clifford_thornton

It's been a long time since I listened to those records - thanks for the reminder! IIRC, Tchicai and Dudu are the team on at least one of those... Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim is always kind of hit or miss - and apologies in advance for the diversion - but in addition to African Space Program, the duo with Dyani and Anatomy of a SA Village, all great records, I have buried somewhere a flyer for a Dollar Brand gig at NY's MoMA with Milford Graves, Walter Booker, Byard Lancaster and another horn player (can't remember who) in 1967 or '68. Pretty insane band, if you ask me... Dyani is one of my favorite bass players, hands down. I'll repeat that African Bass (Red Records) is mind-blowing.

I've heard great things about Orange. Only familiar with "old shit" on Alacra, not the new stuff so much.

So you finally bought it, eh? Took long enough!

I've passed on those Dudu records - I think they were on Caroline or Virgin originally - seemed to steer a bit too clear from the improvisational or 'free' aspects for my taste, something that always imbued BOB or Blue Notes or their ilk quite strongly. But I could be missing out, for sure... I suspected that the Feza on Ayler was necessary. Better hop to it - I think Cadence had copies not long ago, but I just find them irritating to deal with.

I'll probably get it just to have the "plus," though interestingly it's billed as an EP record rather than cooperatively... whatever. Still good to have it out again. If you think about it, it's 1/2 of the Nipples band.

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Forgot all about that record - T. Watts and Howard Riley make up the rest of the band, so I'm sure it smokes. As far as Japo LPs go, I seem to recall it being one of the rarer (and pricier) ones... I'll keep a lookout.

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No shit? Finally - somebody should do that! It's a great and landmark recording. Besides, the way it consistently goes for three digits on eBay means that a lot of people want to hear it, and not many do...

Or, you could just go to the source for the Moholo: Ogun Records Shoulda thought of that before!

Yeah, it was reissued, but the LP is still available here and there too. I got it from Downtown Music Gallery for like $20 sealed (I think they keep some Oguns in stock). It's just "okay," a bit too clean-sounding for my tastes and not in the way that the Neon is clean. Just my two cents, though! Downtown Music Gallery Website That concert from Traveling Somewhere was floating around some of the online fileshares a while back, and you could get the complete version of "Do It" that way. I've seen it on some Euro-jazz live concert trees. Cuneiform faded it so they wouldn't have to split the disc into two, I think. I really should nab the tune one of these days, but for now the fade will do...

So I take it no covers of "Copulatin' Blues" are among the selections?

That's what I had been hearing. It's hard to know who to give the benefit of the doubt to, other than Jaki... Sad story, whatever "actually" happened. The man's music is always completely honest and unique; he would've been a great person to meet. As a sidenote, what's Rudolph up to now? The Blue Humans stuff was something else.

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I know it's a NYT thing, but please Ratliff, the formalities get annoying.

Right. Agreed, but it is strong in parts. Several tracks reminiscient of the Dixon-Shepp band, ca. '62, which is often a good thing.

I'm still in the 12 percent group, even though I just had a birthday. One of the rare moments that I feel like I can calm down and that there is still time to get stuff done.

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That is a very good point, Chuck. I guess I'd always heard the information as "Byard's murder" but the way you put it makes one think otherwise...

Yeah, that is a great one!

The film never came out, right?

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Selwyn Lissack Piece I wrote on the Lissack for Paris Transatlantic; disregard the DMG aspect as it's still only on LP. It's an interesting branch of the SA free jazz tree, for sure. Detour complete; now back to our regular programming.

Shit, if Lol Coxhill and Keith Bailey could be in the Brotherhood, might as well let anybody in! I think it was a repository for a lot of free musicians passing from one thing to another and trying out situations where their own concepts could more fully come to fruition. Windo is a pretty good example of that - think of how different it might have been had he stayed in Gong! Other instances, the BOB seemed like the apex of their experience - Skidmore didn't cut a whole lot of great records after he left the group, though his stuff before and during pretty well smokes. Then again, I always thought Osborne shone brighter outside the BOB than within it, so who knows... The Tes Esat is a monster - Windo fucks it up big-time, about as balls-out a tenor solo as you're likely to hear. Shorter's fine, but Windo, Dyani and Rene Augustus are in top, top form. Plus, it's recorded very well. I really need to get that 2CD set of Feza in Sweden from Ayler - it looks totally great. I believe it's mostly live recordings with Rosengren, Bengt Berger and the like. Do you have that? Sel's record is supposedly being reissued by Downtown Music Gallery, though they appear to be botching it completely so who knows. I've been burning it for a lot of people lately, it seems, so PM me if you want a copy. It's pretty damn free, though if you're down with the America sides, it shouldn't come as a shock...

I drink. It calms the nerves... I feel in the same boat as you sometimes, granted with less of a load but I'm now back in grad school while continuing to try and do as much of my own freelance work as I can, plus regular job/s, etc., and find time to socialize, etc., I agree that it's a pain in the ass. Usually if it doesn't get done, then it doesn't have to be done, right?