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A strong and beautiful album. I love the McPhee albums on hat Hut.

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I would be very interested indeed in what Amiri has to say about it, but can any explanation 40 or so years later manage to capture the original insight? Or will we get something that is an alloy of the original idea plus the added material acquired later in life?

"...put paid to"? Even if you're referring only to what Coltrane was doing, "Interstellar Space," for one, suggests otherwise. Larry, I think where I was going with that was that there was a period of backlash and reaction that in a sense erased music of that kind from larger popular appreciation and distribution. Not a reflection on the music but on the general cultural scene that served to get in the way of further developments along the line of "Interstellar Space" and even eroded the value of such music in the public arena. Fortunately, I think this situation has changed over the last decade or two.

Shepp wrote three good tunes for that album. I'm not sure if he ever recorded them himself. I don't believe so. I think you are right on that. Maybe they were a gift to Marion? Spinning some more Marion Brown:

Double LP.

Yes, I agree with that, fasstrack. But what he meant to others may have been more important, from a social-cultural consideration, than what he thought of himself.

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What an individual would have done is of course impossible to say, but there are some clues out there that might help make an estimate. Coltrane was part of a certain zeitgeist that was fueled by the turbulence of the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, feminism, ecology, etc. Indeed, Coltrane was the perfect avatar for these turbulent events and his music a powerful representation of them. With the end of the Vietnam war and the codification of key civil rights legislation, the steam went out of the American counter-culture. The free jazz movement dissipated. Its key leaders, Coltrane and Ayler were dead (almost symbolic deaths), and those that remained, even those close to Coltrane, like Pharoah Sanders, could not sustain "energy music" and moved towards less challenging or less confrontational musical expressions. The mid-70s saw the ride of the yuppie and the 80s the rise of Reaganism (I'll leave it there, not interested in getting into politics). That sort of put paid to what Coltrane was doing in the 60s. I don't think Coltrane could have bucked the trend of the times. If one wants to see how it might have gone, one looks towards Europe: Peter Brotzmann and the German free jazz movement, and Derek Bailey and Evan Parker (among others) in England. They sort of picked up the ball and carried it forward. Their playing might show you the direction Coltrane might have taken, but I don't think he could have done that himself. Anyway, just some thoughts.

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With all the talk of Shepp on the Board recently, his ears must be burning (as they say). Although I have a lot of Marion Brown's records, he still is something of a spectral figure to me (on a personal level).

You've gotta get your hands on I've Known Rivers w/ James Newton & Abdul Wadud I'll take note of that, thanks for the suggestion. I think that whole cohort of Anthony Davis, James Newton, Jay Hoggard, et al, may deserve more attention than they have received. Newton's first, Flute Music, on his own Flute Music Productions label, is very nice. Didn't know of that one. Looks interesting line-up and instrumentation. $50 means it'll have to be very interesting though I'm not sure of the going rate for this LP (the Anthony Davis one-- or did you mean the Newton? Don't know about that one) , I think it's usually found cheaper. I picked up my own copy in Philly for $1.00 in a bargain bin, probably because the spine of the LP jacket was scuffed (vinyl quite fine).

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You've gotta get your hands on I've Known Rivers w/ James Newton & Abdul Wadud I'll take note of that, thanks for the suggestion. I think that whole cohort of Anthony Davis, James Newton, Jay Hoggard, et al, may deserve more attention than they have received.

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BYG Reissue.

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Over the summer I got into drinking shandies. They really are more of a summer drink I suppose, but I like some with spicy Chinese food and BBQ burgers. Faves so far are the shandies made by Traveller and Saranac.