clifford_thornton

I rarely check the non-music zone & I didn't see this on the day... so again, thank you very much!

Thanks, gents! Appreciate it!

Thanks; figured I should get something on the "record."

I texted Ben and these "sessions" did not occur or are highly improbable at best.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cliffordallen/p/book-review-now-jazz-now?r=7ikr1&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Ben might know, yeah.

Understood on these fronts. It is a dark and difficult world scene. I deal with pretty intense depression, surely not the only person here who does, and though the board is a nice respite, music doesn't always do it for me. But this community has been a great help even when I am just pithily responding to some discographical query.

Really? I think of you as a core poster. And yes, makes sense that an established community would bristle at an influx.

Altschul, one of the greats.

I forgot about the transitional AAJ post-BN board. I had that experience as well, even though I was writing for them at the time. Not a great scene.

oh, huh, looks like I joined on January 9, 2004. I could have sworn it was earlier, but apparently the months/years run together. I do remember the BNBB shutdown and being informed that this was the place to go.

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yep. I have a Japanese pressing on Mercury, which seems to have been licensed from Trip, who in turn had gotten the tapes from Orville O'Brien (O'Be). I don't know what the story is there, but a number of his tapes ended up as Trip releases later in the 70s (Art Blakey; Randy Weston).

and also Dizzy Reece, b. 1931, and as far as I am aware, still with us!

I am a bit concerned, as mentioned upthread, that some folks have been driven away by perceived bias against record collectors. The "ignore" function does work, and I've used it a few times (mostly just until my agitation cooled off).

not a bad idea; I've noticed some people post vinyl listening in the "what are you listening to now?" thread. I'll admit that I check out the vinyl thread more than the general listening thread, however.

The prevalence of cassettes is in large part due to economics: they're cheap to produce and duplicate.

yep, my 2020 Subaru has a CD player and I will drive it until it's turned to dust.

Flower Girl is a neat one. I have the Craftman reissue, as well as their reissue of the Victor LP (A Jazzy Profile of Jojo). I connect more with the avant-garde recordings but these are certainly worth hearing. Takayanagi could, it seems, play just about anything with characteristic rigor.

did not see this the first time around but watched and enjoyed the extended cut recently. It got much better as it progressed to the end. Prime Walton Goggins. I will also add a +1 for The Lighthouse, which is directed like a Robert Wilson dialogue (The Old Woman, for example). Surely Eggers is quite familiar with Bob's work, and Dafoe's work in The Old Woman.

Japanese pressing, not sure about the dealer (though I think I know the spot that @mjazzg is referring to).

bargain trophies are the best kind.

yeah, I would blind buy it for sure, no need to preview (here, anyway). Hopefully another one pops up. I think I've said it elsewhere, probably in this thread, but while it took a bit of chipping away at Takayanagi and trying things out a few times, once I fell in love with his music it really stuck. None of them are easy listens, but the utter commitment and reinvention of group interplay across many of his records are really striking. Angry Waves is a great record, and I can't really think of anything else like it. Lonely Woman is stark and a bit icy, but very special. I think he figured out something with density, speed, and combining seemingly unrelated pathways that doesn't have too many parallels; Tristano and Billy Bauer were the spark (and all of his music can be tied back to the Tristano school), but he went full force in another direction.

those PD vinyl reissues, sourced from MP3s, are very unappealing. They don't usually sound that good and they're not cheap either.

I didn't know (or had forgotten that) there was a Japanese pressing of that record. Very nice.