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will grip, thanks!

Very sad news. Great player.

Rollins' Alfie is the shit.

+1 never saw either him or Shank, sadly.

It's a nice one!

I've still got a few. Seemingly I have lost or misfiled my Raphe Malik/Frank Wright CD, which is a shame -- that one has some intense trumpet playing!

yep, I have that material. But one can always want more!

I wish there was more hearable from Jazz Realities and the Guild-era Jazz Composers' Orchestra.

Tootie invited Mtume to contribute these compositions to the date. The original release was on O'Be and was a gatefold. Mtume was involved with the US Organization, which (in part) led to the title, essay, and recitation on the LP.

I like that one.

Might be a nice place to pick up original Takt pressings...

For me, the live concert stuff is where it's at, especially in the '70s/'80s. A lot of unruliness there, but with a measured/careful hand directing it, and a hell of a lot of fun. I think irony's a bit played out sometimes, but when you hear certain people do it right, it's compelling. Not surprised Bryars likes Bley. He's brilliant, creative, and quite funny too.

He's incredible. I don't have that one, but I have a few others that are total rippers.

I'd like to buy a collection in order to feed the habit... seems like the ideal scenario. I have certainly pointed store owners to collections that would have cost more cash than I had on hand. Of course it has gotten more challenging now that everyone has access to Discogs, Popsike/Gripsweat, etc.. Still, being able to make several hundred or a few grand and put that towards something I was more interested in... sounds fun.

My recollection is that his name was pronounced "Kinney Durham." That could have led to some spelling variance.

This is really cool and well done!

rad -- I haven't seen him since pre-COVID but every time I did, he was awesome. Also a fun guy to interview.

I've always heard it as Ronnie among musicians, though you are correct the album credits don't bear that out. He's been teaching for a number of years.

Cecil and his brother Ronnie (saxophonist).

yeah, late 90s/early 00s -- at least that's when I got turned on to them and bought all their Elektra records. I still rate aspects of many of the records but don't need to keep them in the racks. Those Vanguard Chicago Blues comps are super.

I used to have a kind of noisy sounding Jasmine copy of Blue Bogey. Wouldn't mind getting a nicer-sounding reissue. Very good player. He's on at least one weird German fusion LP released via Ring in the '70s that I have yet to hear.

Ha! I used to really like them but purged all those records maybe a decade ago.

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).