clifford_thornton

Shit. RIP. Wait, you can sleep to that shit?

I really like "Spirits in Fellowship," that record he did with Vinny Golia. Oh, JAMES Carter... Never mind!

Ah yes, the "Africanised Tone Row"... I see your card, and I raise you...

To answer the original question, I'd say no. But then, in popular consciousness, it's often portrayed as either dinner-music or the area of effete intellectual affect. So... Shit!

Well, I read in an article in Jane Magazine (one of my favorites, for real) about how she completely destroyed her apartment and terrorized the apt. complex in NYC on some of her various drug binges, threatening to kill residents and the like. I mean, it's too bad that it had to come to this stage, but one can't say that, judging from her history as a major addict and generally crazed person, that it's not unexpected.

RIP to an original character, whatever one thinks of what 'became' of the Moog synthesizer in lesser hands... Jazz pianists Paul Bley and Burton Greene were among the first to play the instrument in 1968, made famous by Walter/Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman. He passed away yesterday at age 71.

Before work I gave a spin to The Panther and The Lash, one of my favorite of 'my' records (esp. side 2)...

You'll hear no complaints from me...

Krystall is great - and wholly underrated, in my opinion. That is a cool record - Neidlinger has some very interesting arranging ideas, to say the least. In addition to those already mentioned, Giuseppi Logan was a wild bass clarinetist, as heard on Roswell Rudd's Everywhere and his own composition "Shebar" (More Giuseppi Logan, ESP). Frank Wright takes some heavy solos on bass clarinet in his duos with Muhammad Ali, Adieu Little Man. Breuker was already mentioned, but I'l mention him again, as well as Theo Loevendie.

I thought it was available online; there's a thread here about that somewhere... And I was always under the impression that it was 62, maybe 63 but 'definately' not 64.

I believe mine does, and it's an old King as well. Got it for $30, not much of a 'deal' but not too bad I guess. Weren't there only like 500 of the original pressed?

Thanks! This will be a very helpful site. One misspelling repeats itself: Muffy Fallai (tp, SWE) is actually Maffay Falay, to my knowledge.

Strangely, I've been listening to a lot of CDs this weekend. Good for them, I guess! I did listen to the Jacques Thollot LP on Futura - bizarre melange of soundtracky compositions that really makes more sense as a Saravah than a Futura.

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!