clifford_thornton

Why do two separate posts, one after the other, have to be combined when they are authored by the same person? I'd rather have that feature done away with - is there an option for turning this off?

I have a lot of respect for what Sunny and the boys were up to - and still are - but my interest in listening to it stems from a few recordings. The early sides on Transition/Delmark and Saturn, the ESPs and any of the '64-'67 Saturns are pretty much where I stand with it. "Strange Strings" is especially nice, though it doesn't exactly sound like the usual Ra fare... And I say: Damn, Allan.

Yeah, that is a hell of a record - a nice complement to "Turning Point" on IAI, with Gilmore, Swallow and Motian. Supposedly some rehearsals with Giuseppi Logan in place of Marshall were taped, though I'm willing to bet that the apartment fire of the 1970s relegated those to being lost. I like "Blood," on International Polydor, a lot, though Chadbourne would disagree. There's also another "Blood" on Fontana, which is pretty great as well. Fuck it, I like pretty much every Bley I've heard, with only a scant few exceptions... and taken in context, even the electronic affairs are kinda neat.

Those "brittle" trumpeters - Bill Dixon, Alan Shorter, Jacques Coursil - always seem to bleed "sunny, cold winter's day" for me. Unfortunately, now that I have relocated to Texas for the next two or so years, it seems unlikely that I'll be pulling those records out nearly as often as I did in Minneapolis.

For too long I have passed up the Beehive discography, though that Reece has always piqued my curiosity. How's the Nistico?

You have the original Transition LP?!?

Norman Howard Article Here is something I recently wrote on Norman Howard and the Cleveland scene for this month's Paris Transatlantic. Probably wouldn't have happened without this thread!

Silly, Isla Eckinger is just another spelling of "Aidelhard Roidinger."

That's Kent Carter's favorite John Stevens record, too... I still want to hear Watts-Tippett-Carter-Stevens doing music from The Connection. They did it, and apparently it was taped!

Well, that's Ornette's fault, not Atlantic's!

They were producing LP variants of titles up until at least 1990, and many of them you can still get 'new.'

Good deal!

Having not seen them live or heard their records, nevertheless the way they are being sold doesn't really inspire me (though I could see "Heart of Glass" being a good jazz piano tune). And I've seen King play in Happy Apple and other aggregations and to me he just lacks subtlety or anything I can latch onto. I suppose if it drives people to listen to more in this sector of music, then that's fine, but I suspect that for most of their audience, it won't...

Next thing you know, Coltrane will be inducted for inspiring "Eight Miles High"...

John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica - Afrodisiaca (MPS) Lester Bowie - Gittin' to Know Y'all (MPS) Alan Silva - Seasons (BYG Actuel) Alan Silva - My Country (Leo) Barry Guy and the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra - Ode (Incus) These are the ones I often pull out, anyway... and a third for the Don Ellis stuff.

Yeah, word up... I'm not wearing a belt and still something needs to be loosened!

I'll bet "weird dude" only covers the half of it...

Robbie Basho while you're at it, a fascinating branch of the Takoma tree...

Or to white drummer/cornetist leaders....

Shit, it's even worse than I remember!

Not a bad gig...

Stollman's portrait of Giuseppi is, of course, the exact opposite of Bill Dixon's sentiments of a warm, quiet, gentleman to whom a number of things happened that set in motion a sad decline. His ESP records are some of the best slabs of improvised music ever waxed, and I would be honored to be on his side of the street! AFAIK, Bernard is concentrating on the label almost exclusively, but I will ask him whether estate work is still part of his bag. I too look forward to a proper reissue of Norman's music; the December issue of Paris Transatlantic will feature an article I wrote on the two Homeboy Music cassettes. Keep a lookout! Brownie, I can only imagine the memories this brought back...

We should all look forward to a call from Joe!

I think it might have actually had more to do with radio airplay than any demographic marketing - when I was in college radio, we had a number of those A&M LPs in the racks, the Cecil being one of them. Not a bad record, but far from what I would choose as a good representation of his music (especially length-wise). But still, if you're a DJ and you wanted to play some Cecil, that was a good way to 'fit him in' to your set. Needless to say, I had late-evening programming and quickly graduated to 30-minute tracks.

Stollman at AAJ A few props from the interviewer, yours truly, that this is worth a read. Let the flak fly!