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ha, if they asked, I would! The Oto scene appears to be excellent. Last time I was in London was probably around the time it opened, so definitely overdue...

oh yeah, that one is fascinating and a "whole other kettle of fish."

If you are in the Hudson Valley, I'd like to alert you to the 30th installment of "So, What Do You Think?" at Tubby's in Kingston, New York on Sunday, March 1. This concert presents the music of Chicago-based saxophonist / clarinetist Keefe Jackson with bassist Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Blacks' Myths) and percussionist Mikel Patrick Avery (Natural Information Society, BASIC). This will be a powerful evening of improvised music that is not to be missed. Doors at 7pm, concert at 8pm $20 at the door or in advance. (ticket link to follow) I might also play records before/after if there's time! Band bios attached for your perusal. We look forward to seeing you out there! Keefe Jackson Trio bio.pdf

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.