moonshinemaverick

Ocora titles... there's so many, have to look them up... from africa and asia mostly... the one i remember -which is currently the most popular one on my playlist- is this: Vietnam: Nouvelle Musique Traditionnelle. OCORA 558 012... sweet, sweet stuff... the BAM label if i'm not mistaken is french... -M

didn't know 'bout that... thanks!

always captivating (& interesting) subject... the following disks have occupied my turntables for the past month or so... - Clifford Thornton - Panther and the Lash (America) - Andrew Cyrille - What About? (BYG/Actuel) - Sun Ra - Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra (BYG) - John Coltrane - Impressions (Impulse) - Archie Shepp - Black Gypsy (America) - Eric Dolpy - Live at the Five Spot Vol. I (Prestige) - Giuseppi Logan - More (ESP-Disk) - Roswell Rudd - Everythign (Impulse) and something beyond the realm of "jazz"... - Sir Richard Bishop - Improvika (Boweavil Recordings) - Sunn O))) - Oracle (Southern Lord) - Flower Corsano Duo - The Radiant Mirror (Textile) - Sunburned Hand of the Man - Wedlock (Eclipse Records) - Various - In The Spirit Volume 1 (Origin Jazz Library) - Henry Thomas - Ragtime Texas: Complete Works - 1927 to 1929 in Chronological Order (Herwin) - John Fahey - Vol. I - VI. (Takoma) ...and of course a bunch of ethnic records across the globe from the pioneer labels (Ocora, Nonesuch, BAM, Folkways... etc.)

It's been quite a good year... here are some of the gems that have found their way into our record shelves... - Clifford Thornton - Freedom & Unity (Third World) - Art Ensemble of Chicago - Phase One (America) - Art Ensemble of Chicago - Kabalaba (AEOC) - Archie Shepp - Black Gypsy (America) - New York Art Quartet - Consequences (Fontana) - Marion Brown - Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun (ECM) - Music Inc. - Live at Slugs Vol. 1 (Strata East) - Bob James Trio - Explosions (ESP-Disk) - John Coltrane - Ascension: Edition I (Impulse) in addition to the above i got my hands on a bunch of Sun Ra's Impulse promos (fate in a pleasant mood, super-sonic jazz, pathways to unknown worlds...) and some nice additions from the BYG/Actuel catalog (Jacques Coursil's Black Suite; Arthur Jones' Scorpio; Dave Burrel's Echo; Art Ensemble's Reese and the Smooth Ones; Grachan Moncur's New Africa...) all in all, it's been a jazz-filled year... keeping my fingers crossed to find one or two more under the christmas tree...

Greetings all, Comin’ fresh from registration... been browsing through some jazz-oriented boards, and this appears to be a place where volks seem to be helplful and open minded on all things jazz… I’ve been an avid collector for quite some time (mostly in the field of free/avant-garde/late 60s)… and I wanted to start a discussion on some of the RARITIES out there… I’ve been lately lucky to come across some fine examples and wanted to have a place where all us vinyl junkies could chat about particular gems and maybe assess & compare prices and rareness… First question: How often does one come by an original copy of Coltrane’s Ascension (Edition I)? And how much would they go for? I understand there’s not that many of them out there (maybe 1000 copies?)… Second: I just came across the Bob James Trio disk “Explosions” on ESP-DISK’… How rare is that? Personally never seen one before... (quite a mind blowing disk, i might add) Ok. I’ll be contemplating on some other inquiries… In the meantime, glad to join the conversations. And Happy Holidays to all… - Moonshine