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  1. Well, I read in an article in Jane Magazine (one of my favorites, for real) about how she completely destroyed her apartment and terrorized the apt. complex in NYC on some of her various drug binges, threatening to kill residents and the like. I mean, it's too bad that it had to come to this stage, but one can't say that, judging from her history as a major addict and generally crazed person, that it's not unexpected.

  2. RIP to an original character, whatever one thinks of what 'became' of the Moog synthesizer in lesser hands...

    Jazz pianists Paul Bley and Burton Greene were among the first to play the instrument in 1968, made famous by Walter/Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman.

    He passed away yesterday at age 71.

  3. Marty Krystall takes some bass clarinet solos on Buell Niedlinger's Big Day at Ojai that I have enjoyed quite a bit.

    Krystall is great - and wholly underrated, in my opinion. That is a cool record - Neidlinger has some very interesting arranging ideas, to say the least.

    In addition to those already mentioned, Giuseppi Logan was a wild bass clarinetist, as heard on Roswell Rudd's Everywhere and his own composition "Shebar" (More Giuseppi Logan, ESP). Frank Wright takes some heavy solos on bass clarinet in his duos with Muhammad Ali, Adieu Little Man.

    Breuker was already mentioned, but I'l mention him again, as well as Theo Loevendie.

  4. A while back Francis Davis reviewed a "bootleg" with Cherry, Sanders, etc. in the Village Voice. He was very coy & wouldn't reveal how to get a copy.

    Anyone know what I'm referencing & where it could be obtained???

    I thought it was available online; there's a thread here about that somewhere...

    And I was always under the impression that it was 62, maybe 63 but 'definately' not 64.

  5. Does your copy have a  light yellowish background on the front too? I thought the original had a white background...

    I believe mine does, and it's an old King as well. Got it for $30, not much of a 'deal' but not too bad I guess. Weren't there only like 500 of the original pressed?

  6. Man, I missed this in its original posting. I don't have a clue why or how this list of musicians (with the obvious exception of Zorn) constitutes over-praised. Nobody else on the list is given any credit, praiseworthy or not, for their contribution to the music in the mainstream press. We're the cognoscenti here, and if we talk about Booker Ervin (or anybody else in that list) too much, it's because nobody else talks about him at all!

  7. Am I just imagining a communal-music recording (non-jazz, more ethno-collage) from the late 60s with Parker on it? I think it's on Columbia or EMI, some major label, but absolutely impossible to find. Parker, as I recall, was the only 'name.'

  8. Could hold out hope to find Brooklyn on wax, but...nah, I'll pick it up as well.

    It's not that hard to come by on wax, actually. Keep your eye on the Dusty Groove site - they appear to have it often, for around $25.

  9. Wish I'd gotten in while the going was good on this thread... I've always been curious about Afric Pepperbird but never bought it, mainly because Esoteric Circle kinda underwhelmed me, though I could see the potential for sure.

    I think that train photo would make a great Incus or Bead record cover! :)

  10. I'm more of a fan of his earlier, 'out' material - the ESP, his work with Don Cherry and Alan Shorter and the Jazz Composers' Orchestra. The Dutchmans and the Impulses aren't my first choices, but I do like the first couple of Impulse sides.

    The ESP - "In Search of the Mystery" - is a total motherfucker, with Sirone, Bobby Kapp and Calo Scott on cello. Heavy as shit.

  11. I hear his album on Takoma is pretty cool, but I've never seen it to pick it up.

    Sete, that is, not Vince.

    Listening a bit lately to Czech guitarist Rudolf Dasek in a duo with reedman Jiri Stivin from the 70s. The two albums - both "System Tandem" - that I have are great. One studio on Japo, one live on Supraphon. Great, great interplay, and you won't even miss the drums...

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