WFMU RADIO: Give The Drummer Some 11/07/14

Listener comments!

8:09am duke:

Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.

8:11am Doug Schulkind:

Not just a bus, a microbus.

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8:13am duke:

Can we all fit in that thing?

8:14am Doug Schulkind:

Not with that attitude.

8:14am ausmanx:

who's driving?

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8:17am duke:

Toonces is driving www.youtube.com...

8:23am annie:

morning !!!!!... i have this odd quirk: i have to study any of these gifs and find where the cut is in the clip. this one was easy

8:27am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
Good night to you!

@duke
No, Toonces is working the GPS.

@annie
I'm always the last to know.

8:32am ausmanx:

i'm hoping the bus has a comfy mattress in the back cos it's getting on for 1 am here and i think i'm getting bored with the scenery...

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8:34am duke:

The stream is playing Timi Yuro. This is a great retention of "I got it bad"

8:36am Doug Schulkind:

@ausmanx
There's a Jacuzzi in the back. The way back. You'll find it.

@duke
Timi Yuro could sing the phone book. Wait, do we still have phone books?

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8:38am duke:

I wonder if I could replace Google voice on my phone with Timi

8:40am Doug Schulkind:

Suri vs. Timi?

8:49am Uncle Michael:

I hope your gif isn't heading for my gif, Doug.

8:50am Doug Schulkind:

The ol' Tacoma Narrows!

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8:57am Brian in UK:

Hello Doug and early boids. Is that a split screen model?

8:58am ndbob:

morning Doug and everyone!

8:58am Doug Schulkind:

Greetings, Brian in UKelele!

9:00am Doug Schulkind:

Welcome aboard, ndbob!

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9:03am listener james from westwood:

Good Friday, Doug and all! I think we're all Bozos on this microbus.

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9:04am Brian in UK:

Funny it is almost one year since I saw Lonnie Holley perform here and at the same time as he was on stage the news of Nelson Mandela's demise was released. (not at the gig I hasten to add).

9:05am andujar:

listening! thanks for the music.

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9:07am listener james from westwood:

Excellent news on the Jeff count!

9:07am Doug Schulkind:

Brother Andujar! Always an honor!

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9:08am listener james from westwood:

@UM, if it does, that's gonna be a bumpy ride, even for a trippy Dead bus!

9:09am ausmanx:

anyone going to join be in the jacuzzi?

9:10am Doug Schulkind:

Good day to you, Listener James! The Bozos ARE on the bus, but in disguise.

9:12am still b/p:

Ain't no sunshine here this morning, but is that the Little Miss Sunshine microbus? My Dad had a VW bus in the earliest days of our family, before my recollection, and he always seemed about the unlikeliest candidate you could imagine for that choice.

9:12am Doug Schulkind:

This song by Vinny Golia is dedicated to John Candy!

9:13am Doug Schulkind:

G'day, still b/p! Microbuses always make me think of "Alice's Restaurant."

9:19am Doug Schulkind:

if Vinny Golia was based in Brooklyn instead of L.A., he'd still be a virtually unknown genius, only less so.

9:22am El Thatchmo:

That Chmo in the hizzie.

9:23am Doug Schulkind:

Raise the woof! It's Thatchmo!

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9:24am duke:

Just read the news about a new Jeff show on the stream. Very cool.

9:26am Doug Schulkind:

Never enough Jeffs.

9:32am Doug Schulkind:

Bass clarinet sound is such very fine sound.

9:34am Doug Schulkind:

Whoop whoop! WFMU just hit 90%! Whoop whoop!

9:34am Hugo:

That's just a splendid album (Portal), as are the others by P. The opening track is über-splendid, Mozambique. By complete accident, listened to it yesterday.

9:35am Alex In Illinois:

This VW bus is the same color and maybe the same model as the 1973 VW bus that I used to drive when I was a teenager. It normally had a top speed of 60 miles per hour, but once I got it up to 70 driving down hill with a tail wind on a highway.

