clifford_thornton

Lacy - Solo (Emanem UK)

to my right-hand man in SF. Happy b-day dude, I'm working on yet another mix CD for ye... hope yr day is a doozy!

Yeah, I never thought I would've been into a Clarke-Boland record, but that one is really tight. Some of those MPS dates look good, too, but the fact that the BN is a smaller band makes it more attractive to my sensibilities.

Speaking of AT, is "AT's Delight" on CD domestically, or is that just a dumb question? I like that record quite a bit. Second the Monterose and Clarke-Boland up's... Monterose needs more exposure, even though that's not his best date. "Golden Eight" is really nice.

So wait, they're not reissuing the also-ran Noah Howard record and a few more stoned Shepps?!? I guess the Kenyatta was already reissued some time ago, but that's a great one!

Huh. Well, despite my suspicions about a re-united Slint (interest-wise), they could probably use the money...

I used to have that boot and yeah, ugh. I don't think you could pay me to see them live (er, maybe) now but they are still a band I enjoy, even after all this time. I can't imagine they'd be raking in as much from a reunion as Black Francis and Company, though...

I'd have abstained too, if it weren't for the fact that my namesake is a dead trombonist (valve, of course)...

It was a toss-up for me between Rudd and Other... Moncur, Mangelsdorff, Christmann, Lewis, Rutherford et alia ... does Vinko Globokar still play or does he just compose now? Can't remember. So many boners, so little time to hear them all.

I like him quite a bit, actually, but that's just me...

After Love is worth it, if only for the amped cello / mandolin duet on side one. Nuts! Completely out!

Neither session was complete enough to use on even half an album, and tapes were probably destroyed in the great Columbia warehouse fire in, I think, the early 80s. Supposedly...

Dixon's 7'tette side, split with Shepp and the NYContemp5, is on an Atlantic/Savoy CD. I highly recommend it, Late, and it is usually available cheaply. Of course, he does sound great on the quartet Savoy LP, but seeing that released anytime soon is probably not likely. Intents and Purposes, a slab he cut for RCA-Victor, is also really great.

If you like Gordon Beck, then you should check out Howard Riley, Rooster. His albums on British Columbia are a must (Angle; Day Will Come), followed by more out sides on Incus and Turtle, and some material reissued/uncovered by Emanem. Barry Guy is on bass, and the drummers include Jon Hiseman, Alan Jackson and Tony Oxley. Hiseman's on the first trio LP, "Discussions," which is rare as fuck but if you can find it, it's great.

I've never heard a Marion Brown record I didn't like...

Trying to count the number of issues for the companion, Conversations/Memorial Album is like trying to count the number of brie slices I just ate!!!

I think I prefer the goofy original cover art to these, though... and who is "Franck" Wright, anyway?!?

To answer the original question, it seems like all of them!!! I've even seen DGG Kagel and Luc Ferrari records beat to shit, so I think no genre of music is safe. Lots of wasted BNs and ESPs out there, for sure.

Brotzmann and Graves don't play well together at all; the fact that it's a regular working group (Brotz/Graves/Parker) makes no sense to me. I'll take the FMP sides over his recent stuff any day -- all the way up through Djungle at least.

I ordered one from Forced Exposure... can't wait!!!

There are so many people who are so comfortable with listening to the same crap year in and year out that we should be thankful having 'ruts' where we're listening to too many BNs in a span of a few weeks. Christ! You people need to worry less!

Holland with Braxton: Five Pieces 1975, Montreaux/Berlin, Town Hall Concert are a few others that come to mind. The Circle records are nice, especially those Japanese ones. His newer groups aren't that interesting to me, either, and after interviewing him last year, I came away with the feeling that he was an asshole with too many awards to his ego...

I do like those Cadentia Nova Danica records quite a bit, but they aren't really anything like his small-group '60s recordings. Haven't heard much from the 80s or later, though I did see him in a group with Paul Smoker and Adam Lane that was one of the best jazz shows I've ever seen.

Sign me up... if it's anything like Side 1 of "Patty Waters Sings," I'm down. I like that creepy, low-key piano & vocals material just as much as the out stuff. And yes, she was/is a _gorgeous_ lady, as the album cover attests to (nude or not).