clifford_thornton

need that Japanese Carter Jefferson !

Cool -- will check this. Have you read Francis Gooding's piece on reevaluating smoov jazz in We Jazz Magazine? Available for purchase here: https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/we-jazz-magazine-spring-2022-tetragon

Ocean was originally issued by Takoma and is great. Windham Hill also reissued the George Winston album on Takoma, which is quite nice as well. I really like William Ackerman and before selling the label, he modeled it after Takoma (even starting the catalog at C-1001).

Yes.

Burton Greene, Leo Cuypers, Fred Van Hove are also ____ mystery school players in my pantheon.

he told me he's more into Sal Mosca.

Yeah, I like him quite a bit. François Tusques is another non-Black pianist I'd say is very mystery school. But I digress.

good one.

yes, it's a really wonderful album and not too hard to find in nice shape for a reasonable price either.

yup. Chris Anderson hasn't been mentioned. Alice Coltrane seems like another obvious one to me.

have that LP but it hasn't been on deck in jeez, 20 years? Cool album nevertheless! Excellent lil record...

To me, Gato and Pharoah reached an impasse by the early 1970s. I definitely prefer their work when it hadn't yet been hemmed in by certain commercial frames and they were still searching.

That's too bad. RIP.

have all those on LP but they're really great albums. I'm sure they'll get some new ears.

It's an excellent record and has not had a proper LP reissue other than decades ago in Japan (there's a BYG boot but it sounds like trash). I'll probably buy this as I traded my original for some other rarities and held onto the CD.

I like all of the CDs I have with him as a major contributor. Was able to fill the Botticelli holes shortly after posting above as well. There's an interesting interview with him in an old issue of Opprobrium (maybe) that I need to dig out. I get the feeling his life was full of struggles but he made the best of it and played his ass off.

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.