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You're only well integrated as a Dutchman when you complain about the weather Niko, so please do so. The weather is really shitty here for weeks now and the forecasts ain't looking good.... Rain, wind, 9 degrees celsius.... typical Dutch winter. That's a great album I only recently discovered!

more Don Byas

Oh boy poor him….. Now spinning: another great Sam Rivers live record.

Why didn’t Don Byas sign up with Verve or a label like that? I am not familiar with his life. Was it personal problems?

How’s that Jimmy Woode? Never heard him as a leader but I love his bass playing with Mal Waldron.

Yeah me too. Remember Fontella Bass vocals on theme de yo-yo

I think you will like it

Sam Rivers’ Impulse! output is amazing. Especially the group with Cecil McBee and Barry Altschul.

Sometimes.... It's mostly with certain artists. If I spin one Coltrane, Waldron, Harper or Tolliver record I sometimes can't stop and keep playing their music for a week or so.

Good to see him still going strong

fantastic live performances. Especially the Isle of Wight stuff is steaming like a…. well we all know what word Miles would use

Stop making me more impatience and greedy really looking forward to it

Definitely. And that particular album is like a modern classic. It deserves a good reissue. The cd copy is doing more than 40 euros on Discogs

http://nobusinessrecords.com/archive-series-sam-rivers-5lp-box-set.html The LP box is upcoming with some stuff that wasn't released before. I stick to my cd's. The first four volumes are among Rivers' finest work. The last two were okay and the sound of volume 5 really sucks.

It was a pretty cool morning here

I missed the Eremite but happy with this new reissue now. Extraordinary music. I like all those directions Jamal was heading. The Philadelphia scene of those days must have been great to see back then. Talking about Eremite: when will they finally reissue Jemeel Moondocs Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys? I don’t even have the cd version and I’d love to have it on vinyl. I believe Clifford said they were going to do it but no sign of it yet unfortunately

I love that album. Equinox 😍I don't really enjoy his last 2 or 3 albums.

Well it didn't work on my brother or sister. They both dislike jazz music. I wonder what my 2 little boys are going to listen to when they are all grown up. What I think is funny (but also very interesting) is that a freejazz record doesn't bother them at all, which makes me think that many peoples aversion against the music might be more nurture than nature.... Like when a child got to hear very structured pop music for all of his youth, when he's going to hear a freejazz record than that doesn't sound nice to him. But my sons (4 and 1 yo) hearing seem to be still unprejudiced. That's why we could easily play Lego in the morning with Ayler's 'Truth is Marching In' shouting from the speakers. Until my wife comes downstairs with that weird look on her face of course.... Than my sons have to listen to this so called 'Coffeetime' playlist on Spotify. The horror!