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There are those "Freedom, Rhythm & Sound" books but they are far more about the covers than any written content. oh, and there's this, too: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/691546/Ken-Tsukamoto-Yusuke-Ogawa:Independent-Black-Jazz-Of-America-paperback

jazz drummer Tatsuya Nakamura and rock drummer Tatsuya Nakamura

Have the Japanese pressing which, surprisingly, contains less music!

Not unexpected but very sad news. RIP.

That sounds like the man I interviewed!

absolutely; too bad they eventually had a falling out. Ward's playing with Karl Berger, Don Cherry, Rashied Ali, Cecil, and Paul Motian is also worth hearing. He did a record with Woody Shaw for Leo Records that's pretty strong.

Would like to see this some way. Perhaps there's a workaround.

ugh, that's too bad. Kind man, and a beautiful player.

from what I can tell, the goal was to avoid too much crossover with "spiritual jazz" and New Africa might qualify, though regardless, it is an absolutely extraordinary record (and gets fairly skronky in parts).

Super cool, thank you !

yeah, Intents & Purposes not being included was a surprise.

This.

Never seen this one before...

truly extraordinary album! all three Friedman/Zoller dates are classics.

😂 he is and was quite an incredible guitarist, certainly very underrated as well.

We're at around a foot right now and it's windy, blowing all over the place. The snow's still coming down hard, but I imagine that by tonight it'll relax a bit. We are supposed to get around two feet!

Pochi is rad. Those Sakata Trio albums from the 70s/80s are good.

Too many slabs, not enough time. But we can try.

👍👍 I also like this one:

yeah, both Peacock LPs on CBS from that period are really excellent. Voices has the edge.

Degen's Calig LP is also the only album to feature Manfred Eicher's bass playing... although perhaps the Marion Brown session he's on will see proper release someday (we can hope). I have not heard this Trion LP but am interested to, because Thomas Cremer is a good drummer who I know from his work with A23H.

yeah, it had to be at least 10 years ago, probably more... $40 or so for that record was a steal, even then.

Looks like I have 101.5 (part of the Dolphy Acetate on Other Aspects) of the records listed in the book, plus a couple more as downloads. I sold a few that are on the list as well. Also, it looks like around 84 of Colin's list (need to catch up!) are filed. I tried to get the Zorn/Takayanagi duo from Dusty Groove once, cheap IIRC, but someone beat me to it. Maybe that was Colin! The reason given that the original book cut off in 1980 is that they didn't want to end up closely tied, personally, to any of the records included. I'd definitely read a good follow-up book covering 1980-now.

I interviewed Simmons around 20 years ago, and he definitely had a bleak go of things. No musicians made anything out of their ESP deals at the time. My understanding is that the label is trying to right some previous wrongs, but there's still almost no money in this business.

Discogs and RYM won't be around forever! Also, the verbiage is entertaining.