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Arza Anaiak - Txalaparta '75 Iraila - (Cramps, IT)

That's a funny little disc, but I like it. They also appear on one of the Area records ( "Maledetti" IIRC).

There's a much older 7" EP on a Spanish label, but that one's not in my collection.

Could never get into Area although I'm morbidly curious about the Demetrio Stratos solo LP. Never heard/saw the 7" but yeah, the LP is cool. That nova musicha series has some nice records - Schiaffini, Lacy, Bailey, Grillo, Schiano...

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Could never get into Area although I'm morbidly curious about the Demetrio Stratos solo LP. Never heard/saw the 7" but yeah, the LP is cool. That nova musicha series has some nice records - Schiaffini, Lacy, Bailey, Grillo, Schiano...

I think I understand about Area. I never cared much for the progressive jazz-rock Area, but I do like the free improv freakout Area. A lot. Try "Event '76", a live album with Steve Lacy and Paul Lytton.

As for the Demetrio Stratos solo albums, well it's simple, you need to hear them. They're unique, in the real sense of being incomparable to almost anything else.

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Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino "remiscent suite" (RCA Victor ,Japan)

:tup:tup !!!

Me too!!!

A few years ago, I wrote to Mosaic suggesting that they reissue Waldron's Japanese Victor recordings. There's some real gems in there.

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Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler, A Meeting of the Times (Atlantic)

I've never heard that record, but mention of it has crossed my path twice recently. Here, and in an email a friend sent me recently. He was playing a gig and to quote him:

"the pianist played Hank

Jones's introduction from the album note-for-note perfect. I couldn't believe

my ears, partly because I didn't know anyone else who was a fan of the LP--for a

minute I thought maybe Duke had done a similar intro that Hank had lifted, but

no. Joe could see the expression on my face while he was playing it, and

afterwards said something to the effect of "so you know that record, too?" The

sort of inside joke that can make playing an awards dinner a tolerable

experience."

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Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler, A Meeting of the Times (Atlantic)

I've never heard that record, but mention of it has crossed my path twice recently. Here, and in an email a friend sent me recently. He was playing a gig and to quote him:

"the pianist played Hank

Jones's introduction from the album note-for-note perfect. I couldn't believe

my ears, partly because I didn't know anyone else who was a fan of the LP--for a

minute I thought maybe Duke had done a similar intro that Hank had lifted, but

no. Joe could see the expression on my face while he was playing it, and

afterwards said something to the effect of "so you know that record, too?" The

sort of inside joke that can make playing an awards dinner a tolerable

experience."

It was only the second time I've ever listened to the LP, so I would have missed the reference--I'm really not a fan of Al Hibbler's vocal style. Roland Kirk does sound good on the recording, of course.

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And now the second reissue LP I received today:

Borje Fredriksson "intervall" (parlophone, Sweden)

A "record store day" release in Europe apparently; a numbered edition of 500 copies. My first ever RSD purchase! Very happy to see this nicely done reissue come out...will save me $300-400 on an original issue. Sounds great so far...

Thanks for the tip. This LP edition is significantly better sounding than the 1992 CD version I managed to track down several years after considerable looking. The CD has at least a bonus track , although I'm a little unclear as yet which one as the track orders don't correspond to stated personnel (on the CD).

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Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler, A Meeting of the Times (Atlantic)

I've never heard that record, but mention of it has crossed my path twice recently. Here, and in an email a friend sent me recently. He was playing a gig and to quote him:

"the pianist played Hank

Jones's introduction from the album note-for-note perfect. I couldn't believe

my ears, partly because I didn't know anyone else who was a fan of the LP--for a

minute I thought maybe Duke had done a similar intro that Hank had lifted, but

no. Joe could see the expression on my face while he was playing it, and

afterwards said something to the effect of "so you know that record, too?" The

sort of inside joke that can make playing an awards dinner a tolerable

experience."

It was only the second time I've ever listened to the LP, so I would have missed the reference--I'm really not a fan of Al Hibbler's vocal style. Roland Kirk does sound good on the recording, of course.

I LOVE that record, at least the vocal side. Hibbler overall, ehhhh...but that record, yes. First heard it on some Sunday night AM jazz show out of Des Moines that would make its way down through the air to Gladewater on some nights for some minutes...might have even been the first time I heard RRK, come to think of it, maybe. But yeah, I love the groove on those vocal #s and how everybody hits the pocket just right. And Rahsaan...that cat was a master at playing standards, his Atlantic records didn't always get to that part of him, and understandably so, but this one did. All in all, perhaps one of the best "jazz vocal records" ever made, at least one of my favorites.

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On the whole..."interesting", although, people who dig Joe McPhee's Tenor and have a level available to hear it "technically" might have a good time listening to it in conjunction with the Dlugoszewski piece on this record...just goes to show you how people coming from different places for different reasons can still cross paths, unintentionally and unnoticed, and even if they keep going like they came. Unintentionally, unnoticed, yet nevertheless unmistakably. No, not the same "thing", just the same place, for as long as they're both there.

And you can say somehat the same thing about this and Lester Bowie too, although there you have the "trumpet player gonna get to this eventually if they keep looking for it, it's there to be had", not like McPhee and tenor (although yes, I know).

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Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (Saturn). A 1978 album with one side from a Variety Studios session and one side from the quartet tour of Italy. My copy is in a plain white sleeve and has blank labels with handwritten catalog and side numbers. I have a few Saturns like that.

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Gene Ammons and Friends at Montreux (Prestige/Fantasy)

That's the one where Cannonball sits in on the last cut, correct? That's a hot jam!

Yes, Cannonball, Nat and Dexter Gordan, with Hampton Hawes (electric piano), Bob Crenshaw and Kenny Clarke.

Continuing with Gene Ammons, Big Bad Jug (Prestige/Fantasy).

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