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Moms' modus operandi is to use a scattergun approach. Turns some folks off, gets others to think and perhaps listen. Either way, it gets attention.

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Hope he's kicked this habit:

Bill Dixon: Intents and Purposes (RCA France)

HB, MG! Hope to see you back with us soon.

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Jimmy Lyons - Andrew Cyrille: Something in Return (Black Saint)

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To You!

Happy Birthday, marcoliv!

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"each noisy apeshit tenor player" - Strong words, my friend. Hey you all know I LOVE Ayler and many of the others on jeffcron's little list (not Ware though, sorry). My point was merely that... well, it seemed a bit simple to just call most free/avant players from the 60s and 70s Ayler-influenced. You could just as well call them all Coltrane-influenced and Parker-influenced. But I see that Jeff isn't taking the easy way out: I hear you, but what I mean by "influence" might be different from what you mean. I still contend that Parker, who is indeed very much his own man, and who doesn't really sound like anyone but himself, was influenced by Ayler. It seems to me that Ayler's music, even more than Coltrane's, pointed the way to create a jazz-based music without conventional tonality and regular pulse. That doesn't mean that I think Parker sounds like Ayler. In any case, I'm not alone: John Fordham, from an article on Ayler in The Guardian music blog: The unique sound of British total-improv original Evan Parker still has Ayler inflections.... From Parker's own website: In spite of this major group activity, it is as the creator of a new solo saxophone language, extending the techniques and experiments started by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler, but taking them away from the rhythmically jazz-related areas and into the realm of abstraction, that Evan Parker is perhaps most recognised. I'm disinclined to attempt a response to this. ... so I apologize if my statement might have seemed rude (it wasn't intended thusly at all, again I repeat: I love Ayler and like lots of the others' music, well at least what I know of it, so far). But still... that quote from Parker's website: "extending the techniques and experiments started by John Coltrane and Albert Ayler" - if not them, someone else, if not him, someone else... I don't see (hear) a particular influence there. Saxophone techniques were extended ever since Hawkins got around to learn how to really play, and likely (Prince Robinson?) even before and by others in the same time. Techniques evolve and go on... Jimmy Lyons was a major innovator and one of the most amazing (technically AND musically speaking) saxophone players whose music I've yet witnessed, yet his beginnings are deeply in Bird. And so are Ayler's roots in R&B from the 40s or whenever... and I can't see a line from there to Evan Parker or other European avantgarde players (regardless if they made use of some technical aspects/extensions that Ayler may or may not have introduced or made more widely known). The reason I quoted part of your post was that it seemed totally out of character for you.

Guess I didn't watch much TV in the 80's.

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"each noisy apeshit tenor player" - Strong words, my friend.

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Someone should go for this. Great music and the cheapest price on Amazon is $200 - after that, the prices jump a lot.

Harlem Jazz and Swing (Affinity) - the Pete Brown Sextet side

Mark Stryker The Sultan of Swat Buster Bailey

On his early recordings (and live, when I heard him once in 1966) Charles Tyler was strongly influenced by Albert Ayler. Later, he went on to find his own voice.

Well, A.J. has a chance to redeem himself and earn some of that $17 mil. a year that he's done little to earn over the past two seasons. I'm not going to watch. Perhaps that will help bring him some luck.