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I assume you have the Blue Notes "Township Bop" CD? Pretty great early stuff from McGregor, Nick Moyake and company. Though it does have that McMaster-style repetition of alternate takes...

Patty is like the vocal version of Albert Ayler. She uses simple folk-song themes as a basis for extended vocal technique, expanding and intensifying through repetition. "Black is the Color" is the infamous side-long tour de force from her first LP, though I really like the College Tour record a lot. Cheers, *CT*

I assume you've got the Jeanne Lee-Ran Blake duo on RCA? I'd add Patty Waters to this selection; of course her ESPs are great but the vocal rendition of "Lonely Woman" she does on Marzette Watts' Savoy LP is stunning. And hit that Sheila Jordan thread if you haven't already. I love "Portrait of Sheila" but it is, surprisingly, one of the most hated by girlfriends. Mine, anyway.

What about the Bill Dixon and Tony Oxley duo? That is supposed to be pretty interesting, though I don't have it...

I was trying to think of good records for making out a/o sex... and what I can experiment with as far as cool records that won't ruin the mood. The old standbys were Tom Rapp, Bert Jansch, et al. though Archie Shepp's "Black Gipsy" has been used more than once. Last night, Prince Lasha "Insight" and Howard Riley's "The Day Will Come" worked wonders. One of these days, "Luna Surface" will forever be changed for me...

Yeah, there's some rotten stuff on that list, but for me this is really really annoying: 29. Breakfast at Tiffany's ... Deep Blue Something ... 1995 They always played it in the college cafeteria in '95, on repeat or so it seems. Now, of course, I'll have it in my head until I put on some Kenneth Terroade.

Is there any session issued in more configurations than this Cecil set? I feel like I see a new version every day... would love to have the Roling cover; mine's got the drawing of Nefertiti [sigh].

Has anybody else got that new AMM disc, "At the Roundhouse"? It's the Gare-Prevost duo performing in '72 at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound. Great stuff; I don't have the Matchless LP, so this is my first exposure to the duo incarnation of the group. I know it's not supposed to be a 'free jazz' record, but tenor/drums duos are such loaded things... anyway, pretty sweet.

That sucks, B. As a fellow cyclist, I hate getting hit... and hit-and-dragged is about as crappy as it gets. I mean, it is Texas and all, but for chrissakes those fuckers should pay. Bus drivers are retards, generally, but still responsible for your (and others') lives.

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I bet it is good (Gustafsson w/o Vandermark: ), but why do they look like Coldplay?!?

I believe you can still get "Patterns" on that old Conn CD. I see that fucker all the time! If it's OOP, I'll find one for $12 and send it your way. Now "Oblique" I'd like to see. That is one rare LP, that's for sure. Safe to say that "Happenings" has no normal issue at the moment, either...

That Montmartre set is great (i.e., the Revenant/Black Lion/Arista-Freedom/Speigeli-Freedom/Fontana/Debut [am I missing any issue?] recordings). Better every time I listen to them over the years. They just SWIIIINNNG... But yeah, it's a far cry from this to "Nailed" or some of the other recent-ish stuff. I've really, since that Ayler box came out, begun to not only appreciate but LOVE Jimmy Lyons' playing. Not just his playing, but his whole b-a-g. He's an amazing player independently of Cecil, but in a lot of ways very similar to Cecil. "Student Studies" is a nice set, rawer and less focused than the BNs of the same year. I prefer the Shandar set, "Nuits de la Fondation Maeght," but it's uh, another one of those 'relentless' things. Sam Rivers, Jimmy Lyons, Cyrille and Cecil... Any opinions of "Akisakila" (Lyons-Cecil-Cyrille from '73)? Or should I just assume it's good and that I do need a fifteenth Cecil LP from 1956-1973.

No, because Lacy and Braxton didn't release 95% of their records named after some predecessor. Joe Harriott is _all right_. Vandermark is _all right_. So I guess that one makes sense... I've seen Vandermark blow hard, and it's good. But I've seen/heard a lot more of his shit fall flat, so that affects my opinion of him a little below the meridian.

That's rather unfortunate. He will be missed... Admittedly, though, I had no idea he was in his nineties. Wow.

As was Aric, evidently... Seriously, though, I like Mobley's playing on those Shepp dates. Am curious about "The Flip," too. It always seemed to me like a record that should've come out on Futura or one of those other weird French labels from the period, rather than BN. I mean, c'mon, Hank Mobley "The Flip" Futura GER-09, featuring Slide Hampton and Vince Bendetti?!? Sorry, my panties get bunched up sometimes...

Berigan, send me your old avatar for my laptop. It's great. I could look at her all day and never bore. I may be a lefty, but my vote could swing with her at the polling place!

Funny, I just had this discussion with my ex-girlfriend not two hours ago. About the women, not the records. At any rate, I was burning that Giorgio Gaslini record "Nuovi Sentimenti" for someone tonight, and I was like, why the hell do I never listen to this record? It's really good, and really odd. All that talk about how to pronounce Paul Quinichette's name earlier made me want to pick up that Coltrane and Quinichette record, just out of curiosity. I've always liked his name... (well, both of their names, actually)

That Tentet is really friggin' good. I didn't know that was Art Farmer, though... I really dig the Prestige Jazz Quartet -- they did a record on their own, self-titled (Mal Waldron is in full force here), as well as backing Teo Macero on a set of standards (apparently quirky as hell, too) called, appropriately enough, "Teo". Way better than the MJQ, natch'. There's a really cool little record with Giuffre, Charles a.o. called "Evolution" on Prestige... There's one track, maybe the first one, that sounds uncanilly like some of Don Cherry's mid-60s group writing. Very strange. Teddy Charles is often spoken in my house. Well, apartment.

Why are Hat Huts so expensive? Somebody, please tell me.

Yeah, I was thinking of having "RVG" branded right behind my left ear. But then where would I put the Bell Sound 'ear'? Rrrgh.

OK, now that's a reference I don't get, unless it is what it is... You just better not be sitting on a dock in a blue suit with a 'cello in your hands!

I decided that I will only play Minneapolis under the name "Minneapolis Eye and Ear Control." Anybody who wants to be in my band, PM me...

I will admit that I've never liked the way Van Gelder recorded basses that much (or pianos), and it's kind of hard for my 'old deaf' ears to hear what Grimes and Silva are doing on those BN sides. Subtle interplay is really the key to Cecil's music, after all. Maybe the remaster has improved this, but probably not. I threw on the Conquistador LP the other day while relaxing on the couch, and each time I listen to it, it just seems so perfect in its musical architecture _and_ soulfulness. But the bass thing still annoys me.

Oh, and how could I forget Trad Gras och Stenar (Trees, Grass and Stones)...