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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.

Hirokazu Yamada duos with Mototeru Takagi and Motoharu Yoshizawa -- Kozan -- (Tiara Company, JP orig) now on to: Keiki Midorikawa -- Grüne Revolution -- (Offbeat, JP orig) excellent duos with Takayanagi on one side & Satoh on the other

Takagi doesn't (or didn't) play alto afaik and the track was missing Sakata's drive/relentlessness -- heard a little Kawashima before but not much. Will listen further.

Hell of a tenor sound...

similar cover art, that is for sure!

Don't know about old, but 49 here and things aren't what they used to be. I got seriously back into exercising during the pandemic, first running and then cycling (my obsessive passion as a teen and twentysomething -- was a racer then). Initially it was to lose some weight I'd gained moving to NY and eating/drinking too many meals out. Now it's kind of its own other thing. Soreness feels different now and recovery has taken more primacy. Needless to say I go to the gym and lift weights, where a lot of teens and twentysomethings work out. They're often calling me "sir" and holding the door -- guess I look old to them! fogies-in-training, love it! 😂

Many happy returns on your birthday / weekend / year. And glad to see you back in the mix!

Wow, RIP -- what a legacy.

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Clearing the decks/shelves here; any o-board-ers interested can expect to receive a healthy discount and free US shipping, just message me here. https://www.discogs.com/seller/callen/profile will be adding more soon so check back periodically.

the old days of Hat were much easier to follow. Now, not so much! Westbrook is indeed very much alive, at least the last time I checked... at least the Ayler I mentioned above is in very good sound, considering the source material. Folwell and Harris/Graves really pop out of the mix, and I didn't hear any extraneous mastering artifacts. Very little mud.

FWIW the Reference: Albert Ayler CD is pretty fucking excellent.

I had that Vanguard at one point; '65 seems like where things really get going. Gathering all the Lacy Hats into one box might be difficult. That is a lot of material.

pretty interesting day for jazz birthdays... 6-Apr †Charlie Rouse 1924-88 6-Apr †Randy Weston 1926-2018 6-Apr †Gerry Mulligan 1927-96 6-Apr †Andre Previn 1929-2019 6-Apr †Art Taylor 1929-95 6-Apr †Bill Hardman 1933-90 6-Apr †Horace Tapscott 1934-99 6-Apr Manfred Schoof b. 1936 6-Apr Gene Bertoncini b.1937 6-Apr †George Otsuka 1937-2020 6-Apr †Noah Howard 1943-2010 6-Apr John Pizzarelli b.1960

Excellent choice.