9:35am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
I had a hard time deciding between that track and this one.

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9:44am listener james from westwood:

FMU's grade is higher than I ever got in math! Keep on going, little station that could!

9:45am Doug Schulkind:

Hello Alex in Illinois! Thanks again for putting me (us) over the top last Friday!

9:51am Doug Schulkind:

You may recognize the soprano sax on this number. It's Steve Lacy. He was the soprano saxophonist on about 87% of all records that included a soprano saxophonist. (This has been unscientifically proven.)

9:52am Hugo:

The remaning 13 % is taken up by Lol Coxhill.

9:54am Alex In Illinois:

You're welcome Doug! I hope it helps other WFMU staff notice the significance of this show. I hope someone else will put it over the top today.

9:56am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
Dear wonderful Lol Coxhill is missed terribly.

@Alex in Illinois
It will take a pledge of just under $20,000 to WFMU over the top! Anyone feeling frisky?!

9:57am Hugo:

@Doug: Agreed

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9:58am Brian in UK:

Hello Hugo. I misread a comment earlier as 'We are all Bonzoes on this bus'.

Going to see Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper next week. The last time I saw Mr Cooper he was playing with Lol.

10:00am joe:

'ello folks.

@Brian in UK what a great name for a band.

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10:01am listener james from westwood:

@Brian: It's Bus Time for Bonzo!

10:04am ndbob:

@Doug This is an all jazz show today?

10:06am Doug Schulkind:

Ho-ho, whaddya know, Joe!

@ndbob
It seems to be working out that way. I've been downloading a ton of the stuff lately. Itching to play it.

@Brian in UK
Please walk right up to Mr. Cooper and give him a big hug from me. (Apologies if security throws you to ground before you get to him!)

10:07am Gary:

Howdy!

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10:07am βrian:

Or as a former roommate would say, "jazz music." By which he meant disco. Go figure. Something was lost in translation.

10:08am MrC:

Good morning from Hollywood...Bright lights, Big City... Cecil Taylor went to my baby's head..

10:10am Doug Schulkind:

Gary, βrian & MrC = quite a murderer's row

10:12am Uncle Michael:

Jazz hands!

eil.com...

10:14am Doug Schulkind:

Love that, UM!

Speaking of jazz hands, I once wrote a story that describes watching the pianist Don Pullen dislocate his finger while playing: wfmu.org...

10:17am tr:sh:

'Morning.

10:17am Uncle Michael:

ouch

10:18am Webhamster Henry:

Let's follow this with a nice, calm Nancarrow piece.

10:19am Doug Schulkind:

Hi tr:sh!

That wouldn't be at all wrong, Webhamster Henry. Hello!

10:19am Hugo:

More jazz hands, in fact a whole choir!

www.discogs.com...

10:21am Hugo:

And the follow-up:

www.discogs.com...

Recommended, both of them.

10:24am Doug Schulkind:

Wow, I forgot that Webster Lewis was on those Handscapes LPs. Lewis performed and recorded in Oslo many moons ago.

10:30am Hugo:

@Doug: I know, back at Club 7. Defunct ages ago, but it was the premier jazz gig in the late 60s and through the 70s.

www.plasticstrip.no...

10:32am tr:sh:

No, evolution produces diversity.

10:34am Listener Gregory:

Doug, did you hear any of Cecil Taylor's interview after that legal case was resolved? It was very "divergent" and quite entertaining to hear the reporters try to get him to answer their questions. BTW, I don't think he got all the money back, by any means. Sad.

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10:34am duke:

I saw Raphe Malik many years ago. The opening group was pretty poor, but Raphe's set was amazing. Then he said now we're going to bring out "name of opening group" to join us. I thought, oh no this is going to be bad. Just the opposite, Malik set them on fire. Totally fantastic set.

10:37am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener Gregory
Yooks! I wasn't aware that Taylor didn't get the money back. I didn't hear the interview, but I read an account of it.

