What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Clunky]

Company ------ Fables --------(Incus)

Bailey, Parker with George Lewis and Dave Holland. The latter seems game but pretty anonymous in this context.

[clifford_thornton]

Roland Kirk - Domino - (Mercury, US stereo og)

[B. Clugston]

Gunter Hampel and his Galaxie Dream Band, Celebrations (Birth). 2 LP set of the octet version of the band. Nice album and I also like the fact I don't have to colour in the cover on this one.

cover painting by Gunter Hampel

Thanks for posting the cover. Listening to this again--wonderful album.

[mjazzg]

Davies/Newton/Wadud - I've Known Rivers [Gramavision]

every time i play this I want to enjoy it more than I do. I always find it a bit studied and dry

James Newton - Paseo Del Mar [india Navigation]

much more like it. Vital and challenging. Same line up as above, except add Philip Wilson, although he doesn't play on all tracks. Maybe it's the Newton compositions that make the difference

[sidewinder]

Carmell Jones 'Jay Hawk Talk' (Prestige blue/silver label, mono) - nice !

Sonny Simmons 'Rumasuma' (Contemporary white label, stereo)

Edited April 8, 2015 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

An account put together from various Lacy interviews:

The musicians were regular Lacy associates of the time, based in Rome. Enrico Rava's wife was from Argentina, and booked them a series of concerts at a theater in Buenos Aires. They bought one-way tickets, but hardly made any money in Argentina, and couldn't afford to get home for eight or nine months.

"That was the wrong group at the wrong time in the wrong place playing the wrong kind of music...." He said that they did build up a small following over the months, but they were really glad to get out of Argentina.

Edited April 8, 2015 by jeffcrom

[Clunky]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

An account put together from various Lacy interviews:

The musicians were regular Lacy associates of the time, based in Rome. Enrico Rava's wife was from Argentina, and booked them a series of concerts at a theater in Buenos Aires. They bought one-way tickets, but hardly made any money in Argentina, and couldn't afford to get home for eight or nine months.

"That was the wrong group at the wrong time in the wrong place playing the wrong kind of music...." He said that they did build up a small following over the months, but they were really glad to get out of Argentina.

Thanks for unearthing those quotes. Seems extraordinary that they achieved excellent and well recorded session under those circumstances.

[sidewinder]

Joe Harriott 'Free Form' (UK Jazzland, mono) and 'Partying With Joe' (Gearbox 180g)

[mjazzg]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

An account put together from various Lacy interviews:

The musicians were regular Lacy associates of the time, based in Rome. Enrico Rava's wife was from Argentina, and booked them a series of concerts at a theater in Buenos Aires. They bought one-way tickets, but hardly made any money in Argentina, and couldn't afford to get home for eight or nine months.

"That was the wrong group at the wrong time in the wrong place playing the wrong kind of music...." He said that they did build up a small following over the months, but they were really glad to get out of Argentina.

Thanks for unearthing those quotes. Seems extraordinary that they achieved excellent and well recorded session under those circumstances.

That also explains for me why some early Rava leader sessions are recorded in Argentina. Thanks Jeffcrom

[corto maltese]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

An account put together from various Lacy interviews:

The musicians were regular Lacy associates of the time, based in Rome. Enrico Rava's wife was from Argentina, and booked them a series of concerts at a theater in Buenos Aires. They bought one-way tickets, but hardly made any money in Argentina, and couldn't afford to get home for eight or nine months.

"That was the wrong group at the wrong time in the wrong place playing the wrong kind of music...." He said that they did build up a small following over the months, but they were really glad to get out of Argentina.

Thanks for unearthing those quotes. Seems extraordinary that they achieved excellent and well recorded session under those circumstances.

That also explains for me why some early Rava leader sessions are recorded in Argentina. Thanks Jeffcrom

Lacy was indeed based in Italy at that time ("Disposability", "Sortie", "Nuovi Sentimenti"...), but his regular associates would have been Kent Carter and Aldo Romano, so I'm still wondering how he ended up with Dyani and Moholo in South America.

Edited April 8, 2015 by corto maltese

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy --------The Forrest and The Zoo--------(Fontana UK)

So very good. Anyone know the story how this comes to be recorded in Buenos Aires with participants from 3 other continents?

