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Bill Roper Henry Threadgill has often used tuba in his various ensembles... Marcus Rojas on MAKIN' A MOVE (and other 90s recordings), Jose Davila as a member of Zooid... Also, Gaincarlo Schiaffini's TUBA LIBRE on Random Acoustics.

Various sources date THE SWOOPER as having been recorded / released in 2001. Apparently, a record of duets with bassist DeWayne Oakley also exists... http://www.discogs.com/Christopher-Lowell-Clarke-And-Dewayne-Oakley-Christopher-Lowell-Clark-Dewayne-Oakley/release/2829460 I'm satisfactorily intrigued.

In LA there was Lloyd Reese (Dexter, Mingus, Dolphy all studied with him), but I believe he gave private lessons and was not affiliated with any particular school. Maybe (Thomas) Jefferson HS in South-Central? Don Cherry attended Jefferson - who and how many others? DuSable HS in Chicago is now a 300-student school, one of 2 or 3 or more stuffed into the campus of the original DuSable HS. The way Chicago public schools have been reorganized is amazing, not in a good way. The tenor player David Boykin was teaching music at DuSable a few years ago, I think another jazz musician teaches music here now. According to the internet Roy Ayers, Ed Thigpen and Dexter Gordon all attended TJ. Not yet able to find mention of a specific teacher there along the lines of, say, Chicago's Walter Dyett or O.W. Fredrick.

Excellent! Thanks for the tip.

In LA there was Lloyd Reese (Dexter, Mingus, Dolphy all studied with him), but I believe he gave private lessons and was not affiliated with any particular school. Maybe (Thomas) Jefferson HS in South-Central?

An institution with a long and rich musical history... its difficult for me to name a Detroit jazz musician who doesn't or didn't have some connection to Cass Tech... and while that history is not explicitly addressed here, a nice tribute to the place it once was... http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2013/03/04/detroit_urbex_using_photomontage_to_compare_the_history_of_cass_tech_high.html

http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4043.html http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4106.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wizard,_a_True_Star SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH was released in December of '73

Let us know what you think about all of these once you've had a chance to listen and live with them for a while! One more... from the late 60s / early 70s, but the producers did a wonderful job of capturing the heat and grit of McDowell's slide guitar tone... one of the great "sounding" electric blues records, IMO, intimate and spontaneous. I prefer the Fuel 2000 mastering (from 2001; appears to be a straight reissue, but features a few bonus cuts) to the earlier (1995) Capitol issue... which, however, contains the complete sessions on 2 CDs...

Slightly more traditional -- as much as these truly idiosyncratic artists are part of a tradition -- but excellent nonetheless: Joe Diorio / Ira Sullivan, THE BREEZE AND I Also, Julius Hemphill's mulitracked solo masterpieces: ROI BOYE AND THE GOTHAM MINSTRELS and BLUE BOYE... and his duets with Oliver Lake (BUSTER BEE).

Obviously you've not seen the Sonny Bono sex tapes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE3yqL5GWCE http://www.discogs.com/Charles-Earland-The-Dynamite-Brothers/release/789125

If we want to go full-on 60s classics...

There was also a Cobra Records box set that was released in the early / mid-90s that's worth finding in used condition. Failing that, this Fuel 2000 collection looks to contian much of the same material... In fact, that entire series looks pretty promising (volumes covering Enjoy, Chief...)

Yes, it could be that Harrell has settled into a groove. I confess to not being as familiar with the earlier leader dates, part of that being my aversion to some of other players on those records. And the RCA records seemed too much an attempt to glitz him up. But the Highnotes has definitely made me want to reassess my listening with respect to his entire body of work.

Mack Goldsbury, April 19 @ UTD: http://www.utdallas.edu/calendar/event.php?id=1220269451. How many cats have played with both Tim Berne, Charles Earland and Cher?

Been catching up recently with Harrell's Highnote discs of the last few years. VERY impressive stuff: Harrell's compositions almost never fail to offer something of interest, and hes assembled a pretty crackling quintet. NUMBER 5, the latest release by this group, features different combinations and re-combinations of Harrell, Wayne Escoffery (ts), Danny Grissett (keys), Ugonna Okegwo (b) & Johnathan Blake (d). But THE TIME OF THE SUN from 2011 is, IMO, the best of these recitals I've heard thus far. Overall, or in every dimension, Harrell may just now be making the finest music of his career.

T-Bone's Imperial recordings are pretty essential, and remain in-print... http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Recordings-T-Bone-Walker/dp/B00000DRCV As a single-disc summary of T-Bone's whole thing, his Atlantic LP is not a bad way to go: If you can find the non-Mosaic issue of his Capitol / Black & White recordings (used copies turn up every now and again, and there's always iTunes)... Oh, and as far as Lightnin' Hopkins goes...

Marion Brown's first ESP date: Ronnie Boykins and Reggie Johnson. http://www.espdisk.com/official/catalog/1022.html

Soon to be reissued by a new Italian label [?], seriE.WOC. Vinyl only, it appears. For those of us Statestide...Dusty Groove will be stocking this. You can preview a track here.

Bummer. A great rock eccentric. And too young.

Yea, I noticed he was playing a gig / some gigs (one at The Echo / Echoplex for sure) around LA late last year, with promise of a tour. Excited about the "new" music and wish the dude would come to TX... even Austin would be acceptable (well, just so long as it's not for either SXSW or ACL...)

The MONK'S CASINO set is worth acquiring... http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17548#.UR_LYuh0NgA

Hmmm... not sure I could single out a performance per se. Certainly, something about the length of Sonny's phrases, the way they move with respect to "bar lines" (I'm not really equipped for this kind of musical analysis; just trying to describe what I hear) "feels" Tristano-like to me. The tune itself, harmonically, is rather Powell-like, but I think this performance from Sonny' trio record for Time shows evidence of the Lennie influence... FWIW, Clark also names Tristano as a pianist he admires in the notes to COOL STRUTTIN'.