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Also: Slide Hampton (1932), Ian Carr (1933), and Peter Kowald (1944) all born April 21, sadly no longer with us.

ha, good to know...

yeah, I'm okay with owning the other Elemental/Resonance releases on CD.

Matt's been working on a new website, which at this point is hosting a number of articles and links as a sort of "recent index." My understanding is that he doesn't want it to be a discography (Discogs works well enough for that, for now). It'll be interesting to see how this resource grows. Anyway, for lack of a better place to put it, here goes: https://legacyofmatthewshipp.com/index/ the interview from The Ideas Letter ("A Pure Act in a Dirty World") serves as kind of a biographical primer until a true biography is written. Enjoy!

yeah, I'm in for a CD box although perhaps not 86 discs!

Greetings! I've been a little quiet the last couple of months; other projects have kept things a bit underground lately. Hopefully there will be more to share on a couple of those very soon. However, in gig-land, things are continuing apace and I wanted to let you know about the 31st installment of the "So, What Do You Think?" series landing at Tubby's in beautiful Midtown Kingston, NY on Sunday, June 7. Doors at 7pm, show starts at 8. $20 at the door or in advance. poster design by d.norsen after America 6111 Saxophonist Michael Foster will be returning with the latest variation on his trio The Ghost, featuring bassist Zach Rowden (Tongue Depressor) and drummer Joey Sullivan (Bark Culture, Florry). Last time around (2024) they were joined by Joe McPhee and that was an absolute blast. The core trio will be equally invigorating, as Foster and his collaborators have continued to develop their collective language. As he puts it, "The Ghost is Michael Foster’s long standing trio that excavates the queer feelings within free jazz and noise. Mixing compositional structures with extensive improvisation, and electro-acoustic elements, The Ghost approaches free jazz with a distinct yearning, melancholy, and rage." Opening will be the duo of percussionist Sarah Hennies and bassist Tristan Kasten-Krause; their LP The Quiet Sun was released last year on Dinzu Artifacts to great acclaim. Hennies is an internationally renowned composer whose work explores trans identity and slow temporal processes, areas in which Kasten-Krause, as an extremely deft and open-minded contrabassist, can gamely occupy. We look forward to seeing you there & if you can't make it, feel free to forward to a friend.

Was thinking the other day that I should dust this off... it's been years. Fascinating set.

thanks; Da Bastids had it & I ordered!

Freeman is awful. Always has been.

shop here sold out of the Cecil before I could get over there... drat. If anyone has a line on a copy I would be appreciative!

Nice. Been rewatching old Miami Vice episodes; his music is all over that show, of course.

Wow. I think I've only seen him in groups, though he always takes an unaccompanied solo somewhere in the music.

looks like the extra material is a 40 minute duo with Togashi -- wow. Surprised that didn't make it to LP back in the 70s but go figure.

yeah, the BFT got me ponderin'. oughta get the CD of Grüne, I guess! hadn't dusted either of these off in quite a while.