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Uhuru Na Umoja, America LP 6104, reissued by Universal on the Free America series. I believe there are other recordings unissued, but the session that yields this and the Noah Howard LP Space Dimension (not on the CD) are the only extant recordings I know of. Good shit.

Fucking hot. Wait, how would I know? I haven't left the AC comfort zone all day.

Is it just my eyes, or is it missing Ornette, Trane and Cecil? Figures...

Not entirely - he was a master at creating a group aesthetic, an orchestral vision whittled down to a small group. Shit, there's nothing wrong with having four Strayhorns in the mix, is there?

That's ridiculously high, even for a deep groove. Then again, the Marzette Watts on Savoy recently clocked $500 so I guess anything's possible.

Butler is awesome, and it has always sounded to me like, of the drummers most influenced by African music, he has really taken the approach to a more sonic level (apart, that is, from purely rhythmic). I'm actually blanking on it now, but there is a particularly interesting non-isometric solo on that Elmo Hope Trio record that really shows this to be the case - not to mention his work with Trane on Kulu Se Mama.

Well, he certainly does have small hands...

Not Herbie? Or did the Push Push thread ruin that for all eternity?

I don't think the LPs are any cheaper now, but the CDs sure make it so people without the deep pockets can check it out too. But those covers are so tough I'd love to have 12" versions! DGA is probably going to get an order from me soon - some of this stuff I've really been meaning to check out. Trio Camara is very good - Nelson Serra de Castro is a a hell of a drummer. And don't forget that The Bossa Tres recorded with Lasha, Simmons and Cliff Jordan for Audio-Fidelity in the early '60s: Jazz Tempo, Latin Accents.

Gary Peacock was UN-FUCKING-REAL at this point and this is one of those albums on which he is recorded in a way that you can really hear what he's doing. He's like the Rashied Ali of the bass, in my mind.

All of 'em. Art Taylor, Frank Butler, Roy Haynes, JC Moses, Philly Joe...

I used to read Tintin when I was a kid, too. Not much else. Seems like I end up waiting for Marvel and DC to be in the theatres more than anything else. Kirsten Dunst does not star in the print versions, after all...

No, the RCA. So you could say I started at the freest and moved backwards...

Yeah, ever spend much time listening to "Life Between the Exit Signs?" A great Bley date under Jarrett's name...

Happens sometimes for me, too, and I like it when it does... got a great Italian ethno-psych record a few years ago called Aktuala that, to my knowledge, hasn't been reissued. Nobody on it I'd heard of, but it's brilliant. Bought a Ray Russell LP years back that pretty much was my entree into British Jazz... Jay Berliner is a good player, I might add, but yeah - it could've been a snoozer!

Actually, it was Lasha who is probably going to do something like that. Cancer ain't cheap, no matter how rich one is...

Wow - what a serious drag. I was talking to Lasha the other day and he was saying that Brecker's health is more seriously in jeapordy than people had realized, but didn't go into exactly what it was. I believe he's going to be doing a benefit concert soon; will provide details if/when I find out more.

Sonny's Time Now (Jihad) - Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes and Lewis Worrell with a bit of recitation by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. Pretty great, fairly self-explanatory. The poetry is fucked.

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Disconforme is an odd label - I remember when the Tippett, Collier and Auger stuff came out, supposedly authorized - then they didn't pay out the artists and the CDs were pulled off the shelves. They didn't do a half-bad job of mastering, though I believe that "Deep Dark Blue Centre" is from an LP rather than source tape.

My equipment? 10"... Oh wait, Music Hall mmf-5 Arcam A75 Integrated old Philips burner Audio Concepts kit-builts, ca. 1985

Yeah, my Jap CD 'cover' has as much ringwear, edgewear and creasing as any LP version I've seen - possibly more!

I've only heard/seen albums of spirituals and/or blues, and I believe that was pretty much where she was at. Though for what it's worth, the cloth it's cut from certainly seems not far off the 'jazz' mark. I am often proven wrong on items of discographical concern, however, so maybe Mike F has a better idea.

I went back and re-bought Wild Love a year or two ago and found it to be the best record Bowie never made. Great stuff. Haven't heard Low in years - The Curtain Hits the Cast was really good back in '96 or so, hopefully it still holds up. Speaking of which, just got a recording of solo acoustic guitar/banjo music from Duluth instrumentalist Paul Metzger, and it is produced by none other than Alan Sparhawk. Metzger alters and prepares his instruments, slowly building backwoods/North Country ragas with a somewhat subtle (but still 'there') head of steam. Great stuff.