Guy Berger

Will listen to some Shakti in memory.

Dang. RIP. I’m mostly familiar with him via Tim Berne’s music

I’m interested. I’ve picked up a bunch of NoBusiness’s archival reissues, glad they are putting them out

RIP. Those 1966-67 Kinks recordings are special

Finally got around to another volume in this series, 6. (I’d already listened to volume 1.) This music is just great. Hard to believe that for all intents and purposes they were “just a local band” having a good night on stage.

Just discovered Shakill’s Warrior. Great stuff!

Dusk holds up really well, I’d say it’s my favorite post-1970 Hill that I’ve heard.

This is a fantastic session.

Pedantic point - it’s one of the final *recordings* we have of Miles playing “So What” (there are 3 more after this one, stretching into early 1969), but I’m sure he played it a lot more often than that. The jazz club residencies, when he probably played it, are underrepresented relative to other venues in our recorded evidence.

The It’s decent. I greatly enjoy the recording.

Eh. I’ll be skipping this.

It’s a good performance. A nice bridge between R&B and non-extreme avant garde jazz.

Yes. The American Quartet was playing there when Lee Morgan was shot. One of the 1965 Charles Lloyd recordings on Manhattan Stories (Resonance) is from Slugs.

I take it from this thread that this guy is worth checking out? Where should I start?

This was a good forecast, unfortunately.

This is great music. Will pick it up.

If I had to pick a favorite “Lovano on BN” (of the ones I’ve ever heard), it’d be either the Vanguard quartet w/Harrell or 52nd Street Themes.

What others said. I think the Dolphy influence might be too “obvious” for people to comment on whereas Marsh and Konitz are “surprising” and generates more commentary.

Revisiting Lovano’s Blue Note albums for the first time in a long time. I have 10 of them. the live quartet disc from the Village Vanguard w/Tom Harrell, Anthony Cox and Billy Hart is top notch.

I ordered a bunch of stuff from this label this week: Marion Brown/Dave Burrell, Live at the Black Musicians' Conference 1981 John Carter, Echoes from Rudolph's Vinny Golia, Hell-Bent in the Pacific Dennis Gonzalez, Songs of Early Autumn Adam Lane/Darius Jones/Vijay Anderson, Absolute Horizon Ted Daniel/Oliver Lake/Daniel Carter/etc, Interconnection Charles Brackeen & ensemble, Melodic Art-Tet Ahmed Abdullah & ensemble, The Group Live Julius Hemphill & Pete Kowald, Live at Kassiopeia

AMAZING (I’ve only heard the 1st two on Thrill Jockey)

My faves that I’ve heard are Henry Threadgill’s Dirt and More Dirt and Steve Coleman’s Synovial Joints. i have also enjoyed Michael Formanek’s The Distance and Tim Berne’s Open Coma. I may be forgetting other recordings of interest!

He kept playing it in the early stages of the 1980s comeback!

I’ve been exploring this guy’s music on Pi. its pretty striking and uncompromising. Not in the sense of extreme jazz but more in the sense that it has some jazz trappings but sounds quite different.

The only time (to my knowledge) that I had COVID was December 2022, and it was pretty unpleasant (worse than a cold, comparable to a mild flu - aches, fatigue, congestion). I got a paxlovid prescription and it was a miracle drug - worked almost immediately, with little of the metallic taste other people experience - but also symptoms returned once the prescription ended. I assume I'm going to get this virus again from time to time. It seems to vary a lot by person whether the 2nd time is better or worse than the 1st one.