AOTW March 5th-11th

[clifford_thornton]

Apparently Jack Bruce is on this rare Brit inside-outside piano trio from '67 (as is Hiseman), playing contrabass I presume:

[ep1str0phy]

Apparently Jack Bruce is on this rare Brit inside-outside piano trio from '67 (as is Hiseman), playing contrabass I presume:

Yeah, I heard about that one. Crazy thing--they play standards. Bruce is (typically) pretty blustery, take him or leave him--I'd just like to hear him in a context that inhibits the whole Cream riff bag.

[Guest akanalog]

not so rare, cliffe.

that one was reissued in that gilly peterson impressed or whatever series.

[clifford_thornton]

Well, if you forget about those little coaster thingys, it is rare!

[ep1str0phy]

not so rare, cliffe.

that one was reissued in that gilly peterson impressed or whatever series.

Have you heard it?

[clifford_thornton]

I'd like to. I've always been curious about it, but didn't know of its reissue.

[Guest]

Good to see a discussion about Solar Plexus (and everything else that has been mentioned in this thread) - I admit I have something of a vested interest here since I edit the Unofficial Ian Carr and Nucleus Website: http://www.geocities.com/icnucleus - but I always thought Solar Plexus the best album by Ian Carr and Nucleus. To me it's the most complete and successful. Not sure that Ian would agree but why should he? A lot of people like Labyrinth better but Solar Plexus is a very satisfying album. In a way it's almost more idiosyncratic and groundbreaking than Elastic Rock and again, that is often cited is the 'classic' Nucleus album (BTW it's just been reissued as a cardboard replica gatefold sleeve, limited to 2500 copuies on the Repertoire label with new sleevenotes by Chris Welch). I might even go further and say Solar Plexus is probably in my top ten of all-time British jazz albums. One thing I find interesting is that on the album we have three of the best British or British-domiciled trumpet players, all taking significant solos; Carr, Kenny Wheeler and Harry Beckett who's famous solo at the end of the side seems to spiral up into the Vertigo label spiral logo. I don;t see much relationship between Nucleus and what Miles was doing at that time although clearly Ian Carr must have been listening to him since he wrote one of the definitive biographies on Miles. For the first three albums Nucleus recorded including Elastic Rock, Chris Spedding is quite a key player in that he lays down a very unusual groove with a fluid sound quite unlike Miles. McLaughlin and Spedding are worlds apart and in terms of rhythm guitar playing spedding was pretty much unique - it's such a tragedy for jazz that Spedding defected to rock and pop - what a waste. He could have been a contender. One more thing about Solar Plexus is that perhaps unlike any other album as soon as I see the cover I immediately hear the track Torso in my head. This is one great album.

[clifford_thornton]

Spedding is really great on that Frank Ricotti CBS record, Our Point of View. I really like that one.

[ep1str0phy]

Spedding is really great on that Frank Ricotti CBS record, Our Point of View. I really like that one.

I'm curious as to whether the tune "Late Into the Night" (on the Ricotti record, which I've never heard) is the same as the Battered Ornaments tune (which would not be far-fetched--Spedding was a member). It's a favorite of mine--sort of Latin-vibed, eerie, Fellini-noirish. On the BO album, Nisar Ahmed Khan plays a taut little Albert Ayler/Sonny Rollins lead-in--very edgy for Britrock.

[clifford_thornton]

I'll have to check the two of them. Dig that Mantel-Piece record quite a bit.

[ep1str0phy]

I'll have to check the two of them. Dig that Mantel-Piece record quite a bit.

As long as we're addressing drummers... Rob Tait, the BO (and later Piblokto!) trap man, was a bad, bad mf--the hard-lined groove of Jon Hiseman (through probably not as precise) melded with John Marshall's ecstatic fury. What happened to him?