@duke
Malik is one of about a gazillion trumpeters who died absurdly early. Heartbreaking.

10:37am MrC:

Saw Lee Morgan at the Village Vanguard with his Benny Maupin group August 1971...totally badass..shot in Feb. 1972. I was totally obsessed with his music for years.

10:38am andujar:

loved the CT

10:39am Alex In Illinois:

@tr:sh: agreed. I think Cecil Taylor is something that had to have emerged at some point.

@duke: I guess Malik knew that the opening act could play better than they were, felt sorry for them for having a bad night, knew what was needed to get them going, and ended up giving them and the audience a good night after all.

10:39am andujar:

And I agree about Raphe. Great underrated trumpeter.

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10:39am listener james from westwood:

Just surfacing from work a moment to say hell yeah to this show. Blissful Friday lis'nin'.

10:41am Doug Schulkind:

@Listener James
Tell the truth. You had to readjust your snorkle.

10:43am Hugo:

I'll be over in the Boston/Cambridge area for 3 days next week. Anything to look out for (apart from record shops)? I have some addresses already.

10:44am MrC:

It's really astounding how much great music Blue Note amassed through the 60s that never got released until a decade or two later. There was just too much..like this one..all first rate

10:44am chris:

Hugo - what kind of music do you like? Or are you asking about other aspects?

10:44am Doug Schulkind:

@Hugo
I bet our friend andujar could steer you into all the finest establishments.

10:45am Doug Schulkind:

This Lee Morgan LP was first released in 1985! In Japan!

10:49am Hugo:

@Chris: Basically other aspects

10:49am MrC:

Quite a segue....jumped off a cliff

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10:50am Brian in UK:

Yes all four legs do leave the ground when galloping.

10:53am Doug Schulkind:

I'll take that as a compliment, MrC.

10:53am andujar:

Hugo...I live in Allston, where there are about 85 different ethnic restaurants within about 4 blocks of each other. Very close to Cambridge. What are you looking for?
Food, drink, nightclubs, bookstores, record stores, good cinema?

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10:53am listener james from westwood:

I'm snorkeling through work! I shouldn't have mentioned the empty inbox on Twitter. Was kinda hoping for a day of radio and housecleaning!

10:54am chris:

Haven't been to the Museum of Fine Arts in a few years but I hear good things. Fair # of art museums in general if you are into that. For food first place to comes to mind is Deep Ellum but that is in Allston (not far from Cambridge): http://www.deepellum-boston.com/ Club D'elf might be fun to see next Friday (lots of trippy, jazzy, moroccan grooves: http://lizardloungeclub.com/calendar/

10:55am Doug Schulkind:

Get ready for another cliff, MrC.

10:57am andujar:

Chris...I like Deep Ellum too, although it is a bit pricy. Highly recomended for food & drink though. Club D'elf at Lizard Lounge would be a good one. Check out the Brattle Theatre or Harvard Film Archive of good and/or deep cinema. Both are in the Harvard Sq area.

10:57am Dean:

Big Jay, 1951! True story: in the late '90s, BJM played a regular gig at an old night club in Santa Fe Springs, CA, the Rim Ram. His band included a woman on B3, a drummer, and a transvestite back-up sax player whose elderly mother came to hear her son. We heard Big Jay several times, once on New Year's Eve with a group of Swedish exchange students. Best NYE ever. BJ would stick the bell of his horn three inches from your face and blast until you'd stuff a dollar in it. BJ was working for USPS at the time, but his foot was in a cast, so he was out on disability. Not long thereafter I recall reading Robert Palmer's review in the NYT of BJM's debut in London, after which his musical career had revived.

10:58am Hugo:

I'll be living quite close to Harvard Square.

10:59am Cecile:

hola!

10:59am Doug Schulkind:

That story made the whole show worth it, Dean. Thanks!!

