clifford_thornton

I can't get too excited about the IG original-vinyl show and tell, personally. Not much deep observation in the commentary, either. Organissimo forums expat homefromtheforest is pretty good though and an exception, as well as a couple others.

wow!

Aww. From the meows I could tell s/he wanted the "up-up." What a sweet kitty.

I threw on Byas' "Ballads for Swingers" (Montmartre recordings) while eating lunch and man, what captivating solos he had at that time. Well, any time really, but 60s Byas is quite heavy!

Maybe I'll look at Mastodon again. I tried rejoining Twitter and immediately felt it was too gross to mess with, and deleted my account. Threads I looked at once and decided to avoid. Bluesky didn't seem great to me either. Instagram is a difficult place to have actual conversations and textual content. The ads and pure "junk" have also gotten out of control. Recently I have thought about totally deactivating it -- again, it's also a real time-suck -- but seems necessary on some level for promoting one's activities. @tallswami there if anyone wants to follow. I signed up for Substack but decided to take a year off from writing, so haven't used it yet. My understanding is that one can monetize one's work there, and it could be a good place to explore posting interviews and articles for a handful of readers. I'm curious if anyone here has any experiences with it to share from the posting/authoring angle.

Will definitely pick this one up at some point. The band is very interesting; Mal had an affinity for playing with rock-adjacent musicians at the time, given his work with Christan Burchard of Embryo, Jimmy Jackson (Embryo, Haboob, Amon Düül II), the Lafayette Afro-Rock Band, and probably more I am forgetting.

yeah, at least the box sets are replaceable. Much better than the line of rarities next to it (which have all been moved).

Getting some new shelves built after an accident resulted in a heavy object torpedoing into the leading edge of a pile of records stacked on the floor, taking chunks out of a couple box set covers. I really need to get control over this stuff and stop accumulating more than I have room for. As Sabir Mateen once titled a tune, "addiction ain't fiction" !

I suppose the Burns/English material is from the 1960s.

I have the Ted Brown and Hans Koller Vanguards, and had a reissue of Mel Powell "Thingamagig." The Bill English is really good, as are the Dave Burns LPs -- heard, but never owned.

Wonderful album.

Yes

heroin is still a very widely used drug in the US, as are other opiates, in a variety of communities. It's nasty stuff; I'm probably not the only one on this board who has had friends who were addicted and succumbed to the drug. But yes, among post-Bird jazz musicians, there was a significant number who battled 'personal problems" to varying degrees.

I have certainly read that too in the last few years.

cool. Looks to be backordered. I'll keep an eye out for better prices, as I do want the set.