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Sunny Murray Quintet with Richard Raux on tenor, who does a very fine job. Marge LP. Music Matters 2LP 45rpm. Sounds great. Love this group.

PM sent.

PM sent on: Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Brochard, & Edward Perraud, "[on]" (In Situ) [trio]

PM sent on: Misha Mengelberg, "Two Days in Chicago" (Hatology) Paul Termos & Misha Mengelberg, “Sessions”, vol. 1 (X-Or) [duo] Ab Bars & Ig Henneman, "Stof" Ig Henneman, “Pes” (Wig) [quartet w/ M. Oliver, Honsinger, de Joo

Count me in.

PM sent on Leimgruber (Lines) and Henneman (Grassetto)

Sure, hit me up with a list :-0

Alas, the reissue.

Do you mean Larry Ochs, or has something really strange been going on? Ha ha, I stand corrected.

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Sidenote: I know some downplayed Bill Evans' influence, but I wonder how Charlie Haden was seen in that context. Also, in the book Baraka admits to listening to Brubeck in college. (As with many past embarrassments, I'm sure the "in college" designation was necessary to minimize such a shocking transgression!) Since late Coltrane, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, etc., who would you consider a real innovator (Zorn maybe?) in the genre currently- or at least in the past 10 years or so? I'm not arguing against the possibility, but rather fishing for recommendations... I'll choose to take your question at face value. In no particular order: John Butcher, Peter Brotzmann, Matt Shipp, Frank Gratkowski, Evan Parker, Kidd Jordan, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, Mary Halvorson, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, David S. Ware, Frode Gjerstad, Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Phil Ochs and ROVA. There are many others. Some cited have been around for a while, others are fairly new to the scene, but I think all that I listed bring something vital to the music.

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Is there a form/genre that provides a counterargument to Hard Bop in this way? In other words, is there a form of jazz that you would say is "alive" at this point? Free jazz or creative improvised music (perhaps not necessarily the same thing).

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Let me know if you do. The guy working the door that night is a friend, and he can point me out. Will do. (I know some of the door guys too).

That would disqualify pretty much every kind of African American music there is, including hip hop, funk, soul jazz, free jazz and on and on and on. In addition to Face of the Bass' judicious comment, I can say from personal experience that is really not it at all. Baraka just assessed, from a political-socio-music (!) analysis that hard bop was a retrograde musical form, and time has proven him right. The paradox is that hard bop dominates current jazz, and current jazz continues to sink from public view (remember that "jazz is not cool" thread?) It's not that jazz/hard bop is not cool, it's just not alive. It's an empty form that feeds on its own tail.

Graham Collier NEW CONDITIONS. Mosaic (UK) LP. 1976

Pink Floyd: UMMAGUMMA. EMI/Harvest 2LP:

well put. "During its prime" is the operative phrase here. During their prime, iambic pentameter, royal masques and epic poetry were pretty cool too. But art forms evolve, and artists move on. Unfortunately, not so with the school of hard bop. Miles knew he had to, Coltrane knew he had to, Ornette knew it too. However, lesser luminaries continue to flog this musical form decade after decade after decade, long after its artistic life has fled.

Ummm.... "tome", not "tomb" is what you meant, right? "Tomb" seems about right.

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Brother from another mother. I sure can't stand listening to Wynton, but to say he is not a hard bopper at heart is just not accurate. The guy went to the quintessential school of hard bop, Art Blakey's band. Anyway, I have no interest in talking about WM. My point was that from a polemical view, hard bop is a finished (in ever way) form of music. Baraka is looking for something transformative (yes, revolutionary) in the music.

This is the Bro/Slow Boy Records vinyl reissue. Fantastic power and energy: