clifford_thornton

Of course, for LP's: Hymie's on Lake St. just a bit east of Target-- Roadrunner, on Nicollet at 43rd (across from Anodyne, great coffee and food). So: how many Minneapolitans are there in this joint? We gotta represent!

Yup, that's the one I have at home. Classy!

I think they're referring to the UK Fontana version of "Touching," which has a silhouette of a woman's hand grasping the word "Touching" on a white background. It's actually kinda nice, I think. The Roling is preferable, however. Anybody ever seen the alternate UK jacket to the "Juba-Lee," retitled "The Visitor"?

Yup...

No, no, NO! There is no Cecil, Ayler, or late Coltrane to be found. No European jazz either. Bobby Womack = "Across 110th St.", a semi-underground soul singer. He's good, but not jazz. "Ah Um" is probably Mingus' worst record. Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett, and Oscar Peterson are all, IMO, inessential if you have to pick only 100 jazz records. Vocal jazz, with maybe a couple of exceptions, shouldn't even be on the list. It is a primarily instrumental music, and therefore should be limited as far as jazz introductions go. Parker Verve? Gimme a break! Dial and Savoy all the way, G. I could go on and on. Uugh...

Wild, huh? Must be the blind-factor creepin' in again...

Huh... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...3&category=2255

I _must_ find it!

That record is GREAT... I fell in love with her voice on hearing George Russell's "The Outer View," which you should _definitely_ pick up if you like her early work. Only on one track, but it's a doozy!

Too bad I dumped my TFUL records about five years ago. Held onto the Lips, though. I hear you re: Mercury Rev; I guess it's no coincidence that Dave Fridman (rather than, say, Don Friedman) produced some of the Lips' records. I still say they were one of the greatest -- and most fucked-up -- cover bands in existence. I'd pay for a bootleg of them doing REM wrong any day: I bet it'd be fucking hilarious... Heads were scratched 'round the world when they appeared on 90210 doing "She Don't Use Jelly," one of the first of their tunes to make me say, well, 'wait a goddam minute, this is asinine.'

OK, listening to a borrowed copy of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots," and yes, it is in its way a brilliant album. But to me, it's not the Flaming Lips. I was weaned on albums like "Oh My Gawd!!!", "In a Priest Driven Ambulance" and "Hear it Is," a noisier, spunkier, but still psyched out band. Granted, ideas change and people get older, and I liked their albums for Warner Bros. in the first half of the nineties as well ("Hit to Death" is a motherfucker), but they began losing me after "Clouds Taste Metallic". I just think of them as a youthfully exuberant, throw-shit-at-the-wall, unclassifiable (but punk) band. What do y'all think? New or old? Both? Neither? I've been debating this a lot.

I've been getting those lately too, as well as some from "PayPal." Kinda freaky, if you ask me... C

Teddy Charles, Mingus and Mal Waldron Or, let's say Grimes didn't disappear to California and instead went to the UK and continued playing: Grimes, Alan Skidmore and John Stevens (ca. 1969)

I'll second that one. How about Homer reading/singing the Iliad to hand drums and Greek lute?

Me (I play 'cello), Patty Waters and Becky Friend. 'Course, wouldn't hurt that they were/are sixties free jazz goddesses...

Hmm... that does look interesting too. I guess it's worth picking up that "Drums of Passion" LP; the price and interest sound matched. Nice story, Rimshot. Thanks.

Talk to Brandon Burke about donating some of your collection (especially things they don't already have) to the KU Jazz Library. I've already willed my stuff to them (and I'm only 27!)... That way, it won't be picked over (it's appointment only) and will be guaranteed proper care by jazz fans, musicologists, and students.

OK, maybe this should be in the "Vinyl Frontier," but here goes... I should know this by now, but how is this LP? I saw one sitting in a local shop, cover in good shape with the LP (original DG mono) still sealed in its plastic baggie for $15. Is this one of those 'exotica'-marketed slabs or is it a record worthy of merit outside the party scenario? I know he and Coltrane were tight, so...

The two Oxley CBS records are very different from one another; "Baptised Traveller" is the most 'straight' Oxley recording I know of (not counting the Ronnie Scott and Gordon Beck dates). You might like early Spontaneous Music Ensemble records like "Challenge" (reissued on Emanem), or the Howard Riley CBS records. The first couple of Ray Russell albums ("Turn Circle" and "Dragon Hill") might hit the spot for that reflective-yet-tough freebop sound. Tenorist Alan Skidmore's "TCB," on Philips and recently cut to CD, might also be of interest. But as for Oxley, I'd give "Four Compositions" another listen, as well as his later dates for RCA-Victor, Incus and other labels. The process of his composition is interesting, especially since he revisits some of the tunes later in different contexts. Enjoy.

I just read a post on another board that the wonderful drummer Walter "MJT" Perkins had just passed. If so, that's truly sad. He'd gone from playing soul-jazz to free, a truly all-encompassing career. He'll be missed. May he rest in peace. Any thoughts on Walter from the peanut gallery?

That is some mighty good yoghurt, I must say. I like the vanilla, personally. Some granola sprinkled on top... Not to stray too much from the subject at hand, of course...

...unless, of course, augmented by Braxton's contrabass clarinet.

Word on that... No Potts for Late? There's a really fine and very tough solo that he takes on Francois Tusques' Shandar LP, "Intercommunal Music." It steals the show, and takes up a considerable amount of the LP's first side. Worth hearing. I think his off-kilter rhythmic approach meshes well with Lacy (and with the Tusques-Murray juggernaut), but indeed, it's not as 'precise' as Lacy's. He should stick to alto, though.

Wait, didn't I see you do that to the Curtis Fuller LP you just sold?