clifford_thornton

Man, I missed this in its original posting. I don't have a clue why or how this list of musicians (with the obvious exception of Zorn) constitutes over-praised. Nobody else on the list is given any credit, praiseworthy or not, for their contribution to the music in the mainstream press. We're the cognoscenti here, and if we talk about Booker Ervin (or anybody else in that list) too much, it's because nobody else talks about him at all!

I dunno, the Dolphy SACDs I have don't sound all THAT great, but the Can SACDs really jump out of the speakers - no, leap - so who knows. I'm going to go eat some cereal now. Bye!

Am I just imagining a communal-music recording (non-jazz, more ethno-collage) from the late 60s with Parker on it? I think it's on Columbia or EMI, some major label, but absolutely impossible to find. Parker, as I recall, was the only 'name.'

It's not that hard to come by on wax, actually. Keep your eye on the Dusty Groove site - they appear to have it often, for around $25.

Wish I'd gotten in while the going was good on this thread... I've always been curious about Afric Pepperbird but never bought it, mainly because Esoteric Circle kinda underwhelmed me, though I could see the potential for sure. I think that train photo would make a great Incus or Bead record cover!

Didn't know that both of BN's A&R guys were born on the same day! Must've been subconscious that I put on Dulfer's Heavy Soul homage!

What's up with that one on Dutch Fontana? I believe George Coleman is on it. Always looked cool but I haven't spent enough time with his music to know any better.

Hans Dulfer - Willem Van Manen - Han Bennink - Marten Alteena "Jazz in Paradiso" (Heavy Soul Music), like mid-60s Shepp with a decidedly manic Dutch flavor.

Mike Fitzgerald said something to the effect that it was, in response to me saying 'nope'. I've seen Japanese LPs for reasonable prices on the web, though not a CD to my own recollection.

Man, I almost got that fucker from the Bastards for $80, VG++ condition. Apparently I was one call away. But all told, good as it is, I'd feel like a fool if I dropped 2G on it.

I'm more of a fan of his earlier, 'out' material - the ESP, his work with Don Cherry and Alan Shorter and the Jazz Composers' Orchestra. The Dutchmans and the Impulses aren't my first choices, but I do like the first couple of Impulse sides. The ESP - "In Search of the Mystery" - is a total motherfucker, with Sirone, Bobby Kapp and Calo Scott on cello. Heavy as shit.

Aha. Have to see Brandon's article for the full skinny, I guess!

Haven't listened to this in about four or five years. Will have to put it on when I get back from an attempted vacation... I remember Pharaoh on both tenor and piccolo, so there.

I hear his album on Takoma is pretty cool, but I've never seen it to pick it up. Sete, that is, not Vince. Listening a bit lately to Czech guitarist Rudolf Dasek in a duo with reedman Jiri Stivin from the 70s. The two albums - both "System Tandem" - that I have are great. One studio on Japo, one live on Supraphon. Great, great interplay, and you won't even miss the drums...

Yeah, I thought mine was ringworn at first until I realized it was the lighting on the cover photo. Wish I didn't have a cut corner on the jacket, though - but I guess most were relegated to the cut-out bin. There is a nice-looking photo of Dixon and his son on the French RCA reissue - did you take that photo, Brownie? And I was at one point corrected that Urge is or was indeed on a Japanese CD - but it's not as easily available as it should be. Ervin's playing definitely shows the Ayler influence - what a heavy date!

I'd second Brownie's rec of Le Temps Fou and the Arvanitas quintet "Soul Jazz." The Dixon RCA would be nice, but it will never happen - that record has been buried since its release! Marzette Watts on Savoy would be nice - just so I could listen to the fucker again! Also, Ric Colbeck on Fontana - this could be a veritable 'hit' if it were reissued. Probably one of my most favorite 'inside-outside' recordings... that, and the Dizzy Reece on Futura, which could also use a sprucing up and reissuing. I'd like to learn a lot more about the early Japanese free scene, and a lot of those recordings don't seem to be available on CD and many are super-rare in the preferred format, so...

I need a cleaner copy, but not for $200.

I feel like I saw "New Copy" LPs at Dusty Groove at some point. If somebody's reissuing that on vinyl, that's really reaching...

A couple more. ← So Chuck, was Alan Bates a fun guy to deal with or what?

I'm going to pick it up... (finally) Thanks for the reminder!

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...