An account put together from various Lacy interviews:

The musicians were regular Lacy associates of the time, based in Rome. Enrico Rava's wife was from Argentina, and booked them a series of concerts at a theater in Buenos Aires. They bought one-way tickets, but hardly made any money in Argentina, and couldn't afford to get home for eight or nine months.

"That was the wrong group at the wrong time in the wrong place playing the wrong kind of music...." He said that they did build up a small following over the months, but they were really glad to get out of Argentina.

Thanks for unearthing those quotes. Seems extraordinary that they achieved excellent and well recorded session under those circumstances.

That also explains for me why some early Rava leader sessions are recorded in Argentina. Thanks Jeffcrom

Lacy was indeed based in Italy at that time ("Disposability", "Sortie", "Nuovi Sentimenti"...), but his regular associates would have been Kent Carter and Aldo Romano, so I'm still wondering how he ended up with Dyani and Moholo in South America.

Yeah, I wasn't really accurate about Dyani and Moholo, was I? They were based in London at time, I think. But a quick look at 25 Years of Fish Horn Recording (H.L. Lindenmaier's Lacy discography) shows that this group did some playing together before the trip to Argentina. In March, 1966 they played the San Remo Jazz Festival, and apparently made an unreleased album, Zyatsha, in London. Wouldn't it be great if that turned up?

[mjazzg]

Billy Harper - Soran-Bushi B.H. [Denon]

[clifford_thornton]

Romano was mostly based in Paris then, no? Seems like Carter was bouncing between continental Europe and the States at the time.

I'm sure some of this is in Conversations but I don't have it handy. I think the upshot is that the rhythm section left Lacy's band to play with others. Part of me recalls hearing that they were going to come to NY after Argentina, and Dyani and Moholo were going to hook up with Albert Ayler (not sure if true - musicianly apocrypha).

[corto maltese]

Yeah, I wasn't really accurate about Dyani and Moholo, was I? They were based in London at time, I think. But a quick look at 25 Years of Fish Horn Recording (H.L. Lindenmaier's Lacy discography) shows that this group did some playing together before the trip to Argentina. In March, 1966 they played the San Remo Jazz Festival, and apparently made an unreleased album, Zyatsha, in London. Wouldn't it be great if that turned up?

Together with the extra tracks by the "Disposibility" trio (with Crater and Romano) of which, according to legend, a 10" test pressing exists...

[corto maltese]

Romano was mostly based in Paris then, no? Seems like Carter was bouncing between continental Europe and the States at the time.

I'm sure some of this is in Conversations but I don't have it handy. I think the upshot is that the rhythm section left Lacy's band to play with others. Part of me recalls hearing that they were going to come to NY after Argentina, and Dyani and Moholo were going to hook up with Albert Ayler (not sure if true - musicianly apocrypha).

Both Carter and Romano continued to play on and off with Lacy, so maybe they just didn't fancy the South American expedition?

[Homefromtheforest]

"Zyatshi" would be a most welcome reissue; I wonder if anyone has heard or knows about these tapes??? Imagine only those close to the source...

[mjazzg]

Ifa Y Xango Tentet - Twice Left Handed \\ Shavings [El Negocito Records]

[colinmce]

Stopped in at a Salvation Army and turned up a Bud Freeman 10" on Allegro. Pretty beat up, but I'll give it a spin.

[Homefromtheforest]

Jeff Clyne/Ian Carr 4tet "Springboard" (polydor, UK). Man I've forgotten how awesome this album is...and so interesting to hear different versions of tunes that appear on the Rendell/Carr group albums...

[clifford_thornton]

yeah that's a good one. I asked MD about reissuing it and his opinion was "meh."

[Clunky]

Zbigniew Namyslowski/ Karin Krog----------Jazz Jamboree '75 Vol.2---------(Muza)

Recorded October 1975 in Warsaw. Krog is only on one side (2 originals and 2 Gershwins) , the other side has a long tango like piece for quintet. Both interesting sides, well recorded but not the greatest pressing.

[colinmce]

Stopped in at a Salvation Army and turned up a Bud Freeman 10" on Allegro. Pretty beat up, but I'll give it a spin.

Good side, the highlight of which is "The Atomic Age", a brilliant duet with Ray McKinley.

[Leeway]

[Homefromtheforest]

East Bionic Symphonia "recorded live" (ALM, Japan).