11:00am Cecile:

I like your championing of Vinny Golia. One would thing he would get a sales bump because he's worked with Nels Cline so much, but I guess not.

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

Bienvenu, Cecile!

11:01am Cecile:

you too, Doug!

11:01am Doug Schulkind:

I'm gonna call my new band "The Nels Cline Bump."

11:02am Michael:

The Harvard Museum is reopening with a Renzo Piano expansion and renovation but I believe it opens on the 16th. Supposed to be very nice.

11:02am andujar:

Stereo Jacks (just north of Harvard Sq on Mass Ave) is one of my fave record stores anywhere. Lots of jazz and a great old school vibe. Very nice folks.

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11:02am Brian in UK:

Hello Cecile, heard your chat with Diane on the archive. Loved the Hunting Tigers story.

11:04am chris:

Hugo Lizard Lounge is right near Harvard Sq.

At andujar: and my other fav do works there!

11:05am Cecile:

thank you Brian!

11:05am chris:

Whoops. Meant to say "fav DJ"

11:05am Cecile:

it was an honor, and Diane is so amazingly fun to talk to.

11:09am still b/p:

Goya show currently at Boston MFA. I'll definitely be seeing it. I'm also looking forward to that reopening of the Harvard Art Museums. Hope to do art feasting when in the area for the Thanksgivin'.

11:09am Cecile:

who's the drummer? He is feeling it.

11:10am Carmichael:

Doug und Leuten. Que paso?

11:12am Dean:

My 8YO's third grade class has a field trip today to the museum across the street from where I work. They'll view an exhibit of American folk art from the Revolution through the Civil War. Hoping to drop by myself.

11:12am Michael:

Will be going to the Goya show after the holidays. The Ragnar Kjartansson installation/video just closed at the ICA and I imagine Hugo would have enjoyed that. I certainly did.

11:12am Doug Schulkind:

@Carmichael
Nada mucho, hombre. But boy am I hambre.

@Cecile
Art Taylor is bumpkin the skins behind Kenny Burrell

11:12am chris:

Always love Burrell's pianists

11:14am Alex In Illinois:

The New England Aquarium in Boston is pretty good. I like the Science Museum, which I think is in Cambridge. It is near the banks of the Charles. That science museum sometimes has lightning shows using an enormous Van de Graff generator. But look at up the schedule for lightning shows before you head over there.

11:14am Doug Schulkind:

The time I got Kenny Burrell's autograph, I spent several long minutes standing with backstage talking about Yusef Lateef.

11:15am Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of drummers feeling it, ladies and gentlemen: Han Bennink!

11:15am Hugo:

Thanks, folks, for all your suggestions and recommendations.

11:16am Doug Schulkind:

OK, so he's not drumming, exactly.

11:17am tr:sh:

Feeling it drumming or not, specifically.

11:18am holland oats:

drumma / peoples / squeaky wheels

11:18am chris:

Hugo if you are there on a Tuesday Le Pigeon is a fun groovey organ trio at the Plough and Stars: http://www.ploughandstars.com/wcalendar/calendar
Rusty Scott is a smokin B3 player

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11:19am βrian:

This really should be narrated in mellifluous french, explaining each call in context.

11:19am Hugo:

Yep, I'm there on Tuesday.

11:20am Doug Schulkind:

@holland "wild" oats
How's it hanging, baby?!

11:21am andujar:

Anybody seen the awesome Convoy Tour DVD featuring the Ex, Ian MacKaye, Ethiopian legends, noise artists, etc all in a bus together on tour? Han Bennink is my favorite appearence in that one! Well worth the viewing on the whole.

11:22am chris:

well the Plough has no cover charge. Can b too loud at times for such a small venue imo but love that band and the vibe is usually excellent.

11:24am Doug Schulkind:

Sounds thrilling, andujar. Got to get my hands on that. The Ex toured with Getatchew Mekurya a few years back. WFMU put on a show at Lincoln Center in NYC and it was deeply sublime

11:27am Doug Schulkind:

Glenn Spearman is all of twenty-five on this Emergency track. He died (cancer) at fifty fucking one.

