RIP
Sort of an odd show, with a brief Buddy Miles tribute and this week's Jean Luc-Ponty-of-View editorial on what has become a sad, sad squabble session between two failures. Otherwise, a lot of good sounds.
Artist - Title - Album - Label
James Booker - Save Your Love For Me - Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah - Rounder
Charles Gayle/Sunny Murray/William Parker - Beset Souls - Kingdom Come - Knitting Factory
Gil Scot Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - BMG
Electric Kulingtang - Dialects I - Dialects - Plastic
Sylvie Courvoisier - Poco a poco - Abaton - ECM
William Parker Violin Trio - Dust on a White Shirt - Scrapbook - Thirsty Ear
Myra Melford/Mark Dresser/Matt Wilson - For Bradford - Big Picture - Cryptogrammophone
Buddy Miles Express - Louie's Blues - Booger Bear - CBS
Howard Wiley - No More My Lawd - The Angola Project - HNIC Music
Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Cards for the Quartet - The Flow of Things - Black Saint
William Parker - Pok-A-Tok - Long Hidden - AUM Fidelity
Hamilton de Holanda - Gratitude - Intimo - Adventure Music
Matthew Shipp - Blood 2 the Brain - Harmony & Abyss - Thirsty Ear
Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Goshawk - Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace - PI Recordings
Alvin Batiste/John Carter/Jimmy Hamilton/David Murray - Southern Bells - Southern Bells - Black Saint