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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...

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...