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11:28am βrian:

There should be term limits for sound engineers.

11:29am Dean:

Pianist Matthew Goodheart, who played with Spearman (and recorded w/him on Golia's Nine Winds!) will appear tonight in Berkeley with Tim Hodgkinson.

11:29am andujar:

And speaking of Boston, MFA, Lizard Lounge, The EX & Ethiopian music...Hugo, you need to check out Debo Band someday. They sometimes do a residency at the LL, they sometimes play at the MFA and they played a couple times in cambridge with The Ex. Awesome Ethiopian grooves with the twist of adding accordian, sousaphone, heavy guitar, etc to the mostly traditional compositions. One of Boston's finest bands.

And speaking of Spearman: another great underrated artist. The first time I ever heard him and Raphe Malik they were playing in the same band at UMass. From teh very first note it hooked me. Just a powerful sound. The concert I am talking about was released on eremite as "The Short Form".

11:32am chris:

Wow Debo sounds very cool. Thanks for the tip Andujar !

11:32am andujar:

"Honk if you like the Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble"

11:33am Dean:

Did Doyle not get his flue shot?

11:33am Hugo:

Han Bennink is known to play everything in the room (with the possible exception of the audience). He once asked me for several cigarette papers ...

11:33am northguineahills:

@Andujar: I have that bumper sticker! (still in the LP).

11:35am chris:

andujar - u might like my amazing drummer friend's project Adventure in Sound if you like improv (although I don't think they have any future gigs lined up currently): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL946F6CEEEC84D7BD

11:36am Hugo:

Looks like Deep Ellum has a nice selection of craft beers. Appetising ...

11:38am andujar:

I remember working "security" at a gig with Han bennink & Brotzmann and one task I had to do was "go find Han's pot. He just leaves it laying around".

@Chris: I have bookmarked it and will check it later.

@ Hugo: I'd join you for a brew at Deep Ellum if you like.

11:40am Doug Schulkind:

"Go find Han's pot." That sentence is music itself.

11:43am andujar:

I remember those exact words after all these years.

Speaking of pot, Louis Armstrong said "it eases racial tensions".

11:43am Uncle Michael:

Where does the time go? No...really, where?

meet me all in the next room at the top of the hour, won't you?

wfmu.org...

11:44am Doug Schulkind:

More on this Louis Armstrong number: dippermouth.blogspot.com...

11:46am Hugo:

I'll be at A Friendly Inn at Harvard for three days from Sunday afternoon. Feel free to make contact. Funny name, and it looks cozy.

11:49am Doug Schulkind:

Louis Armstrong went everywhere with a Chock Full O'Nuts coffee can containing weed.

11:49am Dean:

Those of you in Cambridge: is Weirdo Records still deserving of the name?

11:50am Doug Schulkind:

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
As Uncle Michael has stated, his Hinky Dinky Time will be kicking over the ashtrays and puking in the potted plants over here, at noon: wfmu.org...

11:51am andujar:

Weirdo is one of the best. Definitely deserving if you like the stuff we're mentioning here (and weirder stuff too). It is quite small but FILLED with records, CDs, etc.

Hugo: your Inn is not far from Weirdo.

11:52am Uncle Michael:

That might be the best description of Hinky Dinky Posse Party as has ever been written.

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11:53am listener james from westwood:

Save a potted plant for this potted listener; will be ears on at HDT 'round 1 or so. Thanks muchly, Doug, for the fab show!

11:54am andujar:

Shepp

11:54am Dean:

My one experience with Weirdo was formative. I ditched a conference I was attending to visit the store for the first (so far, only) time. I kid you not, as I approached the door a little bell sounded and I silently uttered to myself, "I'm going to find that Borbetomagus/Hijokaidan CD I've been seeking for ages here." And you know what? I did.

