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It was "Monoceros" by Evan Parker.

I like Harold's response; probably I would say I like 'em at the end for jazz, and in sequence with folk, blues and rock recordings. It might also be nice to make people pay more by including a second disc of alternates, right?

Legendary trumpeter, composer and scene-maker Bill Dixon turns 80 today. Please wish him a happy birthday here!

Personnel apparently the same as on the Born Free set, which excerpts this entire performance of "Unity First." Might as well share: LB, Frederic Rabold, Herbert Joos, Michael Sell, Manfred Schoof - trumpets, flugelhorns Albert Mangelsdorff, Paul Rutherford, Gunter Christmann - trombones Joachim Kuhn, Dieter Scherf, Michael Thielepape - altos JJ, Gerd Dudek, Heinz Sauer, Alfred Harth - tenors RM - bass sax Gunter Hampel - bass clarinet Axel Hennies - flute, piccolo, tenor sax Gerhard Koenig - guitar MF, Peter Stock, Claus Buehler - contrabasses Rainer Grimm - percussion Jeanne Lee, Karen Krog - vocals Including the intro by Bowie, it's about 37 minutes. It's good. PM me if you want a copy.

Vic's lesser-known vibes-playing brother, I presume...

Gunter Hampel "The 8th of July 1969" (original Birth "Natural Jazz" pressing, with the natty loose paper pseudo-cover). Not the watershed I used to think it was, but still a fascinating listen. Gotta love that Steve McCall, too...

Or maybe it was a Roscoe story...

Great Newk story, Chuck. Thanks!

Candy is delicious on this! And no, I don't mean Hans Dulfer's foxy daughter...

I don't get the Varby joke... So, probably the coolest signing response (maybe) I got was from Lacy, who upon seeing the "Moon" LP (BYG) said, promptly, "you know these guys were gangsters, right?" He signed that beautiful back cover anyway! Oh yeah, Karl Berger signed my copy of his ESP record, and his response was "who's this skinny kid on the cover?" Classic!

Agreed. It needs a third side.

Three Lacy (incl. one also signed by Steve Potts and Oliver Johnson that I found in a shop), two Bobby Few, and Bobby Hutcherson's "Dialogue." Also some promo CDs have come my way signed - Prince Lasha's new one, and Nathan Davis' new-ish one as well. I think that might be it, though... For me, the conversations and the interviews I've had with musicians far eclipse signed records, but it is nice to have the ol' Hancock.

I LOVE this record... especially the tune "Latona." Mighty modal groover straight outta the Joe Henderson-style bag. Speaking of which, this is probably Patton's most Larry Young-esque album; his solos speak mightily of Young's influence. Plus, the instrumentation is fascinating, and the whole shit just cooks... Lucky enough to find a mint minus New York mono of this for $20 a few years ago. Beautiful! Couldn't be more pumped on an organ record (pun fully intended)... thanks for nominating this one!

Not to mention that when you try and throw away the strip, it either sticks to you, the floor, the coffee table you were opening the discs on in the first place, and finally the walls of the wastebasket. Ugh.

It's called Joe's Garage. ← Hence the Buell Neidlinger "Marty's Garage" (I think this is it) record... Buell and Zappa were tight, apparently. The Vestine - Ayler duets are something else, indeed...

Mal Waldron - Jimmy Woode - Pierre Favre "Black Glory" (Enja) Original German pressing nabbed for $2 today. I spent more on the beer afterwards!

In all seriousness, I think Trane and Monk didn't, until this newly-released set, have the opportunity on wax to spread their wings. The Riversides and the Jazzland are just a little taste of what the Carnegie Hall concert (and probably other as-yet-unreleased live gigs) offers us. Namely, a window into how Trane was advancing his harmonic conceptions through working with Monk.

No way it sold more than the Don Sleet!

Manfred Schoof Quintet "Voices" (CBS German original) A classic of early German free jazz, with Gerd Dudek, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Buschi Niebergall and Jaki Leibeziet.

Miles at the Plugged Nickel, Japanese CBS pressing.

Is that the Parisian Concert on Futura? Or is there another?

...and "Wolfman" from Explosions.

Yes, that is one of my favorite of Lee Morgan's records - "Lee is Free," indeed. It does show a vibe that would become more solid with records on Strata-East, Tribe and the like in a few years, but it's a little ragtag here and more exploratory. "Capra Black" is a motherfucker of a tune, to say the least.

That is a great tune... I'd like to find a copy of that 45, though I'll bet PJC would still charge 60 Euros for it!

Eh, I'm just a toddler compared to Brownie!