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LOL, well, let's have 'em!

I have just got around to playing some Bennie Wallace (picked up some LPs of his as part of another purchase). Any thoughts, positive or negative, on Mr. Wallace?

SAHARA: McCoy Tyner, Sonny Fortune, Calvin Hill, Alphonse Mouzon. Milestone LP.

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LPs 1 & 2

Steve Lacy, Ronnie Boykins, Dennis Charles: CAPERS. 2LP hat Hut Records. Joe McPhee is credited with the photos of Lacy on the back cover and inside the gatefold.

Maybe this one: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/371-songsters-blues-and-rhythm-blues/

I guess this qualifies for inclusion in this thread. Alexander Hawkins new album, favorably reviewed on the Free Jazz blog: http://www.freejazzblog.org/

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Oh, understood! I just had some extra Leimgruber stuff knocking around in my head that needed to be delivered Giuffre and Lacy actually played together for a bit not long before this record, but for some reason they didn't quite gel. I found this very interesting. Thank you. My thought was simply that "birds of a feather do not always flock together." But I found my copy of "Conversations" (with Steve Lacy), (edited by Jason Weiss, Duke U Press), and Giuffre comes up a few times. In a 1965 interview, Lacy said: "But I played with Giuffre when I was in New York. I like him a lot, he was (!) a good friend, but musically we're not at all on the same track, our kinds of music are incompatible. For me, friendship is very important. In a 1996 interview, we get more of the story. Lacy tells how Nica, baroness Pannonica, got Monk to come hear Lacy's group playing at the Five Spot with Jimmy Giuffre. "Jimmy Giuffre took my trio and called it his quartet. At the time, he didn't know what to do and found my trio interesting but it didn't work out very well. He fired me after two weeks, but during those two weeks, John Coltrane came and that's where he took notice of the soprano's tonality." In a 1998 interview, Lacy recalled: There was a parallel between Giuffre and me. When Giuffre got to New York, he had heard all the new jazz. He took over the trio I had with Buell and Dennis Charles and made it into the Jimmy Giuffre Quartet. This is 1960. We were playing Monk tunes then. But it didn't work out between JImmy and me at all. It was awful, so he fired me after two weeks. He was a beautiful guy, a lovely guy, but we were incompatible musically. Also, in those days, I wasn't flexible. I was very doctrinaire about Monk. He was a very easy going guy. It was California versus New York. It didn't work out." Some interesting recollections. If interested in Lacy, I recommend the "Conversations" book. Listening to: Two LPs, hat Hut, A,B recorded live, 1977, at Willisau Jazz Festival. C,D recorded live 1978 Jazz Au Totem. Wild skronky energized music. Love it.

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"Anyway, I can't wait for the record store owner to laugh in my face when I try to pass these on to him. :unsure:" Those albums are usually denizens of thrift stores and bargain racks. But if they are absolutely minty you might get something for them; I'd try for a trade or store credit. Wish you luck.

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The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Giuffre, clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Paul Bley, piano), THESIS. Verve. Giuffre seems to hit the same receptors in my brain as Steve Lacy.

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I would start with "Kirikuki" myself..if you like that you can explore further. They are all good though...none are radically different from the other so... There's a pre-Japo title called "Live at Montreaux" too but either of the Japo titles would do for a start... Actually the ECM CD compilation might not be a bad starting point ... love the recent "Willisau" on Intakt (CD only) ... they did a few more reunion concerts (actually two, I think? would need to check my files at home) that were broadcast on Swiss radio (as was Willisau, before it came out officially). The best I've heard of Leimgruber's was a live set in trio with Christian Weber on bass and Christian Wolfahrt on drums ... gorgeous, very quiet yet intense stuff - but then I only know a small fraction of his large work. I find foreshadowings of Leimgruber's later avant (to use a term) and free work in the work of OM. But I think Leimgruber's post-OM work goes considerably further outside. I really like his hatArt titles: UNGLEICH, L'ENIGMATIQUE, STATEMENT OF AN ANTIRIDER, and LINES. Another more easily available essential Leimgruber is on Jazzwerkstatt with Demierre and Phillips, ALBEIT. Leimgruber has said somewhere or other that he likes his playing to make a physical sensation on the listener, with high pitches, and you can hear that on the solo albums GOLETTER and CHICAGO SOLOS. Leimgruber also has done a lot of lower case stuff, and Ubu has pointed that out. For my money he is one of the most creative sax players today.

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I really enjoyed that interview. Gives a great insight into the music business as a musician sees it.

Thanks Chuck. I also picked up the Marty Paich and Pete Jolly albums in this series recently, all at different stores. Strange. Hadley Caliman. CELEBRATION. Catalyst Records.

A wonderful man with an amazing and profound life history. Greatness like his is a rare thing.

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