clifford_thornton

Is this what all the Japanese Sun Ra records are on? Btw Sidewinder, I really like that Jack Bruce record. Got the US version recently and would like to get the previous one with John McLaughlin. Hopefully can find a reasonably-priced version of it!

Didn't People in Sorrow originally come out on Nessa? So wouldn't you have the tapes anyway? Or are you just talking about "Sophie"? They originally came out in France on EMI Pathe; Chuck issued them in the US in the early 1970s (right?).

You can skip New Grass, but yeah, I'd get the rest of his discography if you can!

Wasn't there a Bernt Rosengren on Jazzland with the same bright-yellow jacket?

I thought Cruise um, didn't really play that team...

Paul Bley, Gary Peacock, and Barry Altschul...

Terrible news. OK, this has got to stop!

That "Lonely Woman" is bananas!

Yeah, this is getting to be a drag. Cheers to you Percy, RIP

Marion Brown In Sommerhausen (Calig) with Gunter Hampel, Ambrose Jackson (tp), Steve McCall and Jeanne Lee. A real rhythm-record, unlike its more AACM-ish companion volume, Gesprachfetzen.

I will add (again) trumpeter Barbara Donald and altoist/flutist Becky Friend. Barbara was married to Sonny Simmons and a regular bandmate in the later '60s. Becky Friend was Alan Silva's lady in the early '70s and was in some of his groups of the period. Sadly, both quit playing due to health reasons.

Armonicord - Esprits de Sel (l'Electrobande) late '70s French free jazz with the great baritonist Jouk Minor...

Maybe, but her show is amazing.

Nope, not SME... EP is the only 'name' on it I think. Whatever it is...

Isn't there some Evan Parker record with ethnic instruments melded to his saxophone playing, some sort of psychedelic-free thing from the late '60s? I want to say it's on EMI, but can't remember. What do y'all think of the People Band? One of my favorite British free LPs...

Arthur Jones, Jacques Coursil, and I suppose Prince Lasha doesn't have that many released recordings when you think about it... Tubby Hayes should have had more.

I hadn't known he was with Duke. He was a great player and will be missed. Somewhat ironically, I suppose, I've always enjoyed his small-group playing the most.

I hate the trumpet...

Nope. You're clear.

I've always wanted to hear that one, too. Cover and band look great, and I have a feeling it might be 'free'.

There is a lot of rumor around my namesake - that he was a Panther, that he blew up a building on the campus of Wesleyan in protest, etc., but regardless of truth, he was a very interesting composer and musician who was a galvanizing force in the 'scene' of that late '60s-early '70s period. He had a very good ear for organizing bands, quite often, and being the front-line flywheel that kept proceedings in motion. The JCOA is probably my favorite, followed by Ketchaoua, then the America, with the two self-released recordings being the least interesting to my ears. In fact, though it is prized by collectors, Communications Network is kind of a drag... Communications Network: Third World Records 12272, rec. 1972 with Communications Network parts 1 & 2 // Festivals and Funerals Sirone (b) Jerome Cooper (d) Lakshiarayana Shankar (vln) // Nathan Davis (ss) Jay Hoggard (vib) Andy Gonzalez (b) Jerry Gonzalez, Vincent George, Nicky Marrero (percussion), Jayne Cortez (recitation) Thornton plays cornet on all tracks, with electric piano dubbed in on side one.

Everybody's got theirs. Be nice. Mine might look awful strange to some, after all... 1. Albert Ayler 2. John Coltrane 3. Archie Shepp (1963-1968) 4. Joe Henderson 5. Booker Ervin

The Ran Blake is one of his better ones, right up there with the (also early) Jeanne Lee duo. As for the Howard and Wright LPs, dig their records of a scant few years later. They were both, in 1965, just getting their thing together. Fun to listen to, but not as 'together' as other sides by these folks.

Ouch. Great player, and yes, far too young. RIP.