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Slint had something, but for me, Brian McMahan's musical ideas seem more fully-formed in The For Carnation. That first EP and self-titled full-length on Matador are both superb. Re: J: "Forget the Swan" is probably one of the greatest post-punk anthems I've ever heard. Amazing!

I really shouldn't have got rid of that Joanne Brackeen trio, Snooze, on Choice. That's quite a good little record.

Wouldn't he have preferred "9"? Funny that Fred Gwynne beat him to the punch... RIP.

Thanks - you put it very well. Rigor is a good word for it. It's interesting, because he's such an affable and kind person, a very cool guy to interview, and just so warm. His music and his personality, in a weird way, seem almost disconnected. Obviously, the man is his horn, but the tough sheen that pervades a lot of his work is not obviously present when talking to the dude.

"Girl, You Got a Home" is a classic funky tune, I must admit. Oh well, got a good Lacy record and some FMPs out of the trade... I'm not very good about keeping Strata-East records, for some reason. Though if I had Clifford Jordan In the World, I'd probably change my tune... Now: Prince Lasha Ensemble - Insight - (CBS UK original), a classic recording with Stan Tracey and the great harpist David Snell. Probably my favorite Lasha next to The Cry, and Prince has many fine words to share about the recording... think I posted them somewhere on this board.

Alan Silva - Skillfulness - (ESP original, with the photo-negative image) great series of solos and duets on side one with Karl Berger, Becky Friend and Mike Ephron. Side two is orchestral madness! Also one of Mario Pavone's first recordings...

Meldhau. Ugh. Those photo spreads in the liners of one recent album make him and his bandmates look like a bunch of alterna-rock assholes.

Jolie is hot in a vampy way, but her movies are crappy and the Brad-Angelina shit is overdone. I'm often teased for thinking Jen is the shit, but that's where I am. If Vince weren't there, I would be in Chicago or Malibu offering my support.

Curson is great! I love the Fontanas especially and his work with Mingus, as well as the aforementioned Futura and the Marge (Cattin' Curson). Certainly, the pianoless quartet stuff he did in the mid-60s is my favorite, but his playing always has a lot of fire. He's kind of weird, though - very difficult to pigeonhole, for one thing, which is never very good as a selling point. To me, it's perfect inside-outside playing, but there is also a severity to it that might make it less palatable for the boogaloo set. Far more austere than, say Ornette and Don...

I just unloaded my copy of that record, strangely. Maybe shouldn't have, but oh well...

I thought it was Tadd Dameronia...

NO SHIT! I was hoping and half-predicting something like this would come about!!!

A quickie before class: Tchicai/Mengelberg/Bennink - Instant Composers Pool (ICP 002, original silkscreened cover) - a very different and almost 'plaintive' ICP aggregation...

"Not only wasn't this what I wanted from jazz, it wasn't what I needed from pop—songs, concision, dumb fun. Despite Henderson's funk bass, the operating aesthetic is closer to prog—too smart for its own good, but not as smart as it wants you to think" I disagree - there are implications of 'song,' and revelry, but if one actually pays attention to the process of this band in continual reinvention over four nights, any of these implications are hacked to bits. I would say that most prog rock is far more obviously orchestrated than these works here - even the Softs at their most "out." My $.02, fwiw.

The Karl Berger Quartet, though AK may beg to differ...

Forgot all about that...

Agreed on all counts. I'll have to find some time this week to listen to the archived program. Thanks!

I feel like that's about $400 more than it usually goes for, right? At least you get more than one LP, though!

Forkladd Gud - s/t - (Caprice) staggering Swedish group improv, most of the people on this I have never heard of otherwise... but it's heavy!

RIP, Mrs. King. True, things have been nasty with the Foundation and it doesn't sound like it will get much better soon. This is common among family-associated non-profits: my mother works for the Rothko Chapel in Houston, which undergoes so much infighting it's amazing they get anything done. Family, board, whatever. Ugh.

I'm there, for sure... Never seen Rising Tones Cross on the big screen! CT

Paul Bley - Blood - (International Polydor) with M. Levinson and Barry Altschul, Haarlem, 11/66 Paul Bley - Blood - (Fontana Holland) with M. Levinson and Barry Altschul, Baarn, 9/66 and 10/66

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Payan - (Enja, damn US pressing) solo Schlippy is a nice way to roll, indeed! The title track is one of his best compositions...

Burton Greenberg = Burton Greene S. Norman Lackritz = Steve Lacy