clifford_thornton

Sad to report that Dutch Hammond organist Herbert Noord passed away July 13 at age 79. Herbert sometimes posted on organissimo. News comes from his longtime collaborator, saxophonist Harvey Kaiser, who now lives in upstate New York. He was really kind and helpful to me in my own research and a collection of our emails were reframed into an interview that is here: https://www.cliffordallen.me/interviews/an-interview-with-organist-herbert-noord Footage of his playing can be seen on his YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlPmxlMaiZWuneXUaAgdUQ/videos?view=0 RIP Herbert, and thanks so much.

yeah, it's a seriously great album. Definitely needs a proper reissue.

printing defect, perhaps? or maybe a record club edition?

curious. That's not what I was referring to but could be interesting to hear.

Rad. We can hope.

I have a mono with the standard orange and black spine.

I really like those Hill Ping tracks and wish I owned the records. Would be great if they got compiled on a CD for mass consumption.

the radio recordings were with D'Andrea's small group and I heard them on a set of transcription discs a collector friend owns. His playing here reminded me a little of Pharoah's ESP (working around Coltrane/Rollins influences, not sure which way to go), with some wild buzzsaw moments that hadn't totally been put together into a cohesive structure. Pretty interesting. the stuff with Gaslini and Tonani is around/available.

I guess as an amendment to my earlier comment, who are the buyers for something like this? Heady jazz fans already have the material and audiophile collectors don't often buy CDs.

yup. Ping is pretty cool and those postwar Chicago discographies are fascinating. A bit later, but I've still not figured out much regarding Ardell Nelson's Jazz Prophets, which features the first recording of Leroy Jenkins. Ra-ish organ, drums, violin combo. I have the 45 and it's quite enjoyable.

yup. Also with Giorgio Gaslini, Franco D'Andrea, Franco Tonani and that crew. I've heard some very interesting early Gato radio recordings that put his development a bit afield from the "Latin Pharaoh" tag that he eventually embraced.

I wouldn't mind it if ESP put those back out in a small box form.

Easy sell, full of excellent music -- then on to Bill Barron I hope.

Interesting. When I took Richard Wright's jazz history course in college, he devilishly fit Bossa Nova and The New Thing into one class, tying them together with Archie Shepp's take on "Girl From Ipanema." Miss that guy. He was a big Roswell Rudd fan.

Gotcha - I don't have Facebook, but that makes sense. Purim's text seemed oddly worded.

Brazil has universal health care that is free, so I would imagine his hospital bills would be mostly covered by that, no? The dole I can see a long waiting time for.

maybe the Andrew Hill Ping 45s?

yeah, I have my doubts, but hopefully...

oh man, I wish I had an original Pathé to supplant the Nessa copy... would welcome CDs from the master tapes should they happen!

Wow.

Interesting. I would say I listen to music from each decade fairly equally, with recent listening skewing toward the last 20 years or so. It helps on the latter point to see a lot of live music and book bands at a venue near my house.

That's too bad. RIP.

Made uneasy.

Alan Bates was snapping up anything he could. I'm glad the music is out there for sure but can't imagine anyone was really getting paid too much out of the deal. Bill Dixon was going to do a Fontana 2LP set (it would have had Marte Röling's artwork!) but got skeeved out by the terms.