50th anniversary of Agharta. This is really heavy music.
This is a BluSpec cd2 release, sounds very good. I’m wondering if the there is a more recent release that sounds even better….
This is a BluSpec cd2 release, sounds very good. I’m wondering if the there is a more recent release that sounds even better….
I’ve enjoyed everything he has released on his own, and he is a member of Steve Coleman’s band.
There is another Blu-Spec CD2 released 2023 that uses the same mastering as far as I can tell and sounds pretty similar. There are I think three different masterings of this material with subtle differences. To me it always sounds great vinyl or cd.
Time sure does fly by, 50 years, never would have thought it had been that long. Now I feel old. Arrgh~!
I’ll pull my original LP and give it a listen.
This one left me cold.
I don’t like Amirtha Kidambi’s vocalizations. I guess I’ve got Halvorson pigeon-holed as a guitarist/composer not a song writer. I will have to give it another try sometime.
Personally good with both of them. I like how each bends notes. Having heard Mary Halvorson multiple times with Tomeka Reid, most enjoyable.
Stereophile has an article describing 2 completely different Sun Ra records that have the same name! Actually one of them is by the current Arkestra….
Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank is a Keeper. The current version of the Arkestra led by Marshall Allen is pale in comparison. Lights on a Satellite on the German IN + Out label is a hard pass. Just my opinion.
The Tandoori Yokoo cover is another knockout image. In the 70s he designed many posters for the prevailing groups of the day: Beatles; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; and Earth, Wind & Fire come to mind, as well as a Santana album cover (can’t remember the name.
Press releases about three upcoming RSD LP issues and cd releases a week later.
From a press release for the Freddie Hubbard:
On the newly unearthed collection On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco , legendary trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is heard at his ferocious peak. This unissued 1967 performance, recorded at Sylvia Robinson’s Bronx Club with an all-star band featuring Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie Lewis and Freddie Waits, is due from Resonance Records as a limited edition 3-LP set on Record Store Day, April 12, 2025, with the CD edition to follow on April 18.
“This recording is insane! It’s one of the most exciting live documents I’ve ever heard in my life,” says renowned trumpeter Steven Bernstein. "It’s f!cking mind-blowing. Freddie’s on fire. It’s just so damn good.”
The package includes new interviews with Maupin and Barron, notes by jazz authority John Koenig, appreciations and Interviews with Charles Tolliver, Eddie Henderson, Steven Bernstein, Jeremy Pelt and more.
From a press release for the Kenny Dorham:
I’m honored to be working with Resonance records and producer Zev Feldman on a never-before-heard live recording from master hard bop trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Out as a 2-LP set for Record Store Day, April 12, 2025 and on CD April 18, the storming all-star club date Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco features Dorham with alto saxophonist Sonny Red, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Denis Charles.
The package features liner notes by two-time Grammy winner Bob Blumenthal; a Dorham appreciation by Dan Morgenstern, the late director of Rutgers University’s Institute of Jazz Studies and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master; remembrances from trumpeters Eddie Henderson, Charles Tolliver, Steven Bernstein, and Jeremy Pelt; and more. It was recorded by Bernard Drayton in 1967 at the titular New York venue.
From a press release for the Mingus:
I, for one, can’t ever get enough Mingus and I’m excited to be working with Resonance Records on In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts , a brilliant 3-LP live recording of Charles Mingus’ little-heard late-70s working quintet.
The album – featuring Mingus with trumpeter Jack Walrath, tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford, pianist Robert Neloms and drummer Dannie Richmond – will be out April 12, 2025 as a limited edition three-LP Record Store Day exclusive, followed by a two-CD set on April 18.
Recorded in concert at the Teatro Coliseo and the Teatro Sociedad Hebraica Argentina (SHA) on June 2-3, 1977, the first authorized release of these dates comes with an expansive package including notes from Mingus biographer Brian Priestley, reflections of the concerts from Argentinian writer Claudio Parisi, new interviews with band members Jack Walrath and Ricky Ford and more.
Thanks for the recommendation!