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Donald Byrd: FUEGO. With Jackie McLean, Duke Pearson, Doug Watkins, Lex Humphries. What a soulful album! Love Jackie here. BN 4026.

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That might have been the first Blue Note album I ever bought, back in 1976.

That was a good start!

Staying with Ornette:

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MOPDTK spoofed the cover, but I still like the original.

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Count me as a fan of that CT album, too...

Recently been listening to:

Keith Jarrett: Backhand

Sam Rivers: Streams

Paul Motian: Le Voyage

&

Marion Brown: Afternoon of a Georgia Faun

My fiancee/bandmate custom made a T-shirt of the latter for me (knowing it was one of my favorite albums). Marion Brown fashion Ts are precisely the kind of wonderful absurdness I'm into.

On a completely different level, I can understand--to a certain degree--why these dates (Faun excluded) tend to pop up as LPs rather than CDs... While Le Voyage is easily the match of Dance and definitely one of Motian's strongest albums, Backhand feels like a retread of musical conceits essayed elsewhere more delightfully (Birth) and/or more excitingly (Fort Yawuh), and Streams is hampered by a lesser rhythm section (and also a degree of technical iciness--I think Sam mentioned that he didn't like this one that much...).

Another tangent/rumination on Rivers, but rummaging through Rivers's back catalog has made me appreciate the Holland/Altschul trio more and more. Compare something like Paragon to any of the trio music on Impulse! and the non-Holland/Altschul sides tend to feel a little weak. Replacing Altschul takes some of the chaotic whimsy out of the band; substituting anyone for Holland, including otherwise spectacular bass players such as Cecil McBee, destabilizes the group and kills some of its propulsion. I almost prefer the apeshit bombast of the trio dates with Joe Daley to the stuff on Hues, the latter of which comprises merely paler, less precise variation on the Holland/Altschul music.

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