clifford_thornton

Hazevoet is primarily a pianist and clarinetist, but plays other instruments as well. His clarinet is rather shrill, but likeable in a dervishy way. I'd like to see a boxset of the Carl-Schweizer material. Their work together is really good on the whole, and I'm rather fond of the trio with Moholo.

Love 'em, too! As well as Ovary Lodge, but that's another story...

One of the more overrated drummers of late... I actually avoid him when possible.

I like it quite a bit; I know I keep using this, but it has that Ayler-esque Euro vibe that was happening in the mid-60s. Hazevoet's clarinet is ridiculous, as a matter of fact. Lots of wide vibrato and wooly soloing over fractured, but regular timekeeping. Much more 'listenable' than Unlawful Noise, as it stands, and both have beautiful covers. Calling Down the Flevo Spirit (Snipe, 1978), duos with Han Bennink, I haven't got as into, but they do amuse.

Sidewinder, those last two I've never seen or heard of. Wow.

Yes.

Actions 1966-1967 is really great; just got it. Like Ayler quartet plus Terje Rypdal (that's how the saw sounds). Dig the 2CD set of TCJQ on Steeplechase, too, which reissues two Debut LPs including one with Sunny Murray. Awesome and intense as well. I like More Nipples a bit better, actually, than Nipples - the Bailey-Niebergall-Bennink trio that starts off the disc is stunning. The Hazevoet records are great, too, though they don't get much notice. The Sirone is a nice record, but Artistry (his first) kills.

I completely agree.

New Conditions wasn't as interesting to me, nor Darius, as I think he sort of settled into a vein that didn't offer too much variance - comfortable, perhaps. Osborne is good, though I wasn't impressed at all with Outback (speaking of McGregor). The Miller-Moholo trio is pretty formidable, as is the quartet with Ric Colbeck.

I don't think that's one of the LP reissues either. Strange. Oh well, better to stick with the Black Saints, Hat Huts and the Ayler box.

Mine does, and it's an original Dutch. Huh.

Philly Joe is on Yasmina, Blase and Poem for Malcolm (all Shepp), as well as the Mal Waldron trio that was supposed to be a BYG but came out only as an Affinity.

Yep... It sounds really, really clean. Better than other Dutch Fontanas, actually. Rudd-Tchicai-Workman-Graves

I'm visiting my parents - no turntable!

Yes, those ones. He sort of gets aimless after Mosaics, to my ears at least. Flare Up is good, but man, Beckett is amazing on Down Another Road in particular. Do you like the Brotherhood of Breath? Essential listening, IMO. Great stuff on Cuneiform, Ogun and RCA.

I don't know why Brown Rice is a classic, or for whom, but it is considered by many to be so... it is confounding to me, too. Especially when you consider the BNs, the BYGs, the MPS, the Sonets, the Caprice... I can't think of too many BYGs that are 'modal' in the way you're looking for; I guess a couple of the Shepps and "Suns of Africa" from Murray's Homage to Africa might fit the bill nicely. That Murray is a killer date. But then, I don't think of those Cherry BNs as being particularly vamp-y.

Yeah, Moon ain't one of my faves, though I would like to hear Roba (similar band, same period). If you had to pick three from his discography, what would they be? (I know, it's hard)

Andrew Cyrille is the drummer on the Moncur... but that's probably the sort of BYG best-of mix I would make too! Too bad the Jones didn't make it to CD. Great record. AK, do you have the Don Cherry Blue Notes? I mean, the Mu records are great, as is the orchestra stuff, but judging from your posts you might dig "Complete Communion" and "Where is Brooklyn?" more than "Brown Rice" (which, IMO, blows).

Oh, you know I will... Still would like to hear Rudd and Tchicai with Don Moore and J.C. Moses, as they apparently began.

That would make the most sense...

I was sort of underwhelmed by Mohawk, though I do like it. But hey, to each his own...

It's beautiful. Sabu Toyozumi studied with the AEC, and has done the tune on his albums - namely, Message to Chicago (Trio).

Marshall is good on that Graham Collier "Down Another Road" LP (Fontana, reissued on CD)... and yes, he does get a track pretty much to himself. Have you checked out Collier's music yet, AK? The first three slay me, the others mildly jab. If you're not hip on Elton Dean, then I would avoid "Hoppertunity Box" and "Monster Band" like the plague, as well as much Soft Machine from the early 70s. But then, avoiding that stuff takes a big chunk out of one's exposure to the British jazz/rock cross-pollination, which is pretty endemic to all the stuff you're wanting to hear.

Used to have that on LP; should get that one back.

AK, The one with Berger is a cooperative group with John McLaughlin, and it's called Where Fortune Smiles. It should be included, at least in part, on the Dawn Sessions CD. How Many Clouds is an amazing record; the first half is mostly large ensemble, and the song "Galata Bridge" has to be heard to be believed. I don't have Algonquin, but I'd like to. It was reissued on CD a few years back, and I know the first two are OOP so you'd better be quick! Enjoy, CT