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I need to reread that. I felt like short shrift was given on certain dates but again, rivet counter here...

I don't think any book about a record label is going to cover everything rivet counters like ourselves want... be it BN, Impulse, ESP, or whatever. At the end of the day a sellable volume won't be complete.

I have an original and it's a wonderful album. If you can spring for a high quality reissue, do so.

oh dang, I don't have that one. I'll have to get a copy somehow.

Very, very sad news. I interviewed him over email in advance of his NYC visit some years ago to play solo and duo w/ Lou Grassi. He was a kind man, not to mention absolutely brilliant. The only other time I saw FvH was in duo with Hannes Bauer in the early 00s at one of the Vision Festivals. Pretty heavy.

The Richard Cook BN book is pretty decent but not perfect.

Haven't had any issues with the rhythmic aspects that make it impossible to listen to the music. Some drummers are better than others of course, and there are really wonderful drummers in Japanese jazz, both of the free and less free variety -- George Otsuka, George Kawaguchi, Motohiko Hino, Masahiko Togashi, Takeshi Inomata, Sabu Toyozumi, Takeo Moriyama, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Shota Koyama... just to name a few from the glory days of Japanese creative music. The J-Jazz comps are neat. I don't own any but I like the idea of them and the guys assembling these albums are very knowledgable and have incredible collections. The only downside is that the cost of obtaining original full LPs keeps going up, up, and away as more people learn about them.

nice haul. I've never bought a collection. It's something that would be interesting to do, mostly in order to generate cash for my own specific/other areas of concentration.

RIP. What an icon and what a voice.

yeah, and he was all over Steely Dan's Katy Lied.

yeah, guess I associated Brecker more with pop than with real straight-ahead playing, even though that's patently inaccurate. Randy shows up everywhere though... I have him on Bob Moses' Bittersuite in the Ozone, a couple of Duke Pearson records, and Everything Is Everything "Just Flash in the Cosmic Pan." Probably other albums too.

Hopefully a Deviants LP

Allen, so glad you've gotten through the bulk of this -- and that you're going beyond just taking it day by day. I will figure a way to be at one of these April gigs for sure!

Right, Mtume was involved with the Us Organization and worked on the Ken Gibson campaign in addition to being around for activities at The East, which was community-centered (not only music but a school and food co-op). So I would assume that buying in was a big part of this. Sadly part three of our interviews, where I wanted to dig in further on this, was scuttled for health reasons. More research to do.

yeah, Reggie was a big part of this too.

yeah, I felt kinda weird to be asked to work on this project because I don't know that area of music AT ALL and can't speak much to Mtume's legacy in disco or R&B. Agreed that his conga touch was light -- he told me he was more heavily influenced by Tony Williams and Elvin at that time than traditional Afro-Cuban music.

Keep us posted. Big Monterose fan here and I'd love to hear them (I don't do Spotify).

That was Bryan Carrott, great player as well.

I can ask Bisio who that is.

yeah, I'm sure we must've been in the same room. I saw them at the Knitting Factory in 2001 for the Vision Festival.

yeah, that Dwight James album is good. I always dug his playing as well; saw him once with Jemeel Moondoc -- same band that recorded Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (great) -- and possibly on another occasion I'm not flashing on at the moment.

Vibraphonist and composer Khan Jamal has died at 75 according to Brewerytown Beats, the record store and label that was working closely with him in recent years. I'd heard he was having serious health issues so I guess it's not a shock, but 2022 is starting off to be quite a bummer. RIP.

He was very, very funny. Sad and unexpected -- RIP.

Mal Waldron/Marion Brown -- Much More! -- (Free Lance, FR)

So sad. I was invited to interview him a number of years ago; Brackeen was at that time living in LA and apparently houseless -- and I soon discovered a phone was not easily accessible for him either. Wish it could have happened but I am grateful for the music he left.