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Sad to say that the great Pittsburgh-born drummer Allen Blairman has passed at 81: https://jazzpages.de/allen-blairman-rip-1940-2022-2205011/ I've really been enjoying going through the Fondation Maeght Ayler recordings in their entirety and his playing on them is fantastic. He will be missed.

I want that fourth booster (I'm 45, no major underlying conditions).

I no longer have the space constraints I did in a Brooklyn apartment but honestly, if I feel like I need to limit myself to one representative recording by an artist who has done multiple works, I might as well just not have any by that person. At least not in physical formats.

I purged all my ESP cover variations when I moved back east. I probably still have some dupes -- I know I have Edition I and Edition II of Ascension filed, and those aren't dupes. And certain favorite CDs with extra material along with the LPs of same (Machine Gun for example).

Same. And filed stuff that is not filed. I have various artists mixed in by title, as though the title of the record was the artist name, rather than having a various artists section. So like the Complete Keynote Collection is filed in jazz "K." It's easy for me because I know what I have and where it is. For someone else... it might be a challenge. I have Mosaics, ESPs, and Actuels filed by catalog number in a separate section in the non-jazz record room (I have two rooms for records). I used to separate out my Blue Notes as well but they have been interfiled, primarily because a lot of them are 70s pressings or Japanese. Yet my ICP releases (have all the vinyl except for the flexi-disc set) are filed as Instant Composers Pool amid jazz artists/groups "I" and not by artist -- Breuker, Bennink, Lacy, etc.. All of my ethnographic and related field recordings (hundreds of them) are filed by region/tribe and then kind of "best I can" within that, moving from Americas eastward through Africa and Europe to Asia and ending with Korea.

Sad news from the land of krautrock, kosmische, experimental, new age, and drone music: electronic composer and drummer Klaus Schulze (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers) has died at age 74. He pretty much changed the world when it comes to electronic semi-popular music, along with Florian Schneider of course.

I don't believe so? No.1 I think became Amplitude, which he recorded with Lyons, Silva, and Cyrille.

correct. Jazz Realities was a great band -- the Fontana LP is incredible, and the tour material that was taped (some with Brötzmann & Kowald) is really fun.

those are both wonderful albums as well.

any way to get the full article in a larger font? I can't read this at all, even trying to zoom in.

yeah, that one is great. I believe I was exposed to him through William's music or that of Matt Shipp, back in the late 90s. Saw a duo with Juan Pablo Carletti (d) several years ago that was truly incredible, very much in the direction of Lyons but with a highly individual and razor sharp language all his own. Also, there was a great Whit Dickey band with Rob, Karen Borca, Michael Bisio, and Jackson Krall that was bananas -- there is a concert on YouTube worth watching. It was intended to be released on CD but there were issues with the audio recording I guess (video/audio seems fine and it was amazing to witness live).

I got my Ayler from Academy in NYC, listening to LP1 now. Sound is quite good (better than the ESP CD reissue of this material). It's not my favorite AA but it's important and I'm glad to have the set. I'll keep the Shandar LPs even though I have not spun them in well over a decade, maybe two!

Incredible LP.

Yes, and some of the Sultan material is at Columbia. I can try to ask him the next time I see him.

I asked HBA at Triple Point and will report back whether this one exists.

Rashied Ali's widow owns the Survival catalog and is working with Triple Point Records to gradually issue archival material.

In-fucking-credible. The Ali is Ali Abuwi of Aboriginal Music Society fame. That last tune is the centerpiece on a Noah Howard ensemble bootleg I have, similar to Live at the Village Vanguard but with Richard Dunbar added and Art Lewis in Rashied Ali's place. I don't know the title of that composition but I'd guess it's from Frank's book.

Interesting. Thanks!

was planning to see Ballister last week but got sick at the last minute and couldn't go.

Is that where the record label got its name?

Yup!

Great -- Cody hasn't recorded in a long, long time though he may still be playing.

Who among the Moffett children is still active as a musician?

Damn! Terrible news. He was incredible. RIP.

Always loved him but never saw him live. Very sad news -- RIP.