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Some favorites not yet mentioned...
- Lacy / Rudd, REGENERATION
- Billy Bang, VALVE NO. 10
- Frank Lowe, EXOTIC HEARTBREAK
- Leroy Jenkins Sting!, URBAN BLUES
- Guido Manusardi, THE VILLAGE FAIR
- Roscoe Mitchell, 3 X 4 EYE
- Andrew Cyrille, X-MAN
- Baikida Carroll, SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS
- John Lindberg, QUARTET AFTERSTORM
- Barry Altschul, IRINA
- Lacy / Rudd, REGENERATION
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Yes, absolutely. Especially fond of his trumpet work.
Was first -- and still am -- impressed by his playing on those Richard Bock-produced Elmo Hope tracks from 1957 that Blue Note tacked on to the CD reissue of TRIO AND QUINTET. Have since tracked down some of his leader dates on Bethlehem; the music there is slightly more "polite", but there are sparks (Charlie Mariano is a frequent partner on these recordings).
Speaking of Mariano... Williamson was of course an integral part of the Shelly Manne quintets that recorded for Contemporary in the mid-50s. I presume you own or have heard SWINGING SOUNDS, MORE SWINGING SOUNDS, and THE GAMBIT?
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Arthur Blythe also appears on Jeff Palmer's EASE ON and ISLAND UNIVERSE. Palmer has also recorded with George Garzone on a pretty obscure but pretty fabulous disc entitled OPPOSITE VOLTAGE.
On his 2000 Steeplechase release PRIDE, Lee Konitz is backed on a couple of tracks by organ (George Colligan).
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I'm a fan of the 2 Trees LPs, GARDEN OF JANE DELAWNEY and ON THE SHORE. Very indebted to the Fairport aesthetic, but there's slightly more "rock" -- thus a little more shading and grit -- here than folk.
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There is something of a companion volume to this release as well, recorded for Capitol... SOUNDS
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I've tried and tried, and I love the work of every player involved. But... this one still does not connect with me. At the end of the day, I have to fault the compositions themselves, which I find a little too schematic / straitjacketing.
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Lyricon, ukelele and castanets
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FWIW, I prefer the QUINTETS AND STRINGS date to the Octet recordings (ZOUNDS is the best of the lot, IMO)... the instrumentation really compliments Niehaus' often meticulous arrangements. Vol. 4 is buttoned up rather than buttoned down, if you know what I mean.
Then again, I'm a big fan of Hal McKusick's IN A TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM and Konitz's AN IMAGE, so, clearly, I'm not entirely objective when it comes to "standard jazz combo featuring frosty / cerebral lead alto plus string quartet / section" dates.
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To the best of my knowledge, this is this session's first appearance on CD.
Long been intrigued by this one, largely due to that frontline.
BTW, the Futura website has the recording date listed as 1970 (1974 being date of original release, I suspect).
http://futuramarge.free.fr/ (scroll down)
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Sad news. The novels and stories (esp. "My Appearance", a dissection of both the dread and fascination televised spectacle inspires in us) are mostly wonderful, but I'll really miss Wallace the essayist. Wide-ranging and pretty fearless on that front. The "profile" he wrote on David Lynch for the old PREMIERE was one of the best peices of magazine writing I've ever read.
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If you can track down a copy, carpe diem (as JSngry might say) on VALVE NO. 10, a Soul Note recording under Bang's name featuring Lowe alongside Sirone and Denis Charles. Wonderful rendition of "Lonnie's Lament".
I also very much like Lowe's duets with Eugene Chadbourne, DON'T PUNK OUT, though they probably won't be to everyone's tastes. If I may...
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Julian Jaynes' THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BICAMERAL MIND
Philip Ball's UNIVERSE OF STONE: A BIOGRAPHY OF CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
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4 of 8... and I actually saw the TWIN PEAKS movie in the theaters
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Nice collection of performances and interviews with "experimental" musicians available here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/roulette.html
Among the jazz or jazz-related artists featured are Billy Bang, William Parker, Andrew Cyrille (with Bob Stewart and Roy Campbell), Marilyn Crispell, Oliver Lake and Guy Klucevsek.
