Just sayin’.

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Whip out that credit card!

Kevin

Thanks for checking out my site and for the kind words! I was wondering if you would be willing to put a link for my blog under your ‘Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy’ section. So far Church Number Nine, Nothing Is and Reality Unit Concepts have linked to me on their page. While my page is not strictly jazz, it will feature a lot of jazz, specifically free jazz. I have some more jazz shows that I’ve recorded over the past 5 years that I will be posting in the near future. If you can’t link to my site, I understand. Thanks for doing what you do to make your site so amazing.

Kevin

Chris – How is that Thomas album you mention? Sounds promising. Pharoah seems to have made a habit of appearing on other albums under different names around this time. He’s the “mystery guest” on Larry Young’s killer LAWRENCE OF NEWARK album.

Kevin – thanks for stopping by and mentioning your site. Just got a chance to check it out. Wonderful stuff.

Fred – really appreciate the compliment on the commentaries. We work hard on on the text so we’re glad that you like them.

Joseph – sometimes i think the best pharoah still hasn’t hit CD. we’ve got plenty more crazy great OOP tracks from him to share in the future.

I am downloading the Pharaoh Sanders songs right now.
I absolutely cherish this blog for its wealth of information about free jazz. I run a blog myself, and I know it takes a lot of time and effort to create thoughtful and interesting posts on a regular basis. I thought that you and your readers might appreciate a current post on my blog about the saxophonist Evan Parker. I had the privilege of being at this show on 5/13/03 at the 411 Club in Portland Oregon and I also recorded the show. The acoustics were amazing at this tiny warehouse space and the crowd was so respectful and quiet that you could hear a pin drop during the quiet moments of the set. One of the highlights for me was witnessing Parker’s circular breathing technique in action. This technique allows him to solo indefinitley without seemingly taking a breath. Utterly sublime and breathtaking(No pun intended). Check it out if you are interested, and please leave me a comment.

http://eclectic-grooves.blogspot.com

Pharoah is on it but due to contract conflicts, he is listed as “Little Rock”, his home town. It’s another instance of wierd pseudonyms like Dolphy appearing as ‘George Lane” on early versions of Coltrane’s “Ole’” or Adderly getting called ‘Buckshot LeFunk” on some other thing.

The Thomas release is called “Spirits Known and Unknown”. Flying Dutchman:FDS-115

The band is called ‘New Vocal Frontiers’ and was recorded on 10/21 and 10/22 in 1969.

The ensemble line up includes Lonnie Liston Smith, piano, Richard Davis and Cecil McBee on bass, Roy Haynes, Richard Landrum, bongos, James Spaulding on Alto sax and flute and “Little Rock” on Tenor.

Incidentally, Dusty Groove also carries an import CD of Pharoah’s Love In Us All for the same $20 price… the title track of which is another fantastic long jam in the “Master Plan” mold with somewhat of a mellower vibe and a groovin’ bassline…(“For John,” on the other hand, is a paint-peeling wailer…)

Hopefully some fine day these albums will both be reissued domestically on CD… until then, the iPod people can at least download Village from iTunes (although Love is also MIA there, it appears…)

Peace.