11:55am still b/p:

And now, some reflexive geezer-speak: It still has notes and sites of interest, but, ohhh, the days of the OLD Harvard Square, with more character and characters, with the Wursthaus restaurant's world beer collection before world beers were a thing. Now you have more coldly anonymous corporate facades and ....A Curious George merch store.

11:55am Uncle Michael:

Will do, James.

A fine show today, Sir Douglas. Thank you for it. I need to go check my makeup.

11:55am Cecile:

gotta go, have a great week.

11:55am andujar:

Dean: I love Borbeto & Hijokaiden yet did not know they did a disk together.

11:56am Doug Schulkind:

Be well, Cecile!

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11:56am duke:

lovely version of this song

11:57am tr:sh:

re: tuesday 11/11 GTDS I propose a theme of peace for Remembrance Day

I was taught by generations in my family and community that lived through the two World Wars to remember the atrocities of war. Their voices grow silent in the ground.

Lovely listening, today.

11:57am andujar:

Thanks for the tunage Doug, and the fun convo, folks.

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11:57am duke:

Very fine show Doug

11:57am Dean:

andujar: They appeared together at Victo. The disk, on the Victo label, is the set. Title is a tip to Roxy Music: "Both Noises End Burning."

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11:58am Artie Haywire:

Thanks, Doug!

11:58am Dean:

11/11 is also Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s birthday.

11:59am Doug Schulkind:

@tr:sh
Excellent thought.

@Everyone
I am so happy to be able to be happy with you along for the ride.

12:00pm northguineahills:

Man, deep sounds Doug, thanks!

12:00pm chris:

still b/p = with you on the feelings about Hrvd Sq

12:02pm chris:

thanks for today Doug

12:02pm Doug Schulkind:

Back with a free-formy mess next week, for sure!

12:03pm Doug Schulkind:

ngh! ngh!

Theme Music: Sarah Webster Fabio	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues	Jujus: Alchemy of the Blues (Folkways 1976)
ECD	In Tempo	Major Force: The Original Art-Form (Mo' Wax 1990)

Vinny Golia Quintet	Hat of Anger	Dante No Longer Repents (Music & Arts 1996)
Drew Gress	No Saint	The Sky Inside (Pirouet 2013)
Michel Portal	Djam's	Turbulence (Harmonia Mundi 1987)

Gigi Gryce	Gallop's Gallop	Nica's Tempo (Savoy 1955)
Franz Koglmann	Life on Its Way	Balver Höhle (JG 1974)
Big Jay McNeely	Insect Ball	b/w Sad Story (Imperial 1951)
Don Cherry Quintet	Cherry's Dilemma	Pharoah Sanders: In the Beginning: 1963-1964 (ESP 1963)

Lee Morgan	A Pilgrim's Funny Farm	The Rajah (Blue Note 1966)
Lindsey Horner	Mr. Eadweard J. Muybridge Observes The Representation (By Aid of His Amazing New Zoopraxiscope) of Horses in Motion. Palo Alto, California, 1879: 1. Walking 2. Running 3. Trotting 4. Galloping	Rough Assemblage: Construction and Demolition (Avant 1993)
Mary Lou Williams	Temptation	Free Spirits (SteepleChase 1975)

Kenny Burrell	Slim Jim	All Day Long (Prestige 1956)
Han Bennink	Listen to the Birds	Solo (ICP 1972)
Emergency	Infidels	Homage to Peace (America 1972)
Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble	Flue Song	Plays the African Love Call (Ecstatic Yod 1999)

The Music Improvisation Company	Untitled 4	1968-1971 (Incus 1969)
Louis Armstrong	Blue Turning Grey Over You	b/w Bessie Couldn't Help It (Okeh 1930)
Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society	Darn My Socks	Whispers From the Archive (Porter )
Jeanne Lee w/Archie Shepp	There Is a Balm in Gilead	Blasé (BYG/Actuel 1969)

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