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I've seen that do as little as $20 and as much as $120 so who knows... it's not a very good record, IMO.

Potts? I thought his first recorded appearances were with Alan Silva and Francois Tusques in Paris c. 1970.

Ditto. Very bright individual and seemingly the most personable of the big three. I guess we're stuck with Fox News and CNN crap now... RIP (AFIK, he wasn't a smoker)

Very true - people like Georg Baselitz literally turned those traditions on their heads!

Give 'em props anyway and pretty soon they'll start to stick! Otherwise, I just try and pass them off until somebody trades me something I actually do like. I used to work in a used book and record shop, and I think that's where most of my Enja records ended up...

I'm familiar with his work with saxophonist Tom Chapin (one on Boxholder that's still in print, another more obscure album whose name and label escape me). Concentrated yet liberated stuff, and worth checking out. Beyond that, though, I don't really know his playing too well.

What is that damn thing?

Good to know. I'm aware that Brotzmann was in that mix early on as well, though not sure about other German jazzmen. I find it very interesting how improvised music was integrated into the new art/neo-dada climates in Europe, which is something that never really seemed to happen to that extent in the States...

With my interest in overlong Cecil pieces now growing once again, I regret having traded this LP years ago. Good luck getting it for $10 now like I did the first time...

To quote Gordon Gano: "You cannot fuck with Blues-ette. You CAN-NOT FUCK with BLUES-ETTE." Or maybe that was the Violent Femmes... my memory is faulty.

I always wondered if Dauner had some peripheral involvement with German Fluxus during that period - seems likely considering the concepts enumerated on the LP jacket. An unclothed Weber playing cello wouldn't work out as well in any other context, after all.

I like Jeffrey's playing on "The Gift," that Charles Moffett record on Savoy. Very, very strong gutbucket tenor approach. Apparently he has a funky side on Savoy himself, but I've never had it.

Oh man, they are the best. If only they had records on BYG...

On the subject of Wayne and Monk, what about Grachan's tune "Monk In Wonderland?" Yeah, I know Wayne isn't on the date, but the bridge sounds very much like a Wayne-ing moment, if you get what I'm saying. Not to mention the ethereality of Grachan, but I think it would work as an interesting concept. If you had Wayne, Grachan, Hill, Cranshaw and Chambers doing an album of Monk tunes in '64, you would be a happy camper, wouldn't you? I know I would.

Shit, I really wish I'd thought of that one. That's my favorite Smiley!

Gitin has seen just about every group in its prime, I think! Today: upgraded to a tight orange/black stereo copy of Rolf and Joachim Kuhn "Impressions of NY," cover just a mild crease and a pinhole. Forgot how much I liked that record...

I was going to ask if this was released separately, and now I know. Thanks. Is Rowser a pseudonym?

Was spinning Ed Askew "Little Eyes" (De Stijl), before that the Insect Trust s/t on Capitol. Who knows what's next.

RIP Al, we hardly knew ye.

OK, I'm not getting the reference. Uh oh.

Yeah, I'm either moving to Austin (another hand at grad school) or New York in October/November. MSP not my scene (nor was it ever, really).

Yes, you should. Also: Jiri Stivin and Rudolf Dasek, "System Tandem" (Japo). Those guys are all great... Don't have the Velebny on MPS but I'll bet it's pretty good.

Yes, that is great! Every time I play Magic of Ju-Ju, Frank Charles's bottle percussion prompts my girlfriend to say "More Cowbell!"

Goin' to work shortly, but before that: Karel Velebny SHQ (ESP) a very interesting Czech avant-garde record, approximates Left Coast American jazz with a fair amount of "Out to Lunch" listening time before recording.

Dude, they arrested Eminem!