clifford_thornton

too bad. RIP.

All Downes is strong, though, so I am biased.

No, it's just good.

Deep Down Heavy, yes.

Agreed.

There's also a good Bob Downes LP on MFP.

me either. Decades of treatment-resistant depression and massive doses of jazz.

Understood. But he's not bad! I think it's worth checking out several minutes of his solo music and deciding for yourself. There's also a duo with Mats G (maybe more than one?) that's decent, if flutter-tonguing, harmonics, and key clicks are your thing. There is an ambient-ness to Stetson's music that works well in certain contexts... and I don't mean "new age ambient," but the kind of agitated sound environments that are neither foreground nor background.

Hearing the news that Boston saxophonist and composer (Mark Harvey's Aardvark Jazz Orchestra; Thing) has died. Sad news for the community he was a large part of.

Eggsellent... I have a CDR but would like to pick this up.

Have had this LP for many years -- quite enjoyable.

Yeah, definitely seems to have more appeal in the "avant-rock" world, and he has also done a fair amount of soundtrack work I believe. I don't know that I would sit with an album but he's out there doing his thing, and it is appreciated.

Huh. The Klarwein site says "1963" for Iron Man, which seems unlikely for a couple of reasons. One is that the original album cover was gold with a purple-tinted photo of Dolphy. Also, Douglas issued the music at least a couple of years after the reedist's death (1966 or so). The purple Klarwein cover didn't come out until sometime later in the 1970s.

the Ra was also in lesser condition...

Great, great album. Traded a nice Sun Ra record for an original some years back. Probably a lopsided trade in their favor but I prefer the Bull Trout.

Great record. I have the old JVC issue from the 80s (not the original Victor, alas). Cornpipe Dance is wonderful but the whole album "shreds."

yeah. The Walking Woman was modeled after her, from what I understand. I'm a huge fan of Snow. Her world and his actually line up pretty well in terms of linguistic/imagistic collage.

Sexism + Ra's inherent strangeness = friction

I believe it's also in Wilmer and in Dixonia.

It's been documented in a few places, happy to dig that up.

WPI jazz history zoom -- definitely worth getting on the list for that. They play all kinds of unissued material (and some issued). https://www.jazzhistorydatabase.com/index.php

I love that one. Have been after an original for many years -- no luck -- but the reissue sounds just peachy to my ears.

The NYT obit is pretty strong. Nate Chinen got it pretty well, though there's a lot more to the Jazz Composers Guild (no mention of Dixon & Taylor?). One reason among many that it dissolved was Sun Ra's opposition to a woman being in the Guild. But that's maybe a discussion for another day and another article. Glad to have recently heard the early trio music with Bill Folwell and Steve Swallow. She was always an innovator even when she may not have thought so!

Seeing the unfortunate news that Carla Bley has passed. I know her health had not been good in recent years. Glad to have seen her direct a later iteration of the Liberation Music Orchestra... a concept which is always needed. One of my favorite composers, especially considering her early works (but not limited to those). RIP.

I saw him with Fred on a number of occasions. He also taught at SAIC (film department I believe), where I was doing graduate school. Excellent musician and a nice man.