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It is truly extraordinary. Been a while.

Helen Merrill avec Peacock/Satoh/M. Hino -- Sposin' -- Storyville FR

yeah, stuff just gets broken or disappears with various updates to operating systems, storage, and platform architecture. A lot of my AAJ reviews, articles, and interviews are damaged or abbreviated because of this--to say nothing of the various sites I wrote for that have gone completely dark. The moral of that story is to back everything up and ensure you have access copies (my early 2000s self needed a talking to!).

good call on the Revelation recordings, of which there are many. Perhaps starting with Gary Foster, Warne Marsh, and Dennis Budimir... It is too bad that Jonathan doesn't post here anymore, and that the Joe Daley expanded reissue did not materialize. Warne Marsh needs an assessment beyond the Atlantic set (Konitz/Tristano/Marsh), though of course we have many labels to choose from and licensing could be an issue.

Yeah, that's fascinating to hear. It's interesting that he did not talk about the death of his father in the PoD interview; perhaps it was still too traumatic.

wow.

Those are probably his best two.

Bill Barron as a leader Bill Dixon as leader/producer for Savoy, or Savoy avant-garde in general George Russell in Europe (Saba, Concept, Flying Dutchman). Could include Soul Notes too but not sure if CAM would license those...

New Point of Departure has the unabridged version of Brandon Burke's interview with Guy: https://pointofdeparture.org/PoD93/PoD93Kopelowicz.html Brandon used to post here regularly. Due to questions about rights and the estate, photos are not in the article.

you are right about that -- looks like their last IG post was a year ago today. I got the feeling that they, like many small labels at this point in time, were doing too much on a minimum of resources. Perhaps they are taking a rest.

glad someone said Akerman! Jarmusch is up there for me as well. I'll add: Paul Schrader Katherine Bigelow Peter Greenaway Abel Ferrara

Too bad about Upchurch. I didn't know Richard Davis played with Springsteen.

Nah, but I am not a mod!

IIRC, Ethan's list is a bit more broad and includes Cecil's ensemble recording for Impulse! and some others. He kind of ignores Masabumi Kikuchi's pre-2000s recordings by saying they aren't "mature" or whatever, which is a gross oversight given that his 70s work is of incredibly high quality.

there's a thread elsewhere about this, I believe, if you do a search. Probably not worth denigrating Mr. Tyler with it.

Looks great. I also see an appealing-looking 1977 Tony Coe performance. Being out of space by a mile, I may go digital for these, but will listen one way or another.

yes, the whole operation is in different hands now. Maybe that was a poor choice of words, but you get my drift.

I've got quite a number of Cadence LPs and CDs (as well as CIMP discs). Pretty interesting and important label and distribution pathway (Cadence/North Country Distribution = Cadnor), not to mention the magazine. Too bad the founder turned out to be such a sicko. Live in Europe is great, and Melvin Smith, the guitarist, is cool. He has a solo guitar LP that is pretty neat (albeit perhaps for completists only). https://www.discogs.com/release/4853227-Abdul-Malik-Muhammad-Songs-For-Our-Children?srsltid=AfmBOopaEVHsk64bQx5ZKoi1zhnfWjHCmOodca_Y1C7LBLEcF227BG6h

I too will have to revisit.

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I will say that the CD was too much for me when I originally bought it, but I was glad I held onto it and slowly began to immerse myself in Takayanagi’s more extreme recordings. He was an absolute genius and a singular figure in creative music. I also think Abe never sounded better than on that album.

It’s great music in my opinion ! I bought the reissue LP when it was released several years ago and let go of the CD (maybe to Mr. Felser?). The original is one of the rarest free improvisation albums out of Japan.

Does Jazz Messengers even ship to the US now?

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