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Archie Shepp - Four For Trane Paul Bley - Touching Ayler - Ghosts Cecil - can I choose both Nefertiti and Cafe Montmartre? John Tchicai - Cadentia Nova Danica Dizzy Reece - Blues In Trinity Tubby Hayes - Down in the Village John Surman - How Many Clouds Can You See? Howard Riley - The Day Will Come Tony Oxley - The Baptised Traveller Andrew Hill - Black Fire Manfred Schoof - Voices Giuseppi Logan - Quartet Byron Allen - Trio Steve Lacy - toss-up between the GTA and the ESP Mal Waldron - Mal/4 Mingus - Blues & Roots Ornette - Ornette on Tenor Frank Wright - One for John Nichols - well, only got the boxset! Tina Brooks - Minor Move Jackie Mc - Destination Out! Grachan - Evolution Dolphy - Conversations Coltrane - Coltrane (the blue album) Hans Dulfer - Candy Clouds Braxton - For Alto Lasha - Insight Simmons - Music from the Spheres John McLaughlin - Where Fortune Smiles (OK, Surman's on there too, but...) Christ, this is a good time!

You wouldn't choose the ESP?

No Neck Blues Band - Ever Borneo! (ethno-improvisation with a 'doomsday' vibe)

Some great spins there! I love AT, especially his book...

Hey, that's cheating!

RIP And what a way to go...

Too true for all three. And what about the three of them together, with Bob Cranshaw and Charles Tolliver?

Kalaparusha would be a major one like that for me, but I'd also say Jimmy Lyons, Booker Little, and even Jaki Byard (tho Jaki Byard Experience comes awful close). Good question, AK.

That's a Few discog, not an Ervin one (just to clarify)... I interviewed Few several weeks ago and will be posting the text to AAJ shortly.

Rob Brown Trio on Silkheart with Denis Charles and Wm Parker... some liquid improvisations before heading into work.

I could believe it as a Dolphy Series date. I want to hear it!!!

Uh-oh, this will be in my head for a long time!

Went with Roscoe, though Frank comes in pretty close for me as well.

A lot of us work very hard at our profession, and I think that you should keep that foot right where it belongs Jazz Kat.

Yes, the continual decline of civilization...

On Stanley Cowell's b-day, Music Inc. Live in Tokyo (Strata-East), followed with Charles Tyler Eastern Man Alone (ESP-Disk', one of my favorite Tyler LPs)...

To herald Ron Carter's birthday, Miles in Tokyo (CBS Sony).

Larry Young...

Funny, I always think of Khan Jamal as playing vibes with Byard, but Bill Lewis is plausible (they had that great duo on Philly Jazz). Wild guess, but J.R. Mitchell is probably the trap drummer.

I didn't know the Clines had an ECM.

Shit, dare I say it but the CD set actually looks 'better,' and it's easier to skip through the dreck.

Yeah, this is the one I would like to score, though probably not for what Jazzinvinyl charges!

Revolutionary Ensemble "Vietnam" (ESP) forgot about this one!

Yes, it's Bowie. The Coral Rock album and the "Uhuru" circle-jerk were recorded at the same session; the tune "Pitchin' Can" was recorded with the rest of Black Gypsy. IMO, "Uhuru" might be the reason that session wasn't included in the America CD reissues - it's pretty mindless as free jazz blowing sessions go, though the Shorter tune "Coral Rock" is one of his best...