS dates, I heard there were a couple of more 'free' Barney sessions -- one on Vogue with Joachim Kuhn, Karl Berger, J-F Jenny-Clarke and Aldo Romano, and another on Moloudji with I think Francois Tusques. Brownie, do you know these? CT

You know, it's not 'unheralded' but I feel that I know far more people that have 'seen' the Art Taylor book (Notes and Tones) than actually read it. Great stuff, if you haven't picked through it.

Openian, right, I was trying to remember the name of the label. 'Diversions' is the other one that my buddy has. Interesting character, and with such short, catchy tracks it's no wonder he got radio play. Kind of like the UK answer to "The Cry" (Simmons-Lasha), that Open Music.

Wow, that's some rare shit. Never seen/heard of it before... Must Find, Must Find :rsmile: Have you heard that Bob Downes record, "Open Music"? Very nice flute-bass-drums date w/ Barry Guy. I remember it being something I knew I'd listen to a ton... if I could locate a copy.

Ebay is always amusing; I avoid it anymore... That Three Sounds is pretty uncommon, but really, if you have one you have them all. I don't understand why that Hutch broke the bank though -- I mean, a mono copy is very hard to find, but a Stereo Liberty? I think I paid about $10! The comedy quotient never ends!

The thing is that riders in the back of the pack use EPO, etc. just to hang on in the race. It's not a drug that makes you 'win', but helps you survive a stage race. I had friends in cycling who used to race in Europe, and even the single-day events one felt the need to use stuff just to stay in the pack. Lance is using shit, as is the peloton -- it's one of the not-so-secrets of the cycling world. I hope JU wins it this time around. Armstrong needs to go back to the ranch with Sheryl Crow and chill out for a while!

"Elements" came out on a 2-CD FMP set a few years ago along with other performances from that concert, issued on other LPs as "Cousscouss de la Mauresque" and "The End". I think it's still in print. Moondoc: dig "We Don't", a duo with Denis Charles on Eremite. Eremite is not always together with their orders in my experience, nor Forced Exposure. I don't know what they're smoking in Cambridge, but it affects their reliability for sure!

Probably one of the best avant-garde piano trio records EVER.

Nah, they've got better things to do, like "Funky Donkey vol. 16" or reissue a marginal late FMP...

Braxton/Smith/Jenkins - Silence (Intercord) Four ears on my Cherry LP.

That is a great record... but just because Dixon owns the tape doesn't mean someone can't bootleg it! After all, there was a BYG pressing done ostensibly off a copy of the Savoy LP. Still, the NYCF take it for me any day: that version of "Trio" on Volume 2 of the Sonet(/Delmark/Storyville/whatever else) set is really amazing.

I don't know if it's underrated or if it's just that no one cares, but that Charles Brackeen on Strata-East is something else. All those old Arhoolie SF jazz records are bitchin' -- you can still get all but the Sonny Simmons directly from the label, original backstock (the only reason the Simmons is gone is because some dealer bought all the remaining stock). Luna "Space Swell," Creative Arts Jazz Ensemble "Now!," the Smiley Winters double, all great records. But maybe it's not that they're blown off but just that they wallow in obscurity. Shit, I could sit here all night and think of obscure stuff that doesn't get props...

Huh, I forgot he was on that one... haven't heard the Redman in quite some time (don't even have it at this point). Thanks!

Anyone know anything about this character? He is/was a post-bop pianist with free leanings who recorded one record for International Polydor with a quartet featuring other Bay Area unknowns. I recently got the record, "Puzzle Box," and like it quite a bit but haven't seen him on anything else. Google yields nothing on his name. There's also a 'Robin' Young, pianist of a similar age on the "Now!" record on Arhoolie (Bert Wilson, Smiley Winters and company), that could be the same guy. They play and compose similarly, anyway. This is pretty obscure stuff, but there might be some Bay Area members that know... Thanks, CT

quirky indie rock from a new band called White Magic and the first two Will Ackerman LPs on Windham Hill, which are great. I'd always blown him off because of the way his label went, but he's a brilliant guitarist and was paying homage to Takoma way before it was cool.

The rainbow cover is the Pye reissue; Where Fortune Smiles originally came out on Dawn, DNLS 3018, with a matte forest green and gold gatefold cover, booklet inside (which most copies have lost). Great heavy session, some of which takes away all of the early Vandermark Five songbook! Side two is amazing. As for Surman... The Trio (Surman/Phillips/Martin) have LPs on Dawn, JG and Ogun (all are recommended, though not on CD unfortunately) as well as one on Futura augmented by Michel Portal and Jean-Pierre Drouet, called Alors!!! (this is on CD). Surman's two on Deram, both of which were reissued I believe, are also really stellar. So many of those Surman records from the later '70s don't really hit it for me, but those early sides where he stormed away on baritone are something else! CT