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A couple of Italian recordings...
Guido Manusardi, THE VILLAGE FAIR
Gianluigi Trovesi, FROM G TO G
Oh, and any of the Henry Threadgill sessions on About Time (WHEN WAS THAT?. JUST THE FACTS AND PASS THE BUCKET, SUBJECT TO CHANGE).
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My favorite Rava releases:
-- L'AGE MUR (Philology), a pianoless quartet with Lee Konitz and a great (if not "name") Italian rhythm section
-- DUO IN NOIR (Between The Line), with Ran Blake
-- THE PILGRIM AND THE STARS on ECM
-- ITALIAN BALLADS (Music Masters), with Richard Galliano
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First there is a mountain
Then there is no mountain
Then there is
*****
When I was a boy I thought about the times I'd be a man
I'd sit inside a bottle and pretend that I was in a can
In my lonely room I'd sit my mind in an ice cream cone
You can throw me if you wanna 'cause I'm a bone and I go
Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!
If I don't start cryin' it's because that I have got no eyes
My father's in the fireplace and my dog lies hypnotized
Through a crack of light I was unable to find my way
Trapped inside a night but I'm a day and I go
Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!
One... Two... Three... Four!
[Followed by the sound of a nuclear explosion]
*****
Chewin' on a piece of grass walkin' down the road
tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?
Some people say this town don't look good in snow
You don't care, I know.
Ventura Highway, in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know
Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
and the day surround your daylight there
Seasons cryin' no despair
Alligator lizards in the air
Wishin' on a fallin' star
Watchin' for the early train
Sorry boy, but I've been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on Joe, you can always change your name
Thanks a lot son, just the same
Ventura Highway, in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine!
you're gonna go, I know
Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
and the days surround your daylight there
seasons cryin' no despair
Alligator lizards in the air
in the air
[Doodle-loo-do-doot etc.]
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The continent of Atlantis was an island
which lay before the great flood
in the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean.
So great an area of land, that from her western shores
those beautiful sailors journeyed
to the South and the North Americas with ease,
in their ships with painted sails.
To the East Africa was a neighbour, across a short strait of sea miles.
The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of The Atlantian culture.
The antediluvian kings colonised the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis.
Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships to all corners of the Earth.
On board were the Twelve:
The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist,
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends.
Though Gods they were -
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new
Hail Atlantis!
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
I wanna see you some day
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,
My antediluvian baby,
My antediluvian baby, I love you, girl,
Girl, I wanna see you some day.
My antediluvian baby, oh yeah
I wanna see you some day, oh
My antediluvian baby.
My antediluvian baby, I wanna see you
My antediluvian baby, gotta tell me where she gone
I wanna see you some day
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, oh yeah
Oh glub glub, down down, yeah
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First read about this in CABINET magazine; good to see the story has not gone away.
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We'll try to have the BBQ ready by then...
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Electric Lightnin' -- Track down MOJO HAND and LIGHTNIN' AND THE BLUES
Acoustic Lightnin' -- I'm partial to LIGHTNIN' IN NEW YORK / the Candid date and the sides Sony recently anthologized on HELLO CENTRAL. I wouldn;t necessarily sleep on the Prestige recordings, either. My favorite of these sessions have been compiled on DOUBLE BLUES (I think they may also be available separately as well.) "I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own" indeed.
Some of the late 60's / early 70's flirtations with the sounds of the counterculture are interesting -- like the session where Lightnin' is backed by members of The 13th Floor Elevators, FREE FORM PATTERNS, or a set of "previously unreleased" LA recordings Verve put out in the 90's (the title escapes me, sorry) -- but I would not consider them high priorities.
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Have heard Ajemian in duets with Josephine Foster (Born Heller) and Matt Bauder.
For those who know it, how does this release stack up / compare to the bassist's work with Bauder in particular?
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Some relatively obscure BS / SN dates worth investigating...