A remarkable recording I heard years ago, mentioned by Ben Ratliff in his recent article on Hemphill in the Times.
― Maury Martin (Maury Martin), Sunday, 12 November 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark 0 (mark 0), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Sunday, 12 November 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Now that you have Dogon AD, try the Nothing Is blog for some other free jazz masterpieces.
― J Arthur Rank (Quin Tillian), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
And yes, Dogon AD (is there a thread on this one already?) is utterly fantastic and awesome.
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― totph (Totph), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I want this album
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Which one, sonderangerbot? The Hemphill? The Murray? The Pullen box? Capricorn Rising (Pullen + Sam Rivers)? I think I can help with some of those but not all of them.
― Soren Kierkegaard Existential Light Orchestra, Monday, 31 December 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually I was first of all looking for "Dogon A.D.". Not very familiar with Hemphill but from what I've read that seems like a good introduction...
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 31 December 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I bought Dogon A.D. when it was reissued on CD back in 2011. Now it's selling on Discogs for $60-plus.
Listening to Hemphill's Fat Man and the Hard Blues tonight - what an incredible record that is, too. He was a really unique talent.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Jesus, even the reissue LP is $65-70.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
hard blues is an incredible piece of music
― marcos, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:47 (four years ago) link
Isn't that on Coon Bidness? But recorded at the same time as Dogon AD?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:07 (four years ago) link
Yeah, "Hard Blues" is on Coon Bid'ness, but when International Phonograph reissued Dogon A.D. they added it as a bonus track since it came from the same sessions.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 13:20 (four years ago) link
incredible record
― budo jeru, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
I love this album and The Hard Blues as well, what a maverick.
― calzino, Friday, 6 August 2021 13:29 (two years ago) link
Recently introduced to this and was instant. Something about the heft reminds me of rock power trios.
― Citole Country (bendy), Friday, 6 August 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
his brilliant drummer on this one, Phillip Wilson, played with Art Ensemble of Chicago and Paul Butterfield. He's blues and jazz!
― calzino, Friday, 6 August 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
The first track on this goes SO hard
― J. Sam, Saturday, 7 August 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link