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The Graz concert was the one where Hubbard got arrested on stage...

They have inverted the musicians' list. The group with Priester, Boswell and the Turrentine brothers plays only on the wrongly titled Kardouba and Stop Motion (AKA Juliano and La Villa). All the other tracks are played by the quartet w/ Jordan and Perkinson, plus Abbey Lincoln. "Long As You're Living" is wrong as well. It's "Lonesome Lover".

Your Bremen tape looks like the one that came out on LP as "Max Roach Again" (Affinity). The mysterious "Ceciliana" should be a"Siciliana" by Bach or Handel...

You mean the one that can be seen on the Coltrane-Dolphy video?

As a matter of fact, "A Variation", the second track on this record, is Heitor Villa-Lobos' Prelude no.3 for guitar.

There's also this CD, which I have (I wonder if the dates are correct, or maybe it is the Berendt material?): Max Roach/Abbey Lincoln - Max Roach Live In Europe: Freedom Now Suite (Magnetic MRCD 110) Clifford Jordan (ts) Coleridge Perkinson (p) Eddie Khan (b) Max Roach (d) Abbey Lincoln (vo) "Old Fellows", Copenhagen, Denmark, January 14, 1964 Driva' Man Tears For Johannesburg Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace All Africa Freedom Day same personnel live in Stockholm, Sweden, January, 1964 Who Will Buy? Driva' Man Tears For Johannesburg

... but in the same thread, the author posts a denial: "in a twist of fate, befitting the Sun Ra Universe, I have just been told tha Luqman in fact, DID NOT DIE last night. Please forgive me for posting inaccurate information. My caveat it is that both the news of his death AND the news that he in fact did not die came from the Sun Ra organization itself. PLEASE inform any people or boards that you may have cross posted this on. That said, if you are the praying type, please keep Luqman in your thoughts, as all is clearly not well for him at this time. Gorts, please feel free to delete this thread before this goes any further. My deep sadness, has now turned to utter disbelief and bewilderment. what a crazy life this is!!!"

That's Definitive, not Gambit - not that this makes a major difference ... Odd, mine's definitely on Gambit, same catalogue number though. It must be a rip-off from from Definitive

...and the next in line is:

Vault's owner was Jack Lewerke, who died in 1977. His son Greg is a well known manager of many rock acts and, according to his email address at the bottom of this web page (www.ronrainey.com), has still something to do with Vault. Maybe you can ask him who's the current owner.

Even some OJC LP reissues of Fantasy titles have been printed on coloured vinyl. I have OJC 283 (The Montgomery Brothers in Canada) on red vinyl, OJC 120, "Jazz Guitarist" by Eddie Duran, the Getz/Tjader and some more.

Ah, yes. I have also "Warne Marsh Quartet Live in Berlin" (MTCJ 2510), with Sal Mosca, Eddie Gomez and Kenny Clarke, that comes "licensed by Interplay Records" and produced by Marsh and Taenaka. This has been pirated on Gambit, I think, and there's also a video of that concert on YouTube.

Carlos Ward - Lito - LEO 166 (the CD has some bonus tracks) Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival; July 9, 1988 Carlos Ward - as, fl; Woody Shaw - tp; Walter Schmocker - b; Alex Deutsch - dr. I think it's out of print now, but it shouldn't be too difficult to find.

I have the two Warne Marsh CDs on Jazzbank (maybe there's more). "Personal Statement", in solo (1050), and the duo with Larry Koonse (1067). Years ago Anthony Braxton told me that the duo recording came from a California concert he had organized at Mills College, where he was teaching (1987). Braxton joins the duo on the final track of the concert - not included on the CD, unfortunately.

"Lito", Ward's CD on Leo with Woody Shaw, is quite interesting.

He recorded for CIMP in 2001 ("New Beginnings") and 2003 ("Birds of Bagdad"). I have the first one, a nice record. In the liner notes, Charles explains that his absence from the scene has been fueled by "personal problems". I read somewhere that the CD was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association as the best Jazz debut of 2002 (Eubanks was born in 1948...). So he is related to all the other Eubankses. I know that Kevin, Robin and Duane are brothers, and that there was another Eubanks, the late bassist David). The first three are Ray Bryant's nephews.

I do not know the Jazz Colours edition, but unfortunately the Loodsrecht CD on Black Lion has very bad sound, compared to the original double LP. I gave it away and kept the vinyl. Another case of a Black Lion CD with bad sound (compared to the LP version) is Stanley Cowell's "Brilliant Circles" (which, anyway, has a couple of bonus tracks).

His recent CD for Label Bleu, "Another Place", produced by Steve Coleman, is quite good and has a very good band (Jason Moran, Lonnie Plaxico, Nasheet Waits). If you don't have it, grab it while you can.

Saw him in the early Eighties with George Coleman's octet. A very good, player, indeed. :(

Volume 3 of the OJC reissue had also an unissued track, "Blues of a Sort". I wonder if it's there.

By the way, this is what came out on RCA Vista (the label lasted only a couple of months: most of these LPs came out in May, 1975...) and has never been reissued, except the Goykovich and (I think) the Lacy: TPL1-1082 Mario Schiano/Marcello Melis Perdas de fogu (with Don Pullen, Sheila Jordan, Ray Mantilla, Jerome Cooper). This is a great record. TPL1-1097 Steve Lacy Flakes TPL1-1113 Patrizia Scascitelli Ballata TPL1-1114 Maurizio Giammarco / Andrea Centazzo Davanti e oltre la soglia TPL1-1115 Dusko Goykovich Slavic mood TPL1-1116 Enrico Rava Pupa o crisalide (with John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Jeanne Lee and many others; the remaining tracks from this album came out later on "Quotation Marks" for Japo) TPL1-1117 Mario Schiano Partenza di Pulcinella per la luna TPL1-1149 Gato Barbieri/Luis Enriquez Bacalov Desbandes

I've always thought that the credits on the LP are wrong (I have the original vinyl, and the CD reissue is an exact reproduction). I guess that Scherrer is playing saxophone, and that the mysterious Ben Thompson is on drums. Next time I see Dusko (he plays in Italy quite often, having a group with Gianni Basso) I'm going to ask him.

Sony Italy has recently reissued the extremely rare Slavic Mood, which came out in 1975 on Vista, a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA. Here's the details: Dusko Govkovich (tp), Ben Thompson (ts,ss), Vince Benedetti (p), Joe Nay (b), Andy Scherrer (ds), Rome, October 24 & 25, 1974 [ 1] Slavic Mood [ 2] Got No Money [ 3] No Love Without Tears [ 4] Old Fisherman's Daughter [ 5] Kosmet [ 6] East Of Montenegro [ 7] Flying Rome

I've seen Spaulding several times with the World Saxophone Quartet in the early Nineties, after Blythe and before Eric Person. That was a good situation for him , I think, since the other three guys were pushing him quite a lot (even a little too much, at times. especially Bluiett...). He looked like a very laid-back guy, and the very strong personalities in the WSQ intimidated him quite a bit. I guess that's the reason why he didn't last in the WSQ.