clifford_thornton

Well, my cycles jibe with and feed my girlfriend's - we live together. So when we're both on the rag, watch out!

I thought they fed Homing Grits to the pigeons in WW2! They always came back for more!!

Ira Sullivan - Nicky's Tune (Delmark), w/ Nicky Hill, Jodie Christian, Wilbur Campbell and Vic Sproles. Sidewinder: the Colbeck is pretty tough to find, a later Fontana from '70 (cat. no. 6383.001), and despite the fact that he played with Noah Howard and Sunny Murray, it's not really that 'free,' very accessible in fact. Lissack's an amazing drummer, too, a South African cat who lived in London in the '60s. Played on only one other record, with Ken Terroade, which is being reissued soon.

Anthony Braxton's contrabass clarinet solo on Jacques Coursil's "Black Suite" (America) always messes with me. Soulful, tortured, and almost completely unaccompanied.

Ric Colbeck - The Sun is Coming Up (Fontana UK, 1970) w/ Mike Osborne, Sel Lissack and J.F. Jenny-Clarke. Brilliant free-bop if there ever was...

Euclid's grading sucks. So it better be crisp for that kind of dough. Seems kinda high to me, too, for that piece.

Oh yeah, saw that and then let it slip... thanks for the reminder. What a great drummer, one whose influence is too little discussed.

Alan Shorter's solo on "Syeeda" (Four for Trane). Cecil's solo on "Indent."

One? Aren't there like four good things about the Tina Brooks Mosaic?

Gee, 7/4, I can always count on you to update (or refute) my posts.

Shit. RIP. Wait, you can sleep to that shit?

I really like "Spirits in Fellowship," that record he did with Vinny Golia. Oh, JAMES Carter... Never mind!

Ah yes, the "Africanised Tone Row"... I see your card, and I raise you...

To answer the original question, I'd say no. But then, in popular consciousness, it's often portrayed as either dinner-music or the area of effete intellectual affect. So... Shit!

Well, I read in an article in Jane Magazine (one of my favorites, for real) about how she completely destroyed her apartment and terrorized the apt. complex in NYC on some of her various drug binges, threatening to kill residents and the like. I mean, it's too bad that it had to come to this stage, but one can't say that, judging from her history as a major addict and generally crazed person, that it's not unexpected.

RIP to an original character, whatever one thinks of what 'became' of the Moog synthesizer in lesser hands... Jazz pianists Paul Bley and Burton Greene were among the first to play the instrument in 1968, made famous by Walter/Wendy Carlos and Dick Hyman. He passed away yesterday at age 71.

Before work I gave a spin to The Panther and The Lash, one of my favorite of 'my' records (esp. side 2)...

You'll hear no complaints from me...

Krystall is great - and wholly underrated, in my opinion. That is a cool record - Neidlinger has some very interesting arranging ideas, to say the least. In addition to those already mentioned, Giuseppi Logan was a wild bass clarinetist, as heard on Roswell Rudd's Everywhere and his own composition "Shebar" (More Giuseppi Logan, ESP). Frank Wright takes some heavy solos on bass clarinet in his duos with Muhammad Ali, Adieu Little Man. Breuker was already mentioned, but I'l mention him again, as well as Theo Loevendie.

I thought it was available online; there's a thread here about that somewhere... And I was always under the impression that it was 62, maybe 63 but 'definately' not 64.

I believe mine does, and it's an old King as well. Got it for $30, not much of a 'deal' but not too bad I guess. Weren't there only like 500 of the original pressed?

Thanks! This will be a very helpful site. One misspelling repeats itself: Muffy Fallai (tp, SWE) is actually Maffay Falay, to my knowledge.

Strangely, I've been listening to a lot of CDs this weekend. Good for them, I guess! I did listen to the Jacques Thollot LP on Futura - bizarre melange of soundtracky compositions that really makes more sense as a Saravah than a Futura.

Man, I missed this in its original posting. I don't have a clue why or how this list of musicians (with the obvious exception of Zorn) constitutes over-praised. Nobody else on the list is given any credit, praiseworthy or not, for their contribution to the music in the mainstream press. We're the cognoscenti here, and if we talk about Booker Ervin (or anybody else in that list) too much, it's because nobody else talks about him at all!

I dunno, the Dolphy SACDs I have don't sound all THAT great, but the Can SACDs really jump out of the speakers - no, leap - so who knows. I'm going to go eat some cereal now. Bye!