clifford_thornton

I don't know if I can name 'a' Monk LP... but at the end of the day, Trane or Rollins would probably be involved. Rouse is irritating, though I do like the production on those Columbia LPs. Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake - The Newest Sound Around Kevin Ayers - Shooting At the Moon Battered Ornaments - Mantlepiece Can - Monster Movie Brigitte Fontaine & Areski - Le Bonheur Don Ellis - New Ideas Max Roach - Speak, Brother, Speak! Stanley T - Blue Hour and Amen on LMO - amazing record!

Sidewinder, I'll post some stuff about it when I get to my home computer. I've got an interview with him that was supposed to be for AAJ, but became too long and now is destined for something else. But there's some interesting stuff that happened during Lasha's two years living in the UK. Cheers, CT

My momentary warm-up to these titles seems to have flared out. But who knows, I'm not getting rid of the LPs any time soon....

Cecil Taylor - Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (w/ Rivers, Lyons and Cyrille), all three volumes in succession!

That is a great, great record. Man! Just thinking about it gets me fired up. Too bad it's on the shelf and I'm at work, otherwise I'd spin it right now... Lasha's got some great stories about that session, too.

Yeah, there is a double LP version of that. Strange... they press that reissue up brand spanking new, but don't have enough to keep some older titles in print! You know, I hadn't pulled out that Cherry/Penderecki LP in quite a long time, and I'm starting to think that "Humus" is my favorite Cherry, eclipsing the neck-and-neck runners-up "Symphony for Improvisers" and "Relativity Suite." Also decided recently that the BYGs (French and Japanese) aren't so great... Dollar Brand - Anatomy of a South African Village Alan Skidmore - TCB Eh, maybe Tubby Hayes - Mexican Green is my fave Tubbs, I don't know. It's so hard to choose just one, isn't it?

I picked up "Spirits Rejoice" (1st Moholo group LP) and wasn't so impressed with it; seemed sort of derivative. I'd like to get those Harry Miller LPs at some point, though. Suppose my interest in Ogun is a little earlier, considering that they are putting new stuff out as we speak.

Alan Jackson is on side two only, I guess... Stirling Betancourt is the drummer on the first half, and Errol Phillip plays conga. My bad! That's what I get for almost never listening to the calypso stuff, but your thread got me jamming it tonight and it's a lot better than I remembered.

How I wish I still lived in the KC area. Have fun, guys!

Yeah, and IIRC Alan Jackson is the drummer, can't recall the pianist. I want to say Roy Fry, but I know that's not it. There was a record on Decca Eclipse called "Jazz In Britain '68-'69" that had more of this Calypso stuff, and the band slays - Surman, Osborne, Jackson, Miller, Oxley, Skidmore, John Taylor, Malcolm Griffiths and Harry Beckett, among others. Unfortunately, the tunes themselves do not slay at all. Interesting thought on the Rollins/"St. Thomas" connection, though. Food for the next time I listen to these.

I think the record label pushed him in that direction, frankly (goofy calypsos were popular in England around '68). The side-long suite is where he would have preferred to go, and where he went entirely on his second LP. Still, that side two is a motherfucker...

I know there's a rather large Ogun catalog, but for me, I keep getting stuck on the Brotherhood of Breath releases, as well as "All Night Long" (Osborne, Miller, Moholo). Wilisau must have some serious water wells...

That title track just kills! Move over Frank Wright, Joe Henderson's in town! -_-

Don't get me wrong, I'm down with firey lyrics... I think people are too mellow about shit at this point anyway. But that's for another thread...

Maybe because they weren't up to the standards set by his Transition and Brunswick dates?

I thought Billy Gault had a number of records and some production credits as well. Creepy Farakahn lyrics? Interesting...

Sven-Ake Johansson "Schlingerland" (SAJ) ... just nabbed this and it's far better and different than expected. Tom-echo sound art? Wild.

on Black Marigolds... great band, and the poetry is pretty interesting in a British modernist-surrealist sort of way... I think the Bards didn't have the other Garrick, because this is the only one I got. The Skidmore is ok, not as good as 'TCB' on Phillips (2nd LP, w/ Surman and Osborne) but solid. Chitinous I'm getting into - had forgotten that it was Buckmaster behind it; he was in the Third Ear Band as well as arranging a lot of pop records I never bothered to listen to. Sort of like a cross between Third Ear, Birtwistle and 70s Miles - in other words, pretty weird!

The flutist is Becky Friend, Alan Silva's then-girlfriend (early '70s). Conception Vessel is a really, really good date.

I've always been curious about that record - isn't Warren Smith the drummer? As for Al Shorter, Tes Esat is such a mysterious title and a heavy slab of batshit free music that it outdistances Orgasm by at least, I dunno, eight inches...

Mal Waldron - Blood and Guts Alan Silva - My Country Noah Howard - At Judson Hall Dave Burrell - High Michel Portal - Splendid Yzlment Karlheinz Stockhausen - Aus den Sieben Tagen: Kommunion/Intensitaat Patty Waters - College Tour Don Cherry - Symphony for Improvisers John Fahey - Death Chants, Breakdowns and Military Waltzes Sandy Bull - Inventions ...

Actually, our man on alto is the late, great Robin Kenyatta.

I'm gonna make a SuperAmerica run for some glazed-raised right now!

Would that be Bace Face Willotte?

Try the 2LP reissue on ECM - great sound!!! ← I've got the Verves on LP which sound OK, but could sound better... curious about the live material, though. Any thoughts on it?