clifford_thornton

I've got tinnitus, part hereditary and part from loud music concerts... I often wonder whether the ringing is me, or the Evan Parker I'm listening to. I mean, it's not debilitatingly bad now, and apparently I have no hearing loss, but it is disconcerting. I'm not sure, though, that an airplane ride will really do much unless they really don't pressurize the cabin. Chew gum on take-offs and landings is about all you can do.

I think I need the Hill box and will probably replace the Charlie Feathers on Revenant that my ex-girlfriend got custody of.

Agree with DMP on that - no reason to reproduce sessions with one track/no solo problems. What possible musicological interest could that have? This might be where I diverge from the discographers... also, the fact that I don't need every Shepp record in existence. A lot of 'em stink!

Well dude, I know I shouldn't lambast others' ideas, but it helps to pick a crucial title in someone's discography, or something by an artist who hasn't got maybe as many props as he/she should have. Village Gate would have got a lot more props, I think. Just some advice. By the same token, I'd never pick something nobody's heard of, so it goes the other way too - believe me, I've been tempted to mention Huseyin Ertunc many a time.

I could wax on about dream juggernauts all day, but wasn't there a real thread about this a while back? In the hardbop vein, Moncur-McLean-Lee-Hutch-Cranshaw-Williams has to be one of my favorites, though if Higgins were to have subbed for Williams I wouldn't have complained one bit (might have preferred it, actually). O'wise the Miles sextet would do nicely, if I could put Duke Jordan in the piano chair and A.T. in the drummer's seat. Miles, Trane, Cannibal, Jordan, Chambers, Taylor! As for avant-garde, Cecil always seems to get pretty great sextets going - especially some of those early ones. Here's another dream one (sort of): Cecil, Shepp, Lacy, Curson, Buell, Charles. That would be cool.

Yeah... "Circling In" and "Circulus" as Chick Corea BN two-fers include material recorded with amalgamations of that band (Mosaic, anyone?), and Japanese CBS released "Gathering" and "Live In German Concert" in the late '70s, both of which annihilate the ECM any day for me. Perversely good stuff. So that's four non-ECM vs. one ECM recording.

Shepp "Yasmina" (BYG)... the Mobley side, of course! Sonny's Back indeed!

I enjoyed seeing Sufjan on his Great Lakes State tour... a lot of Steve Reich influence in the arrangements, I might add. Very cool concept, though naturally the joint I saw him at sucks.

He looks cuter on the Savoy.

I thought much of the Circle material was otherwise on CBS and Blue Note, rather than ECM. Pretty sure the Jap CBS LPs got reissued on CD recently; I think I saw them in a shop once. Good records. Now, reissuing the early Japos really needs to happen. The Barre Phillips is an absolute mother fucker!

Ah, maybe as a two-fer with "Les Liasons Dangerouses 1960"... Tho I guess that one already is on DVD. Still...

One doesn't have to be 'old' to have health problems...

Nice!

I'm too lazy to goof around and figure this out - do I need this box if I have all the Hill BNs as they were available on LP? I've got all the 4000 series Hills, Dance With Death, the two-fers and Passing Ships. Thanks!

If you're a fan of the vibes-and-piano front line, JK, you should check out Ayers' work with West Coast pianist Jack Wilson. Something Personal (Blue Note) and Ramblin' (Fresh Sound... can't remember the original label) should get you started. Solid mid-60s edgy piano-vibes 4tet hardbop. You will like it, I'm sure.

Sunny Murray - Big Chief (Pathe) pretty heavy 'swing unit' session from '69, with Tusques, Vitet, Guerin, Terroade, Silva et al. moving on to a CD now...

I used to live on Riverside Drive, but my view wasn't so great...

Sometimes a group is greater than the sum of its parts, you know? That's why groups that look great on paper sometimes fail to grab, and a band full of otherwise 'nobodies' (hate to use that term, but I will for now) might take it much farther. Therefore, I might prefer a Rocky Boyd record to some Dexter Gordon sessions, just because the group was more 'on'. One player may lag a bit behind others in skill, but if the music is in the aether and there's no slack - only effort, joy and intuition - the music will come through as raw as one hopes for.

I thought that was the Ingo of The Supremes....

Yup, that's 180 Riverside Drive!

Academy CDs, in the West Village... (the original Academy location)

Downtown Music Gallery, on 4th and Bowery I think... More 'progressive' stuff but a great selection of CDs that you won't find at those other places.

Aha, thanks for the explanation! Still, Japanese BYGs are cool...

Yeah, the 'Pepper Adams' Poppin' is almost as funny as the Paul Bley Quintet on America - with a big picture of Don Cherry, front and back!

That sounds like the right year to me... I could swear I fingered (not stink-fingered, mind you) a Jap BYG of it though.