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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.

I feel like most of the 'up-n-coming' indie rock bands I listen to are about ten or fifteen years old (I think I said this somewhere before). Most also end up being from a certain Kentucky city that isn't the capital. But to reiterate an already ancient post by Sr. Burke, Gastr del Sol and Sonic Youth are two-handedly probably the most important factor in most of us under-35 types paying any attention to Fahey, Feldman, Ferrari, Brotzmann, Marion Brown and all the rest of it... hell, I'll admit checking Thurston's Grand Royal article and buying every Table of the Elements release I could get my hands on as a sophomore in college.

I guess I didn't notice that the ALS referred to was the Antibes version (which I think was issued by BYG Japan originally)... that's heavy shit.

Mine too. It doesn't get enough props, but it's a great record!

There are two on Cadence Jazz, one a duo with altoist Rob Brown and I believe the other is solo, but I'm not sure about that. Probably still available from Cadence at around $8 a pop.

The polarized blue and white cover that Marcello refers to is the first edition, and it looks gorgeous even if it is on flimsy stock. I think that this was bootlegged on CD. As for Indent, it came out later as an Arista-Freedom LP, and I think I've seen some CD copies of questionable origin, none with the original cover art. The titles Brownie just referred to are the ones I was thinking of... too bad they didn't come out. Chuck, do you know how many were pressed of the Unit Core titles? Assuming 1000 each but that's just a guess.

For some reason I've passed on "First Meditatons," and I don't know why. Now maybe I shouldn't. Still, my favorite Trane from this period falls with Ascension and the stuff he did on the West Coast with Pharaoh, Donald Garrett et al. The tracks from New Thing at Newport and The New Wave in Jazz are great, but with both albums the spotlight appears to be on the other groups...

Richard and Mimi Farina "Celebrations for a Grey Day" (Vanguard)

Thanks for the info, Chuck. I didn't think they'd been issued but I suppose one never knows - it could be another Dogtown conundrum. My Indent has labels reading 3055 5A and 3055 5B, though the jacket reads 30555. I guess it would stand to reason from the thick stock, heavy vinyl and underground look that this title was the label's 'seed.' Interesting story - it certainly would've been nice to have a Cecil LP on Nessa (or would it have been Nessa-Core?)...